Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-01-03
The Delays of Litigation.

Miss Minnie Heinrich, of Minnesota,
has sued the Pullman Car Company
for twenty-five thousand dollars. She
was travelling on q Pullman car when
revolver dropped out of the pocket
of colored porter, struck on cuspi.
dore and was discharged, the bullet
entering the thigh of the young WON.
an, who was in the toilet-room combing
out her bangs. The Sun is sorry that
Mr.. Pullman did not give check for
the amount at once, as he can well
afford to do, and thus put stop to the
litigation, Tor if the matter once gets
into the courts there will bo no end to
it, and the poor young lady will be too
old to enjoy the money before she gets
it. In the first place the defendant
will apply for continuance owing to
the absence of an important witness,
and will proceed to show that the i'm
portant witness is n travelling man who
saw tho bullet as it sped to its mark,
and he is on n tri to tho Pacific coast.
The court will grant the continuance,
and the girl will have to wait till the
March term of court. At that term tho
travelling man will be on hand, but a
continuance will be asked, owing to tho
absence of another important witness
by whom the defense expect to prove
that the plaintiff has been heard to say
that the bullet did not hurt her very
much. This witness is girl who at
tended the injured young lady, and
she is otfon wedding tour, and though
the injured lady is prepared to do
monstrate that she never said ANYTHING
of the kind. and the bullet nearly killed
her, the case will be continued till the
November term. By the time the No
vember term is ready, the girl will be
willing to settle for ten thousand dol
lars, but the case will have 20 be COLI
tinued from time to time on account of
the absence of Mr.. Pullman who has
gone to Europe for his health, A charge
will about this time be made in the
daily papers that the woman who was
shot placed herself in q position to re-
ceive tho bullet, in order to bleed the
company, having bribcd the colored
man TO drop the pistol, and the col
urcd man will be interviewed, and
while he will not admit the story to be
true, for fear Of being discharged, he
will hint that he has been approached,
and public opinion will begin to turn
from the plaintiff, who wishes she had
settled for five thousand dollars. Be-
fore the next term of court the story
will have been pretty generally circu-
lated that the girl inherited tendency
to gunshot wounds, several of her
family having been thus afflicted, and
the case will be continued on the
ground that witness, who knew sew.
eral of her relatives who had been shot,
is not to be found. BY this time the
girl will be old enough to be married,
and n change of Venue will be moved
by the defendant on the ground of
prejudice on the part of the Judge, and
the girl will get married. and the de-
PENDANT will move for non.Sait, on the
ground that there is no cause of action,
when it will be ably argued that if she
is able to get married she cannot have
been injured, and. in fact, it will be
shown that the notOriety she attained
by reason of the shot, secured for her
suitor and q husband, and the company
will put in claim for commission on
the transaction. By the time the case
comes into court, the lawyers will have
died, the judge gone crazy, the in
jured woman will bo q grandmother,
the company will prove that OIL the day
the accident is alleged to have oc-
Cured that there was no railroad at
the place designated in the complaint,
and that there is no such person as the
plaintiff. who is alleged to be an un-
married young person, when the COM
pany can prove that she is married and
q grandmother, AMI not the person at
all, the colorcd porter will have been
gathered to his fathers, revolvers will
have gone out of style, and in all
probability the Pullman company will
recover a Judgment against the
plaintiff for fifteen thousand dollars for
malicious prosecution, and she and her
husband will have to mortgage their
farm TO pay it, and de washing for the
balance of their natural lives to pay
their attorneys. That is about the way
of such litigation these days. II Mr..
Pullman will not pay the amount
claimed by the plaintiff, he should be
put under bonds not to get judgment
against the girl.