Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-09-09
BIaine's Libel Suit.
THE ssENTINEL" COMPANY FILE THEIR AN
swER AND SUBMIT SEARCHING QUERIES.

THE 'sENTINEL" COMPANY FILE THEIR AN
swER AND SUBMIT SEARCHING QUERIES.
BY telegraph to the Dispatch.l
INDIANAPOLIS, September 4.-The answer
of the Sentinel Company in the Blaine libel
suit was filed in the United States Court
this morning. The defence admits printing
and publishing the article complained of in
an issue of August s, 1884, and denies that
it was false in any particular. 1t sets forth
that James G.. Blaine was married to Har-
riet StanwOod at Pittsburgh on or about
March 25, 1851; that prior to that time, dur
ing the courtship, Blaine seduced Miss
Stanwood; that he at first refused to make
reparation for the wrong done, but being
afterwards strongly urged thereto and
violently threatened with chastisement and
punishment for his said wrong-doing, and
perchance repenting him of the evil, married
her as stated that in tie June following a
child was born, known as Stanwood Blaine,
which lived two or three years, and it was
always acknowledged by the plaintiff and
his wife as their son. By reason whereof
the defendants say that the matters and
things set forth in the article recited are
true; and the same being true, they were
published of and concerning said plaintiff
by defendants, as they justly and lawfully
might do.
The defendants file with their answer a
number of Undergraduates and require that
the same be answered by plaintiff under
oath positively and without evasion within
such time as may be limited by the court
thereby. Among which are the following:
State when you finally left Kentucky? II
you at any time resided there? When you
went there? Where you were next employ
ed? In what business or calling? If the
maiden name of your wife was Harriet STAN
wood? State when she finally left Kentucky
and when you next met her? Give the State
and place of your marriage, and the names
of the persons, besides yourself and wife,
who were present on. the occasion. What
acquaintance had you with Jacob Stanwood?
What relation was he, if any, to the person
you married, and what conversation or in
terview did you have with him before said
marriage concerning the same, and where
did such interview, if any, occur, and what
was said and done therein? Was not the
first child of said marriage born on the 18th
day of June, 1851? Where did said child
die? Where was it buried; and if in any
cemetery, give the name of the cemetery?-
Was any tombstone or monument erected at
the grave of said child, giving it's BIRTH and
by whose direction was said tombstone
erected? Did not said tombstone bear the
following inscription relative to the birth
of the child: "Stanwood Blaine; born June
Is, 1872 Has any portion Of such in
scription on said tombstone been erased
since its erection? If so, what portion
thereof? What acquaintance have you with
the book called ''The Life of James G.
Blaine,' written by Russell H. Conwell,
with an introduction by Governor Robe, of
Maine, and published by E. c. Allen & Co.,
of Augusta, Me-, in the year, 1884? Were
not the proofs of such work submitted to
you for revision? Is not the statement up
on the sixty-eighth page of said book as fol-
lows: "Miss Stanwood in March, 1851, be-
came his wife at Pittsburgh, Pa" the cor
rect statement of the time and place of your
marriage? Did you not communicate to the
author of said book for his use in such work
the name of the place Of your marriage as
aforesaid?