The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-02-27
AVOID THE LAW.
Possibilities of Minnie Helnrlch's Butt
Against Pullman.
Rochester Union and Advortlser.1

Against Pullman.
Rochester Union and AdvoEtlser.1
Miss Minnie Heinrich, of Minnesota, has
sued the Pullman Car Company for twenty
live thousand dollars. She was travelling
on Pullman car, when revolver dropped
out of the pocket of colored porter,
struck on cuspidore and was discharged,
the bullet entering the thigh Of the young
woman, who was in the toilet room comb
Ing out her bangs. We are 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,
for If the matter once gets into the courts
there will be 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 a con.
tinuance owing to the absence Of an Inn
portant witness, and will proceed to show
That the important witness Is travelling
man, who saw the bullet as it sped to its
mark, and he is on trip to the Pacific
aoa5t The court will grant the continu-
ance, and the girl will have to wait
till the March term of court. At that
term the travelling man will be on hand,
but continuance will be asked, ow-
ing to the 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 attended
the injured young lady, and though the in
jured lady is prepared TO demonstrate that
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the bullet nearly killed her, the case will
be continued till the November term. BY
the time the November term is ready, the
girl will be ready to settle for $4,000, but
the case will have to be continued 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
bo made in the daily papers that the
woman who was shot placed herself in
position to receive the bullet in order to
bleed the company, having bribed the col.
ored man TO drop the pistol, and the coll
orei man will be interyiewed while he
will not admit the story to he true, for fear
of being discharged, he will hint that he
has been approached, anG public attention
will begin to turn from tho plaintiff,
who wishes she had settled for
5000. Before the next term Of
court the story will have b,cn pretty gen.
orally circulated that the girl Inherited
tendency to guu-shot wounds, several OF
her family having been thus afflicted, and
the case will be continued on the ground
that a witness, who knew several Of her
relatives who had been shot, Is not TO be
found. By this time the girl will be old
enough 10 be married, and change Of
venue will be moved by the defendant on
the part Of the Judge, ami the defendant
will move for a non.suit, 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 can not have been injured,
and, in fact, it will be shown that the no.
toriety she attained by reason of the shot
secured for her suitor and husband,
and the company will put in claim for a
commission on the transaction. By
the time the case comes into court the law
yers will have died, the Judge gone crazy,
the injured woman will be a grandmother,
the company will prove that on
the day The accident Is alleged to have oc.
CURED that there was no railroad at tho
place designated in the complaint, and
that there is no such person as the plant.
ifr, who Is alleged to be an unmarried
young person, when the company can
prove that she Is married and a grand.
mother, and not the person at all, the
colored porter will have been gathered to
his fathers, revolvers will have gone out
of style, and in all probability the Pull
man Company will recover a judgment
against the plaintiff for $4,000 for mali
cious prosecution, and she and her hus-
band will have TO mort gage their farm to
pay IL, and do wishing for the balance OF
their natural lives to pay their attorneys.
This Is about the way of such litigation
these days. If Mr. Pullman will not pay
the amount claimed by the plaintiff he
should be put under bonds not toi get
Judgment against the girl.