The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-12-22
SUED FOR LIBEL.
The Daily Herald Is Sued for Libel by
the Wichita Saloon.


HERALD for $4,000 damages, alleged to
have been done the Wichita Saloon in
a recent publication by this paper.
The petition is as follows:
To Hon. Geo. N. Aldridge, Judge District
Court Dallas County:
Your petitioners, Rowland e. Sock
well, firm composed of j. Il. Row.
land and j. |. Sockwell, doing business
in the city and county of Dallas, state
Of Texas, hereinafter styled plaintiffs,
complaining Of G. Il. Gilbert, proprie-
tor and editor of the DALLAS DAILY
HERALD, a paper published in the city,
county and state aforesaid, herein at
ter styled defendent, represents that
plaintiffs and defendant reside in the
said city and county of Dallas, state of
Texas. That plaintiffs are good true
and honest citizens aud have
always behaved and governed
themselves as such, and
until the time of the writing, publish
ing and circulating of the false, scam
dalous and malicious libels hereinafter
mentioned, have always been held, es-
teemed and reputed as men who bore
good moral character and reputation
and fair dealing in business, and that
they have always maintained them
selves by honest and industrious at
tention to their calling; that defend
ant well knowing the premises, but
maliciously contriving to injure, black
Ell and defame the plaintiffs in their
good name, credit and reputation, and
to hold them up and expose them to
public infamy and disgrace and con-
tempt, and injure and destroy their
business. did, on Wednesday, the 18th
day of December, 1886, in the afore.
said city, county and State, falsely, ma
liciously, scandalously write and pub
lish, and cause and procure to be writ
ten and published in newspaper
called the DALLAS DAILY HERALD,
a certain false, scandalous and mali
cious libel of and concerning the said
plaintiffs and their business, contain
ing therein the false, scandalous, in
famatory AID opprobrious matter fol.
lowing of and concerning said plain
tiffs, to-wit:
"The Wichita Saloon (meaning the
place of business of said plaintiffs)
was the scene of another robbery last
night (meaning and insinuating there
by that other and numerous persons
had been robbed at the PLAINTIFF
place of business and in the saloon of
plaintiffs, and that plaintiffs were
knowing to and participated in the
same). Somehow the toughs of the
city (meaning scalawags, vagabonds
and the very lowest class of mcn) and
small confidence men (meaning pick
pockets and men who commit all
kind of vices) congregate at this place
Cleaning the Wichita Saloon, the
plaintiffs place of busness)
and wait for a victim
(meaning and insinuaiing thereby
that the class Of persons who patron
ize and 60 into plaintiffs place Of
business are vagabonds, cut-throats,
pickpockets, confidence men, tougls
and the very lowest class of mcn), and
run the tenderfoot in (mcaning and
insinuating thereby that plaintiffs
place of business is run and used by
them as 3 resort for thieves, pick
pockets and confidence men and vag-
abonds to commit their foul deedsl
and go through him for what he Is
worth (meaning and insinuating
thereby that the persons who resort
to the plaintiffs place of business will
be robbed of what they have). Last
night John Dugan and Frank McIn-
tyre made the acquaintance of Mr..
VIM. Hooley, of Galveston (meaning
and insinuating thereby that John
Dugan and Frank Mcintyre made the
acquaintance of VIM. Hoolcy at
plaintiffs place of busincss) and
proceeded to introduce him
to their friends at the
Wichita saloon (meaning and in
sinuating thereby the proprietors and
prfrons ofplaintiffs ss.oon), and to the
whiskey at the bar (meaning and in
sinuating thereby that the plaintiffs
entrap their patrons by first getting
them drunk), Hooley got drunk (mean-
ing and insinuating thereby that he
got drunk in PLAINTIFF saloon), and
when he realized the condition he was
in, upon returning to his senses, says
he was short $50 (meaning he was rob-
bed in plaintiffs place of business and
by the class of men who congregate at
plaintiffs said place of business). He
had been robbed (meaning and insinu-
ating thereby that either the plaintiffs
or their patrons at the said place Of
business did the robbing) He at once
notified the police. Officers Gaines
and Ray arrested Mcintyre at the sa-
loon meaning the place of
business of plaintiffsD which