San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-10
NELLIE BLY, IN CONTEMPT.
Liable to Arrest If She Returns to
New YOrk---Her Manager and
the ..WOrld AGAINST Her.

the "World Against Her.
Nellie BLY, is in contempt OF court.
She was subp9nRd short time ago
to testify in behalf of the World in a
suit brought by ed" Phelps, the AL
bany lobbyist. to recover damages Tor
an alleged libel. The libel complain
ed of was q sensational article pub
lished over Nellie Bly's name two
winters ago, in which she pretended
to expose Phelps methods of securing
| legislation at the state capital. Phelps
discovered that Nellie had manutac-
| tured her exposure from the sug-
gestions of her employers and her
own imagination, and brought suit to
recover damages. The evidence OF
| Nellie BLY, was necessary at the trial
| of the suit in order to bolster up the
| Worlds story and prevent the pro-
prietOrs of the paper from beng
mulcted in damages. When the case
was called for trial Miss Bly, did not
appear to assert under oath the truth
of that which she had published, and
Judgment was entered in favor of
Phelps and against the World by de-
fault, the defendant having no evil
dence to sustain its sensational Tex
posure.n Miss Bly, is now liable to be
arrested on an attachment ifshe comes
| again WITHIN the boundaries of this
state.
present the young woman is IN
| West completing her lecture tour I'M
der the management OF ). Nj. Hill.
She tried in every way to evade the
service OF a subpoena in the ibel suit /,
! but was finally caught at the time
| OF her last lecture at the Union
Square Theater, aud there command
| Oh appear and testify was served up
| Oh her. She accuses her manager
| Mr.. Hill, of playing trick on her in
"Ider to have her served with the
subpoena, and says he was in
leagne with her late employers
| TO force her to appear in court and
nolser up the Worlds charge against
Phelps by forcing her to appear
n court and swear that the article
she wrote was true. In an
Interview in Western city Miss
BY tells the following story of the
rOuble: Upon my return from my
trip around the world | was given u
three months vacation without pay.
then secured all engagement with
J. NJ. Hill, which | am now filling, to
! deliver fOrty-three lectures within
| Two months. Mr.. Hill agreed to pay
! me $3.50 tor the lectures. One of the
| conditions of the contract was that If
| ] failed to fiji any date that should be
made for me by Mr.. Hull the contract
! should cease. | began the lectures OIL
| February at The Union Square thea
ire, and was in New York three weeks,
delivering one lecture week. During
| mis- time the Phelps libel suit against
| the v Orld came up for trIa L could
| not afford to stay in New York ana
| appear as d witness. On the night l
| Aas to lecture at Newark, n. j., an
| rtfort was made to subpoena me as
| witness in the trial, but | es-
j 'aped without being served with
| the subrnua. next went to Phlla-
delphia to fill an engagement. While
mere Mr.. Hill telegraphed me to come
| back to New York. | replied that |
| was subject to his commands only 80
tar as my lecture engagements re-
| CURED. He then telegraphed me to
come to New York and fill a lecture
| engagement at the Union Square
theatre at 10 o'clock the next day. |
knew I should forfeit my contract il
| failed to obey, so l went to New
| York. | lectured before ten people
| A fter tine lecture found the World s
| lawyer waiting for me back of the
stage. He had me subpoenaed to ap-
pear in court during the next three
days. / lett the city that night and
| have been gone ever since. Mr.. Hill
| OH third
| lecture. / do not know that he is
'rylng to handicap me, but know
| hat / was not provided with tickets,
and my baggage received no atten
| ton at Chicago in time for me to gel
the regular train to fill NV Milwau-
kee engagement, and | was compelled
To charter a locomotive to get there
| on time.n
J. NJ. Hill denied Miss Bly's story
He called her hard names, and said
she rode on an engine from Chicago
to Milwaukee because it was one OF
! her wild schemes. He said he had
paid her up to date, and that she was
a failure as lecturer.
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