Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-27
CALLED BAD NAMES.
WHY GEORGE H. PECK WANTS ]. M.
DAVIS ARRESTED.
Criminal Libel-An Open Letter Full
of Hard Language.

j. M. Davis, merchant OF San Pedro,
will be arrested this morning for crimi-
nal libel, complaint having been
sworn to yesterday by George H. Peck,
who is in the banking business in the
same town, and is the person libeled.
Davis's offense consists in writing and
having printed certain scurrilous cir.
cular, declaring Peck to be thief and a
liar. This circular, which is made the
basis OF the complaint, was posted all
over the town on Sunday morning, and
has created great sensation. 1t rms
as follows. and explains itself:
AN OPEN LETTER.
Whereas, One Geo. II. Peck has
sought to screen his littleness by repre-
senting that my unfriendly feeling to-
ward him is engendered by his having
refused demand from me for compen-
sation for defeating the West-street
scheme, and subsequently refusing to
loan me money on my individual note.
Therefore denounce the said Geo. HI.
Peck, as a liar of the most craven and
despicable type. / did defeat the West
street scheme. just at the moment of its
fruition, and did it at the earnest So
licitation of the aforesaid Peck, and
while nothing was said about pay, he
did say that he would not have it sue
ceed for $500, and / supposed, of course,
that he was man enough to compensate
me, especially since he knew that had
no personal interest in it, and in defeat
ing it would incur the personal dispfeas-
ure of its friends. Il did not know him
very we'll then.) The next day, after |
had punctured the little Joker to (sic)
dead for resurrection, this oleaginous
Uriah Heap came to me and thanked
me profusely for the Great Services |
had rendered the people, And, said
he, ''they appreciate it and will
remember it whenever you want any
hing" told him that | had no polit-
ical aspirations, ! accepted his thanks
and no demand for coin was ever made,
neither did ever seek to borrow of him
ON my individual note. | despise him,
because in his intercourse with men he
is as devoid of honor as a coyote; in
matters of public enterprise a profess
sional dead beat; in business con-
sciousless extortioner, and last and most
heinous, despoiler of the helpless.
And as an instance in support of this
last arraignment charge that only re-
Gently he connived to defraud widow
and orphan children out Of fair CON-
pensation for the lot whereon my store
now stands, and failing in this he
plead guilty to his own cussedness
in his attempts to thwart the plans
of bona. fde purchaser. And l
challenge him to put me to vindi-
cation Of this charge before any court
where the array of damaging evidence
in my possession can confront him. And
while these counts, and any one of them,
is sufficient to make the name of Geo.
II. Peck a stencil in the nostrils of
decent mem right well does that vile
aggregation Of intellectual mediocrity,
moral obtuseness and low cunning know
that my open hostility toshim is . oc-
casioned by none of these, but because
he owes me $7S.65 on business trans
action and which he seeks through false
hood to repudiate, and which have
given my obligation to collect, even if l
have to take it out OF his offensive car
cass. ]. NJ. DAVIS.