Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
THE ALL IMPORTANT SUIT.
Ricliland Center Gets Down to Busi=
ness at Last.

Last Sunday Mr.. A. J. McKy, sheriff
of Richland county, arrived in this city
armed with a warrant for the arrest OF
this poor scribe. We met him very
soon after his arrival at the Hotel Bells,
was introduced by Mr. A. NJ Bliss who
seemed to be not only acquainted with
the sheriff, but friend of his, and no
wonder for sheriff McKy is as courteous
and agreeable a gentleman as one needs
to meet. He informed us that he would
not need us until the following morning.
At his suggestion, we came to the hotel
after supper and read the complaint.
Imagine our surprise when we found
that the complaint was made by Mrs.
Maly and that our offence was libeling
her daughter Ella Maly.
No stranger to the Maly family can
feel deeper regret than we feel that
there is this unfortunate phase in the
Rose Zoldoski pardon case. No
member Of the Maly family can feel a
hate so deep for us, that is not more
than met by our sympathy for them and
sorrow for the hearts that bleed for the
loved and lost. We have children of
our own, and we would, with our own
life, shield them from every grief, every
sorrow, and should the dark shadow of
death fall across our threshold, we
would shield their memory with every
power Of our being and yet 1t would
never content us to see an innocent
person suffer, while the guilty thing
who brought all tie ruin to the hearth
was free, unscathed, unpunished. Even
now that we have read the complaint
and know all the bitterness of the fond
mothers heart, know that mayhap we
may be severely punished, we feel no
resentment, no wish to injure in any
way either the mother, the daughter or
any relative of theirs, and if in fact, as
the BraddOck letter, which we published
and for which we are prosecuted is
truth; if Ella Maly, under the solemn
promise of marriage, made one false
step, and then to shield her name and
the name Of her family, she gave up
her life, she is a martyr, and has left
the world with a character that no
words can defle, no thoughts can stain,
no power can traduce.
On Monday afternoon, before Henry
Miller, municipal judge of this county,
we were taken by the sheriff and
waving examination, our bonds for
appearance at the Richland county term
Of the circuit court were fixed at $4,000.
Three citizens of Wausau, representing
wealth amounting to at least one
hundred times the amount, signed the
bond and we were released.
WHERE IS TIE DOCTOR?
1t will be remembered that the
famous letter, for the publication of
which we are to be prosecuted, charges
the doctor with all the offense against
law or morals; that he is the son-of-a-gun
that we are after, and still he is as
dumb as an oyster. Were he a man,
had he the impulses Of common gallan-
try, principles above the mule that eats
grass, and were he an innocent man, he
would not allow the mother of Ella
Maly to shoulder the burthen of this
prosecution. In defending himself he
would defend the girl Why does he
not do it? Even the unduly excited
and righteously indignant people of
Richland Center should be sensible
enough, we might say decent enough,
to see this point, and should feel
thorough contempt for the wretch who
allows anothers good name to be
traduced through him. Again we say,
where is Dr.. Mitchell? Why did not he
bring this action? Is 1t not plain to
erybody that he is as guilty as the
devil is wicked? He stands silently by
and sees a poor heart-broken mother
rush into court to defend her child. He
sees proceedings commenced that will
bring others into shame and disgrace,
and makes 10 sign, lifts no voice, in fact
will not even defend his own worthless
character.
A discovery was made while sheriff
Mcky was here and facts were develop
ed, of which he is in part informed,
that will clear the editor of this paper
and will place the guilty man where his
cunning and wickedness has placed
others. On the second Tuesday in
September, in the circuit court of
Richland county, when the dance to
which we have been invited shall open,
we will be found in the band stand,
furnishing the music while others will
perform the dance intended for u.s.
Torch of Liberty, Wausau.