The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-04
'REARY AGAINST THE PILOT
Evidence in The Case Submitted
Yesterday
Tho Damage Suit for $4,000 En-.
L gagged the Attention of Judge
Martins Court. A Large
Number Of Witnesses
Were Present.

hehmy pRnlbst bue Z liot WIS COn IneucCu
in the Court of Law and Chancery
Yesterday. This suit grew out of the
qualification in tho Pilot of letter from
the Rev. W. G. Lindsay. q Presbyte
trisn preacher at Bay View. Accomao
Y County, seriously rejecting upon the
moral character of the wife of Rev. A.
j. Raamy, of the Onancock Baptist
Church.
Ten thousand dollars is asked of the
Pilot Publishing Company, Samuel w.
Small, the editor. mud Rev. Mr.. Lind
sey, the correspondent. Judge Gilmer
s. Kendall, of the Eastern Shore, mp
pearsd as counsel for the Pilot. MIR.
Small as counsel for himself and Judge
Nicely for the plaintiff.
Tho following were the jurors: r. =.
Davis, William Er1lebeD, A. G.. Dun
can. 1. s. d. Saul, Sidney Anderson,
"a. Nj. Jones, Thomas Old. w. d. Sim
mons. w. L. Webb, w. ID. Allsrd, w.
@. Orr and A. Is. Lee.
After the preliminary statements
Mr.. Reamy was put upon tho stand.
He said that Mrs. Reamy was his wife
and that there was no other woman by
4 that name In tho county; that on nc
count of the publication he considered
that he ns we'll as his wife had been
very
SERIOUSLY INJURED,
Hc said not one word of the publica.
: ton was true. In reply to Judge Ken
dali, said he had never said to any ono
that he thought the communication
had benefited his wife.
- Do you feel that the damage can be
removed by money, asked MIR. Kendall?
No. sir, / do not.
N - IL
was SIMPLE?
l certainly do not. said Mr.. Kenny.
Capt. L. L. S,ott said no one has q
better reputation than Mrs. Reamy.
He had heard no rumors Mt Onnncock.
Mr.. Pierce Brent. of the Onaucock
Academy. said there was no rumors on
the Eastern Shore which, If another
nsmo had been substituted in tho nrti.
clio for that of Reamy, would have made
the article entirely correct.
He snid Mrs. Reamy's character was
unspotted. Mr.. Brent said it would
not be sale for the man who started
The report to walk the streets of Oman
! cock. The plaintiff rested the case aud
. Rev. MIR. Small took the stand for the
defence.
Mr.. Small told OF his newspaper OK.
perisncs anu said it Is impossible to
verify all reports received, TINT on nc.
count of the character of the CORE
spondent he accepted The statement rs
true. He believed that any newspaper
would have published the communica.
tion coming from such IL source. lie
was simply giving news ard was actu
ated by no malice.
He said he would be willing for any
editor in the city TO go on the stand
and testify on the subject
Mr.. Neely asked if he (SmalD would
be willing for air. Murray, of the Land
mark, and Mr.. Glennan, of The YIR-
OMAN, to testify on the subject.
MIR. Small replied in the affirmative,
and MIR. Nicely asked that those gentle
men be summoned.
While Mr.. Small was on the stand
MIR. Nicely asked him to produce the
correspondence between himself
(SmalD and Mr.. Lindsay III connection
with the publication of the Onancock
article.
MIR. Small had the correspondence q
his pocket and produced II. he also
showed MIR. Nicely another communica.
ton, at which Mr.. Nicely took offence,
and sharp encounter of words took
place between the two gentlemen.
Exactly what was in the letter lat the
showing of which to him by Mr.. Small
he. Neely, took oflence) did not mp.
pear. but 1t was supposed by the news.
paper men present that it contained
the name of the person limited Mt by
Judge Kendall when he asked witness
(previouslyl if the Onsncock article
would have been correct if the name of
some Que else other than Mrs. Resmy
had been substituted for her name in
Gthe article. The gentleman had an
apparently amicable adjustment OF the
affair before it was left.
MIR. Nicely asked Mr.. Small who
wrote the retraction signed by Rev.
Mr. Lindsay.
Mr.. Small replied that Mr.. Lindsay
was the author of the retrnction.
Mr.. Nicely said he had not asked
that question-as to the authorship
but his question was as 10 who tDrote
the article.
MIR. Small Haid that Mr.. Lindsay
brought retraction to the Pilot office.
and that after reading it he (Small
dictated retrac;ion for Mr.. Lindsay;
that it was wEitten by his (Small's,
secretary and turned over to Mr..
( Lindsay.
AIR. Willetts. of Exmore; Mr.. Tauk.
ard, OF Franktown; Mr.. Landlord. of
Northampton, testified to hearing
the rnmors in their respective neigh
hoods some fifteen or twenty miles from
TOnnncock. They had heard no Que
from Onnnooek say the rumor was
true.