Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-03-12
LAIL Us HERALD"
The Taking Of testimony in tho
S2j, 900 Libel Suit
4 LARGE NUNDlR or WITNESSES,
Among These Being the Plaintiffs
Husbaud-Iho Correction Made
BY the "Hcrald.y

Tho TRIAL q the sg5, 600 damage cult
Tor libel bought BY Alrs. Catherine
Laii agaiH.t zinc Salt Lske Herad was
resum1l before Chief Justlue Merritt
aud juicy tlls morning, tho same
counsel appearing AZ ON yesterday.
The forenoon was taken up with fur.
ther tct.im5uy aIIucsd by the plain.
un's side.
Tho DIS. witness called today was
Judge J. 4. Anderson, who was ques.
toned with roforguce {, tho haUoas
corpus Proceedings, referred 80 la tlcso
columns yesterday iheso having been
iuaviulrd ty t1r grcous. mau cleric
recover ..s.tlsi.u OF hiF ;w1 children
from 3igu. bal, aad tried before TIE
exluIg1 named. tbo.o proceedings
wU-. dismissed.
hrs. Kat. Schwartz. who IL ac-
quuutuu vita ,Av plainufl, testified, In
uf1H-sGAu nation, that thu reading q
tho article complained of Ia the HCr-
aid MA not lower Mia. Lail IN her usti-
nation % an. NtH.Lhli'4 name was not
muntiguUd la uald article; suu merely
/ supposed that % Tuiutcd 10 the
plaintiff
CHARLES j.. G0otsoI, 40 ex.dsputy
/ marshal, said no uul Known Mra. I.Ail
| about i've year, Witness WA shown
! tho article in question, contained ia
| the Herald ui May 45ih, isU-, au Z tail
he rtnu ~ at that umr. 10 madn 40
| hia mind when no read 10 that the
/ rlaiuuu we llv pHFsln referred %
/ therein, G10ibell hisu testified that ho
I knew Mrs. LAil % 10 q person u good
| character Wilutsa was ilturtOgutsi
ne o. tho Caa,us Bul0op, uf
which tIv pIaiuuu iJfmefiy had
charge, tho object uglug 10
show the Questionable reputat on Of
/ tuAt place uJ,h prior 90 HuI during
/ her occupancy, but said hs diI not
know that bad cnarsclcB tvsJttsd
there,
John Nicu0'ls, now resident OF
Salt Lake, fa.I he had known tho
plalnun uinco September, 1850. Hu
igsllfieu us o. Nit. Laips general fepu-
tNtiOu "a tIu community, that II was
good. lie had fuomol at rf boarding
mouse, on aud ~, during tho interval,
sometimes for two Ur three weeks At
time.
@. NJ. Hammond, Balt Lake real
| estate dealer, had also known the
/ plaintiff some i've yoats Hud oortobg.
rated the previous witness on the point
| VI reputation. IN ct0Hs-t1aminatiuu
! Mt. Hammond said that, as aypt { anu
paft owner II thg johnson hOuss, no
rented thu premises 10 Mrs. LAi,
m 1880. While tue Cactus "a.
loon iu those days was not "high-
toned" hu had reason for believing
that II was as good IN regard 10 respect.
ability Us any other saloon In tho
city.
4. q. Fame said he read the article
ana Gt UucB came 10 the conclusion
that it pointed % Mrs. Lail, with
whom ho was acquainted.
Dau Lal, miuer brother OF the
| plaiuuiii testified that tho two young
! daughters VI dlUr were as we'll treated
By hiH sister as though they had been
her own children.
Olhor witnesses were called upon 10
testify, among other things, Ne 10 Mrs.
IsiPu reputation, ami tho opinion
which thuy formed upon reading the
HsruiiS article. These included
George Lail, husband OF the plaintiff.
. ah"hNa AAH 10 Wv 'AANNH W ~ IANlANAAANA
upon her feelings, he said sue
/ "uad screamed, cried about tho
/ place aud had acted dtief-
entity ever since" Ct,a-oKamiued
tue witness tnid they consulted an
attorney on the matter OF taking pro.
osoiings the sans day, he believed,
/ that the EfiiClU appeared, but did not
coll ut the Herald OhlUe anu request
| core elton.
Attorney Rhwlius, u counsel for
| tiH uri1usr, read from copy Of tho
Herald Of June lO.u, 1899, smother
Hg.iUlu headed cit wal wrong" Ia
which n correction VI ,hs story u the
-s.l VI the previous month was made,
sud eX0nuratug entirely the putsJn
Rejected 90 therein,
d The plaintiffs council rested about
..ju ana the uvisnse then proceeded 10
Uall iti Witncsses.