The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-19
HUSSEY'S COMPLAINT
HIS COMPLAINT FILED IN A SIO,~
COO LIBEL SUIT AGAINST THE
NEWS AND OBSERVER.
TELLS WHY He FEELS INJURED


Register of Deeds Il ogers Goes on His
Bond for s200--The Suit Seemingly
Deferred Until the February Terms
Charged With Penitentiary Offence.
Through his attorneys, Messrs. Mac
Rae and Day and Whitaker, Mr.. John
B. Hussey yesterday filed his complaint
in a $40, 900 libel suit which, it is al
legged, he will bring against the NEWS
AND OBSERVER PUBLISHING COMPANY.
The document, printed below, sets forth
certain articles as the basis of the suit in
which articles Mr.. Hussey is charged,
respectively, with having unlawfully at
tempted to get possession of the pension
rolls as well as with having unlawfully
retained money belonging to client.
Mr.. Hussey gave bond in the sum OF
5000 with ]. J. Rogers as surety, and it
is said that the case will be called at the
February term of the Wake County Su-
perior Court.
The complaint is as follows:
NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY,
Superior Court, Oct. Term 1895.
John B. Hussey against THE NEWS AND
obcEhN En- GDlICE1lNU SONhi AMI
The plaintiff above named complain
ing of the defendant above named
alleges:
First, that the defendant, the NEWS
AND OBSERVER PUBLISHING COMPANY at
the time hereinafter mentioned was and
is now a corporation duly organized
under the laws of North Carolina and as
such was engaged in the publication of
a n wSpaper known as the NEWS AND
OBSERVER in the said county of Wake
Second, that the said defendant, the
NEWS AND OBSERVER PUBLISHING Com
PANY continuing and wickedly and ma
liciously intending to injure the said
plaintiff, John B. Hussey in his good
fame and credit and to bring him into
public scandal, infamy and disgrace, and
TO cause IL to be su.p"cted and believed
that the said plaintiff was dishonest;
interruptions, guilty of erlme,the pun
ishment whereof was confinement IN the
penitentiary, thief and a consplrator
heretofore, to-wit, on the 10th day OF
March. 1895, in the county aforesaid
falsely, wickedly and maliciously did
compose and publish and cause and pro-
cure to be published in the said newspaper
known as the NEWS AND OBSERVER OF
and concerning the said plaintiff GER
tain false, scandalous, malicious and de-
famatory libel. containing among other
things the false, scandalous, defamatory
and libelious matter following OF and
concerning the plaintiff, that is TO say,
nine years ago, this fellow Hussey, mean
ing the plaintiff, was Democrat ana
the editor of the Greensboro Patriot.
When Cleveland was elected he applied
for position in Washington and the
Democrats in Congress secured him the
position as chief of division
in the Treasury Department. After Har
rison's election seeing that he would lose
his position, Hussey, meaning the plain
tiff, began TO get ready TO go into the
business of pension attorney IN Washing
ton. Preliminary to this, he ordered the
clerks in his division to make a complete
list of the pensioners on file in his diyis-
ion, and they worked several weeks pre-
pairing it. He we'll knew that this list
was sacredly kept from all pension agents
and attorneys, and that 1t was crime
for him to copy it for his personal use,
1t came to Mr.. Windows ears that Hus-
sey, meaning the plaintiff, had been
guilty of this crime and he was on the
point of dismissing him in disgrace and
pros cuting him for the offence. Hussey,
meaning the plaintiff, took to his heels
when his conduct came to the
ears of Secretary Window, and
it was generally stated that he
had malady which would shortly
prove fatal. Then it was that Sen
ator Ransom begged the Republican
Secretary not to disgrace his family, and
to permit him to return the stolen lists
and resign. Secretary Window had a
kind heart and acceded to the request.
But for this leniency, Hussey (meaning
the PLAINTIFF would now be in the Albany
penitentiary instead of Buffers private
secretary.
Hussey (meaning the PLAINTIFF has been
the Washington correspondent Of both
the Winston Republican and the eau
casian, and has helped TO harmonic the
policy of these leaders of the two wings
of Fusion. They wanted an artful and
INSCRIPTIONS man, a ready writer and
an active gatherer and perverter of news.
They cared nothing for character, and
their readers did not demand that they
should. But man who Is capable OF
doing dirty work as Washington core
spondent is not a suitable man TO be
chosen as the confidential friend, boon
companion and adviser of a man who
occupies the highest Federal position IL
the gift of North Carolina.
IL Senator Butler had appointed as
private secretary man who had just
dropped the conyict's stripes, after sen
tence of six years in the penitentiary
all parties would unite in saying thai ht
had merted the scorn and contempt Of
all good people in the State. Mr.. Hus
sey, meaning the plaintiff, is no better
man because Ransom was persuaded tc
beg Window not to send him to the pen
itentiary six years ago.
That the said defendant, contriyina
and wickedly and maliciously intending
TO injure the said plaintiff in his gooc
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