The herald., 1895-02-06
A. d. GARRISON'S SUIT.
HE WANTS $40, 900 FROM ALOT OF
EX-OFFICIALS.
Jury Listsnieg TO the Mschinatious of
Fo-s Who Made Him Very
Unhappy.

The trial was commenced yestsr-
day in department four, before a jury,
of the action brought by Andrew G.
Garrison against ex-Sheriff John @.
Cline, ex-Diatrict Attorney H. @. Dill
lon, ex-Justice of the Peace Grove 8.
Bartholomew and Private Detectives A..
3. Lawson and George Carlisle, to re-
cover from them jointly the sum OF
$4,000 damages.
Tho story of Garrison'a tribulations
in the past has bean told and rstold In
the papers, and it was their publication
which. as the plaintiff AYERS, showed
him up as great criminal, that was the
cause OF great unhappiness In his do
msstic and family relations.
Briefly recapitulated. the state Of af-
fairs, according to the complaint. is
about as follows: On June 18th, 1894,
A. Is. Lawson procured the arrest for
perjury. with the aid of District Attor-
ney Dillon, Of the plaintiff, under the
name of William Garrison, for having
taken out on the 10Th Of May preceding
a license to marry Mrs. Christina Nellie
Vliet. George Carlisle, an employee OF
Lawaou. who swore to the complaint.
said that Garrison's name was William
and not Andrew D.. ga plaintiff had
made affidavit that 1t was, and this
constituted the perjury.
Tho warrant was issued by Township
Justice Bartholomew, and Garrison
thrown into prison nsxt day. When
the man wac arrsignsd. tbs complaint
goes on to state. District Attorney Dill
Ion said that he was not wanted for the
charge contained in the warrant OF ar
rest, but for a far more serious one, and
asked that the bail be made as heavy 90
possible. Justice Bartholomew, in
consequence OF this, made the bond out
for $500, and Garrison being unabls to
procure it, spent the night in the county
Jail. Next day. however, the charge OF
perjury was dismissed.
That is all there is to the charge OF
damages, but during the trial the facts
back of the arrest for perjury became
apparent. The insistence to mako a
villain out OF an Andrew d. was all be-
cause there was William Garrison In
the east who had committed murder q
number OF years ago. and II the present
plaintiff turned out to be the right man,
there was a good fighting chance for a
big reward. 1t was. then, to hold him
pending investigation that he was put
under arrest here.
After Garrison had been discharged
from custody he departed from this city
and proceeded esat, leaving Mrs. Gar.
rison behind. He corresponded with
her regularly. and the local private de-
tectives not having yet lost all hope OF
connecting .heir quarry with the muir
der in the east, rssorted, 80 1t has been
alleged, to devious methods to trace him
during his wanderings. Among other
charges made are those that they inter-
cepted his correspondence. and that his
mail was not only taken from the post
Office, by permission OF the officials. bus
also read and copied in the detective
bureau.
Garrison'a com plant directly chasgeu
Lawson and Carlisle with malicious and
sinister motives in encom passing his
arrest on the perjury charges. but, a.
far as the other defendants are Coz
cerned, they are substantially called
the tools of the first named, whose char
acter ia qualified in uneqnivocal terms.
Some astonishment was caused in
court by the testimony Of John E. Benz
nett, newspaper reporter, attorney at
law and sometimes connected with the
Lawson detective bureau, who said that
for people to 90 to the postoffice and OBJ
tain icial letter heads and envelopes
from the postal authorities. In this
case this official stationery had, been
used for the purpose of writing to post
masters elsewhere. in the cities where
Garrison was supposed to abide. for the
purpose of direosing these officials to see
to it that decoy letters forwarded from
here be delivered to Garrison in psopria
persona. t'
The trial Jagged somewhat in the lat
ter part Of the afternoon because Of the
absences of Mrs. Parker, u material wit.
ness. A bench warrant was Issued for
her by Judge Van Dyke, but upon
proper showing being made that she was
eick abed. arrangements were made to
have her deposition taken. which will
be submitted to the jury today whom
court reconvenes in the forenoon.