The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-26
PLEAD NOT GUILTY
TIMES EDITORS In COURT By
PROXY TO ANSWER TO IN
DICTMENTS.
DATE FOR TRIAL NOT SET.
THE CASE AGAINST THE TIMES
NEWSPAPER COMPANY TO
COME UP LATER.
x-RAY EDITORS IN TROUBLE, TOO.
Libel Also the Charge in Indict-
ments Against Them-General
News of Minneapolis.

w. e. Haskell and John Blanchard,
respectively manager and editorial
writer, and stockholders of the Times
| were arraigned in criminal court yes
terday on charges of libel, upon true
bills found by the Hennepin county
grand jury.
They did not appear in person.. as
that is not required under the law, ncr
were the indictments read to them, nut
their attorney in the case, A. B. jack
| son, appeared for them and entered
pleas of not guilty, with the privilege
of withdrawing those pleas II found
necessary, and demurring to ;he In
dictments. The cases will be set late
in the term.
! Another Indictment is found against
the Times Newspaper company, Wo:o-
ed in precisely the same terms as the
two personal indictments. This includes
the two men arraigned and James
Gray. the other member Of the cor
poration and city editor of the Times.
This Indictment is as follows:
The District Court for the Fourth Judicial
! District County of Hennepin and State OF
| Minnesota.
The State of Minnesota against The Times
! Newspaper Company-indictment
The Times Newspaper company is accused
by the grand jury of the county OF Hennepln,
| in the state of Minnesota by this Indictment
| of the crime of libel. committed as follows:
| The said Times Newspaper company, on the
| 1st day of August, A. D., 1897 at the city OF
| Minneapolis, in said Hennepn county, then
and there being a corporation duly organized
and existing under and by virtue OF the laws
of the state of Minnesota, did Wllfully, unlay-
fully, wrongfully, knowingly, felon:ousy if,e ana
malicously contriving to aggrieve, villfy,
scandalize and defame the good name, fame
and reputation of the Minneapolis trust
| company and its officers, said Minneapolis
Trust company being then and there a cor
| poration duly organized and existing under
| and by virtue Of Chapter 1O7 of the laws OF
| the state of Minnesota, enacted in 1888, ana
| other acts and laws relating thereto, and IN
| tending as much as in it lay to bring the
said Minneapolis Trust company and its
| officers into contempt, hatred, infamy and
disgrace, did compose, print and punlisn. n. IN
| certain newspaper called The Sunday Times,
whereof the said. The Times Newspaper COM
pany was then and there publisher certain
false, scandalous and malicious libel, ana ala
cause and procure to be published in said
newspaper the said certain false scandalous
and malicious libel of and concerning the
said Minneapolis Trust company and It's OH
GERS of and concerning the conduct OF the
said Minneapolis Trust company and its Off
GERS as receivers of the Northwestern Guar
anty Loan company, then and there an in
solvent corporation, heretofore duly organ
| lied under the laws of the state or Minnesota,
the sad Minneapolis Trust company being
then and there the receiver of said North
western Guaranty Loan company and having
heretofore been duly appointed said receiver
by the district court hereinbefore mentioned,
and holding said Office of receiver under and
by virtue of its character of incorporation
granted to it by the said state of Minnesota,
and the appointment by said court here
nbefore set forth. which said malicious.
false and scandalous libel is of the tenor and
effect as follows, that is to say:
The article, of which a resume was given
in the G. [ o b Yesterday, here follows:
The Indictment concludes:
Which said candalous and malicious libel
is false and did expose the said Minneapolis
Trust company and its officers to hatred, in
fanny and disgrace, contrary to the statute
in such cases made and provided, and against
the peace and dignity of the state OF Mime
Dated at the city of Minneapolis, in sad
Hennepn county, this 23d day of September,
A j. 1897.
Names of witnesses examined before the
grand jury: Samuel Hill, William H. Dun
woody, Daniel Bassett, Char.es a. WOOD
ChsSles A. Pi!lsbury, Clarkson Lindley, Hen
Northrop, Robert D. Russell, E:bridge Z.
Cook, Anthony Kelly, Philip B; Winston
Franklin j. Green.eaf,
Foreman of the Grand Jury.
The arraignment of the corporation
did not occur, as there are some for
malities to be gone through with The
sheriff served a summons required by
law, to which the defendant corpora
tion is given tWenty-four hours to ap-
pear. This will allow of an appearances
Monday by attorney. The law proVldes
that in the event of the failure OF the
defendant corporation to enter an ap-
poarance. the clerk of court may enter
a plea of not guilty, and upon the
appearance of the corporation in court
they may be deemed always in court
continuously, until the matter is heaFd
and a verdict reached. In the event
of 2 finding of guilty the court can as
sess the fine, which, unlike other cr1rpl-
nal cases, is docketed the same as a
Judgment, and may be collected In the
same manner.
X-RAY EDITORS, TOO.
Henry S. Seed and Thomas w. Per-
sons. editors and publishers of X-Rays,
printed in Minneapolis, have been notl-
fie6 to appear in answer to three true
bills found by the grand jury, in which
libel is charged against them. Another
Indictment is for complaining Wit
nesses Detectives Hoy and LaWrence,
of the city force. This bill shows
publication in which these men are
charged with having levied blackmail
and extortion. The other bill sets forth
the libeous publication of an article III
which Charles Matthews was set up as
the sufferer from an act of the detec-
tiyes. in that he had paid money for
the suppression of certain alleged fac;s.