The San Francisco call., 1897-10-14
Sues the Los Angeles Times
for $4,000 for
Libel.
DR.. G, T. Pepper Also Called
On to Contribute $4,000
for Unjust Charges.
Unfounded Accusations Against San
Francisco Business Man That
Have Been Resented.

George D. Graybill, a weIl-known resi-
dent of this city, has sued the Los An
geles Times for $50 600 damages on account
of libelous articles published in that paper
in the months of July, August and Sep
tenn Der. The articles In question directly
charged that Mr.. Graybill had conspired
with John W. kapus IN swindling busi-
ness men OF Los Angeles out of $50, 600 by
selling them bogus claims on the firm of
Goodall, Perkins & Co., the allegation
being that Mr.. Graybill went under the
name Of +. C. Vincent while the transac.
tions were going on in Los Angeles.
DR.. c. I. Pepper, who was one of the
losers to the tune of $4,000, came to this
city and entered suit against Mr.. Grayblll
for the recovery OF his money but subse-
quently finding that he was wrong dis
missed the action and expressed his re-
gret that the mistake had occurred. Mr..
Gray bill thought this was not sufficient
recompense for the insult that had neen
heaped OH HIM and consequently sued DR.
Pepper for S25, 600 damages.
AT the time the Charges against Mr.
Gray bill were made pubic his attorneys,
Messrs. Sullivan IL Sullivan, informed the
lawyers on the other side tnat Mr. Gray
| bill was in the State OF Nevada engaged
| III mining and that he had not been in
| Los Anee es for several years. To prove
that he mad nothing to do with the mat
| ter Mr.. Grayblll came all the way from
his place of employment to confront Dr.
| Pepper, who at once SAID, That is not
! the man, l never saw him before"
! The article i'll the Times of Septem ber
u is suggestive of some developments Is
/ that may be made if the publishers of the
paper attempt to justify their reports OF
n l. in, I
was held in that city for several days
under surveillance, but at last resented
| the espionage OF his pursuers as the fol-
| lowing extract from the Times article OF
the 18th of September will show:
| On Thursday last change came over John
| W. Kapus He told the detective, who had
| been his mpanion Tor weeks wherever he
went, TO ''gO and chase himself" and openly
| and boldly announced tnut he was on that
night going to Chicago. This news reached
some OF his victims aud they were alarmed
| They had long urged the arrest OF the young
| man, but had deferred to the wishes of other
| alleged Victims who were reported TO be
heavier losers than themselves and who told
| them: let Kapus alone. He can dig up some
/ money and We Will all get out with only a
! small loss on this thing" Then il was added
! that kapus had located Vincent, alias Gray
| bill, or vice versa, his partner In the swindle
/ and was going after him; that GraybllI had
most OF the $4,000 LOST by his victims and
1 that kapus was going to make him pay back
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| innocent victims. aud they made no further
| objection TO Kapus leaving.
= but kapus told different story at the de DOT
| when he took the train for the East To a
| man in this city who knew him social V when
he was supposed to be honest Kapus said
| We'll, good by. IN going to fit Arrest me d?
on, no. I've got 100 many OF them on astring.
! II they arrest me and put me on the stand I'll
tell the truth about the claims swindle, and
some OF the suckers Will fiud out that ii wasn't
| kapus that was engineering The deal Men
who have used me to make thousands out
/ OF their bogus claims, who have used me to
drag in their irlenOS, 10 whom they intro
! duced me ana recommended my little scheme,
are not anxious 10 have me so on the Witness
/ stand and teal all / X ow Gray bin did not
deal square with me aud so l turned up some
| OF his property, but Was square with The Los
Angeles men VINO knew what they were doing
| and what was doing, and who divided every
! thousand won from the innocent suckers
Let them arrest me. Pu bet you Il hundred |
! would not be in jail ten minutes. 1 can get
| 1000 bail in that many minute right now
! on, L nj just going for a trip. would like 10
run across Graybill. and may be will"
| Mr. GraybiIl has an i'm pre- ssion that this
pretended interview with an ANONYMOUS
! person was the product of some employe
! of the Times and for the reason that it is
not reasonable TO suppose that Kapus
| would speak of Graybill in that wav.
| when, as matter of fact, thev had never
| met, and in fact had no knowledge of the
| existence of each other.
At the time of the investigation that
was demanded by Mr. GraybiIl IL was
! demonstrated that NJ Graybill had NOT
been in Los Angeles for several wears
that he never had anything to do with
| claims against Goodall, P.rkins e. Co..
| and that all the accusations against him
were absolutely false.