The record-union., 1897-04-28
FILED A SECOND COMPLAINT.
4. WeinStOGk Sues the bee" for Another
$4,000.
He Alleges the Libelous Character
of a Recently Published
Editorial.

The following complaint was filed yes
terday in the Superior Court by Holl &
Dunn, attorneys for H. Weinstock. 1t
is a second suit against the Bee pub
fishers for alleged libel, and the damages
are laid at $500 The complaint
reads:
H. Weinstock, plaintiff, VS.. c. K. Nc
CATCHY and V. S McClatchy, copartners
doing business under the firm name and
style of James McClatchy & Co., de-
PENDANTS The plaintiff complaining, al
leges:
That at all the times named herein
the defendants, c. K McClatchy and
v. S. McClatchy. were and they are now
copartners doing business under the firm
name and style of James McClatchy &
Co.; and that at ali said times they
We're, ever since have been, and now are,
the owners, publishers and proprietors
of a newspaper printed and published
in the City of Sacramento, County of
Sacramento, State of California, called
the Evening Bee; that at all the times
named in this complaint the said news
paper had, and now has, in said city and
county, and also in other counties of
said State of California a large number
of readers and subscribers.
II.
That on the 18th day of April. 1897,
the said defendants composed and pub
lished in their said newspaper the said
Evening Bee" an article of and con-
corning the plaintiff herein. in the words
and figures following, to wit: Still
frNvino Of n the Ga n
Francisco Examiner of to-day appear
ed the following:
III. Weinstock, the Sacramento mer-
chant. who narrowly escaped becoming
victim of Won Arnold when he was
masquerading in the Capital City last
month as the Baron Won Steinmetz,
called yesterday on Chief Lees to tell
him what he knew about the false Ba-
ron.
Won Arnold appeared in Sacramento
as a wealthy German nobleman from
Chicago, who wanted to start daily
paper. He was also eager to secure
permission from the City Trustees to
establish a gambling resort. At that
time he was employed by the StilWell
Detective Agency, at the instigation OF
the Sacramento Bee ii was said, to
expose an alleged combination between
the Mayor of Sacramento and five OF
the City Trustees to protect gambling
games in return for brides He made
reports to his employers from time to
time and the Bee published many ar
ticleS regarding the supposed comblna-
ton among the city officials. This led
to an investigation by the Grand Jury.
Nothing came of it. During the sensa-
ton caused by its publications the Bee
mentioned Mr.. WeinstOck as being IN
some way connected with the affair. He
sued the paper for $4,000 damages for
libel. The suit has not yet been tried.
1T is to be presumed that the above
story came from the lips of Mr.. ii.
Weinstock of this community. If II
did, Mr.. Weinstock appears in very pc
culiar light before the people of Sacra-
mento. He has repeatedly stated that
he scarcely knew Won Arnold: that he
only met him once in his store; that
John A Sheehan was then with Won Ar
mold and that he (WeinstocD was ap-
preached upon the subject of a newspa-
per. If all these things be true, how
comes it that Weinstock narrowly es-
capped becoming a victim to Won Arnold
in this city? He could not have been in
danger of becoming a victim to Won
Arnold unless there was some plan or
scheme preached between them, which
was either not exactly what it should
have been, or in which-it being in it
self legitimate-Weins was in dan
ger of being mulcted by Won Arnold.
Which of these suppositions, if either,
is true, We leave to be elucidated by
Mr. WeinstOck, who has contracted the
very pernicious and boomerang habit
of trying his cases in public print. Ger
tainly what Mr.. Weinstock now declares
is Numerically contradictory to what
he had published in the 'Record-Un
to which the managers of the bee
were invited to respond and whose COM
munication in response had the vitals
plucked out of it before it was printed.
There are a great number of mis-
statements printed in the above ex-
tract. seemingly having come originally
from the lips of H. Weinstock Won Ar
mold never posed here as Baron Won
Steinmex. and H. Weinstock never
knew him under any such name. In
fact H Weinstock had heretofore led
the people to believe that he scarcely
knew Won Arnold at all.
Won Arnold never came here with a
statement that he desired to start a
daily newspaper. He came here as rep
resentative of a detective agency tc
gain evidence of the promiscuous black
mailing of men and women on the part
of the scoundrelly guerrilla of the press
John A Sheehan of the Sunday News.
In working on this lead he was asked tC
become a partner in a. new daily paper
and he permitted himself to be led along
Further developments came out, and in
other ways the Bee became possessed
of much evidence concerning official
corruption and private and public black
mail in this community. In all these
matters Mr.. Weinstock was not in any
manner connected by this paper. He