The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-01
SENSATIONAL SUIT
F. E. Pollard Brings
Action Against e.
Il. Manner.
ISLANDER ALLEGED,
Former Official of Flexible
Door Company Wants
$4,000 Damages.

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prominent business man of this city,
but recently of New York, has brought
suit in the New York courts against
Ernest 3. Manner of Brooklyn, also
an erstwhile resident of Worcester to
recover $50, 900 for SANDER.
Mr.. Pollard claims that Mr.. Manner
wrote etters to John H. Warren of
this city in which he was villified and
his character DETAINED.
The suit has created considerable of
a sensation in this city, where the
parties are well known. Mr.. Pollard
was man of social position here,
being b member of the Commonwealth
Club, and was identified with the
Flexible Door and Shutter Company,
with which the other interested par
ties have also been identified. Mr.. War
rem ss superintendent and Mr.. Manner
as salesman. The case has a singular
ASPECT in that Mr.. Warren, to whom
the slanderous letters about Mr.. Pol
lard are alleged to have been written,
denies that any such letters have come
to- him.
Yesterday Mr.. Manner was arrested
al his home, 632 Flatbush avenue,
brooklyn, by the sheriff, and required
To give bail in the $4,000 suit brought
against him by Mr.. Pollard.
f. e. Pollard came to Worcester in
the early '70's, and was first employed
here in the stationery store run by a
brother of Capt. G. S. Holden of the
Wellingtons. From there he went into
the lithographing and engraving bust
ness at 406 Main street. After leaving
this business. he became associated
with DIR. H. N. H. Lugrin, who was the
inventor of the Lugrin flexible door.
DIR. Lugrin was seen last evening by
The Spy man. and stated that he had
sold his interest in the Lugrin flexible
door to the Lugrin Flexible Door Com
pany, Of which Pollard was a member,
and that afterwards the Flexible Door
and Shutter Company had been formed
with Mr.. Pollard as treasurer.
1t was stated by parties who have
been intimately acquainted with Mr..
Pollard during his career in this city
that the hackers of the Flexible Door
and Shutter Company were the Nor
cross Bros. of this city, who owned
more than half of the capital stock at
the time the firm moved from this city
to New York. where it is now located,
in 1894. The company was capitalized
at $4,000. The company first occupied
as factory during its stay in Worces-
ter, Stephen Salisbury's building at
Lincoln square.
During his connection with the Flick
ible Door and Shutter Company, recent
ly absorbed by the Clemence & Searles
Company, at the corner of Central and
Union streets, he was the treasurer.
Mr.. Pollard is said by those who
knew him during his career in this city,
to have been a very companionable man
with natural social tendencies. He
was very fond of music, and was of
genial and social nature. He was I'M
married and occupied a luxurious suite
of bachelor apartments in the same
block in which he had his engraving
plant He was a much respected mem
Der of the Commonwealth Club during
his residence in this city, and enjoyed
the acquaintance of q large circle Of
friends. He came to Worcester orig
inally from Harvard, where he was en-
gagged in business, and is thought to be
about 40 years of age.
Ernest E. Manner, against whom Mr..
Pollard brings the suit is married, and
for years was thought to be Il clos9
personal friend of Mr.. Pollard's. At
the present time Mr.. Manner is sales
man for the School Furnishing Com
pany of New York city which does
business throughout the New Eng land
states. Little is known of him in this
city. except that he and Mr.. Pollard
were intimate in their social relations
John II. Warren, formerly superin-
tendent Of the Flexible Door and Shut
ter company, who is alleged to have re-
ceived the slanderous communications
was interviewed by Spy man at his
home. PSF Lincoln street last night.
Mr.. Warren disclaimed all knowledge
of any such letters as mentioned. He
knows both parties to the suit and was
associated for a time with Mr.. Pol
lard in a business way, when the lat
fer was treasurer Of the Flexible Door
company. He know Mr.. Manner in A
business way. He said: Il have no
letters from Mr.. Manner that reflect
in any way on Mr.. Pollard; neither
have I ever heard or known of any
such letters.
Mr.. Warren said that Pollard left
Worcester two years ago last January
and since that time has been located
in New York. The last time he was
in that city he called on Mr.. Pollard
and found that he and Mr.. Manner oc-
cupied the same office. Mr.. Warren Is
at a loss to account for the origin of
the suit.
Mr.. Manner is connected with a large
furniture house, and so far as known to
Mr.. Warren, has never done anything
to iniure Pollard. Mr.. Warren was
unable to say what business the latter
is engaged in at present.