The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-26
ODD DAMAGE CASE.
ILLINOIS MAN SUES THE IxLEvER'S
MODEL SYNDICATE no RE-
COVER 100000
ARIsTocRArIc HOG INVOLVED

HOG INVOLVED
the Plaintiff Used a "Ringer"
When the Famous POrker Was
Sold at a Fancy Price-Litign-
ton Has Already Cost Ten Thou
sand Dollars.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,. April 25.-George
c. Council has begun suit in the San
CANON county circuit court to recover
$4,000 from Charles A. Vigai because
Vigal has said the hog that Council sold
to a syndicate the famous Dorker
known as Klever's Model was not Kle-
ver's Model at all, but just plain, every
day ringer" The hog the members OF
the members of the syndicate wanted to
buy was a proud, aristocratic swine of
the Poland China breed called Klever's
Model. and they paid $500, said to be
the highest price ever paid for hog In
the United States, for one they thought
was KleVer's Model. But after they had
the animal in their possession they
claimed to have discovered it was, In
stead, only a low. common. base-born
porker known as Columbia Wilkes, which
they say would have been hard to dis
pose of at $40. They refused to pay mat
ter of some 81, 600 on notes they had given
Council when the hog was bought. Coun-
Gil sued on the notes. They had Council
indicted by the grand jury
There have been suits and cross-suIts.
The litigation over the hog already has
sued to recover on the notes the jury de-
clared him in the right and gave him
judgment Now he has started after the
men who said Klevers Model was a pie
beian hog In disguise and has begun by
suing Vigal for $4,000
The story Of Council the syndicate,
and the hog is a long one. It began in
1897 at the state fair grounds in Spring
field Council decided publicly to AUG
ton off a famous hog he owned, known
as Klever's Model. The hog was sold to
a syndicate for $500. The syndicate was
Ing, and George A. Heyl and A. NJ Cald-
well, of Washington. They escorted
Klever's Model home in triumph.
HIRED MAN TELLS A STORY.
All was serene until Councils hired
man whispered about the country a hor-
rible secret. He was a Swede named
Arthur Thielander He said his con-
science troubled him so that he felt he
must speak. He declared the big Poland
China hog that went under the name Of
Klever's Model was not Klever's Model
at all. The real Kleevr's Model, he said,
had died nearly a year before the auc-
ton sale of one of the pestilences Pc
culiar to the hog race.
The hired man said he had been with
Klever's Model when it lay down and
died, had been chief mourner at the fu-
neral, and had acted as undertaken for
the deceased porker. He related how
at the dead of night. by the sickly glare
of barn lantern. he had laid Klever's
Model in It's grave. The next day, he
said. Council built straw stack over the
grave and put the low-born hog Column
bia Wilkes In the place formerly occu-
pied by Klever's Model. This degraded
hog. was introduced around as Klever's
Model, so the hired man. alleged, and
finally sold as the original animal
They took the hired man over to see
the hog they had bought and the hired
man pointed his finger at 1t and said,
like the hero of a melodrama, 81 know
you now. You are not the aristocratic
bia Wilkes, 80 @E;'=5
SO the syndicate men posted off to
Springfield and put the hired man in the
grand jury room. and the hired man told
the grand jury his story and Council was
indicted. The case came up for trial and
the states attorney was preparing to
wage q vigorous prosecution against
Council and the false Kfever's Model,
when he received an affidavit from Thiel-
ander stating that he had sworn falsely
before the grand jury and that the real
Kiever's Model was alive and not molder-
Ing in the lonesome grave under the hay
stack.
THIELANDER TAKES IT BACK.
The states attorney thought this set
tied the matter and dismissed the case,
but it was not to end here. The syndi-
cate members claimed Thielander had
been bribed, a position in which they
were enthusiastically sustained by the
versatile Mr.. Thielander himself during
the trial of a suit which Council brought
against the members Of the syndicate to
recover on the note. In the first trial
the jury disagreed. In the second both
sides brought experts from every part Of
the country to swear for the defendants
that Klever's Model was Columbia Wilkes
in disguise, and for the plaintiff that
Klever's Model was the only original.
Over eighty witnesses were examined.
and the Jurors were as muddied as they
had been at the first trial. when Council
won his suit by checkmating move of
the defense. Thevdefense had exhibited
to the jury the hogzwhich they had
bought as Klevers Model, but which
they said was Columbia Wilkes. Council
went out to his farm and came back with
a hog that he proved to the satisfaction
of the jury was the original Columbia
Wilkes With Columbia accounted for,
the jury decided that Klever's Model
could be none other than himself.
So the case was decided for Council.
and now he has begun suing the men who
have insisted that Klever's Model was
Columbia Wilkes, with another ring in
his nose and his tail trimmed off. Mean
time the hired man is silent and mys-
ferrous, and is expected to come forward
soon with a bran new sensation.