The Sunday globe., 1901-05-26
THE FIRST PRIZE
Presented The Globes Editor by
Mrs. victOrine Alexander.
ARRESTED FOR CRIMINAL LIBEL
BY One Of Sixth Auditor Castles Female
Clerks, Who Says We Accused Her Of
Tickling Ben Holman Under The Chin"
Next Week Tho Trial Takes Place, Full
Report Of Which Will be In Next Globe.

The editor of The Globe and one Of his
hired hands gave bond in thepolice court
yesterday to appear ON Friday next to
answer the charge of criminally libelling
Mrs. Victoria Alexander, a clerk in the
office of Auditor Castle. The allegation
of the warrant accuse us in the usual
stereotyped phraseology of the law with
libelling the lady by publishing state
ment to the effect that she 'tickled Ben
Holman under the chin" Mr. Holman
is disbursing clerk OF the department,
but so far he has not had us arrested for
the accusation OF being "tickled under
the chin" by any lady or ladies' in the
department or out of it. Are we war
ranted, therefore, in stating, without Ii
bellous penalty, that Ben, after the man
ner OF his sex, considers "tickling under
the chin" soothing luxury, rather than
an offense, provided one OF the opposite
sex does the "tickling"? However this
may be, If the editor is hanged drawn
and quartered for stating that Ben was
"tickled under the chin" by lady or
ladies', we play martyr in good cause,
for from the birth Of mankind to the
present day men in every cline, from
the fur-robed EsquimeauX to the gold
plated Caucasian, has had to submit to
this process of "tickling under the chin"
by y"mammys," sisters, wives and sweet
hearts.
Let every married man who reads
these lines pause for moment and go
over, retrospectively as it were in his
mind the number of times his better half
"tickled him nnder the chin' when there
was a new bonnet or some other female
adornment at stake. Add to this, il he
can, the number of times his chin was
ticlkled until he got his first pair Of pants.
While the former may have had aflec-
ton mixed with mercenary motives, it
is certain that the early "tickling under
the chin" we have all received was in
spired by pure affection alone. Indeed,
so universal and popular has been this
practice, and so hoary with age and pre-
cedent, that the poets have noticed it and
the song writers have warbled:
"she tickled me under the chin"
Now, in reference to the "prize" drawn
yesterday Of a big, fat, juicy libel suit,
the daily press thought it Of such trans
cendent importance that neither the
morning nor evening purveyors of news
mentioned it in their columns, and the
public would be probably unaware that
Mrs. Victoria Alexander had sworn out
a warrant for our body if this article re-
NAMED unwritten. And as this is the
first occasion IN which we have had the
honor to publish this lady's name in
our columns, we rise to a question of
privilege and respectfully inquire, la
Rhoda Roland, "Who the ID is To-
lanthe?" We have scanned with the
eye (the single eye) of responsible scru-
tiny the columns of The Globe from
Rhoda Roland to Ben Holman without
enlightenment or satisfactory answer to
query, Who is Mrs. Victoria, "Victorene"
or tVic" Alexander for the front name
is spelled all three ways in the Federal
warrant which authorized the taking of
our body before his honor, Justice KIM
ball.
No doubt we shall be fully enlight-
ened on this subject Friday next, al
though the United States attorney greet
ed our counsel yesterday morning when
he appeared for us with the exclama-
ton, at is all a Misunderstanding,
and when questioned he asked that the
Government be given time until next
week to prosecute the case, hence Friday
is selected when, with our attorneys and
an expert stenographer, we will appear
to answer well and truly the charge.
The readers of The Sunday Globe will
be furnished on Sunday next full stem
ographic report of the trial, for which
we were as well prepared yesterday as
we will be on Friday.
OF course, it will all depend on Mrs.
Alexander to make this stenographic err
port worth publishing in extensio in the
columns of The Globe, as its readers are
being educated into expecting real live
news for their nickels.
In this particular it is unfortunate that
we cannot contribute anything to the
gayety of the affair, as we are assigned
the role OF "heavy william" and must
await our cue, which. no doubt, Mrs. AL
exander's legal managers VIII arrange
in due time for our grand entrance on
the stage. Meanwhile, we again Teiterate
the assurance to our 10000 patrons that
next Sundays Globe will publish in full
the whole proceedings with this entire
cast of characters, judges, lawyers, wit
nesses, jury box, plaintiff, defendant,
officers, supes, etc. The price of The
Sunday Globe, it may as well be incl
dentaily remembered righthere and now,
is only five cents per copy, and it is on
sale by every newsdealer and by all the
newsboys.