The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-02-07
Eastern Woman Induced Ken
lucky Mountaineers to Appear
in New York Court.
PROVED DEBT DUE IN SOUTH.
Mrs. Rosa Herrmann's Cleverness
Resulted in Verdict for
S2t,6a0-A Bill for
Lumbe..

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
New York. Feb. Ga woman's clever
ness has won for her a substantial lesa
victory and a verdict for sa4.6p.
Mrs. Rosa Hermann is the sole owner
and manager of Il great sawmill company
with offices at No. 36S Broome street.
About n year ago she contracted to de-
liver 10 James Swami and Floyd Day OF
kcRtuchy 23,G1 poplar trees sawed into
lumber. Day and Swami refused to pay
the whole amount of the bill when the
lumber was shipped to them on the ground
mat the whole number OF trees contract
ed for had not been delivered
L saw AT once" said Mrs. Hermann. 4
young and exceptionally pretty woman, at
her home, No. $50 East Fifteenth street.
that their idea was 10 refuse to pay I'M
Ill We were forced to bring suit. and then
get US into the courts of Kentucky. where.
they doubtless believed, they could defeat
us.
y set to work to Illustrate their nice
little plan by bringing suit against them
In Queens County. Long Island. where l
stood an even show of winning my suit.
Then, just to show them that / could beat
them at their own game. | brought UP
iron the backwoods of their own counties
or breathitt. Perry, Knott and Letcher
their own woodsmen. who had cut the
trees, marked them and sent them down
stream.
= BROUGHT LAWYER, TOO.
u also brought up from Kentucky a
typical old Kentucky Judge, a real South
ern gentleman of the old school. with long
white hair and the scholarly. courtly man
ner and the fiery eloquence of the old Ken
lucky pleader. to make My appeal to the
jury. L THINK any one who heard the adj
dress of Judge John H. Hager will agree
here. "A-
MANY OF my witnesses yearnod 20
KNOW personally when wont down into
the country myself a year ago
? IN an effort to collect my claim without
legal proceedings. / made the forty miles
of the trip on horseback and spent sew
eral weeks in the heart of the mountains
with my picturesque mountaineers. One of
them. John Wright, who was one of my
witnesses, has twenty-five notches in his
winchester, which means that he has as
sisted IN the summary dealing out of
kentucky Justice to twenty-five men. The
country where this legal battle of mine
centers is on the Kentucky River. at the
junction OF the three forks: My sawmill
! get all the lumber from all three
branches of the river.
HER PICTURESQUE WITNESSES.
Mrs. Herrmann's twelve stalwart noun
taineer witnesses from the backwocds
have been the sensation OF Judge Garrett !
sons court in Long Island City since last
Thursday. when they arrived in all the
picturesque glory of red shirts and SLOUGH
Idts. nlSh boots and butterHut trousers, |
nom the heart of the wild Kentucky for
eStS. 1
Most of them had never ridden on a
Train before and some of them had never
heard of Brooklyn bridge or Blackwelrs
Island. Henry Clay Moore, a romantic and
picturesque individual. with long flowing
mar ana high boots. told the Judge that
ne hadn't no use for socks and amt
Wore more since ! was a baby"
"Fc gy' Jim Stacy told the court that
he had. had occasion to consult the family
Rihlp rrin avid L-l 49, -
he was summers about g." In answer to
an inquiry as to whether he was married
and had a family, he replied that he had
'hyerd' that The "PereS-i-dent"-with the
accent on the last syIlable-"approved of
some kids" I'm responsible for seven
teen hearin' the name o Stacy" he added
with pride. "Thar's only four on EN-
spliced."
Mrs. Hermann is the widow of Henry
Hermann; founder of the company. When
ne died she took entire control of the
business.