Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05
Political 'Slander.
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This, understand you have done, and
after "A thorough examination the
cause was dismissed by you for the
reason that there was not sufficient
evidence upon which TO hold respond
ents for trial. AS far as / am concern
ed / am willing to stand upon my
opinion formed from an examination
of the afrdayits. | never have written
an article in defense Of my own Official
action and do not care To do so now.
IL you are unduly criticised for your
action, am willing To state the facts
either for publication or otherwise.
You are at liberty TO show this letter
To Mr.. Lorraine or any other person.
II Mr.. Lorraine cares to have a state
ment from me and it is one which l
could make without prejudice to my
official position, am willing TO make
such statement. ] remain.
Yours truly.
Fred w. Wayne.
Upon receipt of the above letter from
Judge Mayne, l at once called upon
Mr.. Lorraine. showing him the letter
and requested that he publish IL, or
extracts Of it, and thereby correct the
erroneous impression as far as possible
which he had created in public's mind
concerning the action of the justice
sheriff and prosecutor. This, he re-
fused To do.
Konwing the contents Of Judge
Mayne's letter to me and the arrest or
Chandler and Muirhead was made in
the best of good faith and in the hope
that the guilty perpetrators OF this
heinous rhine might be apprehended,
Mr. LORI aine has again attacked me
through the columns Of his paper and
once more accused me with corrupt
motives in the case and with being
willing to accept "A bride and then
closing his libelcus article with the
statement that 1.-THE costs Of the suit
are estimated at 100000.
Mr.. Lorraine asks why the witnesses
were not punished when they did not
swear to the same things on the stand
as in giving their information upon
which the warrants were issued. Had
he consulted with any lawyer in the
County he would Immediately have
been advised that TO hold these wit
nesses on charge of perjury, that
false swearing must occur in judicial
proceeding and that inasmuch as the
false swearing was in The affidavits the
parties could not be held on charge
Of perjury.
The next vicious act Of the editor OF
the Enterprise is to distribute his
falsehUod ard Misrepresentation to
the voting population Of the County.
believing tnat 10y deceit and calumny
he would defeat my reelection 10 the
Office of prosecuting a Il raey.
brand the accusations made against
me by Mr.. Lorraine relative 10 the
Muirhead arson case as wilful. false
and malicious, and charge him with
publishing the article at time when
he believed the venom Of his pen dip
ped into the / nix of deception and bad
faith would prove most fatal to my re-
election.
also brand as a falsehoOd the state
ment of Mr. Lorraine that the expenses
of this Muirhead case were nearly
100000 as they were actually less than
$500. 90.
/ also brand a. wilfully false and
malicious the statement Of Mr.. Lor.
raine that the prosecution ifpaid $500,
would dismiss the case against the de-
PENDANT. as at no time was any such
proposition made, directly or Indirect
ly, nor was there any intimation Of
the kind.
Yours respectfully,
A. B. NICHOLA 5.