Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-26
STORY CAUSES
GIRL ANGUISH
REPORTER SUES PAPER FOR
DAMAGES
Plaintiff Alleges That WouId-b'
Humorlst Follows a PltifuI At
tempt at Practical Joke by
Printing Cruel Untruth

Pretty little Nab Erwin, who for the
past two years has written special fea-
ture stories for various newspapers In
Los Angeles, yesterday filed suit for
S25,0 900 damages alleging that the Rec
ord Publishing company had soiled her
reputation by an alleged funny story
printed I'm the pink" edition on the
evening Of Tuesday, July 16.
The almost funny story" purport-
ing to be a Josh" on little Nab be-
cause of her slight acquaintance with
All Wing, the Chinese prize Fighter, has
caused no end of comment among her
friends, and yesterday the little woman
decided that an explanation In open
court was due her, and so she filed suit
for damages.
First of all, the story of Miss Ervin's
acquaintance with the little yellow
boxer io well known to her friends and
is as follows:
When Wing came to Los Angeles sew
eral weeks ago for his first boxing
match here, Miss Erwin was sent to in
terview him on his life and his ex-
perience in the ring She created q
funny little feature of the story and II
V as printed in the Pink edition of the
Record with pictures.
Tries to Be Humorous
Then Wing went to the ring and was
worstei and left Los Angeles. Later
when he had chance to fight here and
started from his home in Sacramento
Miss Erwin being the only one he knew
of the reporters of Los Angeles, he
wired her to meet him and he would
give her another story about his in
tentions of winning the fight, so that
the public would again be interested In
him.
Such is the story told by Miss Ervin's
friends, and she has many, of her
friendship for All Wing.
But in her suit Miss Erwin quotes a
story from the Record, written by a
would-be humorist, which she declares
has caused her no end of trouble and
humiliation.
The story, it is now reported, was
the concoction of practical joke orig
mating in the minds of a local fight
promoter and the humorist writer
whereby little All was to wire Miss
Erwin to meet him and write another
story for him.
Causes Girl Much Anguish
After tho supposed full grown wits
had concocted their mirth- provoking
joke nothing would do but that they
must let the public know of their
cleverness. so without thought of the
heart breaking anguish to be occa-
stoned the little girl about whom they
were writing, they sat down and de-
livered themselves Of creation with
headliners as follows, according to the
quotations in the complaint.
Too Early for the Queen"
"Ah Wing Wired Queen Nab to Meet
+ m, But Hour Was Too Early"
Following this came the story, telling
that Miss Erwin had been wired by All
Wing to meet him, but that the hour
was too early and Miss Erwin there
fore missed the appointment. The
story finished with suggestive SEN
tence.
In her complaint Miss Erwin states
that the references to her would in
dcate that she is the boon companion
of the Chinese, or even his sweetheart
and for the insinuations she demands
an apology and $4,000 damages.
Since Miss Ervin's arrival here from
Chicago two years ago many people
have become interested in her, and the
girls game struggle in the face of great
competition to support herself, sister
and an aged and infirm father, has won
her host of friends.