The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-14
IDA Won CLAUSSEN
FILES : JUDGMENT
Could Get No Lawyer, So She
Acts as Her Own
Attorney.
COLONEL" is DEFENDANT
She Wants Trifle OF SI,ooo,ooo
From Ex-President and
Few Others.
Especial TO The Times-pispa tch.

Especial to The Times-DiSpa tch,
Nav York December 1S-The coun-
t. clerl5's Office had two unusual visi-
tors to-day. one was a man who
wanted to file an attachment against
All the property owned by the Vatican
III Rome on a judgment for sll,00o,00G
he said he had obtained against Pope
Plus y. The county clerk wouldn't
HIo H. The other visitor was ida Won
Ciausscn. who had prepared what she
described as Judgment for s1,o0o,o00"
against Theodore Roosevelt, Robert
Bacon present ambassador to Frame;
Charles Graves, the United states min-
lister to Sweden, and others
Mrs Won Claussen said she was going
to tile her Judgment under her inalien-
able rights as an American citizen,
whether the Judgment Clerk in tho
Office wanted to take it or not. and she
threw the paper at him With three 81
BILLS Mrs. Won Claussen's money anu
document were put IN the safe. and
will stay there until she calls for them
she wrote her Judgment on a type
writer
rye got him now" said Mrs Won
Clausseu, referring to Mr.. Roosevelt,
who was President when she was
treated in a way she didn't like at TN.
Swedish capital where she sought to
be presented at court.
AS a lawyer, Mrs. Noa Claussen has
certainly produced the most unique
paper of its kind ever seen in the
courthouse. according to the clerks
and others who read It, Here 1t is as
Mrs. Won Claussen presented 1t:
II hereby. on December IS, 1910,
make afndavit that i flied in the sn-
preme Court of New York judgment
against the aforesaid defendant for
the sum Of s1,ooo.oOO and costs, amountss
ing to the regulation charges.
part Upon June IS, 1910, l, Ida
Won Claussen, filed complaint against
Theodore Roosevelt, President Roo-
'crt Bacon. Ambassador to France, ana
Charles and Alice Wright Graves, or
stockholm, for 'slander, mallce ana
revenge In other words, defamation
of character, Those papers are sun
an file. and the man or men who dare
n tamper with them Will be held
criminally responsible.
part II-Upon September 26, 1910
the aforesaid complaint and suit for
ST 100000 damages brought against
The aforesaid defendants was served
legally at the Saratoga convention
mon Theodore Roosevelt. 'fhe pres
ant secretary of Theodore Roosevelt
with numerous others witnessed the
service and saw its acceptance by
Theodore Roosevelt and heard him
say that he, Theodore Roosevelt, had
no idea Of paying any attention to IT,
part III--No answer to the afore-
said suit for Sl000,0O0 damages has
been made. BY undue influence law
yers have beein threatened with ulu-
mate ruin and revenge If they should
alSn
/, Ida Won Claussen con-
stitute myself attorney in person. and
am, by the laws of the personal rights
OF freedom, according 10 the Constitu-
tion Of the United states, acting in ac-
cordance with the law, and file thls'l
day judgment against Theodore
Robert Bacon, Charles and
Alice Wright Graves for st,ooo,ooo'
(Signed)
IDA Won cLAUssEN."
Sh! Not Word
II don't want a word of this in|
tho papers" said Mrs, Won Claussen
lust prior to her dramatic entrance
into the county clerks office.
but ] need some witnessesn said
Mrs. Won Claussen "Will some of you
be kind enough to act for ms?
"Surcst thing YOU know. charmed,
Of course" choruscd several reporters
whom she had greeted
Later a notary was found and Mrs.
Won Claussens signature re-was aclSnowl-
edged in the legal form. There was
one notary who respectfully declined
to take an Acknowledgements Of Mrs.
Won Claussens signature.
"That's always the way" she said,
II couldn't get lawyer TO take my
case, now can't get notary"
But she did just the same. Tie was
a young man in the courthouse, who
asked no questions, but simply took
the acknowledgment 4