The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1910-02-26

pa ~AAN AL ANf'NASAA anu 4 ENuESe Vi the
defendants, visiting their said gam.
bling house and there bet and WAC.
cred money in game then and there
conducted by the defendants. called
roulette and i'm the course of the
play this plaintiff lost TO the defend.
ants such currency as he had upon
his person, amounting to between
three and four hundred dollars. and
also incurred an Indebtedness to the
defendants for chips or tokens with
which the said game was conducted.
amounting to ninety-dollars CS9OOO).
Thatp lainuf had upon his person at
that time check upon his bank which
he had previously drawn to the order
of the defendants for forty dollars
$4,000 for which sum he was in.
debted to them upon account of for.
mer gambling transactions. and then
and there delivered said check to the
defendants and signed a due bin or
r. O. T.. which was presented to him
by the defendants, and which the
plaintiff at the time he so signed ii.
supposed was drawn for the balance
due the defendants from him. to-wit:
fifty dollars ($5000l This plaintiff
has never seen said due bin or I. 0.
I. since, but the defendants claim it
was drawn and signed for the sum of
five hundred dollars C$500) and claim
ed that sum to be duet rom the plain.
tiff.
On the next succeeding day the
plaintif rendered the defendants the
sum of fifty dollars $500 which due
due them from him, but the defend
ants not only refused to accept same
but conducted themselves towards the
plaintih in coarse and insulting man
Iner, abusing him in terms too coarse,
vulgar and profane to be set out in
this complaint
Subsequently, towit. on the 18th day
Of February, 1910, the plaintih having
completed the period Of his intended
stay at Hot Springs. was departing
therefrom but was prevented from
leaving by she acts of the defendants
hereinafter related
The defendants and each of them,
maliciously combining and confederat-
ing together and contriying to injure
the plaintiff in his fame and reputa-
ton, and also seeking by unlawful
means to compel ahe plaintiff to pay
them a sum of money, no part of
which he owed them, induced, per
suadel and procured one Bert Wer-
theim, a wholly irresponsible tool.
lackey and employee of the said de
PENDANTS, to begin an action and sue
out writ Of attachment against the
property of this plaintiff And there
upon the said Wertheim in pursuance
of said agreement instituted his ac-
ton agains this plaintiff before one
]. w Afford, a justice of the peace Of
Garland county wherein he, the said
Wertheim claimed that this plaintih
was indebted to him in the sum Of
three hundred dollars $500, by rea-
son of the said due bin or l. O. IT..
having been assigned to him by the
defendants, and in said action sued
out a writ OF attachment and procured
and Induced the constable of Hot
Springs township to levy the same
upon one trunk and contents belong
ing to this plaintiff, and upon four
trunks and their contents belonging
to his wife, and to remove said bag
gage from the train in which it had
alrleady been deposited
BY reason OF the said levy Of at
tachment upon the baggage of the
plaintiff and his said wife. the plain
tiff was compelled to forego his in-
tention of leaving Hot Springs and TO
remain in said city to defend said
malicious prosecution and attachment
so instituted as aforesaid That the
plaintiff and his wife by reason of the
levy of said attachment as aforesaid,
were deprived of the use Of their bag
gage AID wearing apparel for space
of severl days. and this plaintiff was
held up to the ridicule of his friends
and associates, as we'll as the other
guests of the Arlington Hotel, and
denounced and branded by the defend
ants as a "welcher,' which is defined
as one who CANDLES and refuses to
pay an Indebtedness incurred in such
transactions.
Plaintiff says that by reason Of his
social position and the unwarranted,
unau horized and malicious bringing
of said action and levy of said attach
ment the defendants caused TO be
published in the daily papers of the
city Of Hot Springs, Ark, and in Lit
tie Rock, Ark. and all of the Metro
politan papers of the United States,
sensational false and exaggerated ac-
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