Arizona republican., 1910-02-07
SENSATIONAL ACTION
 FOR CRIMINAL LIBEL THE COMPLAINANT EUGENE
 BRADY o'NElLL.
The Defendant "Fitz-Mac," Who Wrote Two Letters.

A sensational action for criminal H. bel has been begun by Eugene Brady .O'Neill against Fitz-James Mccarthy, the mining expert known throughout the western mining country for much more than a score of years as 'Fitz- Mac" The action is based on two letters written to the complainant by "Fitz- Mac" relating to a transaction in the stock of the London Copper Mountain Mining company.
 The complaint was filed in the of flee of Justice Johnstone and war rant on each was served> on "Fitz- Mac'1. He will appear today with his attorney P. H. Hayes. when the ex- animation will be set
 One of the letters was written on January 13 and the other on January disclosed in neither of the letters. which had reference only to matters which had been previously discussed. That is, the letters were written not for the edification of the public but for the perusal of Mir. O'Neill. intended as assistance to introspection.
 The letter begins in that peculiar easy style which has distinguished "Fitz- Mac" as writer for many years. The surface is then stirred by faint sarcasm which becomes more pronounced until the surface is broken and almost rough.
 It appears from the second letter that the first one had almost melted Mir O'Neill to an action for libel and that he had threatened it. The subse- quent epistle seems to have been com posed for the purpose of further stim- ulating MT. O'Neill and if so it has had that effect.
 It is a document of about 5000 words. It would not seem that so many words were necessary to con veg any impression which one man might have formed of another. yet a careful study of it. from a purely lit erary standpoint, leaves one in doubt whether a single word could have been omitted without detracting from its force. There is some reiteration but the reiteration Is most skillfully ef- fected for the purpose of emphasis.
 Altogether it is a model of invective dl ilt pA uiNtioh- hN style of it is as different from the grace which has made "Fitz- Mac" famous throughout the inter -montane region. as can well be imagined. He appears with suddenness in an entire ly new field. He flashes like a comet through the sky along a hitherto un- travelled orbit. The opening sentence inspires the reader with the expecta- ton of worse to come and it comes with startling rapidity and keeps com ing until the outpouring is complete.
 In it's whole length the style is quite well maintained though now and then the writer adopts what Matthew Ar mold has so> briefly yet so accurately described as "serviceable English" in which not only MT. O'Neilrs alleged shortcomings with reference to the matter in hand are reprobated but in which the writer conveys. his impress sions of the general unworthiness of the addressee.
 Toward the last the letter reminds one of the playing of a cyanide and vitriol fountain, if there were such a thing, throwing up corruscating spray which falls with blistering ef- feet, upon herbage. man. and beast.
 This letter is made a part of the second complaint which remarks that it was intended to hold MT. O'Neill up to ridicule. contempt and public hat red; that it is in contravention of the statutes made and provided and that it is also contrary to the peace and dignity of territory on the eve of it's emergence from swaddling clothes. and about to be clad in the starry garments of statehood.
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