The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-09
MAYOR SUES
SNOOT PAPER
FOR $4,000
MIR. Bransford, in Complaint,
Says Herald Republican
Has Maliciously Ii
beled Him.
QUOTES DEFAMATORY
ARTICLE AS PROOF
Declares That He Was Held
UP to Public Contempt
by Publication of
Falselloods.
"A A AYOR JOHN 5. BRANS.
INV FORD of Salt Lake dares

N
MI FORD of Salt Lake dares
AA 10 investigate and answer
The court records furnish the
documentary and indisputable eyi-
dence. BY complaint filed yes.
terduy in the district court Of The
Third judicial district. John \
Bransford brings suit against
the Herald Republican Publishing
company. corporation, +. III. Cal
lister. James II. Anderson. George
+. Hale and Arthur j. Brown.
stockholders in and editors of the
paper above named. charging
= false. malicious and defamatory
libel. " and asking for damages i'll
the sum OF $4,000.
The complaint * based upon an
article which appeared in the Herald.
Republican under date of August !,
1911. in which it is sought m show
that Mayor Braasford has direct con-
of toe restricted district in this city,
and that he directly or indirectly re
ceives and accepts tribute from the
women who reside there.
The defendants. who reside within
the county in which the action is
brought. are, under the statute, given
twenty days to make answer To tho
charges brought against them, The
substance, of the complaint follows;
np rtt t9 ..I- pf rkc lp-
fcndant paper IS set out;
Allegation is made That the Herald
Republican Is circulated in Salt Lake
City. Utah, and other western states.
Then follow the allegations that John :.
Brans lord is now and FOR more than two
years past has been mayor Of Salt Lake
city. and that during that period IA large
number OF lewd and dissolu,e women have
lived in Salt Lake City.
The NTH paragraph OF the complaint
charges that the Herald Republican. T..
": Callister. james II. Anderson, George
Il. Hale and Arthur j. Brown. on August
4. 1911. combining and conicdcra.ing
maliciously intending to injure the plain
tln I'm his good name. fame and cred [,
and TO bring him into public contempt.
disgrace and ridicuie. and 10 cause II 20
be believed b. his friends. acquaintances,
ncsghbors and the public generally
throughout Salt Lake CITY and the stote
of Utah. that plaintiff dishonesty. cor
ruptly and un)awfully"---
Here follows the setting out OF the ac-
cusations in detail the language of which
is unprintabc but which arc TO the cf-
feet that Mayor Bransford's official ca
reer has been marked by protection of
lewd women In Salt Lake City In con-
sderation Of money paid by or for them,
10 the mayor or certain interests with
which he - connected.
These accusations. II Is charged. were
made IN the article under date OF August
t. which. leaving out the portions that
arc barred from a family newspaper. set
out.
That one DR.. MoorIneister had testified
that he had 10 pay 5000 TO a city coun-
Gilman to secure position physician
to the inmates Of the restricted district
and that he paid n tribute OF 10 per cent
OF his earnings 10 certain interests;
TINT the mayor had refused To investl-
sate. but had laughed at the matter
when II was brought to his attention;
that the mayor dared not investigate b.
cause he was afraid that the investiga-
tion would lead TO the disclosure Of Ger
tain interests. which receive n 1.-THE OF
tho receipts from the restricted district:
that the mayor dare not act "for fear
that the trail OF crimson cash will lead
dangerously near his own door,
This article further sets out that DE
cuuse OF the rotten entanslements In
which he has permitted himself 10 be
wound up. Mayor Bransford must remain
silent. So far as he himself Is concerned.
the public may be damned.
The question Is then asked: rs Mayor
Bransford himself of the certain in