The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-10-11
TONGUES OF ISLANDER
HAVE BEEN RAMPANT
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
There is an OH saying that "a lie
will travel faster than the TRUTH
| fact is illustrated by what has oc-
CURED in Mankato just recently.
| On the forenoon of September II
a report was current upon the
! streets of Mankato that a young
barber of this city had been serious
| ly assaulted and cut up with a
knife in the hands of a man who
found the barber in company with
his wife in her home. Every re-
port added something new and the
often-repeated story rapidly grew
until it was said that the wounded
man had been taken to one of the
local hospitals where, had he been
injured as reported, he would neces-
sarily have been confined for some
time.
Linked With Woman's Name.
Later reports linked the name
of the injured young man with that
of highly-respected married lady
who lives with her husband on
Spring street.
a
famatory charge against the good
name of such people and desiring to
give the public such facts as the
truth should develop, The Free Press
has made thorough investigation
of the reports and finds that there
was never any occasion for the re-
ports that have been so freely cir
Iculated. The young man was found
lat his chair at his usual work in
the barber shop and in the best Of
health and he worked there every
day in the month of September,
fact that irrifutably clinches all the
foul rumors as vile Islander because
If he had been so injured and knitted
las reported he would have been in
capacitated from his work. He has
mo wounds and states that all these
reports are false and that he is en-
deavoring to learn the origin of the
same and if they have been started
or peddled by responsible parties
he says he will institute legal pro-
weddings against them
Does Not Know Lady.
When the lady's name above re-
ierred to was mentioned to the
young man he said he was not ac-
quainted with her and has never
at any time spoken to or talked with
her, and that he never was at her
home, and was never in her COM
pany at any place or at any time.
He said he was in his own home
With his wife and child on the
evening and night in question.
The lady and her husband were
interviewed and they showed con-
cmsively that there was no truth
in the reports and that the wife had
been cruelty slandered.
I The fact is, that she and her hus
band, in company with another
lady who resides in Mankato, were
at one of the local theatres in the
evening and that she and her hus-
band were home together after the
show. The wife said she didn't
know the young man and had no
acquaintance with him and had
never been in his company or talked
With him on any matter whatever.
She was deeply grieved that her
name should have been SO used
by sjthe tongue of SANDER and she
and her husband offers reward for
Information that leads to the dis
covery of the origin of these in
famous and defamatory falsehoods.
The Free Press is pleased to state
that, this whole matter has evidently
been pure gossip on the part of one
whoihad little regard for the rights
and 1.-THE happiness of others. That
the names of an innocent and good
woman has been drawn into this
matter there can be no doubt, and
the Free Press is pleased to give this
natter this publicity in order that
people generally will know that all
this talk is and has been pure "moon-
sinner and wholly without founda-
ton. 7'r~