The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-04-19
BRI1TON FIGHTING
MAD BECAUSE HE'S
ABUSED BY COURTS
II. W. A. Page, of New York,
Says That He Will Prove
Everyone in Congress
Is a Crook.

New York, April 13.-Henry. w. A.
rage, a wealthy British subject. who
Is a linen n cotton commission mer-
chant has been arraigned before United
States Commissioner Shields on an In
dictment found by the federal grand
jury in Washington, which charges him
with having criminally Hbelled Repre-
sentative Henry D. Clayton, OF Ala
oama, chairman Of the judiciary COM
mlttee of the House. Mr.. Page was
held in 5000 bail n ordered to APP
pear before the supreme court of the
District of Columbia in Washington
On April 10.
In printed pamphlets Mr.. Page has
insisted that Congressman Clayton and
all his committee colleagues are crooks
because they did not investigate
charges made by Mr.. Page against two
district attorneys, a supreme court
Justice, several women witnesses, a
law firm and the New Yark state
legislature, through whom the com-
mission merchant sought to upset a
decision of Justice Vernon M. Davis,
who in 1907 granted Mrs. Jeanie France
Page, his wife, a separation, 81. 1000 an
nual alimony and the custody Of the
three children.
He Began to File Charges.
From this decision Mr.. Page ap-
pealed. The appellate division and the
court of appeals confirmed the original
finding. Enraged, Mr.. Page placed
charges against Justice Davis before
District Attorney Jerome and charges
OF perjury against two asylum nurses,
who testified that Mrs. Page was not
a user Of drugs, as her husband had
sworn. He then made charges against
w. M. K. Olcott, attorney for Mrs.
Page, n when Magistrate Crane re-
fused to hold the nurses for perjury,
preferred charges against him.
He called next on q legislative nves-
tigating committee to investigate ev-
erybody heretofore named. When this
committee, headed by Robert A. wag-
ner and Edwin A. Merritt, jr., refused
to do anything, Mr.. Page, OF December
IL, 1911, wrote to each n every con
gresham and senator, asking them to
Investigate the Investigators. With
this letter he sent a pamphlet two feet
long n IA inches WIDE. headed Death
Of Liberty" The pamphlet bore a
mourning border. The mourning bor-
der was also on the back cover of
the dirgeful publication and within it's
lines was printed the national anthem.
Above the song was a cross, followed
by the words "In Memoriam."
The pamphlet was in the form of a
resolution to be adopted by congress
demanding an investigation of the con
duct Of the Legislative and judicial
officers of the state of New York." who,
he said, were guilty Of contempt for
and violation of the constitution of the
United States"
"A Contemplate Crook"
Mr.. Page failed to get a rise" out of
congress through the use OF his great
quantity of spectacular literature, so on
April 2 he shipped off another pamphlet
and letter to Mr.. Clayton. The touch
ng billet-doux to the representative
starts off thus:
Sir: You are a contemplate
crook. Your failure to take appro-
pirate action or to give a hearing
on the Death of Liberty" mem
orial OIL file with your committee is
t~ranscendental in it's infamy. The
right to p~etition-the right of such
memorials guaranteed by the SUI
preme law of the land. You have
no more right to deny this than
you have to commit any other fell
ony.
Your villainous conduct in tramp
ling upon the constitution of the
country brands O as an arrogant
tyrant. You have committed a most
henious crime. You have trodden
under foot your oath of office, and
with it the liberties Of the people.
You have shut your eyes to the
tyrannical acts of the state and so
denied the rights of man and dis
regarded your oath to God. The
Death of Liberty memorial dis
closes eight specific violations of the
constitution n o heed them
not.
Used Red Ink for "Crooks."
The word crooks" was in red ink.
Mr.. Page couldn't induce the printer to
print the word, SO the space was left
blank and the gifted author filled In the
word with a rubber stamp.
Mr.. Clayton laid the matter before
the federal grand jury, with all of the
exhibits, and the indictment followed
yesterday. Mr.. Page heard about 1t
and sent word to the federal building
here that he would cancel a luncheon
engagement to accept service of the
warrant. A United States deputy mar
shall took him into custody about moor
Yesterday and he was a~rraigned before
United States Commissioner Shields,
who held him in S. 900 bail. Two hours
passed before his lawyer, Samuel Bell
Thomas, found surety for him.
II shall win this fight without
doubt" said Mr.. Page yesterday after
noon in his capacious offices on Twen-
tieth street. IT have been waging this
campaign against corruption for over
five years and there can be no doubt Of
the result. / am making a fight for the
sake of my three children. The court
CAV them to my wife. They belong
to me-"