The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-01-29
Matte Schrock Says White
ner Ruined Her Good Name
With His Remarks.
COP SAID HE SAW
NEGRO CARESS GIRL
Petition Calls Story Malicious
Policeman Says Suit Dosen't
Worry Him.

she had been Rugged by negro, Mis-
Matte Schrock, clerk in the Wiel
puetz bakery, yesterday brought sui
in the Common Pleas Court for $1,000
damages.
The suit was filed by Judge Harr!
E. Alexander, and the case will prob
ably be docketed for trial next month
The charges made by the policeman
created a sensation, and caused Ton
Ellis, the negro, whom the policeman
accusedof spooning with Miss Schrock
to leave the city, according to mem
bers Of the bakery company.
Whitener said that while standing
in front Of the bakery one morning
he discovered the negro with his arm
around the young woman and hel
head resting upon the blacks shoul
der. Whiteher said he entered thc
bakery and the negro fed. He declares
he then -rebuked Miss Schrock.
The young woman was indignant
when her friends confronted her with
the story, and had 4 warrant issued
for the arrest Of the policeman on q
charge Of malicious SANDER. Mrs
Wielpuetz, wife of the baker, came tc
the defense of the young woman, and
insisted that action be taken against
the policeman.
The warrant was never served. l:
was withdrawn yesterday and the suit
for damages filed.
The petition drawn by Judge Alex
ander for the yeung woman says:
"On or about the 18th day of Jan.
uary, 1915, in the City of Cape Girar-
deau, and State of Missouri, and in
the presence and hearing of divers
persons, the defendant falsely, wan
eonly and maliciously spoke of and con-
corning the plaintiff, the following
false, malicious and defamatory
words, to-wit: 4 saw Tom Ellis, a ne
gro employed at Wielpuetz Bakery,
hugging and caressing that cir:
(meaning plaintiff)s who works in the
shop the defendant meaning by said
words so falsely and maliciously ut
tered that plaintiff was a girl of i'm
moral and unchaste character in per-
hitting negro to place his arm
around her.
Plaintiff further states that by
using said words, intended to, and did
refer to this plaintiff and intended to
and did charge plaintiff with being a
girl of immoral and unchaste charact-
er and unfit for association with re-
respectable people.
plaintiff further states that said
words so spoken and used, were and
are false; that they were known to be
false by defendant at the time spok-
en-; that they were falsely and mali
ciously spoken by defendant Of and
concerning this plaintiff, with the in
tent and purpose of defaming the
good name and reputation of plaintiff;
and by said false and malicious words
spoken and used as aforesaid, plain
tiff was made to suffer great mental
pain; was greatly damaged in her
good name and fame, and that by said
false and malicious words so spoken
and used as aforesaid, plaintiffs repu-
tation as pure, virtuous and chaste
woman, was and is greatly injured;
that she has suffered great humilia-
ton and disgrace thereby; that she
is being brought into contempt and
ridicule, exposed to public wrath and
hatred and deprived Of public coun-
tenance, and social intercourse among
her former friends and acquaintance,
all to her actual damages in the sum
of $500.
Plaintiff further states that by rea-
son of the willful and malicious con-
duct on the part Of defednant in the
utterance of said false and defama-
tory words, he should be punished for
said, conduct, and plaintiff therefore
prays Judgment for the additional
sum of $4,000 as punitive or exem-
plary damages.
Wherefore, plaintiff prays judg-
ment for the total sum Of $4,000 and
her costs"
"The suit is not worrying me-" said
Whitener last night. 81 will tell my
story when placed on the witness
stand"
Miss Matte Schrock is 20 years old,
and has lived most of her life in Cape
Girardeau and vicinity.
Her mother died when she was
child and she was reared by her uncle,