Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-10-22

only by the district attorney, and
that first so-called inquest was not
as ordered That being the case,
if the jury rendered a verdict it
wouldn't be legal verdict.
The only jury that was legally
impaneled in the case began it's work
three or four days before Bro. Bell
sent that message, post mortem
examination being held, and twice
as much testimony had been taken
as was submitted to the first jury.
These facts were we'll known to Bro.
Bell, for he had published them in
the NewsBudget Yet he mentioned
never word of them in his mes
sage to Grand Rapids.
Now, Bro Bell, do you consider
it honest to send such misinforma-
ton to a paper which was enough
interested in the case to ask for the
facts? Knowing that you had with
held information regarding the only
legal jury in the matter, why didn't
you correct the omission by sending
the verdict of that jury?-Journal
The Journal is still endeavoring to
expose our skulduggery and dis
honesty in the sending of a News
Budget dispatch. to the Grand Rapids
Press. Isn't it perfectly lovely to
have "brother' who questions your
honesty and motives in the sending
out of a little 50-cent press mes
sage? Why does Brother Maloney
take such a keen interest in en-
deavoring to point out something
heinous in this petty matter? Do
you think we were trying deliberate
ly to mislead the public at Grand
Rapids, Brother Maloney? What mo-
tive do you think we could have
had? Surely we would have to have
had some motive in attempting the
deception the Journal endeavors to
convict us of practicing!
AS we have stated before, all this
nonsensical alteration resulted from
a request we received from the
Grand Rapids Press for an account
of the death of Mrs. Mccormick. In
this, as in many such requests, we
disposed of the matter in the rou-
| tine Of our office work in the quick
| est possible manner, giving it but
moments attention. We handed the
| message to our reporter with "a
| Here, Gull out a message from the
account in our last issue and send
| it in, over my signature" The re-
| quest had been addressed to the
writer. We never paid any further
| attention to the matter until the
| Journal assailed us regarding it and
| cast thinly yelled insults at us con-
| corning it without cause nor justlfl-
| cation. The dispatch had nothing to
| do with the Journal and man
| shows his caiiber when he goes out
| Of his way to pick up something like
| that and tries to make it a basis
on which to convict a neighbor edi-
/
sire to deceive the public.
The Journals attack was too
vicious to permit it to pass without
reply, yet Brother Maloney apparent
| ly considered it presumptuous on our
| part to show that there was nothing
| dastardly in our acceding to the
request of the Grand Rapids paper.
| He wasn't man enough to apologize
| for attacking us utterly without
provocation, after we had demon
strated that he had based a lot of
his insinuations on false premises,
even though he admitted we were
fright on all these points," to use
| his own language.
Brother Maloney's rag mastication
| propensities are so we'll known that
it would probably have been the part
of wisdom for us to have ignored
his slurs and if we had not answered
| them we might have escaped the
| good, hard JOLT Brother Maloney
| says we we're LOl dlIu
which he doubtless considers he adj
ministered to a superlative degree
in his last issue.
| In regard to the message, We still
believe the facts as sent in by our
| reporter were correct. The verdict
of the coroner's jury was given as
rendered by that jury and as given
us by the coroner. We took the
coroner's word for it that it was a
| legal verdict. We are not called
upon to run around and get legal
advice when we write up a news
| item. We are not worried or con-
| cerned whether the coroner was right
| or wrong in regard to the verdict
| being legal, although he told us at
| the time that he had had legal ad-
vice that it was. 1t would take more
than the unsupported assertion of
| PRO Ma1ooav To cOpuinoo tbat If