The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1916-03-01
PROMINENT MAN IS
SUED FOR 100000
Big Damage Suit Follows Larceny
Charge Against Stranger,
Who is in Jail.

of the Underwood Typewriter Co.,
with authority to keep their ma
chimes in repair, a well dressed
stranger presented himself at the
offices of the Brookhaven Bank &
Trust Co., and the law Office of ].
w. Cassidy last Friday morning
and took a machine from each
office away ostensibly for repair.
In some way, shortly after the
man giving the name of L. A.
James, had disappeared with the
machines, the owners felt that all
was not right and started an inves-
tigation, with the result that it
was found out that James had TAX
en- public car to Montgomery,
Juggling the typewriters along with
him. Almost certain now that it
was time to "get busy" if their
typewriters were to be recovered,
the assistance of Marshal R. l..
Davis was secured and a phone
message sent to Chief of Police
Ramsey at Hazlehurst asking him
to arrest the man on the arrival of
the mid day passenger train, which
he supposedly had taken in an
effort to get further north. The
Hazlehurst marshal carried out his
orders and James was brought back
that afternoon and turned over to
the authorities here.
On two affidavits-one' for each
machine-charging grand larceny,
he was tried at the court house
Saturday before Justice R. S. But
Ter and bound over to await the
action of the grand jury in the
sum of $500 on each charge.
Unable to furnish the bond up to
the present, but stoutly protesting
his innocence, James is held in
Jail, but has been putting in part
of his time repairing typewriters,
it being said he is an expert in
this line, one of his jobs being the
renovating and putting in good
order of an old machine in the
chancery clerk S office.
James, after being placed in Jail
informed his attorney, Jas. F. No
BILE, that his real name is not
James, but H. c. Bare, and that he
had given the name of James in
order that his people, said to live
in Alabama, would not know of
the trouble that he had gotten in
through any report in the newspa-
pers.
. At the trial of James or Bare,
Mr.. Noble represented the defend
ant and County Attorney J. w.
McNair the States interests.
$40, 900 DAMAGE SUIT FOL
LOWS TRIAL.
Monday following the trial quite
a small sensation was created
when it was learned, that through
his attorney, Mr.. Noble, Bare, as
he was at that time being called,
had filed suit against Mr.. B.
Montgomery for damages in the
sum of $4,000 for alleged Ian
guage used with reference to James
some time during the day of the
trial of the defendant. The de-
filed with Circuit Clerk
Edward Smith in full is as follows; /;
State of Mississippi, Lincoln
County-In Circuit Court of Lin
coin County, June Term, 1916.
H. c. Bare, plaintiff, VS.. Blucher
Montgomery, observation-disclosures
ton.
Comes plaintiff, H. c. Bare, and
complains of Blucher Montgomery,
resident citizen of said county, and
states the following cause of ac-
ton:
That on the 26th day of Febru-
ary, 1916, defendant wilfully and
maliciously, in said county, in the
city of Brookhaven thereof, gave
use to the following language rela-
tive 20 the plaintiff, "He is a high
cuthroat, desperate and
robber,, = and other similar express
sions.
This suit is brought under the
statute of the Code of 1906, based
on actionable words, chapter Two
thereof, and section 10 of said
chapter.
That these said words, from
their usual construction and COM
mon acceptation, are considered as
and calculated to lead to a
breach of the peace.
That plaintiff had not said a sim
gle word to the defendant to pro-
woke such vile and outrageous epi-
thets and insulting expressions.
That said conduct of defendant
was enacted in the presence of sew
eral persons and in their hearing.
That defendant was mad and vi
olent when he thus gave vent to
his anger and madness.
Plaintiff brings this his suit and
asks for both compensatory and
vindictive damages. Compensa-
tory damages for actual damages
Vindictive damages for