Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-02-25
CLOVER IS ACQUITTED
OF H|RsCHBERC CHARGE
No Malice Shown by Evidence, Says
Police Justice in Render
ing Decision.
TRIED TO PROTECT CHAIRMAN
Toned Down Interne's Statement Be-
fore Printing lt-Evidcnce Heard
in DR.. Grccnc's Case, and Court
Takes 1t Under Amusement.

samuel T. Glover. owner and editor
Of the Richmond Evening Journal. was
acquitted yesterday by Justice Crutch-
held. in the Police Court. of the charge
of criminal libel brought by John
Hirschberg. chairman of the Admins
tratire Board Of this city. The arrest
grew out of the publication in the
Journal OF a statement by DR. G.. V.
Greene. an inferno at the Virginia
Hospital.
Justice Crutchfcid held that it must
be proved. in order to establish the
! charge Of criminal libel that malice
actuated the publication OF the state
ment. and. in his belief, the evidence
had failed to show malice
Justice Crutchheld, who heard the
evidence on February Il. disposed OF
the proceedings yesterday morning in
short time. The decision of the court
was oral, and OF few words SO sell
dom. the court said. had he been called
upon TO try case OF this character
that he had at first considered render
ing a written opinion He decided.
however. that this action was unneces-
sary. since the status OF the case was
perfectly plain
EDITOR HAD ENDEAVOR:D
~ bIHSCIIBEsR(s
Not only had the evidence shown
that no malice actuated the publica-
tion by the Evening journal of Or.
Greene's statement. he said. but Mr.
clover had cndcavored TO prevent in
jury to the chairman OF the Admins
;rativc Board. and. according TO the
testimony, had succeeded in having the
inferno tone down his statement before
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statement was far loss offensive than
tho original when they were compared
in the Police Court.
Tho hearing of tho charges brought
by MIR 1IirschherE against Dr. Greene
was taken up later in tho day.
Eight witnesses were heard Mr.
iIirschherG charged DIR. Greene with
max ing lihclous statements against
him and having authorized their pub
lication in the Evening Journal At
Tho conclusion Of tho hearing Justice
Crntchteld announced that hc would
take the case under adviscment and
render a decision on March l6
Chairman IIirschhcrg charged that
Dr. Greene had injured him in making
the ttcmcnt. which WAS a strong
denial Of certain allegations said To
have h"en made against tho inferno hy
tho chairman of tho board when that
body had under consideration tho rc-
cent controversy over Virginia Hos
pital intcrncs, and which resulted i'm
the dismissal OF pr Greene and pr
.t y. Parsons -. e. O'Flahcrty and
W. Kirk Mathews represented Mr.
ITrschhcrg yesterday. while James T.
Lewis appeared for 'r. Greene. At the
trial of charges against Mr. Glover
Mr.. lgirSchbcrg acted as his own at
torncy
EVIDENCE FULLY HEARD
IN GREENE CASE
Those who testified At the Greene
hearing were s. r. Glover. pr Greene
W. &. Saunders. manager Of the Nir.
ginia state Fair Association: pr. 7. H.
Wcathcrly. of the Richmond Eye Ear,
Nose and Throat Iniirmary: Colonel
BARTON iI. Grundy. chairman of the
Council Committee on Finance: John
iiirsrhhrrg. Miss w. G. Young. Of the
Virginia Hospital, and Dr. Harry
IIinchman chief resident inferno at
that institution
Practically all of tho testimony rc-
lated to tho matters dealt with by pr
Greene in his published statement MIR.
Glover told of Circcnc's visit to his Of
flee on February Is. and how he had
succeeded in having the physician
eliminate certain passages he cor.
sidcrcd offensive. He told the intcrno
he said. that unless these remarks
were cut out, he could not publish his
statement.
Chairman lIirschbcrG, taking Che
stand i'm his own behalf. said nc talked
with Mr.. Glover over tho telephone "in |
dcferencc to the young man. because
! did not want to do anything against
him " he had been drunk and had not
meant it," lie said he had been told
that tho inferno was drunk when he
mndo the statement. In connection