The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-06-01
REPLY TO POLICE
ACTION IS BOOKED
Mrs. Adolph Mueller Sub
mits Answer In Suit
CRIME WAVE TALK
Comparison of City Admins
trations Made In An
Article

Mrs. Adolph Mueller, through her
attorney, John e. Regan, has filed
an answer TO the complaint for
damages made in district court by
Henry kachelmeyer and Chief Phil
Landmark, in which she admits that
the article appearing over her sigma
ture in The Free Press during the
recent mayorality campaign was
written by her. but states in her an
swer that no reference was made to
either of the plaintiffs.
Chief Landmark and Kachelmeyer
in their suit for damages, alleging
that their regulations and character
were damaged by the article Mrs.
Mueller had published In The Free
Press, are asking for $4,000 each in
the complaints.
Mrs. Muller further states in her
answer to the complaint of the plain
tiffs that the article was written
for the purpose of answering an ar
ticle in the paper, appearing over
the signature of Mrs. J, r. Brand
rup, which condemned the admins
tration of z. ". Waters who was a
candidate for office during the re-
cent campaign Among other things
the Brandrup article declared Mrs.
Mueller states. that crime was
rampant during the e. V. Waters
reign and that the administration
was unable to cope with the crime
wave existing at that time.
What Mrs. Mueller Claims
! + Mrs. Mueller in the answer, states
! that in her article she referred to
the present administration as being
unable to- cope with the crime con-
ditions here and that her article
did in no way reflect upon either OF
the two complainants and that
there was no Intention to do so and
that the said article was published
without any malice towards the
plaintiffs. ... -.
That she had no intention nor did
the article so state that the defend :
ant charged the plaintiff, Henry
Kachelmeyer, with having any
knowledge or information Of the plan
and design Of Earl Slater, murderer
of Frank kelley. or of counseling On
acquiesing in the act is brought Our
! in the answer 70 Kach etlmeyers
complaint.
In one paragraph of her answer
Mrs. Mueller states that the defend
ant in his complaint alleges that II
is. a fact the statement Is true thai
| Earl Slater was a friend of one OF
/ the policeman now on the ponce
force, and Slater was in and about
the police station while in the city
OF Mankato and that party did in
form the city authorities to this ef-
| formed the authorities was never
feet and that the party who so in
called to give this information.
Asks Action Dismissal
In both cases the defendant asks
that the action be dismissed anc
that she receive costs and disburse
ments.
In regard to the complaint of Chic
Landmark, Mrs. Mueller states that
in her answer to the Brandup article
in The Free Press she merely at
tempted to show that the police de-
partment under the w. A. Beach au
ministration was unable to cope with
the crime situation any better thar
any previous administration. She
states that the article in no way was
intended to reflect upon Chief Lund
mark or any one in particular but
upon the administration as a whole
and that such publication was the
truth and was published for good
valid and lawful motives.