Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1914 — FRANK M. ROSS CHARGES LIBEL [ARTICLE]

FRANK M. ROSS CHARGES LIBEL

Former Kentland Attorney Makes Good Check Given For Auto *.and Files Several Suits. Attorney Frank M. Ross, of Hammond, formerly of Kentland, who was charged recently with having given a bogus cheek and with othpr irregularities in business, including the disappearance with a new automobile, claims that he has been grossly misrepresented and he has filed several suits for damages. The Republican published an article copied from The Lake County Times, which Mr. Rotes says is libelous and in justice to him we publish the following article from The Kentland Democrat: “Charging that he was slandered and libeled when he, temporarily disappeared from East Chicago recently, with an unpaid-tor automobile, Attorney Frank M. Ross filed a series of five suits in the superior court in Hammond one day last week, against parties who gave circulation to the stories about him during his absence. After an absence of a few days Ross reurned to East Chicago, where he immediately made good for a check that had been protested because of lack of funds in the bank upon which it had been issued, began to nail, as absolutely false, the sensational stories that had been circulated about him,-and finally filed his five suits for damages. Two of these actions are against his former law partner, Joseph Meade, of East Chicago—one being for $5,000 for slander and the other for $1,500 as the amount due him in an agreement for his withdrawal from their partnership. Two of'the suits are against J. H. Lewis, member of an auto garage firm in East Chicagoone for $5,000 for slander and the other foTjssoo for failure to complete a contract, and the fifth suit is against the Lake County Times, at Hammond, for $5,000, for its publication of an alleged libelous report of his departure from East Chicago.”