Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1916 — BIG DAMAGES ARE ASKED BY EX-EDITOR [ARTICLE]

BIG DAMAGES ARE ASKED BY EX-EDITOR

Henry Lane Wilson Asks $350,000 Article of Ridicule Norman Hapgood Was Responsible For.

Washington, May 10.—Henry Lane Wilson, former ambassador to Mexico and formerly editor of the Lafayette Journal, filed suit for $350,000 damages against Norman Hapgood, former publisher of Harper’s Weekly, in the district supreme court today.. In his voluminous petition Mr. Wilson alleges that Hapgood was responsible for the publication of a series of special articles in which the good name of the plaintiff was held up to public riducule. The court is informed by the petitioner that he served sixteen years in the diplomatic service of the U. 3. as minister to Belgium and to Chile and later as ambassador to Mexico. The declaration is made that his services were performed faithfully, and that he had never been suspected of being incompetent, unskillful, or deficient. The articles complained of, the petition asserts, w’ere under the caption “Huerta and the two Wilsons,” and w T ere written by Robert H. Murray for Harper’s Weekly. “Was Henry Lane Wilson concerned in the lot to assassinate Madero,” is said to have been a portion of the first article. Mr. Wilson reviews his service for this government in Mexico, and during the period of revolt against Francisco Madero in 1913, he says his efforts were devoted to the protection of American lives and the lives of other foreign citizens. He alleges that the defendant in his publication intimates that he was identified with General Huerta and the latter revolution, which resulted in unseating of Madero. The petition contains numerous quotations from the alleged defamatory articles and prays the court to give the plaintiff a judgment for $350,000 and the costs of the proceedings. Mt. Wilson is represented by Attorney Chauncey Hackett.