Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1917 — RENSSELAER BOY SUED FOR $25,000 [ARTICLE]

RENSSELAER BOY SUED FOR $25,000

Joe Reynolds, Native Rensselaer Boy, N anted As Defendant In AitAlienation Suit. » • ■ Joe Reynolds, born and raised in this city, which until a few’ years ago he continued to make his home, has been named aS defendant in an alienation suit of $25,000 filed by S. H. Boone in the Cook county court. Joe is now an agent for a West Virginia Pulp Company, with his headquarters in Chicago. Ice started in the newspaper business with The Republican and sihce going to the city Hus attained remarkable -success and his rise was rapid. He is a splendid, likeable fellow and universally popular and whether the charges against him are justified or not, w r e are not prepared to say. However? his many frieads in this rity will hope that the charges are not as bad as named in the suit.

Mr. Reynolds maintains his innocence and says that it is “pure blackmail,” and his wife refers to the suit as that “blackmail matter,” and it mqy be that Joe is simply a victim of circumstances. The following is taken from the Delphi Journal: “Joseph Reynolds, former editor of the Delphi Journal, has been sued fdr $25,000 in the Cook county, Illinois, court, charged with alienating the affections of Mrs. S. H. Boone, wife of a chiropodist of Chicago. Boone has also sued for a divorce from his -wife. ‘lMr. Reynolds is now the agent for the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company and is married. The Boones have been married only five months. _ “Behind the court action is said to be a story of an alleged visit made by Reynolds and Mrs. Helen Boone, twenty-year-old wife of Bpone, to downtown and outlaying cabarets December 13, 1916. Reynolds and Mrs. Boone are said to have been trailed by private detectives during the evening, and are said to have finished up the cabaret excursion with a midnight trip to a. fashionable apartment on Kenmore avenue. “This version Was given out by Attorney Harold W. Jirka, who filed the suit for Boone. A suit for divorce, naming Reynolds as the “other man,” was filed against Mrs. Boone Wednesday. “Reynold/s made denials of 'the charges''and- characterized them as ‘pure blackmail’. His wife likewise referred to the suit as that* ‘blackmail matter’.” '