Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1920 — Brigand Met His Match. [ARTICLE]

Brigand Met His Match.

A certain English financial journal, which had a short life, published in one of its issues a most scathing but at the same time nonactionable and amu sing strictureoh a member of the stock exchange who had a somewhat shady reputation. The subject of Che stricture had a double-barreled name, which we will call Jones-Smithson, and the paragraph about him was as follows: “We understand that -Mr. JonesSmithson has been spending his holidays among the Italian lakes. Last week he was attacked by a brigand, and in the course of the encounter the brigand lost his watch and chain/*