Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1905 — BESSIE LOST HES LIBEL CASE. [ARTICLE]

BESSIE LOST HES LIBEL CASE.

In addition to the $50,000 damages snit brought by Miss Bessie Cronin against Dr. H. G. Jones of Medaryville charging him with libel in the publication of an article about her when he was part owner of a Valparaiso paper, she also brought similar suits against three Logansport papers. The latter suits were tried at Peru last Thursday. Th 6 Pharos was acquitted and the suits against the other two papers were then dismissed. The Pharos states that “when placed on the witness stand Miss Cronin testified on cross examination that the story published in the newspapers was substantially correct and gave truthful, straight-forward statement of the affair over the objections of her attorneys.” Miss Cronin’s attorney has filed an affidavit for a change of venue from this county in her suit against Dr. Jones.—Pulaski County Democrat.