Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1907 — BUT RENSSELAER HAS HALLECK. [ARTICLE]

BUT RENSSELAER HAS HALLECK.

The Hammond Times says Bessie Cronin, the great iibel suit bringer, belongs in Rensselaer. Which statement we rejoice to say is a mistake, for if Bessie lived here the newspapers would be kept busy dodging libel suits. Valparaiso is the nearest she ever came to Rensselaer, and now she is some place in Ohio and that is quite close enough.—Rensselaer Republican. Probably the Times was missled because libel suits are almost unknown in Indiana outsideof Rensselaer, where this fellow Halleck has boen striving for years to do up Tiie Democrat. The Bessie Cronin libel suits, to which the Times refers, were civil suits brought for damages against a half-dozen northern Indiana papers for the publication of an alleged escapade of Miss Cronin’s while she was attending school at Valparaiso. All or nearly all these cases have now been tried, and every last one of them have been lost by her. In these cases it is presumed that the plaintiff has had attorney fees and court costs to pay, but Halleck has her beat to a finish in this respect —be has the State prosecute the cases and lets the taxpayers shoulder the costs. Great scheme.