Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1909 — ROBINSON SIGNS LIBEL AFFIDAVIT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ROBINSON SIGNS LIBEL AFFIDAVIT

Cromwell’s Representative Declares World Was Warned. New York. Jan. 29. —Uncertainty as to what action would be taken on the suggestion by District Attorney Jerome in the case of the government suit against the New York World for libel that the federal authorities per-

mit him to proceed in their stead, was in a measure removed by the signing of an affidavit by Douglass Robinson, brother-in-law of the president. It is believed that Robinson's signing of the affidavit in question means that he has accepted Jerome’s proposition to appear as a complaining witness. Jonas Whitley signed a deposition before Magistrate Krotel. It is under stood the deposition states that before the publication of the article since alleged to have been libelous Whitley called at the office of the World and notified those in charge of the paper that allegations contained in the article in question were untrue, especially as they referred to ’William Nelson Cromwell whom he represented.

DOUGLAS ROBINSON.