Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1909 — BESSIE CRONIN HERE YESTERDAY [ARTICLE]

BESSIE CRONIN HERE YESTERDAY

Noted Female Libel Sult Brlnger Visits Rensselaer. INCmtFERENCEWITHLAVrrEf! Who Has Also Gained Considerable Notoriety In this Line, But, Like Bessie, Has Never Had Very Flattering Success——Bessie Sued About AlltJie Papers In Northern Indiana, But Her Judgments Have Been Nil! Thus Far.

Miss Bessie Cronin, noted for the large number of libel suits brought a few years ago against newspapers at Valparaiso, Logansport and Timbuktu, etc., was in the city yesterday and was being escorted about by a Rensselaer lawyer who probably surpasses even Bessie’s record in the number of libel suits brought, and whose success has been equal to the former’s. Whether now employed to assist Miss Cronin in her other pending cases, we do not know, however. The alleged grounds for Bessie’s many actions against newspapers was an alleged escapade at Valparaiso a few years ago where she w r as reported to have dressed up in male attire and “held up” some young men, for a joke. The affair was published in a number of papers in a way that Bessie took offense at, and she has been a nemesis to them ever since. We believe she has lost out In every case brought, and it is reported that her attorneys all withdrew from her “cases,” and the last one tried, which we believe Judge Hanley heard at Monticello, she plead her own case, but was put out of court on Judge Hanley’s ruling.