Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1918 — SENATOR SUED FOR $20,000 [ARTICLE]

SENATOR SUED FOR $20,000

Boston Man Charges Lodge With Assault and False Arrest. Boston, May 10.—United States Senator Hency C. Lodge was sued for $20,000 damages by Alexander Bannwart of Boston. The suit is the result, it is alleged, of an argument between Senator Lodge and Bannwart over pacifism which took place in Washington April, 1917, ending in a fistic encounter. Bannwart charges personal assault and that Senator Lodge caused him to be arrested and locked up in a Washington police station without authority. The plaintiff also charges that. Senator Lodge caused false and malicious charges to be published about him in a Boston newspaper, which is also named as defendant in the suit.