Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1899 — Della Fox Asks Damages. [ARTICLE]

Della Fox Asks Damages.

Sues Ex-Senator Holler, of South fiend, For $25,000. A great sensation is now on in South Bend in which no less an important figure than Ex-State Senator Christian Holler, the well known and very wealthy St. Joseph .county agriculturalist, occupies the center of the arena fcnd the secondary star is Della Fox, not the saucy and snappy little comic opera soubrette with shapely shoulders and diamonds galore, but Mrs. Della Chamber-lain-Fox, aged 20 years, and the daughter of C. C. Chamberlain, a farmer who lives not very far from the city boundary lines. The tongues of gossip wagged at an alarming rate at the Bend when the fact became known .that Talbot & Talbot, attorneys for Mrs. Chamberlain-Fox, has filed an action for $25,000 damages in the St Joseph circuit court against Ex-Senator Holler, the complaint alleging breach of promise, seduction and aid in committing an abortion. The place of prominence whioh Mr. Holler has held in the eyes of the public renders tihe case one of exceptional interest. The defendant has served two terms in the state senate and was on the legislative committee to report on building and loan assooiajta» toa. UrtjpmenJ