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Show Mr. Hussey's Libel Suit. On the 31st the telegraph informed us that Mr. Warren Husseypresident of the First National bank of Utah, had commenced suit for libel against the Indianapolis (Ind.) Journal, claiming claim-ing damages' of $100,000. The alleged alleg-ed libel consists in an editorial note which appeared in the Journal last October, in which it was stated that a Warren Hussey, in 1S5G or' '57, was tried at Indianapolis on a charge of counterfeiting and embezzlement in the management of a wild cat concern con-cern in Boone county, in that State; anH filitt. hfi oiilv w.n.np1 crni n t r fa tlm penitentiary. by a technicality. The Journal says: "This may not be the same man, but an identity .of names in jjuch. cases very annoying, especially espec-ially when it happens to be so uncommon uncom-mon a name as Warren Hussoy.V , Knowing that our readcrs-who have the greatest confidence in Mr. Hussey's honesty and uprightness would be anxious to learn more of the charge against that gentleman, our reporter obtained from him, yesterday, yester-day, the information hat he was never nev-er in Boone county, Indiana, and had only passed through Indianapolis in a railroad cap. In 1855 nnd 4.8.56 he was cashier for B. F. Allen, a prominent promi-nent banker of Dcs Moines, Iowa. Upon receiving Juunial containing the article In question, Mr. Hussey had an attorney . examine the court reconls, both of Indianapolis and Boouo county, and ascertained that no person by the name of Hussey had eyer been indicted or tried in either of those courla, on any charge wlmtevor. It was the above facta winch caused him to bring suit, and he had just cause to do so. Mr, Hussey s numerous friends will be pleased to know that g (s on-tircjy on-tircjy irmqoent of the charge apparently appar-ently indirectly laid against him but in fact directly against him, there being no person of that name tried for the oflencoby the Jonrnai, and would be more gratified to learn that the proprietors of that paper had to pay for their unwarranted defamation of character. The . Journal will have a "warm" time of it before the affair is settled. Hon. D. W. Voor-hiesand Voor-hiesand a Mr. Gordon, are oqnduo. ting the suit for Mr. Hussey. |