Show He Demurs Editors Herald In your issue of the 12th headed Before the Commissioners you published more false statements in a brief space than usual even in a family newspaper I am under arrest ar-rest for bigamy and also for offering offer-ing a forged paper for record To both these charges I assert and plead that I am not guilty You state that I am guilty of forgery having forgedmy wifes signature to an instrument to secure divorce This is false and a question to be litigated and in this denial I am bylaw by-law if not by newspapers presumed pre-sumed to be right I have never before the Commissioners or elsewhere else-where confessed guilt If calling me a fellow does you or your patrons any good psrhaps I should not complain ELI SAXTON We never thought it very bad to refer to a man as a fellow nor is it in good taste for our correspondent correspond-ent to speak of false statement When a paper makes assertions based npon ihe best authority attainable at-tainable and Is entirely willing to correct them when wrong a suggestion sugges-tion of the defects is all that isis is-is 8sBry |