Show THAT LIBEL SUIT The Tribunes Answer to Marshal Mar-shal Parsons Complaint IT IS A VERY TOUGH DOCUMENT the Truth of All the Charges Pleaded and Many More Added to Thorn Dishonesty I and Immorality Alleged The Tribune yesterday filed its answer in the libel suit brought by Marshal Parsons to recover 23000 The document is a voluminous affair and portions of it ate unfit for publication for both of which reasons the following synopsis synop-sis is given The defendant admits that it is the nuh lisher of the Tribune and that on the day named in the complaint it published the article complained of but denies that it was published falsely and maliciously ma-liciously or that the article was of a false malicious scandalous and defamatory libel of the plaintiff denies de-nies that in the publication of said article the defendant intended to and did charge the plaintiff with committing various offenses of-fenses covering THE WHOLE RANGE OF CRIME from dishonesty to gross and beastly crimes or that it included in the charges all crimes included in the penal code denies de-nies that tho article is libelous or that the charges therein are false denies that by reason of the publication plaintiffs feelings feel-ings had been outraged or his character injured in-jured or maligned his damage in tile I sum of 25000 or any other sum FURTHER ANSWERING the complaint the defendant recites the article complained of published in the Tribune on December 2 The answer then goes on to allege that it is its duty to publish the news of the day and to comment fairly upon the same and upon the actions and doings of public officers of-ficers It denies that it published the article complained of maliciously and alleges al-leges that it published the same AS EDITORIAL COMMENT without malice toward the plaintiff and in the execution of the duty impoed upon it in its business as a publio journal The defendant then sets up tho truth of the article and that on the trial of the caus says V u v u uv it will prove that the general reputation of the plaintiff for chastity in this city is bad that the plaintiff ALTHOUGH A PROFESSING CHRISTIAN during a certain hearing held before Commissioner Com-missioner Pratt when certain charges against him were being investigated used profane language and on one other occasion occa-sion he called the governor of the territory tory a dirty s of a b and used similar language concerning District Attorney Varian the defendant also alleges that on divers occasions the plaintiff has assaulted reputable ladles in a lecherous manner that for years he has been in the habit of APPROACHING WOMEN to whom he had never been fntroducodan suggested by words looks or actions lecherous intentions toward said women that between August S318S9 and September Septem-ber 8 ISa one Rosa Wilkerson against whom a complaint had been filed charging f her with fornication went to the marshals office to obtain a pass to visit the penitentiary peniten-tiary to visit a friend when the plaintiff offered to grant her request and procure the dismissal of the case against her if she would submit to his embraces and that the case was afterwards dismissed THE PRINDLE AGAIN The answer then goes on to air the alleged al-leged assaults made by the marshal upon Annie Prindlo and then jumping back to 1SS7 alleges that the marshal made indecent inde-cent proposals to one Hannah Hicks who I was employed at his house as a domestic I that about two years ago the plaintiff I STOPPED CARRIE TOUNGDALE I on the street and asked her if she received re-ceived gentlemen When informed that she did not he still insisted upon calling on her whereupon she replied that if he ever spoke to her again she would slap him in the face that some three years ago hemet he-met two reputable and chaste ladies and followed one oi them home knocked on her door and asked if she kept lodgers stating that he was desirous of procur Inrr nnnnm mnH n tint a buns on nnnthann ing accommodations UU uDo Der occasion oc-casion HE APPROACHED A LADY who was standing in front of the cote of her yard and said I understand your husband has gone away If in his absence I can be of any accommodation to you call upon me The names of all of those ladies are withbed because the insertion of the same therein might tend to scandalize scanda-lize and annoy them but defendant Is willing to submit them to the plaintiff or his attorneys STILL OTHERS The defense then alleges upon information and belief that in 1SS7 the defendant made indecent proposals to a domestic employed at the house of Mrs Millspaugb his daughter that in 1887 the defendant was continually taKing improper liberties with a domestic employed at his house and that she left them because of his insults that in 183 the plaintiff called at the house of a neighbor neigh-bor while the neighbor and his family were absent his own family being also absent ab-sent and asked if he might remain with her all night that this party repelled his insults with force and after begging her to say nothing about it he retired The names of all of the ladies are withheld with-held for the reasons before stated The defendant then goes on to allege that previous to bis appointment as marshal the plaintiff procured from gentlemen letters which HE FALSELY REPRESENTED he desired to use in his business and which J he afterwards tiled with the attorneyyen oral to sustain his application for appointment appoint-ment as marshal The defendant then goes on to tell about the marshal leasing THE HOUSE ON PLUM ALLEY to Chinamen for immoral purposes and cites the fact of his indictment therefor Reference is made to the criticism of THE GRAND JUICY and the report of that body is given It Is here alleged that while Oscar Vandercook was tho normal warden at the penitentiary tiary W S Giesey a brotherinlaw of the plaintiff who was employed as a guard was allowed to OVERRULE VANDERCOOKS ORDERS and thereby destroy discipline at the peal entiary which has been donducted in an undisciplined manner that on one occasion a contractor named Dull was engaged for several weeks in sinking a well ana sev eral of his men were BOARDED AT THE GOVERNMENTS EXPENSE und that the plaintiff accepted money there for that VV S Geisoy while drawing pa as a guard has devoted his time to conducting a farm that the plaintiff has endeavored to induce certain of his deou ties TO MAKE FALSE ItETUIt Sin S-in order that the government might be defrauded frauded and that he might profit there from that he has so conducted his office to his own profit that his deputies have been forced to live from band to mouth and that he is indebted to one guard at the penitentiary peni-tentiary for three years salary THAT GOVERNMENT STORES have with bis knowledge been appropriated appro-priated to the benefit of his brotherinlaw V S Geisey ana no account made for the same to the government Wherefore having fully answered the said plaintiffs complaint tho defendant asks to be dismissed hence with its costs in this behalf sustained Powers Hiles are the defendants attornEys at-tornEys |