Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-22 | Page 10 | Wins Verdict for $30,000 Damages

WINS VEPJ3ICT FOR $30,000 DAMAGES NEW YORK, May 21. John Armstrong Chaloner, Merry Mills, Va., millionaire, who escaped from an insane asylum here twenty-two "years ago, was awarded a 530,000 verdict today against the New York Evening Post In his $100,000 suit for alleged libel. The defendant at once moved to have the verdict set aside on the ground of excessive damages, and Judge Hand took the motion under advisement. ad-visement. Chaloner's suit was based on an Evening Eve-ning Post article reporting the killing of John Gillard at Merry Mills, Va., ten years ago. Although still insane, according to a judgment of the New York supreme court, Chaloner was permitted to prose-cu'o prose-cu'o his suit in federal court when he produced judgments of a Virginia court declaring him sane.