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Show WOMAN IS PROTECTED Nams of Fair Plaintiff Is Concealed by Court in Louisiana.. - . NEW ORLEANS, La., Dec. 5. The Supreme court of Louisiana has suppressed sup-pressed the name of the woman who Is plaintiff in a slander suit, and the gen- - eral public will never, know who the woman, is. In a decision iianded down Ihe Judg-' Judg-' - ment against Harry Hort of Shreve-port, Shreve-port, to pay a fine of $1000 and to serve ' two years of hard work on the public roads of the State has Just been con- firmed by. the Louisiana 8upreme court. By whom the complaint was brought "no one knows, with the exception excep-tion of Hart and the trial court. Everywhere in the records a wo-. man's name appears as Miss , whoever who-ever she is, and It is generally sup- posed that she is a society girl of Shreveport, la. She charged that Hart sent an Insulting note, to her. In fhe law courts she appeared heavily veiled and her Identity has never become known. ' The laws of Louisiana give the pre-,1 pre-,1 siding Judge of any court the right to exclude the name of a party who - would be injured still more by the pub-' pub-' llcation of his or her name. This is the : first Instance In recent years in which J this right of the injured party has ' been used. - . |