| Show i i 11 HI KILL NEXT UNE LIAR UN DECLARES JUDGE E LINDSEY I Juvenile Court Judge Says H He Will Will Shoot Shoot Man Who Who Slanders Him DENVER Oct 5 lf If there is s no noto law to protect my reputation against perjured perjure affidavits and criminally II- II belous statements I will III revert to the methods of the primitive and kill the first man who assails It again I am going to get a s shotgun and fill him full of lead State Statement State State- ment of Juvenile Judge Ben B B. B Linds Lind- Lind s sey y Driven to desperation by the open and veiled attacks made upon him by his enemies since he wrote The Beast and the Jungle and exposed the crooked methods of the big corporations corporations corporations cor cor- and those under their control con con- con ti Juvenile Judge B. B Lindsey declared declared de de- de- de dared th the other day that he would I take take take-a a shotgun and kill the first man who again assailed his reputation If I the tho law would not give him tion Its tIts the only thing left for me to todo todo do he exclaimed I am a law law- abiding citizen and sworn to uphold the law but I am entitled to protection protection protection tion and If I cannot get it from the law I am going to see seo that I get It it otherwise When you learn that a aman aman aman man Is lying In wait walt for you to kill you you arm yourself If you kill that man the law acquits you on the ground of self defense The man who assassinates your reputation is isas isas isas as bad as the man who lies in wait walt and kills you from ambush The Juvenile judge had just been served with a subpoena summoning him for the trial of Frank L. L Rose an evangelist indicted by the last grand rand Jury on a charge of criminal libel the charge being founded on the publication by Rose of an affidavit affidavit affidavit affi affi- davit said to have been obtained by Rose from an inmate of the Golden reform school In this affidavit Judge Lindsey was charged with a serious offense against a boy The latter repudiated the affidavit and admitted that he had never seen Judge Lindsey when wien th the latter proved that on the day on which the alleged offense was said to have been committed he had been the guest of former President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay Roses Rose's trial is set setIn setin setin In the west side court for tomor tomor- row Personally said Lindsey I feel sorry for Rose He Is only the tool of others But I am going to testify tes tes- against him for I cannot endure this attacks any longer I have stood them long enough And when I 1 take the witness stand I am going to tell the Jury Just what I have just said I am going to let it be understood that I will use a shotgun shotgun shotgun shot shot- gun If it necessary to protect my rep rep- This is no idle threat This is not the first time that I have spoken my mind on this subject subject sub sub- When the grand Jury last spring was Investigating my cOmplaint complaint complaint com cOm- plaint against Rose Dr Elizabeth Bates and Secretary Whitehead of the Humane society I told the men composing the Jury the same thing I told them in Just lust so many words that either the law must protect I me or I would kill those assailing my reputation I 1 have not changed my mind since I |
