Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-06-06 | Page 1 | Quash Old Libel Suits Against Dana and Whitelaw Reid

Quash Old Libel Suits Against Dana DanaS S and Whitelaw Reid 1 WASHINGTON UI June 6 Su G.-Su Suits Suits ts charging in lug ing libel jn instituted nearly rt fo-rt forty years eRrs a ago against t Whitelaw Reid and Charles A. A Dana then correspondents correspondent for New NewYork NewYork York papers have o been erased ra cd from the tho criminal docket i of the District of Columbia Columbia Co Co- Co- Co lumbia it was 35 announced announce today Tho The flU suits it s were initiated bv by Alexander Alexan Alexan- der cler R. R Shepherd then governor o of the U for for the tic publication of certain tam tain libelous articles The federal l prosecutor determined to dismiss the tho suits mits which h ch never had bad been brou brought ht to trial because all of the parties par par- I ties ie thor thereto to have c been boen dead several cral years