Show S I I S THEY ARE AFTER V WARNER'S WARNERS SCALP Petition for Removal of Commissioner Commissioner Com Corn Petton missioner Who Slandered His Step Clinton n II III Ill July 24 24 President t t k kI I to J o u s 's m W t tort rt rt's on niS of or of pori fl h om family nl This action vill m be bo taken by hy citizens ot of Clinton and anil ah J Decatur who today nr ar are Warner In denouncing n Vespasian under oath ho homade homade strong terms because hec e made the char charge e that his stop mother ma e Isabella Robinson Warner arner was wa a a. nere ne- ne gress re Petitions aJ asking ing his removal are arc being being being be be- ing nud will wl b be circulated throughout hout D Dewitt and Macon count counties coun coun- t ties s. s These hese petitions petitions- will wi he bo directed to 10 PIp President Pi ident l Roosevelt and amid will wi after ater a n brief recital I of 1 the hI il l ask ak the President nt to remove lemO Mr Warner from rom tl tIne the ln pension ion Mrs Varner the widow refuses to he een seen However through her attorneys attorneys nc toda today sh she declared that the story that sh was wal a negro by descent was vas made out of whole cloth and amI that there was not a word WIil of or truth in It I. I She declares declare that a as she knows the time chal charge e eto to be he absolutely false she he can stand it i it llott- llott Started i 5 Story Her father Cather Steven Robinson wa was waa a aman aman aman man o of swarthy complexion and black curly cum cUly hair hall On account of the hair hall he was always called calel CUb Curly His Ills father Cather was wa known as Black Robinson Robin Robin- Tobin Tobin- son The charge charse Mrs Mr Warners Warner's at attorneys attorneys attorneys at- at claim originated from rom the suit of 0 the Ohio election electon a against Robinson In an effort erfort efort to t dl disfranchise him He lie le won this suit stilt and later laler was vas given judgment for several hundred hundle dollars damages against tho the election who caused his arrest and officials put the tho stain upon hi his name Today oday the attorneys for Mrs Warner Varner presented the love lovo lo e letters leters written by John Yarner Warner War Yar ner ncr to lr Isabella ela Robinson in an and 1874 to piove that Warner arner was not cf defrauded or deceived when hen ho he married married mar mar- ried ned I Isabella Robinson |