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Show STATE TO PRESS THE MARY PICKFORD CASE Reno, Nev., April 12. Retained by Mary Pickford to represent her in the attack about to be made by Attorney General Fowler of Nevada against the validity of the decree whereby the little moving picture actress was divorced a few weeks ago from Owen Moore, Attorney Gavin McNab of San Francisco has sent a long telegram to Fowler at Carson City in which he requests re-quests permission to assemble the facts and the law in the case and to present them to Fowler prior to the filing of the threatened action. Fowler has replied by letter to 'McNab, 'Mc-Nab, in which he courteously but firmly firm-ly intimates that the suit is to be filed at once and that he cannot agree to the proposition. The attorney general gen-eral declined today to make known the full context of Mr. McNab's communication com-munication or that of his . reply. He was willing, however to admit that McNabi sent htafljie wire. rHe asuertefr that the telegra mwas entirely lacking in any of the aphorisms which have made McNab famous, and branded it, for the most part, as "mawkish sen- timentauty." "Gavin McNab does not say in so many words that he has been retained by Mary Pickford," said Fowler this afternoon; "but he makes it plain that he is speaking as her lawyer. He requests that he be allowed to assemble assem-ble the facts and the law, and has so worded his desire as to insinuate that he would like very much to have me disist from filing the complaint until he can submit his so-called brief. I have replied to him that I cannot com ply with his request. I don't care at this time to make his telegram public, but I will say that the astonishing! sentimentality that characterizes most of his communication surprised me. "I want to make it plain to everyone every-one that I am going on with this case, and that nothing can deter me. There have been plenty of attempts within the last few days to bring influence to bear, in an indirect way, to induce me to quit. But the dignity of the law and of the state have been outraged by the principals in this Pickford case, and the decree will be set aside if I can accomplish it." |