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Show MANUAL SLANDER IS CHARGED IN COMPLAINT. Chicago, Jan. fi. Manual slander is charged in a suit filed in the superior court yesterday by George Hartman, of Moline. The plaintiff, who is deaf and dumb, demands $10,000 damages, incurred in-curred lo his feelings during two years from Etholbert D. Humor. Hunter also Is deaf and dumb. Their honds are their medium of expressing themselves. While both men were printers in Lexington, Ky., Harlnan alleges Hunter spread the information informa-tion among other deaf nude? "hat Hartman had obtained a sick beneiif fund from the National Fraternal S--cioty for the Deaf, to which lie was not entitled. . .Hunter later wns discharged by the society. It is said, after the charge had been given to the officers of the henofit society, who aro deaf and dumb. Hartman Is a grnduato of the Washington Wash-ington college for the deaf and dumb. nn . |