... Will Sue The Papers

MRS. HUNT WILL SUE THE PAPERS

Who Tried to Defame Her Character

ABOUT DIAMOND ROBBERY

Her Mother, Mrs. M. E. Liddell, Writes From Chicago About the Matter

Mrs. M. E. Liddell, who went to Chicago upon learning of the robbery of her daughter's diamonds, writes back as follows:

Chicago, ILL., Dec. 31.

Mrs. Hunt, who was drugged and robbed of her jewelry and diamonds on the West Side last Monday afternoon, Dec. 23, has not fully recovered from the effects of the poison, but she is not in a dangerous condition and will soon be herself again, when she no doubt will prosecute two Chicago newspapers for slander, as she was not in company of men (the thieves), who must have been following her. They wanted her diamonds, not her. They were not professionals, but boys from 18 to 22 years. When she was obliged to go into side door, the ladies' entrance, she never noticed the front sign "Saloon." but she was ill and sought shelter in the first place she could get into (the lavatory), where she became unconscious, and when she came to her senses she was in the lady matron's apartments in the station house, being cared for.

Mrs. Hunt receives several letters a day from friends in New York, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Chicago, expressing their sympathy and offering assistance if she needs them. Her many friends advise her to sue some of the sensational newspapers who tried to defame her character, which defies any person to do. That she was spared her life she is truly thankful as she might have been drugged to death or never come out of stupor. It thrills me with horror even now when I think of the narrow escape she had. All the things that were said by the thieves, which the reporters wrote up in the papers are falsehoods and must be retracted. Mrs. Hunt is a lady of refinement and dignity. She has live in this neighborhood for many years. Mrs. Hunt has been misrepresented so much in those horrid sensational newspapers it might reflect upon her son as well as herself and mother around and in Ann Arbor, where I am well known as well as herself.

Yours respectfully,   MRS. E. M. LIDDELL.

P. S.- The following is taken from a Chicago paper:

"Mrs. Hunt. lives in an aristocratic neighborhood and is highly respected. She has many influential and wealthy friends."