BRINGS SUIT FOR $20,000

BRINGS SUIT FOR $20,000

Proceedings Commenced by Wm. Lansky

FALSE IMPRISONMENT

Charged Against Wm. Gauntlett and H. G. Prettyman - Grows Out of Stealing at Boarding House

William Lanskey, the Broadway junk dealer, has commenced suits, by his attorney, Frank A. Stivers, against William Gauntlett and Horace G. Prettyman, claiming damages of $10,000 in each case.

The suits grow out of the arrest, on the 19th of June last, of Lansky on a charge of being implicated with one Fred Von Kaul in the stealing of $2.89 worth of groceries from the Prettyman boarding house in the day time. The two men were put in jail and brought before Justice Gibson for examination, when Von Kaul was bound over to the circuit court, and found guilty on the trial.

Lancky now sets up in his declaration that Gauntlett, acting as deputy sheriff, arrested him without warrant and falsely imprisoned him and that $10,000 will heal his outraged feelings.

The declaration in the suit against Mr. Prettyman states that he was responsible for the arrest, aided in it, testified in court against the complainant and that his testimony caused the justice to hold Lansky for trial and to order him confined in jail. The damages in this case are also placed at $10,000.