1908-09-07 – HEARST SUED IN MILWAUKEE

Originally published on September 7, 1908 in the New York Times

HEARST SUED IN MILWAUKEE.

Bill of $48 Incurred by a Worker in 1904 Charged to Him.

MILWAUKEE, Sept. 6. — William Randolph Hearst, founder of the Independence Party, will come to Milwaukee again on Sept. 14, but not as a campaigner and political worker for the newly born National pary and Thomas L. Hisgen, its Presidential candidate.  It will be to appear before Justice of the Peace Oscar E. Schwemer to make answer in a civil suit brought against him by William Kirchheim, a saloon keeper in the town of Granville.

Service was made upon Mr. Hearst in his rooms in the Hotel Pfister last night as he was preparing to go to Schlitz Park, where he was scheduled to make an address.

The case dates back four years, when Mr. Hearst was seeking the Democratic nomination for the Presidency.  It involves $48.  The plaintiff was at that time in the saloon business in Granville.  J. J. McNally, who at that time represented himself as one of Hearst’s workers, went to the plaintiff’s salloon in Granville, and, according to the allegation, incurred a bill of $48 for refreshments and the rent of a hall for a Hearst meeting.  When the meeting was over McNally refused to pay the bill, it is alleged.

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