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...defense was Alfredeta Forde, 93, grandmother of Constance May, an oldtime actress. Carried into court on a chair last week, this ancient dame, alert of eye, answered questions with the dramatic articulation of the 1860 stage. She stuck to her contention that the father of her grandchild was James Cannon, property man at the old Grove Street Theatre, San Francisco. Garrulous, she insisted on telling how she had shaken President Lincoln's hand in Ford's Theatre, Washington. When the plaintiff's counsel John Taaffe tried to cross examine her she screamed at 84-year-old Superior...
...grandmother was a star witness for the defense, Constance May's mother was a planetary witness. In a stage-Bostonian accent she told of how she went to the theatre every night with her mother, met Mr. Cannon. In a defiant voice she recounted visits to his rooms; of never telling him she had borne him a child...
...letter to Publisher George Gilray Young of the Los Angeles Examiner, William Randolph Hearst once (warningly) described Bishop James Cannon Jr. as having "the best brain in America, no one excepted." Last week Best Brain Cannon filed his third libel suit against Publisher Hearst and his newspapers, bringing the total damages demanded...
...last October in Washington against Hearst personally for statements in the New York Journal, Washington Herald, Washington Times and Los Angeles Examiner. (According to Editor & Publisher, tradepaper, the U. S. Marshal has never been able to serve Publisher Hearst in either of the Washington suits.) Also last week Bishop Cannon sued Publisher Julius David Stern's Philadelphia Record but stated neither grounds nor damages. Also pending is a $500,000 libel suit against Congressman George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts, who called the Bishop a "shameless violator of the Federal corrupt practices...
...anti-Hearst suits are based on substantially the same statements, viz: i) that Bishop Cannon was visiting his secretary Mrs. Helen Hawley McCallum (his present wife) in her apartment on the night before his first wife died; 2) that Bishop Cannon retained Attorneys Campbell Bascom Slemp and John Price to defend Bucket-Shopper H. L. Goldhurst, with whom the Bishop had dealt and who was subsequently imprisoned for using the mails to defraud. The Best Brain also ascribes to Publisher Hearst a carefully ordered campaign to involve him in the financial difficulties of his son, Richard M. Cannon. California schoolmaster...