Mannix v. the Portland Telegram

ON THE MERITS

(297 P. 350)

In Banc. On the 2d day of October, 1928, being the publisher of a newspaper in Portland, Oregon, known as "Portland Telegram," defendant published the following:

"LAWYER BETRAYED HIM SAYS ACCUSED.

"Declaring that he kept his silence as long as human endurance would permit Harry Knight, alias Harry McDonald, held in the Multnomah county jail on an old murder charge in Missouri, called in newspapermen Monday night and in the presence of three reporters, one county official and two jailers, hurled at Tom Mannix, Portland attorney, to whom McDonald said he had gone for…