Libel action against the New York Herald - is this Backert?

[Chris Scott]

I don't remember seeing the snippet below. Is this "young man" who was chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee our own Albert Backert?
The article is from the Nottingham Evening Post of 13 Jan 1890.

[Howard Brown]

Chris:

I'm sure it is....I've pretty sure I've seen that report in a few other papers from 1890.

[Debra Arif]

It is Chris, and I think he was right and the paper did accuse him of fabricating evidence.

[Howard Brown]

Debs, all

For the life of me I can't remember what Bachert's complaint was ( what he was alleged to have fabricated )....do you remember ?

[Chris Scott]

How and Debs
Thanks for the confirmation - I thought it sounded like "our" Albert

[Debra Arif]

Originally Posted by How Brown

Debs, all

For the life of me I can't remember what Bachert's complaint was ( what he was alleged to have fabricated )....do you remember ?

How, I can't remember exactly but when I was trawling through the numerous threads that mention Backert on the forums recently I'm sure Dave James posted some stuff on this.
Unless my memory is playing tricks and we never did find out exactly what he'd been accused of. That's a mission if not, eh?

[Howard Brown]

Sure is Debs...I spent some time yesterday looking through an American source which has NYHerald articles...but haven't located the "libelous" one which Albert Bachert was referring to.

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[Chris Scott]

Hi How
The article is dated the 13 Jan 1890 which was a Monday. It refers to the NY Herald articles as in "Saturday's and Sunday's issues." This could be the two preceding days - 11 and 12 Jan 1890 - but to allow time for Albert to have seen and read the articles - considering this was a US paper - and consider legal action they may well have been the issues from the previous weekend - 4 and 5 Jan - or even earlier
Chris

[Howard Brown]

Chris:

Thanks very much !
I had focused on articles from late 1889, thinking there would be a month or two between the publication of the article and A.B.'s reaction.

[Mike Covell]

Hi Chris, How, Debs, I came across this article in the Hull Daily Mail recently, dated January 13th 1890 and decided to look at the New York Herald Archives, held here, http://fultonhistory.com/my%20photo%...ald/index.html but am struggling to find anything.