Winston-Salem, June 16—W.B. Ellis, manufacturer and capitalist of this city, was this morning sentenced to serve four months on the county roads in each of two cases charging him with criminal libel, the sentences to run concurrent. The judgment, rendered in the municipal court, was appealed from and bond was fixed at $500.
The cases charging Mr. Ellis with libel grew out of the issuing over a period of several years pamphlets in which the character of various local men were attacked. The specific warrants were issued on the strength of pamphlets recently gotten out, in both of which he charged that certain attorneys perjured themselves on the witness stand in the case wherein several local attorneys and attorneys from out of town were suing Ellis for a $15,000 fee which he refused to pay them for their appearance for him in a case last year.
The character of the attorneys appearing for him last year, numbering several local and prominent lawyers, is also ridiculed in the pamphlets.
From page 4 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Thursday, June 17, 1926
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