LOUIS SUED FOR DAMAGES BY NEGRO MINISTER
CHICAGO, April 3 A 500,000 dollars damages suit filed to-day in the Supprior Coui|: accused the world heavyweight boxing champion, Joe Louis, of stealing the affections of a minister’s wife. The sur« was filed by the Rev. Matthew Faulkner, a 32-year-old negro minister of Atlanta, Georgia. Louis and. Mrs Louis are now in Europe. Lovis recently appeared in several exhibition, bouts in England. The suit charged that Loijis, last November. December, and January, "wilfully destroyed and alienated from the plaintiff the affections of his wife, Mattie Carrie Faulkner.” According to the plaintiff’s attorney, Mrs Faulkner, who is 26. is a “beautiful model.” , The documents in the suit stated that an “illicit affair was carried on while Mr Faulkner was in the army service as a captain in the Chaplain Corps. Louis, through his agent and representative, furnished Mrs Faulkner with 15.000 d< liars and other gifts totalling approximately 35.000 dollars. The Faulkners were married in 1941. They have two children.
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Grey River Argus, 5 April 1948, Page 6
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