St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-21
THE SCANDAL.
DIR. Mclean Has n Lively EAperi'
ence with a Lady and a Poker

emce With Lady ana d FoAoA'
DIR. Charles Mclean may be depended
upon to keep his troubles before the puDilc'
despite all efforts to ignore them. On yes
terday he and Mrs. Finley and Lily Mitchell
made call upon Mrs. Rayson at NO. "a
Jolehart street. Mrs. RaySon is the lady
with whom DIR. Mclean and Lily boarded
when the trouble first broke out and VINO
was ouoted bv the papers as making state
mentS derogatory to the character OF the
lady and the doctor. Since the events
transpired it has been understood
that Mrs. Rayson had an antlpa-
thy to reporters, but inasmucn as
the full proceedings might not get into the
papers, two or three Of them were taken
along on the expedition as friends OF tiie
callers. Mrs Rayson was found ready 10
receive her visitors, her husband by her
side. and the whole company made quite
roomful. When all were seated Dr.
Mclean asked Mrs. Ray5on If the troupe
did not start from the outside-lf partleS
had not come to her with gossip ABOUT hlih-
self and Lily. She answered af1lrmatVeiy.
He then propOunded several Categorical
questions if she would deny the statements
which she had made involving the character
of Mrs. Finley and that young lady. MIS-.
Rayson said she denied nothing, Ior SIG
had nothing to deny; that sue
had said nothing but what ne hau
said to her. lie then began to ask her
series of categorical questions For III
stance if she kept a respectable house, and
if She susuected That his relations with Lily
were not right. why did she not turn him
out Mrs. Rayson returned somewhat
eyasiye answer and asked him in return II
he had not denied that he was there. ms,
he said. was false. BY this time the parties
began to get excited, questions and crlml-
nations having no particular bearing on the
subject being fired back and forth voluml-
nouslv, incOherently and nterruptedly, The
tendency of which was to show that every
body present, except the reporters was a
pretty hard sort of case. Mrs. Finley took
occasion to allude to a previous visit
she had made to Mrs. Rayson
in the morning. at which time Mrs.
Rayson had retracted several OF the
statements she had heretofore made
To this Mrs. Rayson made an indignant de-
NAL. and it was made to appear from the
statements of the ladies that DR.. Mclean
had proposed to make an operation upon
Mrs. Rayson. BY this time it began TO get
red-hot The doctor continued his questions,
which, having a tendency to renect on
Mrs. RaySon'S character for truth,
the lady waxed very wroth, and with
loud voice and violent geSticulatlons, SAID:
you black-hearted Scoundrel. On, you liar.
I believe you would deny your God, and
much more to the same effect, at last de-
manding that he leave her presence. AS
she said this she picked up poker stand
ing conveniently near and made for the
doctor with great fury, brandiShing the
weapon above her head. The doctor saw
that in hasty retreat was his only safety
and even by this would not have saved his
head from the blow which all but descended
upon it, had not the lady been restrained
from
HER TERRIBLE PURPOSE
by her husband. DR.. Mclean did not
slacken his pace, however, and it was just
as well for him. for Mrs. RaysOn, breaking
from her husbands OBTAINING grasp flew at
him again. He had by this time, however,
reached the front door of the house, and
was going down the front steps with most
unclerical and undigniied haste when his
pursuer reached the door, still brandishing
the deadly poker. The neighbors had
wind of the fact that some developments
were going on in the house, and all the
windows across the street were lined with
faces and the sidewalk opposite was well
filled with an appreciative audience, COM
prising some of the elite of the city.
The offensive object being removed from
her sight, Mrs. Rayson became calm and
made her statement which was to the effect
that she had said nothing except what the
doctor himself had told her, that she had
never herself seen anything wrong in his
actions with the girl and the only thing
suspicious that she noticed was
that Lily's bed did not have
the appearance of having been
slept in but two or three times during her
stay in the house, This Lily accounted for,
however, by saying that she was in the
habit of making her bed herself. Mrs. Ray
son also alluded to the fact that the girl
had been out as late as II o'clock two or
three times, but attributed nothing evil
from that.
The excitement rose high again, how
ever, and before the conference was over
Mrs. Finley and her daughter were also Or
dered from the house, and so the matter
ended.
The next act in the drama will be the
meetings in Market hall on Sunday after
noon and evening, when DR.. Mclean will
make his statement.