The San Francisco call., 1898-03-07
He Hints That Mrs. Clark s Husbend Is the Guilty
 Monster.
The Army He Conducted Gave Him and His Friends
 Lazy Living.
RELIGION ONLY A CLOAK.
'Major" Enqleberg, Through Trick of His Attorneys, Enjoyed
 Few Hours Freedom.

George Sturgeon Duggan, the self styled general of the Jesus Christ Army, is having an unpleasant time Of 1t i'll fail. He was yesterday in cell With a number of robbers and thieves, and their demonstrations were anything but friendly toward him. Several times they called for a rope, declaring that they would hang their fellow prisoner should they get a chance. These dem onstrations became so frequent that Duggan began to fear for his life II kept among them much longer, and he called the taller, and asked to be re- moved to another cell His request was granted, but he was then but little bet ter off His new cell mates showed him very little friendship.
 Duggan says he will prove his inno- cence when the case comes to trial. He claims he will not only clear himself from suspicion, but he will point the finger toward the person who is guilty of the crime The witnesses, he says, who will help him to prove 1t will be John w. Pray and his wife, Minnie Pray, of Gods Regular Army and MT. and Mrs. Smith of the same organiza- IlOn. MIS. OldLh lnS MOlilclAl W liO " us intrusted with the care of Alice Loy, is also expected to assist in clearing Duggan of the crime with which he is charged. They claim Duggan could not well have been the cause of the girl S condition, but they state that William Clark, the husband of the woman who brought the girl to San Francisco, Is most likely the man who blighted the childs life Mrs. Clark, before her de- parture from Portland, confided in friends certain acts of her husband that put the stamp of brutality on him, and after coming to this city she told MT. and Mrs. Pray and MT. and Mrs. Smith of her husbands condition, and that he might be responsible for the blight on the life of the child.
 The few soldiers who followed Gen eral Duggan in his abortive religious work do not believe their general IS guilty of the crime charged to him. They tell in a deluded way of his great zeal in his work, and how he gave his whole time to the work of the army. Duggan's army was a peculiar one. He and four followers for five years have been making a living on donations giv- en by few charitably inclined people who paid little or no attention to the organization and took the representa- tions of the soldiers in good faith, and donated accordingly. The soldiers may have been sincere, as far as their idea of sincerity went, but those who know the inside workings of the army say it was kept up because Of the lazy living 1t gave those five who gloried in the titles of generals, captains. and majors. A principal source of income was to sell meal tickets to merchants and those charitably inclined. The tickets were sold at cents each, and business men usually took them in punches of tWen- They them who applied to them for assistance, and a ticket entitled the holder to either a meal or bed in the barracks of the army. Seldom were the tickets re- deemed. The persons who were given them hardly ever presented them. Bus mess men purchased them, considering it a good way to get rid of beggars, and the generals and majors and cap tains of the army knew that they would seldom be called upon to make them good.
 Nearly every ticket they sold was clear gain to them. General Duggan had charge of the tickets. He called his officers and soldiers to an accounting, and when they made returns of their sales he took from sixty to seventy five per cent for his share and allowed the person who made the sale the balance as his share. The soldiers every day visited number of bakeries and res IduT dIAS 1OI uOndllOnS or 1000 TOT the meals they represented they gave to the deserving poor who appealed to them for relief, and in that way the generals and majors and captains man. aged to fatten and keep their cup boards pretty well supplied Their army was limited one and there were accordingly only a few to provide for The unfortunate fellows who were obliged to request a meal from them were generally given stale bread and the leavings of the officers coffee-pot.
 w. Wilson, who resides at 1227 Mis- sion street, and who was a member of Duggan's army, tells many stories of the inisde workings of the organiza- tion. He says one of Duggan's officers who went by the title of Lieutenant Sinclair was given two meal tickets for cents or forty for s1, and it was his privilege to sell them to the charitably inclined persons he met at twenty for $1. Sinclair was a favorite officer, and he was allowed to make all he could in the name of charity. Wilson said he left the army because it was so appar- ent sham. He says Duggan was a drunkard, and that he maintained dis reputable relations with several women
 Major" Engleberg, who is accused of battery on Benny Low, the brother of the girl whom General Duggan is said to have ill-used, was released from prison on his own recognizance on CdIufQdy hlSAI Oy JuUSe LOW, put yes terday the police were again looking for him. Representation was made tC the judge by the attorneys whom the prisoner had engaged to defend him that Engleberg was a hard working mechanic, and his crime only consisted in skipping a ss~cy boys face. Engle- berg was free during the night and the greater part of yesterday. As soon as Judge Low saw the papers giving ac- counts of the prisoners crime he went to the prison and revoked his order o1 release and gave orders to the police to take Engleberg in custody whenever he should be found.
 Late in the afternoon the accused man visited the prison to offer spiritual consolation to Mrs. Clark, and he was at once apprehended and put back into his cell