The San Francisco call., 1898-05-10
NALL DEMANDS
 OPEN TRIAL Scandal Breaks Out in a Methodist Sunday
 School.
The superintendent Is Charqed With Annoying
 Lady.
Has Elm plOyed Counsel and Intends to Fight the Case Very
 Bitterly.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call.
 90S RrOadwau May O

SUS BroadWay, May g.
 George Nall, superintendent of the Sun day school of the Thirty-fourth street Methodist church, has been charged by certain members of the congregation with unbecoming conduct as a church officer The charges have been formally drawn up, signed and presented to the pastor, Rev Charles F. Brown, and a trial has been ordered to take place next Monday night.
 The nature of the accusation is very serious, and MT. Nall emphaticany denies 1t all and has engaged an attorney to defend him before the officers of the church, and declares that the responsi- biltty for heaping this humiliation upon him will be traced to it's origin and that he will have substantial satisfaction.
 The paper containing the charges was drawn up by some of the members of the congregation, and it sets forth that some time last year MT. Nall called in the afternoon on Mrs. Hattie F. Long, mar ried woman, at her house at Twenty eighth and Union streets, and that his conversation was not such as is expected from the superintendent of a Sunday school. The details of the conversation are not given, but it is stated that Mrs. Long will tell her story on the witness stand at the trial.
 Another charge brought against Mir. Nall is that on one occasion he paced back and forth before the Long household in a manner annoying to Mrs. Long and that such conduct is also unbecomlng an officer of the church. These charges were submitted to the pastor, Rev. Charles F. Brown, and he took steps to have them investigated at a regular church trial, but he will not preside himself, having dele gated that important task to Rev. A. T. Needham of East Oakland.
 Much surprise has been expressed that these charges, which are dated in the fall of last year, have been allowed to remain so long before being brought openly. At the time mentioned in the complaint Rev. Mir. Jones was pastor of the church and nothing was heard of the matter until after he was succeeded by Rev. MT. Brown. Since the coming of MT. Brown there has been 8 renewal of the unpleaS- antness that existed three years ago, when Rev. MT Van Emery left the church. This trouble has broken out in various forms and the present trial of Mr. Nall is one of them. The present pastor, Mir. Brown, has frequently clashed with MT. Armstrong, secretary Of some Of the church societies, and a few weeks ago this trouble broke out openly. Each gen tleman said some peculiar things Of the other, and no doubt the notoriety added fuel to the existing fire, for in the pres ent instance MT. Armstrong is said to De one of the warmest defenders of MT. Nall.
 This afternoon MT. Nall came into Oak land and laid the matter before Judge II. D. Talcott and engaged that gentle man to attend the trial in his behalf. Judge Talcott will demand that the pro ceedings be conducted openly and will have a Stenographic report made so that if occasion is taken by gossipers to tell idle tales he will be prepared to act in the premises.
 If the verdict of the church court is not favorable to Nall he will take an appeal from the district conference to the gen. eral conference, which meets at Paclnc Grove this fall. One of the friends of MT. Nall says that if the charges were true it is rather strange that some very posi- tive action has not been taken before this time for the husband of Mrs. Hattie Long, whom it is alleged was insulted by the Sunday school superintendent.