The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-09-29
SHE FLOODED THEN OUT.
now nns. JENSEN DnOKE Up DR.
DE s0f0's MISSION.
the Two Have . Merry seaaee n
SsAse Css.'s Cesss-DeDssy Pres
eeusss Mart Take Like ExAorses.

DIT Alexander De Soto. who conducts
the wayrte mission on Railroad avenue.
ard Mrs. Jennie Jensen, who runs q iodg-
ing house IN the same building over tho
that was enacted In Judge Cams court
yesterday afternoon Several days aso DR.
Ire Soto complained that Mrs. Jensen had
Disturbed religious worship In his nilsson
and the case was yesterday called for trial
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Hart opened
the proceed'n - by calling Dr. De Soto to
the stand.
Now. Brother DE Soto" began Mr. Hart
in a sanet.montous voice that told that he
was considering the reiig. Gus vote at fhs
next election. '.jsIsf tell US how this lady
disturbed your religious meeting"
Your honor" said Dr. De Soto. In .
revsrentiai tone. addressing Judge Cam.
she flooded us out. She said she'd DO Il,
and she d.d''
Flooded you ousr calculated Judge
Cam. How did she do IT,"
We'll. she just plugged up her waist
pipes upstairs. and when her sinks got full
they ran over ana drtpped through our
ceiling til we had to quit"
When ds1 this happen7' vas the next
question.
Last February was the firs; time" re-
pied the doctor. Since then It's happen
ed eighteen different times The first time
she flooded US there was about sixty gal
Ions OF water which came down into the
roam where we were holding our service"
You say she threatened to food you out
before she turned the water on your
"fes. sir: abe came down one day last
February and told us abe was going % do
II IL we didn't quit disturbing her.
Mrs. JenSen's lawyer took hold Of tho
doctor and elected from him the informa-
ton that he vast quite sure It was Mrs.
Jensen who made the threat; II might
have been another woman.
And yet you. professed Christian man,
So there. Dr. DE Soto. and try 10 swear
away woman's liberty by saying that abe
made that threst7'' demanded the excited
lawyer.
Yes. SIR" mapped the doctor. I'm a
Christian, and you'll let me hear that
woman's voice I'll tell you whs:kor she's
The woman or not all right. She had a cal
leo dress on when she talked TO me-
The attorney took a new tack
When YOU were mp here In court the
other day, he began. didn't Mrs John
son. nienher OF your flock while she
was walking down the street with you. ad-
vs.. you to burn Mrs. Jensen out II YOU
coAdnf get her out any other wayr'
No air" sharply.
And didn't you tell her that would do
No. cir. / d,f not Mrs. johnson wouldn',
advise any such thing"
Don't you want Mrs Jensen's rooms
i"r your mission. and isn't that why YOU
in=iitu'ed this prosecution7" demanded the
attorney
No. sr that ism, tho reason" was tho
Doctors answer. III could get the rooms
N an honest way ia like them
Mrs. Johnson. the woman who was al.
legged 70 have advised DR. DE Soto 90 burn
Mrs Jensen's roof over her head was tho
nsx' vtrrsa She denied gtying the doc
ter any bad advice. and then tod 81 grea.
floods ~ water being pr-clpi;at.d unon
the assembled worshipers SEVERAL times.
Nineteen timea in fact Mrs Jensen took
the stand then 10 tell her story
Judge, she SAID. taking as Il she had
known Judge Cam all her ife These
people keep NJ a racket u all hours Of the
morning, ana can't keep my iodgers be-
cause they make such ~ noise about their
religion. Hut I didn't food them out That
isEt -. ana br po Soto knows u tart
It's Rad plumbing In my house that causes
the trouble"
III II pleasas your honor" ,nter,sctea pr
DE soto. breaking into Mrs. Jcnscn's tes-
tnony. i can show you plugs that I've
pulled out % that worans waste pipes
mysc;f Yes ma'am, can bring them into
court"
Mrs Jensen was given a severe cross
examination. hut she stuck 70 her ogtgina,
story. She was followed ~ clerk In her
house, who swere 60 the bad plumbing
ssory. also. Ne. too. had quite n cons ,,ar-
able 20 say about the un~rascpahic hours
90 which pr pe so,o's fo-k continued
their relistous worship
Mr. Hart closed the proceeding. with n
fervid -xhortaton to Judge Cam 90 pro-
,ec' American citizens IN Their rah, -
Worship Cri according 60 the dictates ~
their own conscience. and although the 81.
tcrney on the other side argued that Mrs
Iens~ns guilt hsi no, been proven. Judg.
Cam nned her slo and costs anf gave her
a parting siulonl'ion not 20 plug up her
waste pipes sssn.