The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-28
Is HAGENBUCH PROSECUTED?
BAY SHORE ALMOST UNANIMOUS
THAT HE IS.
Popularity OF the Young Man Who Was
Indicted by the Grand Jury on Charge
OF Entering Miss Flick's ROom--Friends
Oner Aid and vigorously Defend Him.


Indicted by the Grand Jury on Charge
OF Entering Miss Flick's ROom-Friends
OfYer Aid and vigorously Defend Him.
BAY SHORE, l.. l., Sept 27-This place
has been divided into two hostile camps
by the case Of young Clinton Hagenbnch,
who has just been indicted by the Grand
Jury OF Suffolk county on charge Of hav-
ing attempted to assault Miss Maud Flick
at the house Of Irwin j. Long, editor OF the
Bay Shore journal. last July.
It is not exaggerating things to say that
nine-tenths Of the people Of Bay Shore
hold to the view that young Hagenbuch
is innocent Of the charge that has been
made against him.
Hagenbuch, so his friends say to-day.
is very i'll as a result Of his troubles, and
has been forced to give up good situa-
ton which he obtained in New York, and
60 to his home at Lime Ridge. Pa.
According to letters which have been
received here his family is very much
alarmed over his condition. All this has
tended to increase the sympathy which
his friends have felt for him since the
Grand Jury indicted him, and several
Of the most influential men in the
town have written to the young man Offer
ing him the shelter OF their homes should
he care to come back and face the charge
that has been brought against him They
have gone even further than this.
Several of the towns best citizens have
offered to provide the amount of cash
necessary to secure counsel to defend the
case when it comes TO trial.
Hagenbuch, for whom bench warrant
has now been issued, will return, it is said,
as soon as he RECEIVERS his health. HIS
friends say that he will then refute the
story Of the girl that he entered her room
in Mr.. Long house.
Hagenbuch has written to his friends,
the chief OF whom is Ralph Puuls, son Of
the proprietor Of the Linwood, the biggest
hotel here, to the effect that
he Is innocent; that the charge
new and that Hsd .S
as suddenly as he did because for the mo-
ment he had lest his head in the face Of
a charge of the nature Of that which Editor
Long threatened to make public.
This story Hagenbuch has told to the
Rev. Mr.. Armstrong, pastor of the First
Congregational Church, who went to see
him in New York for the purpose Of ascer-
tanning the truth.
He has written it in numerous letters
to his friends, but at the same time has
asked them to keep silent until he returns
and procures his own vindication.
The Ladies Aid Society Of the church
Of whose Sundayschool Hagenbuch was
superintendent has come out strongly for
the young man, as have majority Of the
members OF the church.
Mr.. Long, who is one of the deacons OF
the church, has become SO incensed at the
way in which he says the pastor and others
have acted that he refuses to enter it's doors.
That is how matters stand at present in
Bay Shore.
An effort was made to-day by Sun re-
porter to find the reason for the loyalty
that has been shown toward the young
man. Hagenbuch came here four years
ago with Editor Long from Lykens, Pa.
Mr.. Long bought the Journal and he made
him his foreman.
the entire village He was invited to Join
the dancing class OF the village and several
clubs and always comported himself. so
people here say, with dignity and at all
times with perfect propriety
Hagenb1ch two years prior to the scandal
Of last summer had been superintendent
Of the Sunday school OF the church. Ac-
CoTunS W MI. Long, ne was placed tneTe
solely because OF the admiration which
the Rev. Mr.. Armstrong had for him, and
not through any advice Of his.
On July 4, the day after the alleged at
tempted assault on Miss Flick, who was
at that time a guest Of Editor Long, the
latter went to the minister and rected the
story the girl had told to himself and his
wife :.
The minister insists that Mr.. Long bound
him TO secrecy regarding it. MIR. Long
strenuously denies this and says that his
reason for telling the minister was because
the latter was the young mans pastor and
also for the reason that Hagenbuch was
the head Of the Sunday school.
The minister did not go to Hagenbuch
the Sunday school for three weeks, when
Mr.. Long gave him the alternative of
leaving the place and the State or being
arrested, the former Of which he took.
While a few have professed to be sur
prised at this action Of the minister. the
majority OF the members Of his church
openly side with him and declare that he
did perfectly right in refusing at once to
believe the young man was guilty.
They also hold to the view that he was
bound to secrecy by Mr.. Long and there
fore could not question the young man
himself. Mr.. Armstrong said to-day when
asked about that matter that he had not
kept the man as the superintendent of his
Sunday school any longer than Mr. Long
had kept him az his foreman and allowed
him to remain in his house.
"Ibelieve Mr.. Hagenbuch to DO innocent, 4"
said the minister Il shall continno to hold
that view until indisputable proof of the
truth Of the story Of the Longs is brought
forward. The Grand Jury did not hear his
story.
Il have heard it and this is my view.
I do not consider that this is the time to
defend him. II is a very dangerous time
to say anything. But have no reason to
believe him anything but innocent
HER p4TIENT MISSING