The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-03-27
Ex.Priest Seguin Has a Strenuous
Time at Glendale Village.
Receives a Rap in the face From a
Husky Business Man.
The Wife Starts Out to HorseWhip
Her husbands AssaiIant.
She Is Arrested and Will Have Her
Trial on tuesday Next.

From Mondays Daily
Ex-Priest Seguin had strenuous
time at Glendale, according to the story
printed in the Eagle Of that village:
Last week man by the name of p.
A. Seguin and wife struck &c and rent
ed the opera house for the purpose of CIV
ing lectures. Seguin is an ex-Catholic
priest and his lectures and those of his
wife purported to be an exposition #
certain reprehensible practices of the Ro.
man clergy and auxiliary orders of the
church.
HE did not have very large turnouts
to his lectures and but for an unfortu.
nate incident his coming and going would
have been but little noticed and soon for
gotten. Of course the lectures caused
some comment and Tuesday prominent
business man and young man of this
village had little fistic affair over the
matter. This caused considerable bad
blood and stories were carried back and
forth. A chance meeting at the depot
between Seguin and the business man re-
fcrred to caused the latter to land Il
Knockout blow on the ex-priest's visage.
Arrest followed and the business man
pleaded guilty to assault and was fined
$40 and costs.
Not satisfied with this Mrs Segum
provided herself with horsewhip and
Wednesday morning, in company with
her husband, sought out the offending
business man with the avowed purpose
of administering punishment to him
after her own fashion. Their intended
victim managed to elude them, however,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Seguin were both ar.
rested. The following is substantially
the charges preferred in each case:
"Alrs. P. A. Seguin- making noisy de-
monstration to the annoyance of certain
persons and walking up and down Main
street of the village with horsewhip,
openly defying certain citizen to come
upon the street and did break the peace
of said village.
"P. A. Seguin-Making noisy demon
stration and calling loudly across Main
street for certain person to come out
and meet his wife, who was at that time
parading the street with a horsewhip.
Mrs. Seguin asked for continuance
of her case till Friday, March 20, which
was granted and the case set for that
date at p. m. Bail was fixed at 500,
which the defendant refused to furnish
and she was remanded to the village
bastile. After an inspection of the IA
cilities offered by this institution, the
prisoner concluded to furnish the required
bail.
'Seguin pleaded guilty to the charge
preferred against him and was fined $40
and costs-Sl4.25 in all
CAT the trial of the later case Justice
Dobell gave short talk, explaining that
he and Justice Christensen expected to
collaborate on this and following cases
He said that when things had come to
such a pass that is was unsafe for a
woman to stay alone in her home at night
for fear of molestation by the lawless
such case as occurred Tuesday night
it was time to sift matters to the bot
tom and again establish law and order
and that he and Justice Christensen ex-
pected to work together till such re-
suit had been accomplished"
This man Seginn was in Mankato a
few years ago and delivered an address
that was not of an edifying character.