Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-29
THE WARLIKE cLABKs
Their Encounter With Detachment of Ballington Booths Forces.

of Ballington Booths Forces.
 The Volunteers of America had their, fighting clothes on last night and mixed pugnacity with religion in true rough house style. The babtlefield was the curb line on the northeast corner of Eleventh and Walnut streets and a man who gave the name of E. A. Clark
 received scalp wound from which the blood flowed profusely. He was knock ed out completely in the first round, and while he lay bleeding in the street his wife, a boxon dame dealt out "a number of i1ppercuts and jabs which
 landed with some effect on the face of
 Captain Tyler, V. A.. who did not re sent them but tried to reason with the infu1iated woman who was very pro- nounced in the character of language she used in expressing her opinions of the soul savers.
 Cries of police and the shouts and laughter of the assembled crowd had ddscourag ag4ng effect on Mrs Clark's avoyved threat to "c1ean out the whole
 army Anlid the jeers and cat calls of the big crowd of loiterers, she fol- lowed her husband to the drug store at
 Eleventh and Main There Dr. Thomp- son took several stitches in the wound on Clark's head
 During the operation Mrs. Clark en- teTtadned crowd of men and women by stating that she would have gone farther with her attack on the volun- tesrs were 1t not for the fact that it night involve the women of the band, and she did not want to fight women.
 Onaookers say tklat the women did take hand in the affray, but this was de
 nied by them and Captain Dunn. After the close of hostilities Captain Dunn made the statement that the trouble was precipitated by Clark and
 Mrs Clark, and that it had been brew | ing tor several hours.
 At the afterRnen meeting conducted on Main Street. between Ninth and Tenth" said Captain Dunn, Mrs, Clark, her husband and few others interrupted the services several times, { but we paid little attention to the in teruphions. as we have gotten used to such treatment. Finally Mrs. Clark charged my boys with being thieves and nfhreateEed to clean us out s.You just begin that as soon as you feel like il, 1" I said to the woman. ''I'll let you know that Tn an old sambler and
 
 bad man I used to lay them out six deep.''
 T tried to paeify her, but she con tnued her abuse and said some very sassy things even after the close of the meeting. 7
 When we gathered for our evening meeting at the corner of Eleventh and Walnut Mrs Clark and her husband again appeared in the crowd and in underttones used scandalous language to Charles Harris, the standard bearer, which he could mot tolerate, and 1t was he who struck Clark and knocked him down Then Mrs Clark pitched into Captain Tyler and struck him several times in the face,5 but he did not fl ght back.TShe women of the party did not attack he-. Here is Harris; let hilp speak for himself" observed the esp. tain. E eetssgss
 Harris is stocky built fellow. mus cular and has right hand as big as smoked ham. . Rs ,4kf Hn
 Clark and his wife told me in sln dertones that was among lot of black sheep. They saved me from the gutter. Picked me up when was drunkard, clothed me and found me a. good job. I'll stick to them until die, I answered, and then Clark male an insulting remark that no self-respect- ing man could let go without resenria;. I just hauled off and let him have it with my bare fist. He went off of his p:nS ard struck his head against the csrbing. EIealdn't come back for any more, bet lay there and bled from wound in his head. Finally he got up and went down the street"
 The row broke up the services. and Captain Dunn escorted Harris to Cen tral police station. where he related the circumstances of the escapade to Lieutenant Kennedy, who said that Harris had done quite right and re- leased him.
 Alter having his wound dressed | Clark and his wife left the drug store, the woman noisily announcing that the I end was not yet. They re l fused to give their house address to l Sergeant Treahy. Later the police | learned that they had registered at the Junction hotel at the corner of Ninth | and Main streets Friday as coming | from Minnesota. but had not been at l the hotel since Saturday. They are not I strangers in the city, as they at one l time conducted an establishment on lower Main street, where they offered as a temptation for people to trade l with them to sell a watch for 30 cents. Later they had a small jewelry store on Twelfth street. near Walnut. and it was stated at the Junction house, last night that small jewelry store they had on Union was swept away by the June floods. Mrs Clark seems much older than her husband, and last night she was richly attired and dis played in her ears and on her fingers an abundance of diamonds. She gave
 Dr Thompson check for his services on one of the big banking institutions I of the city.--Kansas City Journal.
 For a bilious attack take Chamber
 lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and
 a quick cure is certain For sale by