Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-17

Rev, claims 10 have been a priest In
the Catholic church several years. He
claims to have had the charge ut Brai-
nerd, Mimi, up to the time he left the
church He Is a French Canadian and
speaks poor English. He came hero
over two years ago at the request OF a
radical A. =. A.. Captain j. A. Fuller.
and gave three lectures, all obscence
affairs and unfit for people to attend
who profess any moral feelings at all,
He claimed to be exposing Catholic
ism. AS | am not Catholic, don't
know how far this Is true. but / dc
know he used profane and obscene
language. After he had lectured three
times. hds wife came on from Chicago
and they gave magic lantern show In
the hall. Both talk and pictures were
obscene and the audience was disgust
ed. This finished his lectures here.
Just before he came to town the A. p.
A. lodge, numbering nearly one hun
dred, had disbanded. Seguin announc-
ed his intention of reorganizing It at
once. After lids lectures. the A. p. AS,
as we'll as others, denounced him and
many OF them became his bitter enc
mics. Many of his transactions here
might be termed irregular, and accord
ing to rumors his moral character is
not Of the highest"
The charge against Seguin grew out
Of his attempt to deliver his lecture
on, "The Horrors OF the Confession
Box" at Meriden. Iowa. A mob APP
a small sized riot, and Seguin shot out
40 vt,,.l Aelr1 %<S Mo
riden affair. Seguin said that 1t was
nothing, only q few people gathered
outside the church and tried to make
trouble. but failed to succeed.
Father Daniel v. Finch, who sue
ceeded Seguin in the charge at Brain
erd, wrote to r. e. Saunders September
%, 1897, as follows: II am In receipt
Of your letter Of the Goth instant. and
in response will say that the notorious
Seguin off1ciated here as a priest for
five or six months. but was driven out
OF town on account Of drunkenness.
He officiated at vespers and benedic-
ton one evening and was SO intoxicat-
ed that he fell and gave public scandal.
There is no danger OF his coming to
-Brainerd to give one Of his TRADES
against the church. because old pio-
neers remember him and his doings.
II he remains around Cherokee he will
appear in his true colors, and will do
more harm than good to the church."
Peter Alphonse Seguin exercised
temporarily the holy ministry in the
Diocese of Rimouski under the late
Bishop Langevin," said Rev. l.. Rou-
leau in writing to the bishop Of st.
Germaine Of Rimouski the first
bishop of the diocese, who conf1ded to
him the mission Of Riviere Moisie IN
1871. His conduct was anything but
edyfying and complaints from the mis-
sion were frequent. He was Kept one
wear and being accused of immortality
and drunkenness and attempted vlo-
lence on the person of respectable
Young woman, was accommodated.
In my opinion Seguin is a bad priest
without faith. a drunkard and UNI
chaste. He was ripe for apostacy
when he went to seek light from Chin
iquy." r..
Andres Albert, bishop Of st. Ger
maine, Rimouski, wrote to J. G. Gaugh-
an of st. Josephs church at Red wing,
MINI. as follows: 1.-The fact Is that
Sep,,in entered the priesthood without
a Vocation and that during the last
ahomination of his apostacy he was
nothing but homeless drunKard,
cloaked with the ecclesiastical hanlt'
which he wore and profaned IN the m
diligence Of all vices"