Arizona republican., 1907-10-04
BUlGIN DETECTIVES
 SUE FOR THEIR PAY
Evangelist Who Saves Souls With Aid of SIeuths Accepts Service of Papers With Great Dignity.

Dr. E. J. Bulgin has secured some free advertising in the Los Angeles fTimes, which will be read with inter- est here. where he conducted a series of meetings last winter The Times says:
 Dr. F. J. Bulgin, famous as the evangelist who saves souls with the aid of force of detectives, has been sued by two of his sleuths. Papers were served upon him yes terday as he was saying farewell to a number of friends at Arcade station, preparatory to leaving for Sacramento. The plaintiff is the detective firm of Blair & Blair, whose members assert that Bulgin owes them for unearthing about s95 worth of vice to be used for ammunition in his evangelistic cam paign in Covina- The detectives claim to have performed all the rubber soled-shoe work of Bulgin's various spiritual campaigns, beginning with the disastrous one at San Jacinto. when the evangelist first introduced his startling methods into Southern California.
 When he began his work here, he called upon the Blair detective agen- cy and had it send men into the San Jacinto district to become acquaint- ed with the groggeries, blind pigs" and houses of easy virtue supposed to exist there.
 Accordingly. when his series of re- vivals opened. he electrified and shocked the staid inhabitants of the place by getting up in meeting and proclaiming that John Jones was run ming a blind pig in the back of his store. and that the morals of Mrs. Jemima Smiths boarding house thrown into nervous spasms, and merely existed from meeting to meet ing.
 The detective firm alleges. however. that Mir. Bulgin relied more on his intuition than on the reports of the detectives. and that in more than one case. when the detectives had reported a house to be moral and decent. Mir Bulgin proclaimed it from the pulpit to be bad.
 San Jacinto became so worked up over the continued exposures that a committee was formed to take over the village paper and have a regular spring housekeeping of vice and wick edness.
 The result was a storm of libel suits. Mayor Tanner objected to being called a bag of wind;" to having 1t said that he winked at the law and that his supporters were afflicted with "Tanneritas." He got s9O0 damages.
 In Azuza the evangelist started an- other campaign with the aid Of Blair detectives. The firm alleges that the minister was accused of being con- nected with a sleuth who was hang ing around town and that from the platform he denied having anything to do with him.
 The agency ayers that Bulgin again retained it to help bring the light of piety into Covina, where experiences were strenuous.
 The revival sleuth got acquainted with the gamblers and with the blind pig" men, but was found out and the gamblers ironically caused his arrest for violating the law. So MT. Bulgin's light was somewhat clouded at Covina
 When the campaign was over, the bIalrs say that MT. Bulgin told them to look to the church revival commit tee for payment. and the church committee told them that no employ ment of detectives had ever been au- thorized.
 From somebody the detective firm wants s95. Hearing that Mir. Bulgin was about to leave for Sacramento to open another campaign. it filed suit and an officer rushed down to the sta tion to serve the papers.
 Mir. Bulgin was saying farewell to young preacher, a very nervous and fidgety preacher. When the constable stepped up with the papers, the man talking to Mir. Bulgin said: "Oh dear, dear; there must be some mistake" Mir. Bulgin said: "Very well, sir" with great dignity.