Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-24

 vance guard of Eugene VI. Debs' red special" met head on at Bank street square, a few weeks ago has there been SO much excitement in that vi- cinity as during the noon hour to- day. It was all caused by w. O.. Marshall, the man that Is after Scoop" o 'Brien, Scoop" himself. M. J. Tanning, another prohibition list from Philadelphia and few or the crowd.
 Marshall and his party arrived at the square at 12 o'clock sharp in one of Tom Lunny's hacks. Besides Marshall, who comes from Chicago. in the party were w. o. Melville of New York, w. H. Bennett of Buffa- To and Thomas McMartin also of New York. Marshall got down to business right away and everything went smoothly until near the end when some of the men in the gath ering started the cross examination. The Rev J. A. Bolster, pastor of the Second Advent church who is candi- date for congress on the pro ticket wanted to know who was paying Marshall. MT Bolster immediately proceeded to tell where he stood. Next w. J. Pape of the Republican got quizzing Marshall and in few minutes "Bill' had his friend Rol- and Andrews of the American inter- ested. Marshall became trifle ruff fled at the questions and in his eagerness to propound his doctrines placed his fist too close to Andrews 's face. The newspaperman did not like 1t for a cent and something might have happened if Marshall were not in the carriage. Just as the man who is stumping Tor the good citizens league, so he says, fin- ished. Scoops automobile put In an appearance. The driver of the hack whipped up the horses while the crowd turned their attention to Scoop.
 While Marshall was speaking he certainly made Scoops reputation look bad, that is if the things he said were true and he had a raft of legal documents showing that cer- tain Matthew E. O'Brien had done time for various thefts.
 Marshall went on to tell how Mat thew E. O'Brien of Providence, that's where Scoop" came from had been convicted of defrauding a Will liam Barnes of $10. His fine and costs amounted to $38.09 and being unable to pay it the prisoner went to 4xwhNsesshe aerseds s days That was Iii the year 1889 when Sco,p is said to have been twenty one years of age. His jail number was 10.562 and he was termed a ''poor prisoner"
 Again in April of the same year he was sentenced for theft and served couple of months In the county jail. In fact Marshall had about a dozen indictments including one which said that O'Brien had stolen six silver watches and had got away with them only to be rec ognized as the thief when he was heinz sentenced for another crime. Again Marshall accused Scoop of at one time entering hQ4se where g number of girls were stopping and stealing everything he could lay ms hands upon. There was another which said that because Of poker nlaying he was so much behind in his accounts for certain firms where he was employed that he was arr rested.
 Marshall went on to tell that O'Brien pretended to be a Roman Catholic but that he renounced ms faith to sust his purpose. In the past few years he has been Catholic, an Episcopalian and Methodist. Mar shall called him everything from an ex-convict to a brow beater of the worst kind.
 He went on to tell how o'Brien was such a reprobate that the Con- necticut Bar association would have nothing to do with him. He did not fail to mention how this O'Brien of whom he talked had been chased from certain town because Of his attack on the Catholic faith. In fact there was so much against O'Brien that Marshall termed him one of the worst ever. All the legal documents looked genuine and he showed pic tures of the Matthew B. O'Brien of whom he spoke and Scoop -both look cd much alike.
 When Marshall finished the trouble began. MT Bolster shouted:
 "Whose interests are you working for?"
 "ror the good citizens who have been wronged by this man," replied Marshall.
 aArelyou not working for the Cav anaugh Whiskey Go of Ohiof" con- tinued the minister.
 q should say not" said Marshall, land have never iabored for . liquor syndicate."
 Mr Bolster said few words him. self then but Marshall informed him he was the speaker and that the oth- ers were there to simply ask Ques- tions.
 W. !. Pape made his appearance. Bili went right at him. He said he was no prohibitionist, but that he was interested to know who was paying the bills of the hack brigade. The good citizens of the state, replied Mfr Marshall. "Who are they" again asked Pape.
 "You don't suppose I am going to tell you their names do you?" replied Marshall.
 Sure" came from some one in the crowd. Pape and Marshall got their heads closer and the conversation re- sumed. But at this point there was such . storm of questions that Mar shall had to remind the audience that l~ >~-.1l ~<,< ~~~-<- xk~xv< a1I |, nuon