The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-03
ATTACK ON REV. DR. J. W. HILL
 BY REV. HOGAN
Hartford Debate Ends in Row And Police Are Called. SOCIALISTS ATTACK
 PAST OF PREACHER Indignant Denials By John Wesley Hill Met By Read
 ing of Documents.
Special to the Farmer.9

Special to the Farmer9
 Hartford, March 3-A personal en- counter resulted from the tilt between Rev. John Wesley Hill who nad re- cently denounced Socialist doctrines and Rev. J. c. Hogan, editor of a lo- cal Socialist paper. at Unity hall. last night Witnesses declare that UT. Hill attempted to regain possession of certain letters he had handed 70 MT. Hogan during the course of the. evenings debate, while others intimate that an attack was made upon MT. Hogan in an attempt to obtain cer- tain court records which he threatened to publish.
 pr. Hill appeared at Unity hall to deny certain charges against his char acter which had been made by local Socialists following his recent speech at the Princess theater attacking So- cialism.
 As MT. Hogan left the platform 800 people saw Dr. Hill follow him into the ante-room. In a few minutes Ho- gan was seen to reel backwards upon the platform through a door which was burst open by the force of his body.
 Three Socialists who were in the ante-room declare Hill followed Ho- gan and grabbed him by the collar in an attempt to strike Hogan. Dr. Hill denounced the story as a lie and said that he merely asked Mr- Hogan to give him back two letters which during the debate. Hogan was es- certed from the hall with his papers, | by a guard of two policemen. Hartford today. Is much exercised over the affair which promises an ar rest if the threats of both parties made last night are carried into ef- feet.
 At the meeting last night Clarence | Whitney detailed the reasons for the meeting as offering an, opportunity for Dr. Hill to deny charges made in the Christian Scientist by Martin Joyous nished to the Hartford newspapers were in brief as follows: We charge that J. Wesley Hill has an infamous reputation and record covering his entire ministerial history" 1 Hill lied in saying to certain per- Isons In Harrisburg, Pa. T am grad uate of the Boston School of Theo- 1ogy.'
 Hill lied in saying to various per- sons in Harrisburg that he had been invited by a committee to become the pastor of a certain Methodist church in Pittsburgh. Pa
 l Hill proved himself dishonest when he pretended to publish second edt- tien of the book called Alcoholism of the Twin Cities whereas the second
 
 he paimed off on advertisers as the neW., l ssHe was convicted of dishonesty all so in representing to one Leopold Heerwagen of Chicago that the board of trustees of the Ogden M. B. church | in Utah had authorized him to cons | tract for an organ for said church, | whereas the said trustees had. not So authorized him.
 Dr. Hill, the first speaker. drew from his pocket copy of the Christian Socialist, containing the article and after prefacing his thirty years con. nection with the Methodist church. said that in relation to the first charge ..I went to oBoston to attend the school, but soon after was invited to the min istry of a Methodist church near Bos- | ton. where I stayed until went to Ogden
 l Regarding specification shes said .'T am sorry that Christopher Columbus Hogan did not find out exactly what church this was to which said I had been called"
 l To a charge that he had committed | perjury in court sin testifying in court that money Borrowed by him from Miss Alice G. Rogers was ob- tained not for his personal use, but for his church officials, g, he said, CT
 cannot be guilty of perjury. for did not attend the tria1.''
 l Stating that he had built a $75 900 church in Ogden, Utah, and won the first victory over the Mormons, Dr. HiH stated that he had ever since
 been bounded by them and that re-
 gently the Socialists had begun the
 same bounding process. | When he came to the 'tMethodism of the Twin Cities charge he waved a paper before the audience which he said was a deposition clearing him of all blame in the publication and sas- tserting that when he discovered a fraud was being perpetrated he took the business away from the agent who had charge of the advertising.
 He then denied the other allegations that had been made against his chat
 acter.
 Rev. MT. Hogan then took the stage and read many court documents, let case, after which he was followed by Dr. Hill in rebuttal.
 l At the conclusion of the meeting and just before the personal encounter 1 was staged Hill said:
 t'Now you,'' turning savage1y on Mir. Connolly and Rev. MT. Hogan, "I didn't come here for a par1or lecture
 or a platform debate, but to get you and stop your lying once and for all. If you have given out anything to the Hartford press enbodying these charges against me, I'll swear out a
 warrant for you in the morning. I'll see you behind the jail bars, I'll get Sn indictment. and we will have the | thing out in your criminal courts here.
 At least.'' he said, eff you are still in town tomorrow morning.
 l Dr. Hill will be remembered here where he has spoken several times, once under the auspices of the Man. tufacturers' association.