The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1916-08-05

him, half llteless, 10 the home OF
one Daniel Crowley. a KNIGHT
OF COLUMBUS, the city judge.
There the minister attempted 10 OBJ
tain the names and identity Of his
assailants but he was promptly told
TO shut up and informed that he
would GET, "the limit" in the morn
ing, besides threats we're made that
he would be hung. The judge, us
ing Agnes Griffin. one Of the as
sailants, framed = complaint charg-
ing the reverend:
"ITtih rendering himself q disordsriv
person. ~ thdt Ne trds duink, iatoriodfed
and disorderly " a pubic place ~ ths
CITY Of Ithaca, AVID by riofouS dnd furtut-
tuous ooHducf thsre,a, IN proUling, tres
passing Ground dEpoaeais hons aAd
that she fdW him come upoa the porch
Of her rcsSdsncs after stopping and look
inG 10 see " anyone uds observiH0."
This charge deprived the accused
Of trial by jury and gave the city
judge exclusive jurisdiction. Agnes
neither read nor heard the COM
plant, but signed il aud swore ty
the Blessed Virgin and a host Of
saints that Il was true (the Roman
Catholic brand Of truth).
Then the Roman Catholic Judge,
with his brethren surrounding,
made the poor minister. bearing his
cross of wounded and bleeding
flesh, trudge painfully on foot 20
the police station nearly a mile
away, still threatening him with
death by hanging. and threw him
into a prison cell like a dog to await
the threatened "limit."
On the road to the police station,
the judge, fully dressed at $3.50
A. NJ probably suspecting more
church literature was being distrib-
uted, uHlaUfuiiy stopped tWo other
citi:cHS, searched one, and threat
cRed both Wiih the terror Of his Ro-
man Catholic court. But when
some Of them awoke to the fact that
they had brutally beaten q minister
of the Gospel Of Christ, rho WGs
simply distributing his church 1T
erdture early in the morniHg-bs-
cause Il Rad rOiHed The night be-
fore-AND THAT HE HAD
BACKING, they commenced to
crawfsh. The Roman Catholic
clerk Of the city court at first re-
fused TO let the complaint, filed tgo
days before, be inspected. When 70
,rGS demanded, although fled and a
part Of the record. the Judge irsV
his pen through the part Uhick
charged "druHkeneSS" aud intozioo-
tion."
The minister, like many Of those
working for the salvation Of man.
kind, was poor in worldly goods.
He has a little charge in Elmirs,
forty miles away. and another in
Ithaca, and by working at other
labor in the DAYTIME he ekes out a
meager living for his family con-
sistiug Of faithful wife and three
beautiful babes.
The Guardians Of Liberty, though
not directly interested or concerned
in the minister's affairs, recognized
this infamous outrage as q deadly
assault on one Of the very corner
stones Of our constitutional democ-
racy, and in the name Of free gov
ernment and human rights, took up
the case and promptly furnished
bail.
Two Of the local papers sui
servient 10 the Roman Catholics
with the evident purpose Of preju-
dicing the minister's casa published
befors the trial, the false statement
to the effect that: he came betors
Agnes stoop at 21o Meadow Street
where she was sleeping, at about
2:30 A. NJ, made a noise which
frightened her, tried to escape, shs
CLING to him, demanding an eI-
planation. The noise awakened her
brother, Jim, who did some pum-
melting.
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