The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-28
IN RUM.
WAR REVIEWS
HISTORY
Or. Marsh Lauds Times for
Reports on Middleburg
Reign Of Terror.
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president, hired q detective to get
at the bottom Of the matter. He
turned mp nothing, and we had dif-
lftculty raising the $278, which was
paid him. Deputy Sheriff J.. ID.
Lambert, jr., who was killed while
raiding still at Belmont, near Lees.
burg, last October, put up the money
until the league could gather It to-
gether. II able to do SO, ] would
hire q dozen detectives to get evil
dence on those responsible for ter.
rOrizing this community, setting
fire to my dwelling and garage, try
ing to take my life by bullets and
sending candy containing poison,
through the mails, to my residence.
II have suggested to the authori-
ties OF this county that blood
hounds could trace the criminals
easily enough. Especially would
that have been simple enough the
night the attack was made on me
from ambush, but thus far the au-
thorities have not seen fit to use
Them" Asked IL he had heard the
rumorS that It was an irate hus-
band, and not q bootlegger who shot
at him the night in question,
Marsh replied:
Quixzed at Funeral
"Yes. Except that my informa.
ton mentioned husbands not 'hus-
band, And with respectA to this
accusation, i can only say that it
differs very materially from one d.
rect charge made to me about how
bullets that night in December,
1922, when. returning from a call on
a sick parishioner, was attacked
from ambush.
Several daHs after this hap.
pened. was one Of two clergymen
conducting funeral service at
Aide, where one of my charges Is
located. Az the casket was being
placed In the hearse. a man drove
furiously mp, and, rushing to where
stood, exclaimed excitedIy: Mr..
Marsh, haven't you been reading
"Gulliver's Travels?"
No, ] replied, but IL I had.
this is not the time or place to dis.
cuss such matter
When he said more loudly, But
isn't 1t fact, parson, that you hung
your coat on a hickory limb and
shot at 1T? said, NO, / refuse
to talk with you further Then /
turned and walked away.
House Was Raided.
The citizen who publicly made
this accusation and later Dragged
&C Leesburg, Of having made II, is
In business at that county seat.
The home OF this man was raided
that particular morning. The Law
enforcement League Of Loudoun,
working side by side with State OF.
1icials, had secured a search war.
rant to investigate this mans prem
lses.
mo liquor was found in his
home, but In q house Of one Of his
tenants still, mash and other out
ut were discovered. The tenant
was convicted. fined and sentenced
70 one month In Jail, but Jail SEN
tence was suspended on account of
the illness Of his wife.
From time to time this tale of
my having shot at my own coat
supposedly to gain notoriety, sym.
pathy or to malign the bootlegRers)
has been repeated and again re-
peated. Brother Masons have urged
me to have the carrier of this story
prosecuted for defamation Of char
acter or SANDER but a minister
preaching of forgiveness, on sun
day, and prosecuting a man for
personal attack, on Monday, does
not appeal to me.
Saved by Providence.
cit Is scarcely to be supposed
that sent poisoned candy to my
self and then rislxed leaving home
at the very time 1t reached there.
As 1t was, was at Aide when the
package came into my house. Not
only I, but my wife and her mother
ate from the box" 1t was the
work Of all.seeing Providence that
we ate only from the upper layer,
before we became suspicious, the
poisoned pieces being in the under
layers.
"As to the interview recently pub
Ttished In morning Washington
paper. want emphatcally to say
that never sought an interview
with this or any other reporter.
II did not mae the charge that
persons prominent in social and
sporting circles Of the county were
the greatest menace to the law
and order Of the community
IT made the charge, printed in
that in my opinion the rich People
and the sporting people, as a class,
were more responsible for lawless.
ness In this part Of the county than
any other class. I do not mean by
that that they, have had anything
to do with the attacks on me or
with the threatening letters sent
out. But do believe some Of them
encourage poor people o break the
laws when they keep huor and
have 1t at their dances and parties
and come into the town drunk.
Uphold Lawlessness.
IT mean that they uphold law
lessness when they buy bootleg or
other outlaw liquor; that they en-
courage boOtleggars and lawbreak-
ers by going bail for them when
they get nto trouble. The rich, and
sporting classes everywhere, encour-
age the poor and ignorant to vto-
late laws against gambling, by
gambling in their own houses, ana
discredit the sacredness OF mar
riage BY playing fast and loose
with marriage vows.
"As to the charge made by Mr..
Belmont that was trying to gain
nationally known nams.I just want
to say that when I get ready to
do SO. I win not make use Of
his name.
plumbers of people in this
county were dissatisfied with the
way the law was enforced. We
have simply set about 1t, In law
full way, through the Law Enforce
ment League, to see IL we cannot
remedy matters. The work has