Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-09-13 | Page 4 | Militia Called out to Prevent Trouble

MILITIA CALLED OUT TO PREVENT TROUBLE: Mayor of New Lexington, Ohio, Feared Assault Would Be Made on Mali Who Attacked Church. NEW LEXINGTON, O., Sept. 12. Mayor G tie called out the local coin-pauy coin-pauy of state- militia here tonight -to prevent a threatened assault on Jeremiah Jere-miah Crowley by citizens who were incensed in-censed overan attack made on tho Catholic church by Crowley in speeches delivered Wednesday and Thursday nights. Crowley, who is being held at police headquarters under guard, claims thai, he is a former priest and says his homo is in Pennsylvania. Crowd's which collected col-lected on tho streets today became to threatening that Mayor Guc telegraphed Governor Cox for troops. Ticeciving no reply to his message and fearing trouble trou-ble tonight, the mayor called out the local militia and ordered all places of, business closed. The subject of Crowley's speeches was "Jtomanism. " J-fo called his discourse dis-course an exposure of the Catholic church.