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Show WOMAN TRIES TO DISTURBCHURCH New York, April 1. Stylishly dressed dress-ed women in Dr. Parkhurst's Madison square Presbyterian church today saw the eviction and arrest of Jane Estes, an I. W. W. leader, when she sought to break up the services by denouncing the pastor and flaunting before the congregation an editorial he had written on the status of the unemployed. While the offering was being taken and soft music was vibrating through the edifice Jane Estes was taken by an usher to a seat directly over tho chancel in the south gallery. She had no sooner been placed there when she suddenly jumped up and, waving a newspaper before the astonished men and women bcBide her, began to attack Dr. Parkhurst. The services were being conducted at that time by the Rev. George R. Montgomery, assistant pastor. "I want to call this congregation's attention to an article in this paper," she cried, as she leaned over the balustrade wildly waving her armB to li.HLI II acentuate her screeches. "This church, has a minister who repudiated Christ," she said. "In today's to-day's article he says that Christ has nothing to do with conditions of the poor in New York. He doesn't know " The congregation by this time was aflutter with excitement. The new Easter bonnets were wildly bobbing about Everyone wanted to get a glimpse of the person "who dared interrupt in-terrupt the sacred proceedings. Ushers hurried through the aisles. The sexton, J. H. Tlbbits, was the first to reach the woman. "Aren't you ashamed of yourself?" he asked as he tried to quiet her and place her back in her seat. "Ashamed?" she cried at tho top of her voice, "i guess not. 1 have a perfect right " Just then the organ, played by Dr. Parkhurst's brother, Howard E. Parkhurst, Park-hurst, boomed forth strains that completely com-pletely engulfed the piercing tones of the agitator. Men and women left their seats. Some of the women near tried to talk to her, but defiantly she waved them aside, thrusting the paper in their faces. But the sexton had lost no time, lie darted out, told Policeman O'Connor O'Con-nor of the disturbance and soon had the officer as a companion in the work of removing the noise-maker. With the assistance of several "gentlemanly "gen-tlemanly ushers" they succeeded in obtaining a hold upon Jane and bore her almost bodily from the building, followed by about half the congregation. congrega-tion. Once in the street she set up howls of epithets at the church, the well-dressed well-dressed Easter church-goers, the police po-lice department, the newspapers, the country and everything that entered her head. Struggling, she was led to the station sta-tion house. There she stood before the desk, still grasping the newspaper newspa-per that had so aroused her indignation. indig-nation. "Where were all the reporters?" she asked Lieutenant Powers. "There wasn't a single one in church. This should really make a first page story, and now all I have done Is wasted." "What's your name?" the lieutenant demanded. She gave it, her age 35 and her residence "heaven." |