Early 20th Century Anarchy: Jacob

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1914.04.08: Small Blurb Regarding Jane Est From Beginning of April 2014

April 8, 1914

Cedar Rapids Gazette

"I'd like to see him kiss me!" said Jane Est at the trial of Dr. Jacob Price, the New York pastor charged with undue familiarity with members of his flock. No doubt you would, Jane. So would lots of other women.

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1914.04.07: "LET ME IN" SAYS WOMAN

April 7, 1914

"LET ME IN" SAYS WOMAN

JANE EST, I. W. W. LEADER, CREATES CONSTERNATION AT PREACHER'S HEARING

CASE MUST BE AIRED

Two Women Witnesses Testifying Against Pastor Faint While on Stand

NEW YORK, April 5.—Jane Est heretofore identified with movements of the Industrial Workers of the World created consternation at the Metropolitan Temple today by trying to force her way into the trial of Dr. Jacob S. Price, pastor of the Washington Heights Methodist Episcopal Church, charged with misconduct by nine women members of his congregation.

At the door she was confirmed by Dr. Frank J. Belcher, pastor of the Five Points Mission, acting as attorney for the defendant.

'Let me in!" she shouted in tones which immediately drew a large crowd. 'This is not a private trial; ecclesiasticism itself is on trial. Ecclesiastism has always whitewashed the church whenever charges are made against pastors. These trials ought to be held out in the open where people can hear them: There is a great deal of talk about shielding the pastor.

'I want to see Dr. Price," she continued. "I'd like to see him try to kiss me?'

The pastor of the temple. Rev. George W. Downs, tailing in an effort to keep the woman quiet, called in
policeman, who escorted her from the place and warned her to stay out.

Mrs. Hilma Dohl, whose testimony was excluded at the trial of Mr. Price yesterday, since her charge was not included in the general complaint, was allowed to take the stand. She said she had been improperly approached by Dr. Price and that she had subsequently received visits from two persons who tried with threats and intimidation to prevent her from testifying.

Mrs. Dohl collapsed while describing a scene at the parsonage, when she said Dr. Price drew her to a lounge
and hugged her.

Rather than relate humiliating fronts she alleged she suffered at the hands of Dr. Price while she was in
his congregation, Mrs Lillian Miller, now of Baltimore, refuses to testify, and then fainted in the witness chair.

When the prosecution closed Dr. Price took the stand in his own behalf, entering a general denial of all
accusations. Several members of his congregation were called as character witnesses by the defense.

1914.04.06: I.W.W. WOMAN RAISES RUMPUS

April 6, 1914

I.W.W. WOMAN RAISES RUMPUS

Forces Way Into Trial of Pastor Who Is Charged With Misconduct

NEW YORK. April 5—Jane Est, heretofore identified with movements of the Industrial Workers of the
World, created consternation at the Metropolitan temple yesterday trying to force her way into the trial of Dr.
Jacob R Price, pastor of the Washington Heights Methodist Episcopal church, who is charged with misconduct by nine women members of his congregation.

At the door she was confronted by Dr Frank J Belcher, pastor of the Five Points mission, acting as attorney for the defendant.

"Let me in," she shouted in tones which immediately drew a large crowd. "This is not a private trial. Ecclesiasticism itself is on trial. Ecclesiasticism has always whitewashed the church whenever charges are made against pastors. These trials ought to be held out in the open where people can hear them. There is a great deal of talk about shielding the pastor.

"I want to see Dr. Price. I'd like to see him try to kiss me!"

It has been charged that Dr. Price, among other things, tried to kiss a woman member of his congregation.

Followed by the crowd, the woman succeeded in pushing her way into the temple, but could get no further that the witness room. Here she described herself as a "church cleaner."

During the I. W. W raids on New York churches recently, Jane Est was a prominent speaker. She compared the movement to the French revolution.

Mrs Hilma Dohl, whose testimony was excluded yesterday since her charge was not included in the general complaint, was allowed to take the stand. She said she had been improperly approached by Dr. Price and that she had subsequently received visits from two persons who tried with threats and intimidation to prevent her from testifying.

She had decided, she said, not to press the charges on account of her children, but on opening the bible for inspiration her finger fell on a verse which seemed to urge her action.

1914.04.04: WOMEN FAINTED

April 4, 1914

WOMEN FAINTED

When Forced to Tell of Affronts by Rev. Dr. Price.

NEW YORK, April 4,—The fainting of two women witnesses and calling out of the police reserves to suppress Miss Jane Est, an I. W. W. orator, who grasped the occasion to denounce church trials this afternoon, threw the trial of Rev. Dr. Jacob B. Price, charged with kissing and embracing women of his congregation, into a wild uproar.

Mrs. Lillian Miller, formerly a member of Dr. Price's Washington Heights church, but who now lives in Baltimore, fainted as she left the stand. She had been subjected to a grilling examination in a vain effort to get her to tell details of an alleged affront by Dr. Price.

Mrs. Hilma Dohl also fainted as she declared Dr. Price, while she was visiting him in his parsonage, hugged her and pushed her onto a lounge in his studio.

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