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- Description is exactly "(4) "An Amusing Case." . Note: This article reports that Prof. George Poole (who after the Civil War briefly ran a school for freedmen) had been arrested on charges of disturbing public worship; an unnamed elder at St. Mark had pressed charges after Prof. Poole, a member of the Church Springs ME Church (later St. Paul AME Church), interrupted his sermon to ask said elder to provide scriptural proof for an assertion he made regarding baptism. On being told to please be be quiet and sit down, Poole left the meeting, offended. He was vindicated when Mayor Neander H. Rice the following Monday in court found Poole not guilty. Two witnesses in Poole's case were Pony Irvine and Jack East; Irvine testified that he, too, liked to hear scriptural verses cited to back up a minister's point. When asked by the court which church he belonged to East replied "nary one"; in light of their testimony the Times editor (the publishers were WJ Wood and IS Barr) joked that Irvine must have been a "theologian" while East must have been a "helltonian." "
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