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refused and called "you dirty swab" . Schaw merely laughed. Soon after
a padlock was put on the door and memb ers locked out of their own
library.
The small township seethed with indignation . The following
day J October 9, Hall and Garrett forwarded to Franklin documents
containing a full description of what happened together with the minutes
of the last meeting . However , they were advised on October 19 that he
could not interfere, as the matter was not connected with Government . 29
Hall and Garrett had to be content with publication of the documents in
the Colonial Times for the Public to make its own judgment . 3 0 Presumab ly ,
however, Franklin felt that the Bothwellans had suffered enough under
Schaw 's unpredictable jurisdiction . On November 2, 1841 , the Colonial
Times announced that he had been removed to Richmond . Now anxious to
obtain repossession of its books and other apparatus , valued at five
hundred pounds , the Committee approached Franklin a second time on
November 26 to ask for authority to re-enter the locked room . This was
granted on December 3.3 1 After almost two months without books , the
library reopened to the fublic in a different building .
By early December social life was almost back . to normal though
there were some residents who thought that the events of the last few
months had taken their toll and life would never be the same again ,
especially as Garrett had decided to leave the district. · A man of an
amiable and peaceful disposition and one who had worked hard for many
years to foster the community's improvement and welfare , he was loved
and respected by all. Now, distressed by the bickering between the two
sects using St . Luke 's and the events of the past few months , he decided
to seek a new area for his ministry . Moreover , although Schaw had
gone , Wigmore created a prob lem which Hall and his friends , the two
Hornes (father and son) , especially found tiresome . Indeed, all three
were compelled by his attemp ts to slander them in the press to take out
actions for libel in the Supreme Court . These were to be heard in March
1842.
Wigmore 's attempts to discredit Hall were particularly nasty
and detrimental to his position as District Assistant Surgeon . Though
there is no evidence to show whether Hall was innocent or gui lty in the
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