clark shoved alead pistol into josephys chest. joseph pressed charges and every many adjourn. s clark found himself in jail until he could pay a 40 shilling fine. william clark's marriage was more than family scandal. it became political fodder for boston sons of liberty. in fact, the story of joseph laysen be fines character in his daughter's bed was reported in newspapers sympathetic to he liberty party. the press usually replaced many person names in stories with dashes but bostonnans obviously knew something of the clark story before it was printed, when the shopkeeper read the account in the boston evening post, he canceled the annotated the article recording that the young woman in question was mary now and her grandfather was mr. lazenby. the originals are here. ... the ultimate blame for this, the article concluded, was fallen as imperial officials who have been in the public and private distress. the old man stumbling in on his favorite granddaughter was only to process to the primary protest. the quartering of a standing army in times of peace. the author argued that