this is a provocative gesture and it resulted in benjamin austen planning to send somebody to settle the score with suffrage. so selfridge armed himself with a pistol because he was described as being weak and infirm. he said to one acquaintance that he would not sit for bullying or -- but he was prepared to defend himself. that afternoon on august 4, he was walking towards the public exchange on state street where he encountered austen's 18-year-old son charles austin. he was a steady athletic young man.a harvard student and at that moment he was rapidly approaching selfridge with a cane in his upraised hands. witnesses disagree who made the first assault but the end result was that selfridge fired killing austin and selfridge was taken into police custody in the rain for manslaughter. at the end of the legal battle, this case goes on for quite a while. it receives a lot of sort of popular interest. and especially because it was political, because it was between these warring parties. it did receive a lot of press. also, paul revealed was on the jury which i find fascinating as well