"MOST AWFUL HYPOCRISY."

Oxford Observer, Volume 1, Issue X, 19 October 1889, Page 6

"MOST AWFUL HYPOCRISY."

Recent proceedings near. home, on. -....; which we offer some [reflections m our, J editioral columns, give an additional, .;.< interest to the following story of -crime..;, cloaked under clericalism. f It, is not only at the Antipodes that the name of God has been found useful, to .conjure „ with when dollars have been wanted. , : " George Robert Lee, otherwise .theo •,•;-•: 'Rev. G. S. St. Clare Greenwood;,-' B.A.\ was brought., up -ibetpre uMb>; Vaughan, at Bow street Police ■, Court, v London, recently, charged with foiling . ,-... to report himself under the terms of his . „ ticket-ofleave. The prisoner appeared m the dock wearing a coat or clerical cut and a pair of 'cycling : knickerbockers. He also had a piecepf blue . ... ribbon m his button-hole., ; ;■.-, i. .: Sergeant Baker, of the,. Convict . Supervision Department, said . the^ . prisoner was convicted at Wolverliampton on February 18tfr, 1885, and sentenced to five years penal servitude, *■ for fraud; he had also suffered two terms of twelve months' imprisonment for larceny, and had also undergone : 336 days for deserting from the Army. : Since his last imprisonment, from' .. which he was released on license.* he. :•=■ had left his residence without reporting ...■. it to the police, : and was entirely lost .•■: sight of, until it was discovered he was :,.; officiating as .a clergyman m, Guernsey,,, t Police-Sergeant Arrow, of the Super-! ; ' vision Department, said he apprehended the prisoner on a warrant at Guernsey. He had started a bogus mission there, ;■. which -he termed '-'The Si. Luke's . Christian Mission to Cabmen, 'Bus