BAPTIST MINISTER IN TROUBLE.
A. prosecution presenting eingular aspects baa taken place at the Launcester Police Court. The Rev. Wm. White, pastor of the Baptist Church, was committed for trial for having, after solemnising a marriage, used a false certificate. The evidence showed that defendant' •joined in matrimony Russell Green and Edith Kennedy, on the 15th October last, and, aftfcr giving them a proper certificate, did, on the special entreaty of the female, give another one ante-dated August 15, 1839, this being done to enable the bride to show her father and avert suspicion, she believing herself to be pregnant. Both parties are Roman Catholics, and the accused avers that they offered him £15 for a bogus certificate, which he declined to accept, but he ultimately yielded to their importuning for two documents. The father of the female stated m Court that he was no party to the prosecution, which had been initiated by the police. Bail was readily offered for the accused, who has the sympathy of many friends in his indiscretion.
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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 288, 4 December 1889, Page 8
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