ASSAULT HOAX.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19155, 11 November 1927, Page 8

ASSAULT HOAX.

CONFESSION BY PAW* HEALER. AN AMAZING STORT-Y^ (kVBTBIUUt AND *•«■ CA " M * ' . (Received November 10th, 9.66?*')' MELBOURNE, November'mr Pastor Thomas visited jMgj statioA at WarragUl art statement . that bs •*«*«£»* tarred and -bound was a f S t SBC He said that, he himself in the hope that. WJU& the Pentecostal faith *%JgfigF h interfering with his fjjjgkq would be blamed sympathy, among his conwrp S^nfession, has caused *gf J tion in local religious *»**'EB . Thomas, who is a joung large following.. Being i preacher, he gained ™«l«™* .^ Thomas was later offensive behaviour and «< w" 1 " 0 untU Tuesday next. hi In his statement tame to. Australia as » JJg} tefcn grant nine months ago ana »«♦ fr, up preaching. Wlima nl bVßeftf When he went to that certain elders Church intended to^ounc^ in order to avoid one of.JJf he V» a walk along a wad, wh*g tin of pitch. He then■ OTg, ad stripped himself of spread pitch over his body. » found a coil of *»/ which he bound his hands wn , Mn earlier cable that the police were Jffgjfftmi remarkable story told ftjfe Thomas, a Welsh an # P Ste£sL healer, belonging to> ttajgtflA, Church. Richmond who been hold ng meeting *** Thomas stated that three him in the main .•**•"** * tf£ and asked him if J» healer. On receiving an g reply they requested nim heavy blow on the headL^ on d W* recovered consciousness »«io self stripped of his clothing » in a naddock.l