A CLERGYMAN'S TRUST.
JUDGE NO RESPECTER OF CREEDS. (BY TELEGRArH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPVrtUjUIT.) Melbourne, March 17. In, ordering the releaso of tho Rev. P. Murdoch, clerk to the South Melbourne Presbytery—who was committed to prison for contempt of Court in refusing to produco a copy of a letter sent by tbo Presbytery to tho defendant in a legal action, and who was subsequently authorised by tho Presbytery to produco the letter—Mr. Justice Hodges said ho was 110 respecter of creeds; all were the same before the law. However, ho had profound respect for the Presbyterian Church, but it had been reserved for that body to set an example to less educated and poorer men of tho community in. endeavouring to defy the law and defeat justice. If, added the Judge, tho Presbytery had como before tho Court in tho same attitude, they might have been lodged in gaol with Mr. Murdoch.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 459, 18 March 1909, Page 5
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149A CLERGYMAN'S TRUST. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 459, 18 March 1909, Page 5
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