VICAR FOUND GUILTY.
! CHARGES OF MISCONDUCT. By Telegraph. — Pres,s Association. — CopyrigUS, (Received February 25, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, 24th February. The Consistory Court found the Rev, John Lax, vicar of Stainmore, in Westmoreland, guilty of misconduct. [A scandal was caused in September, 1909, when it became known that Mr. Lax and his schoolmistress had been waylaid by a band of masked men. The vicar was bound, gagged, and tarred, and a mock service was read over him. Subsequently eight young parishioners wero arrested, convicted of the offence, and fined £5 each. The cross-examination of witnesses suggested that the vicar, _ a married man, had been guilty of misconduct.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 47, 25 February 1911, Page 5
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106VICAR FOUND GUILTY. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 47, 25 February 1911, Page 5
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