A RELIGIOUS CRANK
(Received 24th October, 10 a.m;) ' LONDON, 23rd Octpbsr. Curious revelations of retigioua mania were made in the Divorce Court, when Mrs. Kirke, of Ascot, petitioned for a judicial separation. In hor evidence she said her husband had joined tho Pentecostal', sect.- Her home life was disturbed by baptisms in the bathroom; girls fell into trances in . the drawing- I room, where they had visions from Heaven; and finally her nurse-girl, Martha M Carthy, came under Kirke's influT°; Vu e girl and Kirko wcr<> closeted together every evening. Kirke said tho gl rl was helping him in his religious work When her husband left home with the girl ho asked his wife to come to a new house, on condition wrote e"H^ "M, tha **?***■ Kirko wrote. Had'you been less offensivo !*/»" ro*dy to believe that God's ut\t I ?"' • vhßt t . lt says> »«■ might at east be keeping house together. Martha ! ud "a? 6 3a0 V"'g 2 Sm°Oth timo- 'Sh° i« j ? n,ot left y°u I should have passed to a better world before this '• The Judge granted a decree.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 100, 24 October 1924, Page 7
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180A RELIGIOUS CRANK Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 100, 24 October 1924, Page 7
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