RECTOR ACCUSED
STEALING FROM. PLATE. (Australian and N.’Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, June 24. 'lhe Reverend Barton, the octogenarian rector of Harbledon, who has already been committed for trial on a charge of wilfully damaging a monument in the churchyard was committed for trial -at the Kent assizes on a, charge of fraudulently converting to Ins own use a hall-crown from the church cd!lection. It was staled in evidence that only three persons including Lady Katherine -Hardy, attended an early communion service, -and contributed a ten shilling note, five shillings and threepence respectively. The rectoi eave the churchwarden only 12/9. " Barton said that -he transferred the money from one .collecting bag to another which lie took home and counted after breakfast. He suggested that Lady Hardy was mistaken in isaying she ga-vq live shillings. Sue could only have given half-a-crown. 1 would not take. ten .thousand pounds to jeopardise my character.” he declared.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 June 1923, Page 3
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