DEBTS OF BIBLE LECTURER

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 January 1938, Page 8

DEBTS OF BIBLE LECTURER

2,000 QUESTIONS PUT.

LONDON, November 13.

Questions were put, at the London Bankruptcy Court yesterday, to a man who stated that he was studying for the Church of England and hoped to be ordained. He had also stated that he was an authority on the interpretation of the Scriptures, and had lectured on theology and Biblical MSS. The debtor, Mi- Haim Hillel Nathanson, a student, of Holmfield-court, Belsize-grove, Hampstead, who failed in January with liabilities of £778 and assets of £35, attended his adjourned public examination. When it was pointed out that certain literature in his rooms was stated to be of a doubtful and sexual nature, Mr Nathanson said that the publications were in fact proper subjects for the study of theology. “My spiritual teachers have never considered them bad,” he added’. The Official Receiver, Mr S. W. Hood, said the case was one where the liabilities had gradually increased. To-day they stood at £ 1.500“Practically the whole of that money has been obtained by this debtor, and spent on himself,” said Mr Hood. “Over 2,000 questions have been asked in this examination, and not one word' of regret or remorse has bo expressed for his conduct. He has lied consistently.

“1 submit tliis is a bad case of a brazen character.”

Mr Registrar Parton remarked that he was satisfied that on the two previous examinations Mr Nathanson had lied and endeavoured to deceive the Court.

The examination was adjourned indefinitely.