PARSON STRAYS
ELOPES WITH YOUNG GIRL,
SCANDAL IN AMERICA
MY OABT.E— PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT
(Received Sept. 29, 11.20 a.m ) ™ N T EW YORK, Sept. 28. lhe Rev. Joseph Yates, of Oklahoma, in a farewell note to his congregation, informed them that he had eloped with a foiuteen-year-old memthe church choir. He added th?it w*fen a clergyman strayed from the straight and narrow path the publicity given him created more feeling tpan if the average person .strayed Yates recently, divorced his wife, naming another clergyman, the Rev. Bertram Miller as co-respondent. Miller committed suicide. lii his note of farewell, Yates said he also contemplated. suicide, but did not wish to put an extra stain on the cloth. Following on so much publicity recently in the case of the Rev. Lawrence Hight-, of Mount Yernon, Illinois, who fell in love with a member of his congregation, it is alleged that Hight poisoned his wife and his lover poisoned her husband. Both are now in the same gaol as a result of Hight’s complete confession.— Syd ney Sun Cables. :
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HAWST19240929.2.25
Bibliographic details
Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 September 1924, Page 5
Word Count
175PARSON STRAYS Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 September 1924, Page 5
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hawera Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in