CURIOUS INCIDENTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 7 November 1927, Page 5

CURIOUS INCIDENTS

TWO VERSIONS ADVENTURE OF A PASTOR. FOUND IN A PADDOCK. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 10.31) a.m. to-day. MELBOURNE, Nov. 7. The police are investigating a remarkable story told by Fas tor Evan Thomas, "Welsh evangelist and faithnealer, belonging to the Pentecostal church at Ricnmond, and who has recently been holding meetings at Warragul. Thomas states that three men ac«»ted him in the main street of "Warragnl stnd asked him if he were a faith-healer. On receiving the affirmative reply they told him that a woman was seriously ill at Nilina and requested him to go and see her. Thomas joined them in a car. Just after passing Nilma, he declares, he received a heavy blow on the head, and remembered no more till he recovered consciousness in a paddock. He had Ins clothes on then, hut apparently he again lapsed into unconsciousness, for when he again became conscious he .ound that he had been stripped of his clotmng. Another version of the story says that a passing motoring party found Thomas in a paddock stripped, blindfolded, covered with tar, and hands hound with barbed wire, which had cut into the flesh. They brought him into Warragul.