AN UNPOPULAR PRIEST.
RIOT AT CHURCH DOOR’.
[FEB PREBB ASBOOIATTON—OOPYBIGHT.] .< New York, Feb. Ifl. In a riot at Southbend, * Indiana, seven were seriously : injured * and/ nearly a hundred, hurt when five policemen tried, to aid the sheriffto carry out the order of Judge Tint that the Rev. Stanislaus Grtiza should be placed, in charge of St. Casimus Polish Roman < Cathofic' Church. ■ . \ A mob of' 200 men and women, after fighting for two hours, ed the efforts of Father . Gruzfi: ,'to possess, the church, The. fire, department was called' out to help the police, but without avail, the inohy threatening to cut the Lose. Father Gruza' was appointed to the church a yeaf ago,' 'but the people and asked-the bishop for another priest. The -requeat was refused. The ease..was takeq <to court and the judge ordered that Father Gruza should have, possession. .
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 357, 17 February 1914, Page 5
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141AN UNPOPULAR PRIEST. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 357, 17 February 1914, Page 5
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