MANAWATU EVENING STANDARD AND POHANGINA GAZETTE. Circulation, 2,800 Copies Daily SATURDAY, SEPT. 13, 1902. A FRAUD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7398, 13 September 1902, Page 2

MANAWATU EVENING STANDARD AND POHANGINA GAZETTE. Circulation, 2,800 Copies Daily SATURDAY, SEPT. 13, 1902. A FRAUD.

It is really as'onishing the number ot dupes that have fallen into the clover net spread by A. B. Worthington, so notorious at Christchurch some years ago as the head and shining light of tbe Temple of Truth, but at the same time it is not susprising that his victims have been of the wcakorsex, as ho is evidently both too cunning and cowardiy to practice his hai.d on sterner mat rial. The press have from time to limtwarned people against the wiles of the Apoßtle, as be dubs himself, tut alas nil in vain. To escape tha penalties of the frauds ho commits wherever ho guos he n-pentodly i-hifts his quariers, and has now become a much travelled individual. Tt is eleven years since be landed in Chriatchurch from America, and established the Templo of Truth thero. After running that institution for three years, ho was exposed by a Canterbury paper, who branded him as a rascal of iho deepest dye—a gaol bird, forger, bigamist, and robber of women. But duspite this broad hint, it took Borne time to clear such an undesirable personage out of the Cathedral City. Then 1)6 turned his attention to Austialia, Melbourne being his first field of labori and he afterwards removed to Sydney, »nd is at present awaiting bin trial for defrauding a lady of a considerable sum of money. Then is no gainsaying tho fact that Worthington is a plausible veouudrcl, and that with the aid of his porauasiyo powers be finds no difficulty in raising substantial sums of monoy from ibe trusting mombeia of his fljclt, aud wo have no doubt that as soon as he emerges from his present trouble he wil 1 continue the same evil course. It seems a pity that a man of Worthing" ton's talents did not placo his energ\ and influence in a better channel. If his brains had bee n utilised for the spiritual bonc-fitof those he had gathered about bim instead of as a prelude to robbery he would' have made his namo famous in the cause of religion.