A SUICIDE’S BODY
NOT ALLOWED IN CHURCH. STRONG PROTEST RAISED. LONDON, April 3. A stir has been caused by the refusal of the vicar of Wivelsfield (Sussex) to permit the body of an ex-sev-vice man, named Cottingham, who had committed suicide, to be brought into the college church for a funeral sew vice. The .chairman of the local branch of the British Legion, Colonel Rust, declared that Cottingham was good enough to fight for his country, but not good enough to be taken into the ■church. The coroner, Dr. Hoare, described the vicar's action as unchristian, but Airs Hcnniker Gotloy, the vicar’s wife, said her husband had merely obeyed the law of the church.
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Northern Advocate, 7 April 1931, Page 6
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114A SUICIDE’S BODY Northern Advocate, 7 April 1931, Page 6
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