PRIEST AND JUDGE.
DIFFERENCE IN COURT. SYDNEY, April 20. A parish priest, Father O'Gonnan, Caused a scene in the West Maitland Circuit Court yesterday He took exception to the remarks of Mr. Justice James, who liad said he often wondered whether skilled medical men should not be permitted to perform a certain operation. At the present time men who caused girls' disgrace generally escaped scot free, whereas the girls were faced with shame.
Father O'Gorman rose in the Court and Indignantly exclaimed: I publicly protest in the name of this town against your remarks. It is outrageous. It is the of thing that is done in the slums of Turkey. Mr. Justice James replied courteously: I merely expressed niy opinion, and you, as a minister of religion, must have woni to °* Father O'Gorman, without nrther a«?oo, left the Court*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19931, 27 April 1928, Page 12
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