SENSATION IN CHURCH
NAKED MAN APPEARS. ESCAPEE 1 FROM SICK ROOM. Preta Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, July 7. (Received July 7, at 8.5 p.rn.) There vrns an astounding scone at a Baptist chapel at Luton. The minister had just left the pulpit when the amazed congregation saAV a man stark naked and his hands dripping with blood rush into the church', dash up tin; puljiit stairs and begin an oration from the rostrum. The scandalised parson, backed by several other men, made a dash at the intruder, who made a frenzied struggle for several minutes before he could bo carried into the vestry. Ho was found to be a well-to-do tradesman, and a highly religious man, who had been ill for some days. Escaping Iroin the sickroom and smashing the glass panels of the. front, door, he tore oil his clothes in the street and then ran into the well-filled streets towards the church. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19218, 8 July 1924, Page 7
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