GAOL FOR CURATE
CHARGE OF SHOPLIFTING INCIDENT AT LEEDS LONDON, May 17. For a theft committed on Saturday a curate who preached two sermons next day was sentenced on Monday to six weeks’ imprisonment. He is the Rev. Benjamin Beckworth, aged 38, curate at Christ Church, Leeds. The charge was that he stole a hat priced at 4s 9d. The stores supervisor said that Beckworth entered the shop on Saturday, took off a black Trilby hat and tried on several new ones. He folded up his own hat, placed it in his mackintosh pocket, put on the one he had selected and walked ° U When he was stopped, he said: “ That’s right. Let me pay for it. It was stated that Beckworth had undergone two serious operations His vicar said that the Bishop of Ripon must decide what action should be taken. He, personally, was willing to retain Beckworth. Parishioners say that the curate was so popular that he was considered as the probable successor to the vicar, who is to leave shortly.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23511, 27 May 1938, Page 10
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173GAOL FOR CURATE Otago Daily Times, Issue 23511, 27 May 1938, Page 10
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