ATTACKS ON FATHER GAPON
A message horn St. Petersburg on March 26 states that Father Gapon, in a frank, open letter, has replied to the attacks on bis public and prhate life, announcing that he has instructed his lawyer, Margolin to bring an action for defamation of character against his detractors. He denies a charge of betraying and abandoning a girl while he was a prison chaplain. Father Gapon explains that, refusing to follow the rule of the orthodox Church prohibiting the remarriage of priests, which he declares drives the_ clergy to secret immorality, he took as his wife a girl whom he loved, and that she is still living with him. Regarding the charge of gambung at Monte Carlo with " mysterious money," Father Gapon says : " During tho blocdy uprising at Moscow I reserved money for literary work, and while abroad, out of simple curiogitj, I played for small gtafcg3.
A review of my connection with the workmen's movement will prove that I never was an agent of the Government, and that I laboured solely in the in,fcsrcsts of tho workmen."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2719, 25 April 1906, Page 14
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