THE EX-NUN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15318, 14 September 1920, Page 5

THE EX-NUN.

/i V SYDNEY, Sipt;i3; Joseph Partridge, brothei* oi the exntth Sister Ligpuri, , m a , statement to I the. press, decl&i'ejs that after several intei^ie\V9.\vith/|iis'sister at the house of I Mi* Bartoii,/ of the Orange Lodge, wliere .she was staying, he arranged with, her :to leave, but whem he went to remove her his demand to allow h<ii to-'sujCbhipany him nvas refused. V Sir Bartbii replies that Miss Partridge ia.ill as 'the, tffcsult of interviews -tfith he/t brother. The doctor; ordered mo .one , tdi see- -.€-*.- ,§h|>.also desired not to see |him and determination iiot Ito go with hihi .apiywhere,— U'.P.A.C&OtoB STS-R^Nfr ASSERTIONS. i__:e SyEftiey Sun bf August 28 contains ( the following:-^; V-" ', '■" - I In a statement which lie made tojday concerriihg Miss Partridge^-who, .ps Sister Ligouri, escaped from-^he Wagga CohIvertt, and wttS/fiubs^qUehtly arrested bii a charge -of lunacy, Mr C. H. Stocker, Grand Secretary of the t«oya>. Orange Institutibu of New South Wales, declared that as* "thole who .were persecuting Miss < Pirtfidge had -traced her to the place ! where she -Mt&si ; resting, it had been de- ' ci&ed to make her movements public." JSlt'. Stbckot' faade some startling assertions. ".When /she, left the court at the Reception #6use, after being declared sane," he-., said' "Miss Partridge, went to the r-sidende tit Burwood of Mr. R. E. Barton, the/Grand Master of the Loyal .Orange - iiodge.: She remained : there four j days. . Thejtt -she went ,to the resiIrtfioce of- $-I*.,- T- Newirip, at^ West- ' miry, "hear -Bfei-ry, on f tho:-_quthi G >ast. She wasVac<?onijianied' there; by Mr Barton ahd hia ; mar/ried daughter, and - the . three of them haVe lbeen theresiride. Mr Bar-, ten telephonei'to me -this- morning to the effect that ; tlie party had been ; spied upon aftd aimb'yed since their; arrival at Bie/rry. ,He ifcjd that .for the past-three - nlghtii the 4<ju_e ' had been surrounded.* 1 This moriiing at an early hour Mr Barton . and. those with 'him discovered a party of j spies iii a fehlly within 100 yardSyOf the i house. They, were armed with* rifles. Mr ! -Jartoh: also Informed me that it was ; generally v believed m - the ' Berry district i that there waa a- reward of £100 /offered for the girK^ad or alive. He added „ i 'Beeiri|: Ithat' these people- have gone to ; Biich extreme Measures everything will be now; told *toY thb public.' Mr Barton will rotuni to! Sy;dtieyiin a few days?"; weht'on j M"i- Stocker,/ "j^hen he .will piske^ s - full ! statement of everything that bai transspired, and will', then announce the future action tb he/tJiken by the L "O.L. I : also nad a communication from Wagga' this . ihbrnliig," Hdded Mr Stocker, "thatvfeelihg th.re over: the treatment of " the girl Was running so high that unless the : ofy ; , M}ss -Partridge' wasYdisi oohtihtiiedi the returned /soldiers of the , j district .*: arid 'their Protestant friends I I u*6utfl Wreck the Roman Catholic Convent '. ift- Wagga */Y-Y. ■■■-, y V ;;•■" -