“RUINED”
PARSON’S PLEA IN COURT “AMOROUS UNCLE’’ LONDON, Nov. 25. “I humbly crave forgiveness for the disgraceful letter and the consequences of it, which have utterly ruined me, and, more grievous still, have ruined inv innocent wile and boys, two ot 1 whom have been taken from ( college. It was only a crime in thought, viotc the Rev. Eric Farrar, apologising to Miss Dorothy Sheppard for the letter lie wrote to her when she applied fur a post as companion. In it he said she would have to be prepared to meet an “amorous uncle,” who; might wish to take liberties. Farrar is 64. Miss Sheppard, cross-examined, said she was aware that Farrar was in broken health. Stic fogavo him in a Christian spirit. Counsel asked, “Do you wish that lie be further punished?” Miss Sheppard replied “Yes,” and the judge remarked, “A very proper answer.” Farrar, who was brought to court on a stretcher, owing to a leg fracture, was bound over and ordered to pay costs.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17125, 4 December 1929, Page 11
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