CHINESE ATROCITY
BANDITS MURDER PRIEST. Shanghai, Aug. 28. Details of the murder by Chinese bandits of Father Leonard, brother of Professor Leonard, of St. Patrick’s College, Manly, Sydney, show that he was attacked while he was celebrating Mass at Nanfeng, in the Kiangsi Province. The bandits rushed toward the altar, and when Father Leonard appealed to them to desist, they struck him down with rifle butts, and tore the vestments off his back.
When the priest was being led out of the city he knelt and prayed for his attackers.
Later Father Leonard was taken to an almost inaccessible mountain, and, it is thought, stabbed to death.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1929, Page 15
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