MINISTER AND A GIRL.
SENSATIONAL ELOPEMENT.
A FAREWELL NOTE. ANOTHER SIMILAR CASE. (Sun Cable.) NEW YORK, Sept. 28
The Reverend Joseph Yates, of Oklahoma, in a farewell note to his congregation, informed them he had eloped with a 14-year-old member of the choir. He added that when a clergyman strayed from the straight and narrow path the publicity given him created more feeling than if the average person strayed. The Rev. Yates recently divorced his wife, naming another clergyman (the Rev. Bertram Miller) as co-respondent. Miller committed suicide.
In his note of farewell. Yates said he also contemplated suicide, but did not wish to put an extra stain on the cloth following so much publicity recently given to the case of the Rev. Lawrence Hight, of Mount Vernon, Illinois, who fell in love with a member of his congregation. It was alleged Hight poisoned his wife and the lover poisoned her husband. Both are now in the same gaol as the result of Hight’s complete confession.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16212, 29 September 1924, Page 5
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