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Dixey, the well-known actor, offered to give +one thousand dollars to charity if it could be shown that actors, +man for man, were not as good as ministers of the gospel. No champion +of the cloth appearing to claim Mr. Dixey's money on that proposition, +he went further and offered another thousand dollars if there could not +be found a minister in jail for every state in the Union. This second +challenge was likewise ignored by the clergy and the association +which had provoked it, but Mr. Dixey made a few inquiries as to +the proportion of ministers to actors among convicts. His research, +which was far short of being thorough, discovered 43 ministers and +19 actors in jail. The investigation, so far as the ministers were +concerned, could have touched only the fringe of the matter, for in +eight months of the year 1914 the publishers of this work counted +more than seventy reported offenses of preachers for which they were +or deserved to be imprisoned, and of course the count included only +those cases reported in newspapers that reached the office through +an agency which scans only the more important ones. There had been +nothing like a systematic reading of the press of the country for +these cases. Judged by 1914, the clerical convicts in 1906 must have +far exceeded the number developed by Mr. Dixey's census. + +The foregoing incident is introduced here to explain the nature of +this work, "Crimes of Preachers," which, like Mr. Dixey's challenge +to the clergy in behalf of his profession, is the reply we have to +make to the preachers in behalf of the unbelievers in their religion. + +The clergy assume to be the teachers and guardians of morality, and +assert not only that belief in their astonishing creeds is necessary +to an upright life, but, by implication, that a profession of faith +is in a sense a guarantee of morality. It has become traditionary +with them to assume that the non-Christian man is an immoral man; +that the sincere believer is the exemplar of the higher life, while +the "Infidel," the unbeliever, illustrates the opposite; and that +whatever of morality the civilized world enjoys today it owes to the +profession and practice of Christianity. + +Now, it is wholly legitimate that systems should be judged by the +correspondence between the claims made for them and their actual +performances. When Mrs. Eddy, for an instance, rose up and asserted +that Christian Science was the key to health, investigation into the +health of persons professing and practicing Christian Science became +at once a proper inquiry. And so, when ministers exalt the belief +and practice of Christianity as the one highway to the moral life of +individuals and nations, it is equally germane to observe with some +care whether or not the clergy make good their claims in their own +persons. The inquiry would be of great interest and permissible even +were Christianity offered only for our free acceptance or rejection; +but the investigation assumes the binding nature of a civic duty +when, on the strength of these clerical pretensions, the preachers of +Christianity claim and are allowed to enjoy privileges and immunities +from the state that are not granted to other citizens. There are many +"benefits of the clergy" besides those bestowed on them personally +in the shape of half-fares, freedom from civic and military duties, +and the license under the papal decree which forbids that any priest +shall be brought into a civil or criminal court without the approval +of his ecclesiastical superior. In the United States church property +valued at a billion and a half dollars escapes taxation on the +plea that it is devoted to improving the morals of the community, +and the ministers have a virtual monopoly of the first day of the +week, commonly called Sunday, on the strength of the same unproved +theory. The plea is questioned and denied by the publishers of this +book, who quote the evidences in disproof, among these being the fact +of the immorality of the clergy themselves. If the religion they spend +their lives in expounding does not keep the ministers straight, it +is almost useless to ask how much restraining influence that religion +has on the laity who only listen once a week. + +It is admitted that just as the upright life of a professed Christian +is no evidence whatever of the truth of Christian doctrine and history, +so the moral delinquency of a believer is no disproof of those +things which it is necessary to accept in order to be orthodox. The +creation story, the flood story, the story of Jonah and the whale, +the virgin birth and the other miracles of the Old and New Testaments +are not affected by anything a believer in them may do, either good +or bad. Therefore we have been asked of what value a list of the +crimes of preachers can be to the cause of Freethought and mental +liberty. The reply, couched in the language of an editorial article in +"The Truth Seeker," is as follows: + + + "Christianity, as interpreted by its preachers, affirms a + fundamental relation between belief and morals. It claims that its + system of morals is revealed and perfect; and not only this, but + also that good morals are out of the question unless we believe + in the Christian religion. + + "There are Christian ministers, and they are of the class who have + the widest hearing, because they are 'sensational' ones, who will + tell you that unbelief is synonymous with immorality; that men are + wicked because they are Infidels, and are Infidels because they are + wicked. They argue that as religion cannot countenance anything + that is wrong, the wrongdoer must justify his course by denying + the authority of religion, and hence becomes an unbeliever in order + that his creed may not conflict with his conduct. Who has not heard + that Infidels deny the existence of hell to relieve their minds of + the uncertainty of going there when they die; that they put the + Bible aside because it will not permit their indulgences in sin, + and that a reform in conduct will be accompanied by a renunciation + of their Infidelity and a reacceptance of religion and the Bible? + + "The preachers who promulgate these principles often proceed from + the general to the particular. Having asserted the correlation of + unbelief with moral turpitude, they give pretended illustrative + instances, and they do not seem to understand that the force of + their argument is lessened by the fact that they are obliged to + invent cases and to deal with imaginary characters. Some, of + course, prefer to libel known and representative Freethinkers + instead of exercising the faculty of invention and defaming + unbelievers who are pure myths. + + "A list of ministers, guilty of crimes and immoralities, though of + unimpeached orthodoxy, is the answer to this class of falsifying + preachers, which any court must accept as historical and lawful + evidence against the pretense that good conduct grows out of + belief in Christianity. It shows that the very apostles of that + religion go wrong, that its ministers are profligate, and that + in these the theory is condemned before we come to its mere lay + exponents who less perfectly understand it. + + "People have been taught so long that piety and morality are + interchangeable terms, that they believe it without regard to the + facts which demonstrate the contrary to be true. When an individual + of reputed orthodoxy violates the moral law they accuse him of + being a hypocrite and set his religious professions down as mere + outward pretense. But here their mental narrowness is shown, for + the immoral person may be thoroughly sincere. The more firmly + he believes, the stronger may be his confidence that no mere + human weakness on his part can deprive him of the benefits of + his religion. For according to the code we are all sinners, and + the function of religion is not so much to keep us from personal + sin as to save us from its natural consequences. One has fallen + already in Adam and is therefore totally depraved, which is the + limit of depravity. How, then, can his own sins count against + him, when he cannot be depraved beyond 'totally'? His concern is + to escape the consequences of the fall, which is accomplished by + accepting the Christian scheme of salvation. His own transgressions + can be adjusted by prayer and repentance. He conceives of divine + mercy as infinite--there is no reaching the end of it; hence with + unlimited credit he may draw on his account whenever he feels + sinfully disposed." + + +It is unlikely, however, that the believer performs this mental +operation before reaching a determination to do that which is +wrong. Were he capable of analyzing the plan of salvation in +that manner he might doubt it. But he is like other men in the +same environment, and, like them, when inclination prompts, he +falls. Conduct, in the last analysis, is a matter of common sense, in +which the minister and the believer are likely to be at a disadvantage +as compared with the Rationalist. In our own minds we are pretty +well convinced of the reason why ministers go wrong--they have more +opportunities and, among the faithful, are under less suspicion and +observation than the laity. Nevertheless we are not averse to hearing +other explanations of their tendency to fall. + +A few years ago the Rev. Dr. Madison C. Peters, a New York clergyman, +offered a theory and remedy. + +"The average minister," said Dr. Peters, "has only to preach a +twenty-minute or half-hour sermon on Sunday, and this, with a mid-week +meeting, constitutes his week's work. The rest of the days he is often +loafing, trying to kill time. Even the weekly sermon may not be his own +effort. He may be either too lazy or too ignorant to compose a sermon +of his own, so he simply treats the congregation to a rehash of some +other man's work, and for this he often receives a good salary. Do +you wonder that the worst passions of these men become inflamed by +their lives of idleness? They are only human. They eat and drink of +the choicest products of the earth; they visit only the homes of the +wealthy, where they are sumptuously entertained; they do not try to +keep the body in subjection to the spirit by any kind of restraint +or mortification, and so their carnal passion becomes the master of +their being, and they fall away from grace, shocking the community and +scandalizing the church of God. I would make all work for their money." + +No doubt the indolent habits of the stall-fed clergy contribute +to their incontinence, which is recognized as their predominant +weakness. While their offenses otherwise, as these pages show, range +all the way from petty larceny to murder, yet the great majority are +such as are committed with or against women and girls. The larger +figures in the list number cases of adultery, bigamy, desertion, +elopement, and seduction. + +That the immorality of the clergy is recognized as a matter that needs +explanation is shown by an article entitled "Why Ministers Go Wrong," +extracted from the "Baptist Standard" (Chicago), in which orthodox +weekly it appeared in the latter part of the year 1913. The article, +whose author is a minister, is surprising mainly because of its +frankness and not because it tells anything not previously known or +surmised. The writer says: + + + "Do ministers of the churches, that is clergymen, priests and + preachers, go wrong in any greater proportion than do doctors, + lawyers or teachers? If one answers the question mathematically, + no; if one answers the question in the light of our moral standards + for ministers of the gospel, the negative answer will not be so + readily and decidedly given. There are few issues of the daily + newspaper without at least a single item narrating the fall of + a clergyman. It would be hard to find a man or a woman who has + not at some time in life become personally acquainted with a + professed exponent of religious truth and high moral ideals who + has demonstrated the depths of human depravity. + + "Yet the indictment against the profession is of a much more subtle + character than that found in journalistic annals of crime or even + in personal knowledge of gross faults on the part of clergymen. It + would be folly to deny that, taken as a class, ministers live + lives as pure and as free from criminal or grossly immoral taint + as any other class of persons. The indictment takes rather the + form of a general impression, amounting almost to a conviction, + that the minister does not have the clear-cut and high standards + which the business world demands. + + "Business men feel that there is something about the 'cloth' + that makes its wearer a 'doubtful proposition' when it comes to + square dealing between men. A prominent lawyer in Chicago said, + only the other day, 'I dread seeing a clergyman enter my office; + I do not want his business; he does not have the commercial honor + of the man of affairs.' He went on to give instances of ministers + who disregarded their business obligations and even ignored the + sanctity of the oath at the bar of justice. + + "It is a well-known fact among houses accustomed to extend credit + that ministers are the slowest to pay, and the most difficult from + whom to collect. In the smaller towns it would be difficult to find + a grocer without an uncollected account against some minister who + had left the place. Over five years ago such a preacher boasted in + his farewell sermon that all his bills were paid in the village, + and he 'owed not any man'; he should have said that he had paid + not any man, and some of his bills are still unpaid. + + "A charitable organization in Chicago allowed a minister in + a village nearby to become indebted to it. He promised to pay + the small account at a certain date; but a year from that time, + although many letters had been written, the bill was unpaid. Nor + was settlement made until this prominent minister on a good salary + was sent a sight draft for the amount. + + "A struggling professor in an Eastern city consented to pick out + a few books for a preacher up State, and to have them charged + to his own account, being assured that payment would be made at + once. The books were sent, but the cash never was forthcoming, + and after a lengthy correspondence, in which many excuses were + offered, the professor had to count his loss as the price he had + paid for a lesson in trusting the 'cloth.' + + "Such evidence could be extended indefinitely. The facts back + of it, with the many other instances of which these few are but + slightly indicative, have produced the decided opinion in the + business world that the minister is unreliable, and that the + ministry does not stand of necessity for admirable manliness. + + "There are many exceptions. The manly, four-square ministers are + the more noticeable because they are exceptional. There are still + more ministers who are warmly admired by their congregations, + but they are admired rather for professional traits and pulpit + graces than for the rugged virtues that count on the street and + in the store and office. On the whole, men of honor feel that + today it is no honor to be entitled 'Reverend'; the average man + looks somewhat askance at the clergyman. + + "Perhaps this is nowhere better illustrated than when a minister + leaves his profession and desires to enter business. He finds + there a strong prejudice against his past; it is regarded as + unfitting him for work. When such a man goes into an office, + experience shows that he is likely to lack the qualities that + make for trustworthiness in details in the individual and for + harmony in a large force of employees. + + "Now, if the business of the minister is to teach the people + how to live, he ought at least to know how to do it himself. His + principles are valueless if they will not stand the wear of daily + life. Is the trouble with the teachings, with the message, or is + it with the man himself? + + "The first reason ministers go wrong is because they are men. They + are not angels; they are not the reincarnated ideal saints + that the sisters and the sisterly brethren like to think they + are. Because they are men they have human frailties. But, while + that does account for the fact that ministers steal and break the + express commandments the same as other men, it does not account + for the fact that they are held below par in commercial esteem. + + "As a profession the ministry seems to offer a premium on the + pretender, the impostor, the hypocrite. So long as there are the + intentional pretenders and the unconscious hypocrites in the church + they will enjoy the ministry of the pretender and hypocrite. So + long as the churches say, 'There's nothing either good or ill + but seeming makes it so,' the man who can succeed in fooling the + people with appearances of virtues, with saintly air and pious + phrase will be the man who reaches the top of his profession. + + "Then no mortal being can stand for long the fawning and adulation + which the preacher is likely to receive, especially from foolish + and emotional women. He is sure to come to believe that he is + a superior being, one who either can do no wrong or can do only + right. Steady feeding on flattery unfits him for sound counsel + regarding his shortcomings; he gets into the habit of judging + his own actions, not by any undeviating principles, but by the + measure of praise they receive. + + "There are peculiar temptations incident to the work of any man + who appears to weak minds as a demi-god on occasions, whose work + makes unusual demands on his nerve forces, and who is obliged + to work almost exclusively with women. There is not only the + temptation to license in personal virtue coupled with opportunity + in pastoral visitation; there is the tendency to conformity to + feminine standards, so that the man becomes womanly and usually + a poor kind of an old woman at that. + + "Mere preaching puts a tremendous strain on a man's moral fibre. It + is the habitual statement of duties and ideals which the preacher + knows he does not reach and do. It is the expression of the + phrases of character, not necessarily accompanied with their + expression in living and doing. It results in the mental habit + of considering a duty done as soon as it is declared. It exhausts + the moral impetus in phrases. It makes the man act the lie. + + "Intellectual dishonesty results from habitual standing as a + special pleader; as the defender of ground which has not been + honestly, candidly examined. The preacher seldom goes back to the + evidence; he argues from the conclusions of others. He stands as + an authority in that in which he frequently has made no original, + unprejudicial examination. + + "Intellectual dishonesty comes as a result of cowardice in + regard to the declaration of his own honest convictions. He is + perhaps unconsciously persuaded to teach what the church teaches + rather than what he would teach if he gave himself a chance to + think. Creeds may be small matters, after all, but the teaching + of a creed in which we do not believe is no small matter in its + effects on the teacher. There are many potent reasons for fearing + a heresy trial--often the thought of his children's hungry mouths + and bare backs is one reason. It is a good deal easier to admire + the men who went to the stake for a conviction than it is to + follow them. The truth is, no minister who is honest with himself + and who declares what he fully believes will have any reason to + fear. The church may cast him out, but he will find a thousand + voices and hearts to echo to any honest truth in his own. + + "Often the preacher is so dead sure that his motive is right, + that he does not stop to examine sufficiently his method. He wants + to save souls, and if he can do it, as it seems to him, by crooked + means more quickly than by straight ones, then he takes the crooked + way. He wants to build a church--if he can build it quicker by + misrepresentation, by double dealing, by beating any one, he thinks + only of the church, and that overweighs any other consideration. + + "Take the matter of ministers (and others, too) lying in the + stories and illustrations they tell. We have all heard preachers + tell as happening to them some incident which we read when we were + boys; perhaps before they were born. The man is so carried away + with desire to impress the truth on you that he consents to lie + to make the illustration more personal and forceful. That makes + it none the less a lie; but after he has told it that way a few + times, he forgets that it is a lie. + + "One of the principal reasons for the disrespect in which the + preacher is often regarded by the business world lies in the + shamefully unbusinesslike manner in which the preacher has been + treated in regard to compensation for his work. If his work + is worthless, why not say so and tell him to get out, and do + something worth while? If it is worth doing, then he ought to be + paid sufficient for a living without being compelled to become + a cadger and a pauper. + + "The old donation party may have had a good beginning, but it + has had a bad effect on the minister's character. Add to the + moral results of being compelled to digest frozen potatoes, + wooden turnips and other donation specimens, the experience of + being forced into the attitude, at least annually, of a beggar, + and one will begin to appreciate the difficulty the preacher has + in maintaining his self-respect. When one makes it hard for a + man to respect himself, how long is one likely to respect him? + + "When the man in the pulpit is dependent for his daily bread on + the tolerance and good will of the man in the pew; when he feels + that he may get butter on his bread or even a little cake now and + then if he can only get in the good graces of that smug old sinner + sitting down there, it is easy to see how he has been tempted to + fawn on him, how he has been tempted to speak of the old humbug's + robbery of the widow and the orphan as one of the achievements + of modern commerce and civilization. It has always been 'hard + hitting the devil over the back if you are feeding his belly.' + + "The preacher in the country and in the old days could get along + very well between the neighborly gifts he received and the produce + of his little farm or garden when these were added to his small + salary. But when, without increase of salary, that same man is + placed in the city in our days of swollen prices for necessities, + he is hard put to it to keep out of debt and remain honest in + the ministry. Under the pressure some men have turned to crooked + schemes, to selling mining stocks and other bogus investments, + and some have gone out of the ministry. But the greater number + have stayed in and are working hard to make ends meet and to + stay straight. + + "Ministers have gone wrong because they have not been trained + right in their professional schools; they have been educated only + for oratorical labor, and that with the intent of persuading men + to certain things by dint of their eloquence. What seminaries are + giving courses corresponding to those in other professional schools + on professional ethics? They have gone wrong in instances because + their employers, the people, have not treated them right, have not + given them a fair chance to live right; they have paid them, and + are paying them less than we pay mechanics and clerks, and yet they + expect the minister to live according to their social standards. + + "When the people who employ the ministers will give them an + honest return for their work, when they will also encourage + them to be honest in their preaching and teaching, there will be + fewer unworthy ministers. When the theological schools get out + of their shells and into the cities, and the preachers get out + of their cloth and among folk, when they take off their garments + of sanctimoniousness and get busy helping and leading others to + better living, and to making this world a better place to live in, + the ministers will be a good many notches higher in the world's + esteem. It is needless to say there are a great many ministers + who have made good in these ways." + + +We have thus a view of the clerical profession from the inside, the +writer having turned state's evidence. In the closing paragraph there +is an intimation that liberal preaching, or "honest" preaching, with a +discarding of the cloak of sanctimoniousness, will react on clerical +morality and thus raise the preachers in the world's esteem. That +view is borne out by the figures showing that the ministers of the +liberal sects are the best behaved. + +The editor of the "Baptist Standard," commenting on the article +which he prints and which we have quoted, attributes the clergy's +poor reputation for morality to the "yellow journal," which he says +"will get twice as black in the face as it will over any other person +of equal prominence." The Baptist editor complains because-- + + + "A cross-roads clergyman who runs away with his organist will + get more attention than a congressman who goes off with his + stenographer. The senile philanderings of a former United States + senator did not get a front-page position so often as did a + comparatively obscure clergyman who a few years ago failed to + get gold out of sea-water, but did get it out of the purses of + customers who thought they had a 'good thing.' Why? The answer + throws a flood of light upon the question at issue. Because out + of tens of thousands of ministers, all of them working under the + obvious limitations and temptations to which the article makes + reference, those who go wrong are so few that, when such instances + occur, they are played up, because they are news. When a lawyer + or a physician, or a bank president, or a commercial traveler + is found with the broken fragments of the seventh commandment on + his person, it is no news, at least relatively speaking, and it + is given an inside page. This is an unconscious tribute of the + sensational press to the high estimate in which the clerical + profession is in general held." + + +The theory of the religious editor might account for the notoriety +given a delinquent minister, but no amount of publicity could create +the fact of his delinquency. He has to run off with his organist before +the yellow journal chronicles the event. And if more publicity is given +him than is received by the lawyer, physician and bank president when +the facts come out, the notoriety in known cases is more than offset +by the secrecy preserved by the minister's congregation and friends +in nine cases out of ten, so that the papers never get hold of the +matter at all. + +But the defense based on extraordinary notoriety breaks down when we +remember that the preacher who wrote the article we reproduce does not +depend on the press for his knowledge of the clerical character. He has +first-hand information of his own, and makes the assertion, moreover, +that "it would be hard to find a man or a woman who has not at some +time in life become personally acquainted with a professed exponent of +religious truth and high moral ideals who has demonstrated the depths +of human depravity." This may or may not be an exaggeration; it agrees, +however, with the testimony of purchasers of the previous editions of +this pamphlet, who generally fail to find in its pages certain cases of +clerical depravity they have individually met. And we do not suppose +that one act of immorality in a thousand committed by clergymen is +ever known to anyone but himself. Not regarding ministers as worse +than other men in this respect, we may yet reasonably conclude that +they practice the customary male reserve, and therefore are no more +given to relating all the incidents of their lives--the only way such +incidents could become known--than members of the laity. + +The indictment really is not against the ministers as men--it is +against their religion and their profession. There is so close a +relation between religious emotion and what is called desire, that +scientific men have written treatises and books on the correlation +of religion and lust. The more fervent the preacher is godward, the +more ardent is he womanward--and piety works the same way with the +sisters. Our preacher who has turned state's evidence blames among +other things the pastoral visit and the emotional women who place +temptation before the man of God. He is concerned only with the +minister, but the minister is as often a tempter as a victim. He +improves the opportunities the pastoral visit affords, and makes +his share of the advances. It may be that only men without mental +honesty--men who are willing to profess to believe and to teach what +they feel is false--are entering the ministry. In that case the worst +is to be expected, and their conduct is accounted for by their lack of +principle. The "Standard's" contributor offers the novel excuse that +the minister uses up so much of his virtue in phrasing and uttering +moral precepts that he has no strength left for applying them. The +proposition is worth the notice of the churches; for if true it means +that the vocation of a preacher devitalizes a man of his moral stamina. + +The religious editor and his contributor disagree on an important +point. The editor holds that the fuss made over one minister who goes +wrong with his organist is a tribute to the high estimate in which +the profession is held. On the other hand, the contributor represents +that most ministers are moral skates, and that any high estimate the +profession enjoys is due to the few decent exceptions. The distinction +is vital. + +The orthodox religious standards to which a minister is supposed to +measure up are admittedly responsible for much moral laxity. Besides +the sincerely orthodox preacher (whose religious austerity never +prevents him from erring sexually), there are thousands of ministers +who live a mental or intellectual lie by remaining in the church +and preaching the creeds they do not believe. And the church does +not trouble itself about the minister's doubts so long as he keeps +them to himself. What can the church expect, then, from the religious +hypocrite in the pulpit except that he will be a moral hypocrite out +of it? Is he going to be dishonest as a preacher and honest as a man? + +The Baptist paper's contributor puts the query: "Do ministers of +the churches, that is, clergymen, priests and preachers, go wrong +in any greater proportion than do doctors, lawyers or teachers?" He +gives a negative answer, "mathematically," but the very asking of the +question proves that an affirmative reply was not unexpected. Had he +included editors in his list it could have been given. The literary +and editorial professions are very poorly represented in our prisons, +and even printers are exceedingly scarce. + +This compilation, periodically revised and enlarged, has been before +the public in its nine successive editions since 1881, as is stated in +one of its prefaces; and considering that its information is based on +newspaper reports, the number of corrections demanded by the ministers +whose names are herein enrolled is small. The following is the only +threat of action with which the publishers have been menaced. We +follow the style of the clerical gentleman, who writes: + + + "BLUFFTON O.--5-12/1905. + + "The Truth Seeker Co., No. 28 Lafayette Place, New York, N. Y. + + "Sirs I notice you have published a Book The title of which is + Crimes of Preachers in U. S. and Canada In which you have the + name of Shelter, of McClure O. Now sirs, if the Copies of that + Book is not called in and DESTROYED AND ITS PUBLICATION CEAS at + once and the same notice bein given in your paper so published + by your Co. in side of 20 days, ACTION will be taken against + YOU immediately for blackmailing. The above name used by you is + the untruth, + + "Trusting to heare from you early. Yours. + + "J. Shelter." + + +Mr. J. Shelter heard from the publishers early, but not only did he +fail to keep up the correspondence, but apparently abandoned altogether +his contemplated action. The charge against the Rev. John Shelter, +of the United Brethren church, is that in 1890, at McClure, Ohio, he +sold liquor without a license. All we can gather from his apparent +denial is that the name used by us is not the true one. However, +he does not take the trouble to correct it. + +Another correction was personally solicited. In the ninth edition +appeared an entry condensed from the following newspaper clipping, +dated at a Connecticut town: + + + "If the Rev. ---- ----. ----, the ---- minister who eloped with + Mrs. ---- ----. ----, of ----, and who is being sued for divorce by + his wife on the ground of intolerable cruelty, had been publicly + drummed out, his expulsion from the Methodist church could not + have been more emphatic and humiliating. This afternoon, after + more than an hour's debate in executive session, the New York East + Conference of the Methodist church voted, practically unanimously, + to allow him to withdraw 'under complaints.'" + + +Our entry, above mentioned, concerning this preacher, recorded: +"Eloped with a married woman; cruelty to wife; expelled from the +ministry." The entry should now be: "Personally appeared before +us the reverend gentleman whose name is suppressed and requested +the removal of the aforesaid entry, on the ground that there was no +elopement." While acceding to the request, we have the feeling that +with his name left out the book does not quite justify its title. The +preacher whom the New York East Conference of the Methodist church +got rid of in the emphatic and humiliating manner described by the +clipping is now a Presbyterian clergyman and doctor of divinity. The +names of more deserving men are very likely retained, for the gentleman +showed himself so lacking in loyalty to his class that he voluntarily +gave information regarding other Methodist ministers, including a +well-known editor, which could have been used to their hurt. + +An act of favoritism on our part which we might prefer to commit would +be in the case of the reverend president of a Southern college who +came to Philadelphia for some unremembered purpose, and was found dead +in the house of a woman with whom he had made an assignation. This +book would be kinder to his family than were the public prints at +the time of the tragedy if it would do any good to the survivors. One +toward whom we have not felt that any especial consideration is due +is a minister of Jamestown, N. Y., who disappeared from a steamer +on the Sound in circumstances pointing to suicide, leaving with his +effects a note in which he said: "Let not those 'insane babblers' or +Infidels get hold of this for their miserable, God-dishonoring yearly +book on the crimes of preachers." We cannot see that it dishonors God +to print what God permits his preachers to do. The man in this case +wished his wife and relatives to regard him as dead because he had +another woman in view, and was shortly found living with her in Albany. + +Some amusing uses have been made of this volume. In 1909 the opponents +of a bill before the legislature of California cited, to its prejudice, +the fact that members of the clerical profession were against its +passage. The gentleman who appeared before the legislative committee +in behalf of the bill offered this list of reverend delinquents +and inquired whether these were included among the ministers whose +opposition was allowed to weigh with the committee. Ministers +who undertake legislative work and pose as "Reformers" are often +unfortunate in their moral character. There has been a singular series +of mishaps among the conspicuous maintainers of the sanctity of the +Sabbath who have allied themselves with organizations to promote +Sunday observance by the saloon-keepers. The following list of them +gathered in a single state is taken from a Detroit newspaper called +"Truth" in 1905: + + + The Rev. R. G. Malone, superintendent of the Grand Traverse + district, arrested for licentious conduct; fled the state; now + in employ of Minnesota League. + + The Rev. George Kulp, League orator, Grand Rapids, arrested + for adultery. + + The Rev. Ralph Baldwin, League in Saginaw, fled after being + exposed in a liaison with a Detroit woman. + + The Rev. John M. Wright, an organizer and orator for the League + from Muskegon, proven guilty of perjury in a divorce case. + + The Rev. Orson D. Taylor, a Saginaw League organizer and orator, + sent to House of Correction for thefts. + + The Rev. E. I. Waldorf, another Saginaw League worker, sent to + House of Correction for thefts. + + The Rev. C. E. Lee, a prominent League worker and orator in Grand + Rapids, expelled from his church for licentiousness. + + The Rev. J. Printer, a Branch county League organizer, fled the + state to escape arrest for bigamy. + + The Rev. Charles Kirchner, St. Clair county League organizer and + orator, betrayed his foster daughter. + + The Rev. Jos. St. Johns, Pontiac member of the League's force of + workers, serving a term for assaulting a colored girl. + + The Rev. J. R. Andrews, a Lansing League orator, expelled from + church and arrested for blackmail. + + The Rev. S. A. Northrop, one of the League's most gifted orators + at Owosso, expelled from his church for undue intimacy with women + of the congregation. + + The Rev. John Smith, a Grand Rapids League orator and ardent + supporter, eloped with one of the women of his church. + + The Rev. Dr. J. G. Holiday, Manistee county organizer, expelled + from his church for swindling. + + The Rev. William P. Squires, Bay City organizer and orator for + the League, expelled from his church for falsehood and swindling. + + The Rev. A. C. Marshall, from Amboy, Hillsdale county, + League worker and orator at Corunna, expelled from church for + licentiousness. + + +There have been a number of clerical reformers in the East whose +records cannot be cited to their advantage. One went against the +Sabbath breakers in Brooklyn, was arrested for blackmail and forfeited +his bond. One in West Virginia fought the theaters and Sunday trains, +but he turned out a gallows bird, a bigamist, and the thief of his +children's inheritance. One went to combat license in Brattleboro, +Vermont, but turned up too drunk to go on with the lecture. One in New +Jersey railed against Sunday liberty, but beat his wife and eloped with +a choir singer. One of Boston stood in the pulpit with the blood of a +girl seduced and murdered on his hands and demanded legal suppression +of Sunday baseball. The "phrasing of morality," thus becoming a habit +with the clergy, does not conflict with their other vices. + +Wherever a reform is attacked by the clergy on moral grounds +the usefulness of this work is appreciable. In Pittsburgh, Pa., +the secretary of a Socialist group was debating with a prominent +Presbyterian minister, when the preacher incautiously asserted that +Socialism would break up the home, and paraded the horrible example +of a Socialist professor who had been divorced by his wife. The +proponent of Socialism, expressing his regrets that so irrelevant a +matter had been brought into the argument, produced a copy of "Crimes +of Preachers" to show how the home had fared at the hands of men of +his opponent's profession. + +Incidentals to the downfall of the preachers are sometimes +dramatic. One exhorted his congregation to confession and repentance, +whereupon his contrite landlady, much moved, made public the +fact that she had been living with him in adultery, and asked for +prayers. Another, having worked his hearers to the proper condition, +said: "Let us all lay our sins upon the altar." A young woman with +an infant in her arms came forward and, handing him the baby, said: +"Here's yours." It appeared that he was the father of the child, +though not married to the mother. + +Reference has been made to the papal decree, which of late years +has shown renewed capacity for mischief, protecting a priest from +prosecution by any Catholic without a bishop or other superior's +consent. It is a survival of the "benefit of clergy" law under which +the church claimed the right to try the cases of clerical offenders, +instead of letting them go before the civil courts. The working of this +decree was illustrated in New York recently when a priest attempted +an immoral act with an eight or ten-year-old girl. The mother of the +girl, unmindful of the prohibition, reported the case to the police, +and caused the lecherous clergyman's arrest, but later, having been +advised by one of the higher clergy of the diocese, withdrew the charge +and declined to testify against the accused, who appears to have been +liberated after a reprimand by the court. It must be obvious that +with this rule in force, all but the most serious offenses of the +Catholic clergy will escape public notice. When in 1913 the murder +of Anna Aumuller had been traced to the Rev. Hans Schmidt, a priest +of a New York church, the police arrested and the courts convicted +the reverend criminal; yet the Rev. Hans Schmidt had committed other +crimes previous to this, and was known by his Catholic acquaintances to +be a man of immoral life. He enjoyed, however, the benefit of clergy, +and was protected by it from the exposure that would have come earlier +but for the Catholic ban on "scandal," and that would not have come +at all but for his sensational crime. With this wall of secrecy thrown +about the priestly life, we know not what immoralities and crimes take +place among the clergy and never come to light. While this edition of +"Crimes of Preachers" is in preparation a Chicago Catholic priest, +in line for distinguished honors from his church, takes an automobile +"joy ride," visits a saloon in the suburbs and ends the outing by +stabbing a station agent to the heart. The published offenses of the +priests are such, usually, as in the nature of things cannot be covered +up. For them there is no such offense as conduct unbecoming a priest, +carrying the penalty of deposition and exposure. + +In this edition an attempt has been made to shorten the list of +terms by which the offenses of the preachers have hitherto been +described. Now such breaches of good morals as were variously named +"Beecherism," "immoralities," "lascivious conduct," "lechery," +"scandalous conduct," "unministerial conduct," and the like have +been brought under the head of "Immoralities with women and girls +miscellaneously and variously described," which is as definite as +the previously used terms, and saves space. + +It will be observed that the total number of offenses charged is +considerably greater than the total number of ministers involved. This +results from the complicated character of some of the delinquencies +of the reverends. A married minister betrays a young woman, thereby +committing seduction and adultery. There may be a child and a charge of +bastardy. He may run away with her, adding elopement and desertion of +wife and family, and often divorce. Elopements are numerous, and they +are mentioned here only when complicated with adultery or desertion, +since the unmarried parson is entitled to his romance, and not to be +censured above other men if he makes a runaway match of it--the woman +concerned having reached or survived the ages of discretion without +any matrimonial alliance at present existing. So the adulteries, +seductions, etc., are all enlarged, while only one name is added to +the number of ministers. + +In only about two-thirds of the cases are the denominations of the +clerical law-breakers known, that detail being often omitted by rural +reporters or correspondents in whom the news sense is but imperfectly +developed. The instances in which the communion is supplied give the +Methodists first place, Baptists second, and Catholics third. The +number of each is not disproportionate to the total number of clergy +of the given denominations. Nothing appears to show that there is any +great disparity between sects or between Protestants and Catholics +in point of morality. There are, say, 170,000 ministers in the +United States, 15,000 of them Catholic. That is ten parsons to one +priest. Of the 3,795 ministers in this directory, 325 are Catholics, +or about 1 priest to 10 non-Catholic clergymen. + +Catholics do not have so many clergymen in proportion to their +communicants as the Protestant sects. With them one priest has to +serve a thousand adherents (provided they have the sixteen million +communicants they claim), while the Baptists, with less than six +million communicants, have nearly forty-three thousand ministers, and +the Methodists, with seven million members, report upwards of forty-one +thousand ministers. With such a multiplication of pulpiteers and a +low standard of qualification for the ministry, the bad preeminence +of the Methodist parsons is explained. It has been noticed already +that priests are not publicly exposed in such peccadilloes as might +cost a Protestant minister his pulpit or a layman his standing in +the community. + +It cannot be inappropriate to quote the following comment on an excuse +offered for the two delegates to the Methodist conference of 1912, +who were caught with the broken fragments of the seventh commandment +on their person, or rather almost in the act of breaking them: + + + "The fact that two of the ministers who attended the late + Methodist conference in Indianapolis committed the statutory + offense before they went home led Pastor Dinsmore of the Baptist + church of Anderson, Ind., to which state one of the delinquents + belonged, to deliver a discourse on the theme, 'How Preachers + Go Wrong.' Viewing the matter historically, as was his duty, + the Rev. Mr. Dinsmore found that the going wrong of a preacher + is by no means a modern innovation; for did not Micah, David, + Eli, and Abiathar prove false to the trust imposed in them? The + preacher blamed society for protecting the preacher in his sin, + and for not giving him away. But the first cause, he says, why + a preacher falls is that he is 'human,' and the devil works for + mastery over him as over other souls. And the second cause of the + preacher's fall, we are told, is the woman (nothing said about + her being also 'human'). The religious woman who has missed her + man finds him in Jesus and takes the parson as his deputy. The + women tempt the preacher also by the cut of their clothes, says the + Rev. Mr. Dinsmore. They wear and let their daughters wear gowns so + low in the neck and so short in the skirt that when a man looks at + them 'hell is stirred up' in his breast. And so on. Of course some + of it is true; the minister is exposed to temptation, but if he + cannot resist what the Infidel has to, what is his religion for?" + + +The light sentences, if any, imposed upon clergymen in many instances +having been alluded to, we may allege a concrete case. It occurred +at the time when a nation-wide attempt was being made to fasten the +crime of white slavery, with its penalties, on two laymen who had +taken two women with their consent into an adjoining state and there +cohabited with them. The clerical case was as follows (we quote an +editorial paragraph in "The Truth Seeker" for July 19, 1913): + + + "In the state of Michigan, town of St. Johns, in the middle of + last month, a Baptist clergyman, the Rev. J. T. Gregory, being + arraigned for the crime of rape committed upon a girl 11 years + old, pleaded guilty and was 'sentenced to serve from one to + ten years at the Ionia reformatory with a recommendation of two + years by Judge Searl.' What extreme penalty the law of Michigan + imposes for outraging an infant we do not know; the terms of + the sentence named in this case show it is at least ten years, + and here is a man of God getting off with a sentence of from one + up, and recommended by the court to be let loose again upon the + community in two years! The report of the case, printed in the + Grand Rapids 'Press,' is exasperating to any one who believes + that the law should be administered without favor. Every courtesy + was shown the clerical violator of childhood. 'The sentence,' we + read, 'was dealt out by a special arrangement with the judge,' + as court would not convene for a week, and the minister 'was + desirous of pleading guilty and beginning his term in prison as + soon as possible.' The judge carried his consideration for the + clerical rapist so far as to grant the latter's request 'for + a day to clear up his personal affairs.' All this favoritism, + as the reporter innocently puts it, because the Rev. Mr. Gregory + is 'highly respected as the pastor of the Baptist church.' That + is benefit of the clergy with the lid off! Now we would like to + inquire why there is no public excitement about this miscarriage of + justice. The man is married and has three daughters, two of them + school teachers, and one a high school graduate, and is hence a + middle-aged man who has not the excuse of youthful ardor for his + crime. The girls in the California case were old enough to marry or + to consent without marriage. The minister's victim is eleven years + old. If the laymen had money and political influence, which they + haven't, to protect them from prosecution on a charge of which + on the face of it they are not guilty, it still would not be as + base for them to avail themselves of that advantage as it is for + a court to consider the alleged 'holy calling' of a minister and + withhold adequate punishment for an atrocious crime he confesses + that he committed. Men possessed of a nature that permits them to + attack female children are among the most dangerous persons in + any community, because they only want the opportunity to repeat + the offense. The motive is always with them. The are like the + Chicago priest who saw a 'stimulation to lust' in Chabas' picture, + 'September Morn.' No young girl is safe in the power or presence of + that kind of degenerates; and hence when one of them gets into the + clutches of the law he should be kept there as long as the statute + will permit. Had the Rev. Gregory been anything but a priest and + the court anything but a boneheaded truckler to hypocritical piety, + he would have got a determinate sentence of at least ten years." + + +In one year, recently, seventeen Chicago ministers were criminally or +civilly prosecuted. It is difficult to believe that this number of +offenses does not raise the percentage of criminal preachers above +the average of all Chicago citizens. In six months of the same year +(1912) Kokomo, Indiana, had four clerical scandals. We again quote: + + + "Is there some sinister element in the atmosphere of Kokomo, + Indiana, inimical to clerical morals? After relating under + the heading 'Parson and Widow Out on a Little Lark,' how 'the + Rev. G. W. Alley, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church at + Royal Center and an active member in the North Indiana conference, + was arrested at a boarding house at Kokomo shortly before midnight + Tuesday night in company with Mrs. Wendling, a widow of Walton, + and both were hustled off to jail where they still remain,' + the Hartford City (Ind.) 'Times-Gazette' of August 6 remarks: + 'This is the fourth scandal in Kokomo within the past six months in + which a preacher has been involved.' Surely there must be something + unfavorable to ministerial morals in the Kokomo atmosphere--some + such element as that affirmed by one of the infallible popes who, + finding himself and many of his priests disabled by a mysterious + malady, laid it to 'a certain malignity in the constitution + of the air.' The constitution of the air in Kokomo, Indiana, + is obviously malign and contraindicated for ministers." + + +Four delinquents in six months is eight a year in a community of +12,000 souls, the church-going portion of which could be adequately +served by a dozen ministers. + +It would be interesting, if practicable, to compare the morality of +the American clergy with that of other countries, but the data are +meager. Here, however, is an informing paragraph retained from a +previous edition of this book: + + + "In England, from October, 1891, to October, 1892, 12 ministers + committed suicide, 14 broke the marriage promise, 17 committed + various crimes, 18 misused animals, 109 violated women, 121 were + indicted for drunkenness (habitual), 254 cheated their creditors, + and 18 committed minor offenses. That is 2.75 per cent. of the + English ministry, says the 'Pall Mall Gazette,' who were in one + year in trouble with the law." + + +Since the revision of this work was undertaken, late in the fall of +1914, the clergy have not ceased to furnish fresh material for its +pages, but as each additional name must cause a revision of totals, +the later cases, which perhaps number two dozen, must await the next +round-up. The following table condenses the crimes, offenses, etc., +with which the ministers have been charged: + + + Abduction 22 + Abortion and attempts to procure 19 + Abusive language 22 + Adultery 676 + Alienation of affections 17 + Arson 62 + Assault with intent to murder 61 + Assault with intent to rape 50 + Assault with intent to do great harm 26 + Assault and battery 66 + Attempted suicide 15 + Bastardy 77 + Bigamy, attempted and accomplished 144 + Breach of promise to marry 27 + Burglary 17 + Cheating, swindling, grafting, malversation, + misappropriation, etc. 288 + "Conduct unbecoming a minister of the gospel" 44 + Conspiracy 11 + Contempt of court 13 + Counterfeiting 16 + Cruelty to wife or children 130 + Debauchery 52 + Desertion or non-support of wife or children 207 + Disorderly conduct 44 + Divorced or sued 56 + Drunkenness 202 + Elopement, attempted or accomplished 163 + Embezzlement, fraud, defalcation, etc 162 + Enticing women and young girls 15 + False impersonation 13 + Fighting 51 + Forgery 123 + "Fornication" 14 + Gambling 19 + Grave robbery 1 + Gross immorality 40 + Horse stealing 19 + Illicit distilling 12 + Illicit liquor selling 15 + Immoralities with women and girls, miscellaneous and + variously described 223 + Larceny 181 + Libel 50 + Lying and deceit 138 + Malicious destruction of property and malicious mischief 22 + Manslaughter 14 + Murder generally 119 + Murder of child 12 + Murder of wife 27 + Obscene language 16 + Obscene print, circulation of 14 + Obtaining money or property under false pretenses 65 + Perjury or subornation of 12 + Plagiarism or literary piracy 14 + Praying for death of neighbor, who died 1 + Profanity 11 + Quarreling 19 + Rape in general 43 + Rape of girls under age of consent or puberty 76 + Seduction in general 273 + Seduction of girls under fifteen 28 + Slander 109 + Sodomy or unnatural crime 67 + Stealing religious funds or property 23 + Suicide 117 + Threatening life 16 + Violation of postal laws 17 + White slavery and pandering 15 + Wife or woman beating 57 + + +Breaking up the home of another man, defamation of character, illegal +marrying, violation of game laws, 9 each; blackmail and extortion and +breaking jail, 8 each; breach of hospitality, homicide, and pension +frauds, 7 each; criminal neglect, cruelty to animals, and kidnapping, +6 each; dueling, administering poison, and fraudulent divorce, +5 each; bribery, nuisance, shoplifting, trespass, and speeding, +4 each; carrying concealed weapons, compounding of felony, and +false arrest, 3 each; bankwrecking, beggary, breach of trust, cattle +stealing, illegal voting, lynching and incitement to, prize-fighting, +profanity, quackery, receiving stolen goods, smuggling, violation +of revenue law, election frauds, extortion, and "felony," 2 each; +assisting prisoner to escape, attempted trainwrecking, coercion of +the dying, criminal carelessness, cruelty to prisoners, desertion +from the army, dynamiting, illegal practice of medicine, illicit +manufacture of cigars, keeping disorderly house, lottery running, +malicious prosecution, mutilating public records, praying for death +of neighbor (who died), selling vote and influence, slave-holding +(by a missionary), teaching boys to steal, vagrancy, violation of +articles of war, violation of drug law, violation of Sunday law, +jury fixing, undue influence, "corrupting morals of young girl," +and obstructing justice, 1 each. The whole number is approximately +five thousand, from actual count, 4,987. + +Denomination of ministers so far as known: + + + Methodist 728 + Baptist 492 + Catholic 325 + Presbyterian 187 + Episcopalian 164 + Evangelist 136 + Congregational 120 + Christian (or Campbellite) 101 + Lutheran 100 + United Brethren 38 + Jewish 18 + Adventist 17 + Reformed 16 + Holiness 12 + Church of God 8 + Disciples 9 + Missionary 8 + Dunkard 7 + Greek Catholic 7 + Universalist 7 + Church of Christ 6 + Sanctificationist 5 + Unitarian 5 + Mennonite 4 + Friend (Quaker) 3 + Mormon 3 + Armenian 2 + Independent 2 + Moravian 2 + Pentecost 2 + Millennialist 2 + + +The following minor denominations are represented by 1 each: Absolute +Life, Apostolic, Amish, Christian Union, Christian Catholic, Come +Outer, Do Right, German Evangelical, Gift of Thomas, Gospel Mission, +Heliga, Holy Ghost Household Faithful, New Jerusalem, Nazarene, +New Thought, Shaker, Straight Edge, Syrian, and True Reformer (20). + +The whole number of ministers whose names are recorded here is +3,795. Their denomination is given in 2,556 cases; unknown in 1,239. + + + +In explanation of the varying typographical arrangement of dates, +names, etc., and of faults of pagination, it may be said that the older +portions of the book, covering cases occurring prior to 1899, have +been left as they formerly stood, except that the periodical comments +and recapitulations accompanying fresh editions have been eliminated, +and the available matter thrown into the general introduction to the +volume. Cases that have occurred since the close of the list in the +former style of composition have been rearranged and reset in one +alphabetical list. The book, then, contains six alphabetical lists, +beginning, in the first part, on page 10 (circa 1875-81); page 50 (to +1883); page 102 (to 1893); page 125 (to 1895); page 140 (to 1898); +page 139, Part II. (to 1914). The rearrangement condenses, without +omitting anything of permanent value, a volume which was becoming +too large to be economically produced and distributed. + + + + + + + + + +PREFACE TO EARLIER EDITIONS. + + +So long as imagination creates a god to rule the destinies of men; so +long as ignorance can be made to believe that the preacher or priest +is in some way a go-between, or agent, between men and the powers in +the clouds--that he is a "sky-pilot," directly commissioned by deity +to attend to God's affairs on earth, and that the priest's person +and office are sacred--just so long will there be possible such a +profession as that of the modern priesthood. + +And if these preachers as a whole are just as criminal as any +other class; if they are immoral without the excuse of want or +ignorance--without reason other than because of their often indolent +lives and the opportunities afforded them by the nature of their +calling--then their followers cannot learn that fact too soon. + +The first edition of this book was printed in 1881, since which time +many thousands of copies have been scattered throughout the country; +but in no case to our knowledge has anyone successfully denied the +facts alleged against any "man of God" figuring in these pages. Its +substantial accuracy is therefore assured. The only charge that +can be maintained against it is its incompleteness. The publishers +do not claim to have discovered more than a small percentage of +clerical villainy. The churches endeavor to and do hide a great deal +of the immorality of their ministers. The preachers, who govern the +ecclesiastical tribunals, have a fellow feeling for one another. As +a general thing, it is only when the clergy are brought before the +secular courts that the public can learn the full facts. Comparatively +few Catholic priests figure in this record, for the reason that +that church is a close corporation which by political influence and +by control of its members' tongues can conceal the crimes of its +leaders. In all large cities of the country the Catholic church has a +large and dangerous political influence, and its priests have every +chance to go free of retribution for their vices and crimes. The +judges are Catholics, or owe their positions to Catholic power; the +court officers are Catholics; the policemen are Catholics. They all +shield the "fathers" and withhold their names from publication. + +It is impossible, too, for the editor to read all the papers and +gather all the cases which do see the light of publicity. And, we are +sorry to say, some of the secular journals suppress the news. If the +country could be scanned closely the indications are that a hundred +times as many crimes could be found rightfully charged to the men who +set themselves up as teachers of morals. For use in future editions +we therefore urge all who read these pages to send us such accounts +of these cases as may come to their notice, giving facts, dates, +and localities, and, if clippings from newspapers are sent, name, +date, and place of publication of paper. + +It has been objected by apologists for the system of religion in vogue +in this country that clerical delinquencies prove nothing against the +system. In this they are mistaken. Of course, if Christianity had a +foundation of fact, these records would not prove that the fact is +not there. What they do prove, however, is that the claim made for +Christianity, that it makes men moral, is not true. For if the system +is not sufficient to restrain its very teachers, how can we expect +their pupils to profit by it? The point this book emphasizes, as an +ex-Methodist minister, now a Rationalist, but always a moral man, +forcibly puts it, is that religion in and of itself, is not a moral +force; that it is not one with morality; that it may, and often does, +exist without morality, and that morality gains nothing by being +associated with it. + +In proportion to their numbers, it is believed, more ministers than +members of any other profession are guilty of crimes and vices. A +large portion of the crimes are against women or with women. This, +perhaps, is not strange when one considers the institution of pastoral +visits. While men are away from home attending to their duties in +life, the minister is roving about, pretendedly looking after the +welfare of his flock, but really making calls upon the women who most +attract him. What the confessional is to the Roman Catholic church, +such is the "pastoral visit" to the Protestant church. Women should not +attend the one or receive the other except in the presence of their +fathers or husbands. Another institution of the church could also +be done away with to the gain of morality--to wit, the lone studies +for the minister annexed to the churches. These furnished rooms are +the scenes of many debaucheries. With them, too, should go the side +doors or choir entrances. The side door and study of a church in +San Francisco were used for assignation purposes, which culminated +in murder. A murdered woman was found at the confessional box of a +Romish church in New York city. In Omaha a minister was found in the +pastor's room of his own church asphyxiated in close embrace with a +woman missionary. These side doors, secluded "studies," and secret +confessional boxes are dangerous to virtue if not to life. Many a +woman and girl passes through them to her downfall. + +In this short history of ministerial conduct, lack of complete identity +is sometimes unavoidable, for in the reports of these trials in the +secular journals it has been customary to drop the first names of the +defendant, and many a pious villain is recorded as "Rev. Mr. Smith," +or "Rev. Mr. Jones." In some cases the place is not fully given where +the crime was committed. Again, in certain instances, the offense +receives the laconic name, applied by the ecclesiastical court which +tried the criminal, as "immoral conduct," "lascivious conduct," etc.; +definitions that hide the grossness of the offense, and so screen +the reverend culprit in the interest of the church and the cloth. In +many reports of trials by ecclesiastical gatherings the name of the +accused is entirely suppressed, as is supposed, out of respect for his +"sacred calling." + +The denomination to which the "pious soul" belonged, is not always +given, consequently this record will not do to rely upon to enable +the reader to ascertain what branch of "the church of God" has shown +the most efficiency in pastoral criminality. + +Letters will be found placed after a name, as P.E., for presiding +elder, Ev. for Evangelist; for instance: Carhart, Rev. J. W., P.E., +and Bayliss, Rev. E. L., Ev. The D.D., PhD., LLD., and other addenda +purchased of colleges and theological seminaries have not been +preserved with any great care. If any reverend offender who has +been overlooked, and so left out of this "illustrious category," +desires the distinction of having his name and title made famous, +he will please forward the facts. + + + + + + + + + +THE TEN PARSONS. + + +(The following adaptation of a familiar rhyme has appeared in all +editions of this book and might be missed if omitted.) + + + Ten little preachers, preaching love divine, + One kissed the servant girl, then there were nine. + + Nine little preachers, preaching sinners' fate, + One took too much drink, then there were eight. + + Eight little preachers, showing path to heaven, + One betrayed a brother's wife, then there were seven. + + Seven little preachers, barring Satan's tricks, + One of them beat his wife, then there were six. + + Six little preachers, preaching Christ alive, + One enticed a little girl, then there were five. + + Five little preachers, preaching "Sin no more," + One committed an assault, then there were four. + + Four little preachers, pure as they could be, + One deflowered an eight-year-old, then there were three. + + Three little preachers--pity they're so few-- + One killed his paramour, then there were two. + + Two little preachers, to glorify the Son, + One whipped his child to death, then there was one. + + One little preacher, in the fold alone, + He committed suicide, then there was none. + + + + + + + + + +DATE. PREACHER'S NAME. RESIDENCE. CHURCH. CRIME CHARGED. + +1878 Anderson, Rev. Robert New York, N. Y. M. E. Forgery, arrested while fleeing. + Avery, Rev. Eph. K. Tiverton, R. I.; Fall M. E. Seduction, adultery, and murder; married. + River, Mass.; Bristol, R. + I.; Ohio. +1879 Allen, Rev. Cincinnati, O. M. E. Adultery and drunkenness; married. + Araah, Rev. Anamosa, Iowa. Seduction; state prison. + Anderson, Rev. J. S., P.E. Waverly, Iowa.; Charles M. E. Adultery, seduction of wife of D. C. Hayes, + alias J. S. Clark. City, Iowa. Esq.; elopement, deserted wife & children. +1880 Appell, Rev. R. S. Belleman, Pa.; Reading, Pa. Fighting for pulpit, after being voted out; riot + in church, quelled by sheriff's posse. +1881 Arkills, Rev. Moses E. Fredericksburg, Iowa.; Bap. Swindling, cheating, lying, obtaining $6,000 + Rudd, Iowa. under false pretenses; arrested. + Atwater, Rev., W. D., P.E. River Falls, Wis.; Knapp, M. E. Adultery, seduction of Miss Kate Northrup, + Wis.; Menomonee, Wis. caught in act; lying; arrested, church trial. + Aldrich, Rev., T. E. Middletown, Conn. Drunkenness, beating wife; arrested. +1882 Austin, Rev. Geo. H. Madison, Ind.; Dodd City, Forgery, $280, names of John & Perry Cotton; + Tex. fled; arrested; pleaded guilty; Penitentiary 5 + years. + Adams, Rev. Wm. Louisville, Ky. Plagiarism, literary piracy; asked to resign. +1881 Arwood, Rev. Lumpkin Co., Ga. Deserted wife and children, destitute. +1876 Botts, Rev. Thos. B. Philadelphia, Pa. M. E. Adultery, seduction of Louisa Younger, a + deacon's daughter; married. + Benn, Rev. B. Storm Lake, Iowa. Pres. Adultery, seduction of Mrs. O. W. Smith; + married, confessed. + Butler, Rev. Harrison Chillicothe, Ky. Seduction of one of the sisters; she told. +1875 Beecher, Rev. H'ry W. Brooklyn, N. Y. Cong. Adultery, seduction of wife of T. Tilton; + married; perjury; she confessed, he too. +1876 Bell, Rev. Frank, or Fred. New York and Brookl'n. Seduction of 12 sisters; penitentiary 2 yrs. + Bradley, Rev. James Huntsville, Mo. Bap. Adultery, seduction, and bastardy with wife's + sister. +1877 Buffum, Rev. F. K., or Hartford, Conn. Cong. Adultery, seduction, bastardy, and abortion four + Francis E. times; confessed, married. +1878 Booth, Rev. D. R. Terre Haute, Ind. Adultery with a "soiled dove." + Boyle, Rev. Leonidas H. Indianapolis, Ind. Drunkenness and suicide. + Bensinger, Rev. G. T. Pittsburgh, Pa. Bap. Gross fraud; jailed. + Broadwell, Rev. W. B. Vanceburgh, Ky. Chris. Rape on girl ten years old; expelled. + Butler, Rev. Myron Flint, Mich. Ad. Rape on Alma Flint, ten years old; arrested. + Blackwell, Rev. Wm. Columbus, Tenn. Bap. Larceny, horse-thief; arrested, confessed. + Brown, Rev. Henry. Texas. Seduction, breach of promise. + Bartlett, Rev. J. S. Milford, Ohio. Adultery. + Bottes, Rev. Rich. Meriden, Mass. Larceny; convicted. + Berkeley, Rev. E. F. St. Louis, Mo. Seduction of girl eleven years old. + Butler, Rev. W. H. New York, N. Y. St. Lukes Immoral assault on young woman of his + congregation; resigned. + Bowen, Rev. B. F. Cold Spring, N. Y. Malicious trespass. + Burdick, Rev. A. B. River Point, R. I. Adultery with many "sisters;" convicted. + Bell, Rev. Fred A. New York Immoral assault on young woman; fled. + Berry, Rev. Jos. M. Ashville, N. C. Adultery, drunkenness; convicted. + Burr, Rev. D. Ellington Ellardsville, Mo. ,, ,, ,, + Bettinger, Rev. Levi S. Baltimore Co., Md. Seduction of a girl in his charge. + Black, Rev. Prof. Wm. F. Indianapolis, Ind.; St. Chris. Seduction of Miss Corrinne E. Voss; occupied + Louis, Mo. same bed at Planter's Hotel; pres. Christian + college. + Baird, Rev. E. J. Richmond, Va. Pres. Larceny, embezzled $22,000 cash belonging to + Pres. Pub. Co.; he was secretary. +1878 Bowan, Rev. Willis N. Morrisania, N. Y. Immoral assault on a young girl, daughter of + John T. Cooper, member of church. + Brooks, Rev. Wm. P. St. Louis, Mo. Adultery with sister McDonald. + Barnhart, Rev. Brooklyn, E. D., N. Y. M. E. Adultery, seduction of servant girl. + Barker, Rev. S. P. Brantford, Ont. Cong. Insulting personalities from pulpit. + Butler, Rev. Henry Hot Springs, Ark. Adultery with a "sister;" she told. +1879 Barry, Rev. Edward Wyandotte, Mich. Seduction, bastardy with Miss Lizzle Thiede; he + was arrested and held by Jus. Jones. + Bowers, Rev. George Coonville, N. Y. Cong. Adultery, elopement with Bro. Lecroft's wife, + deserting his own wife and children, general + swindling, over $7,000; forgery. + Bayliss, Rev. E. L. Ev. Waverly, Iowa.; Corruna, Bap. Adultery, seduction of wife of Mr. Phoenix; + Mich.; Maple River; Ovid, elopement with her, deserting wife and four + Mich. children; state prison in Mich; false + name--assumed name of his "sweet singer" + Leeland. + Berry, Rev. Ev. Toledo, Ohio. Adultery, seduction of Bro. Bebont's wife. + Browning, Rev. C. H. Grinnell, Iowa. Larceny, stealing cattle. + Braun, Rev. Caspar Houston, Tex. Luth. Adultery, seduction, fighting for pulpit after + he was expelled. + Buck, Rev. New Hampton, Iowa. Advent. Inhumanly beating his little son; fled. +1880 Bowen, Rev. Somersett Co., Md. Illegally marrying a man to his twelve-year old + step-daughter. + Biscoe, Rev. Parsippany, N. J. Seduction; bastardy with Miss K. Leonard. + Bridells, Rev. J., or William Marietta, Pa.; Adultery, drunkenness; expelled. + J, Philadelphia, Pa. + Bowden, Rev. New York. R. Pres. Quarreling in church. +1880 Billman, Rev. Ira C. Jackson, Mich. Adultery, elopement with a "sister," deserted + wife. + Bohanan, Rev. A. B. Leavenworth, Kan. Chris. Adultery, bigamy, deserted wife, embezzlement; + fled. + Banker, Rev. Canton, Kan. Bap. Indecent familiarities with a "sister"; + resigned. +1881 Beekman, Rev. J. V. Armington, Ill.; Pekin, Chris. Beating wife, drunkenness; jailed. + Ill. +1876 Brittain, Rev. P. H. Beverly, N. J. M. E. Immoral assault on two young girls, breach of + hospitality; confessed; fled. + Breese, Rev. J. T. Racine, Wis. Larceny, embezzlement, swindling. +1881 Blum, Rev. Jos. Michigan. Jew. Eloped with a widow; arrested in Chicago. + Buskirk, Rev. Sullivan, Ind. M. E. Adultery, seduction of wife of Bro Jones; + promised to marry; disc'v'd; church trial. + Bowens, Rev. Jas. H. Chicago, Ill. Pres. Embezzlement, swindling, obtaining money by + false pretense; church trial. + Bair, Rev. D. W. Honeytown, O. Brutal ass'ult on a lady; bound to keep peace. + Black, Rev. Indianapolis, Ind. Adultery with widow on Ohio River steamer. + Boyd, Rev. Dr. St. Louis, Mo. Literary piracy; plagiarism from E. Everett. + Baskerville, Rev. Thos. Bloomfield, Iowa; Belknap, Cong. Adultery, seduction of Lizzie Collier, elopement + Iowa; Mt. Hope, Iowa; with her, deserting wife and children. Inhuman + Lancashire, Eng. cruelty to wife and children. +1882 Brooks, Rev. T. R.; Brooks, Bloomington, Ill.; M. E. Slander in his Banner of Holiness; church trial. + Rev. Jno. P. Montgomery, Ala. + Bedient, Rev. J. A. Greenwood, Mo.; Louisville, Cong. Seduction of several "sisters"; dead beat; + Ky. expelled. + Brown, Rev. Jas. A. Indianapolis, Ind. M. E. Embezzlement of church funds; arrested. + Brown, Rev. Lionel Welland, Can. P. E. Suicide; shot himself; Vicar of Welland. + Burnett, Rev. C. C. Chicago, Ill. Slander. +1878 Bradford, Rev. A. H. P. E. Embezzlement of several thousands. +1882 Burt, Rev. D. E. St Louis, Mo. Drunkenness, lying, immoralities; convicted. + Abusing wife and child. + Barnes, Rev. Shanon Co., Mo. Bap. Incest, adultery, seduction of his + granddaughter, aged 13; fled. +1881 Belknap, Rev. Isaac Philomath, Or. Libel on Rev. Walker. + Caskins, Rev. Madison Washington, D. C. Bap. Bigamy, gross fraud. +1877 Crow, Rev. W. S. Hinsdale, Ill. Adultery with females of deacon's family; + deposed. +1878 Carr, Rev. Daniel Lawrence, Mass. Adv. Adultery, three cases; breach of promise; + convicted. + Chenowitz, Rev. Jno. M. Illinois. Bap. Bigamy; fled; arrested; alias John Wells. + Chase, Rev. Sullivan C. St. Louis, Mo. M. E. Rape on Miss Clara Clem, aged 13, and on other + girls; convicted. + Cole. Rev. James Tennessee. Bap. Illicit distilling; convicted. + Craig, Rev. El Paso, Ill. Seduction. + Chabert, Rev. Joseph Montreal, Ont. Cath. Rape on Josephine Beaucamp, aged 15. + Curtis, Rev. Ev. Blackberry, Ill.; Piano, Adultery, caught in bed with a "sister." + Ill. + Copeland, Rev. E. L. Ev. Bigamy, forgery, swindling; expelled. + Coleman, Rev. Austin Janesville, Iowa. M. E. Rape on Ada A. Conner, aged 13; buggery with her + brother; adultery; 70 years old; arrested. + Clark, Rev. Malcom Howard, Mich. Larceny, forgery. + Coates, Rev. Seth B. Dallas City, Ill. Adultery with several sisters. + Culver, Rev. A. J. Lisbon, Iowa. Seduction of daughter of lady who gave him + entertainment. + Crawford, Rev. Geo. C. Brunswick, Maine. Suicide. +1878 Chalfant, Rev. Marietta, Ohio. Incest, seduction of his niece; convicted. +1880 Cole, Rev. J. W. Charlemont, Mass. M. E. Beating wife; after her death, married her maid, + and beat her also. +1878 Collins, Rev. Dr. A. M. Grand Rapids, Mich. Adultery; confessed; excommunicated. +1879 Chase, Rev. H. A. Tully, N. Y. Adultery, caught in the act; 75 years old. + Casswell, Rev. J. C. Galesburgh, Ill.; Batavia, Bap. Adultery; fled. + N. Y. + Cowley, Rev. Edward New York, N. Y. P. E. Inhuman cruelty to orphan children under his + charge in Shepherd's Fold; convicted, and + penitentiary where once he was chaplain. +1880 Coleman, Rev. Louisville, Ky. Larceny, picked lady's pocket of $70.00. + Curtis, Rev. George Fort Wayne, Ind. M. E. Slander, indecent proposals to lady; expel'd. +1880 Caraway, Rev. Alex. Charlotte, N. C. Larceny; convicted. + Crothers, Rev. C. L. Findlay, Ohio. Swindling; fled. + Coats, Rev. Charles T. Campbell, C. H., Va. Bap. Rape on Ida Turpin, 12 years old; immoral + assault on other girls; arrested. + Crude, Rev. Philip, (or Coad) Covington, Ky.; West Cath. Seduction and elopement with Miss Zoe Allard; + Depere, Brown county, Wis. arrested by her father, Joseph J. Allard. + Cooley, Rev. B. F. Chelmsford Cen., Mass. M. E. Getting a young boy drunk; sued. + Carhart, Rev. J. W., P.E. Appleton, Wis.; Tex. M. E. Perjury, lying, dishonesty, "immoral conduct," + "unchristian conduct," and eleven other charges; + convicted, expelled. + Cunz, Rev. B. Millersburgh, Ohio. Luth. Beating wife and children inhumanly. + Caywood, Rev. Mrs. Hillsboro. Ky. Adultery with J. R. Crane. + Cox, Rev. Chattanooga, Tenn. Immoral assault on wife of Mr. Hulley, who had + given him entertainment, and who kicked him out + doors undressed. + Carey, Rev. T. H. Farmington, Mich.; St. Bap. Adultery, seduction of Miss Flora C. Gates. + Johns, Mich. +1881 Cousins, Rev. O. M. Portland, Me.; Saco, Me. M. E. Beating and starving wife and children; she sued + for divorce, and proved charges. + Cass, Rev. Columbus Somerset, Ky.; Hickory M. E. Murdered Wm. McKinney, supt. Sunday-school, beat + Ridge, Ky. head to jelly with an ax; fled. +1881 Cousins, Rev. O. M. Portland, Me. Slander; tried by church court. + Callaert, Rev. Michigan. Cath. Extortion, dishonesty, drunkenness, slander, "a + depraved wretch," so called in report of + Judiciary Com. of Legislature. + Chase, Rev. W. H. Medway, Mass. Cong. Swindling, obtaining money by false pretense, + lying, false personation; fled. + Corry, Rev. Daniel Hudson, N. Y.; Stillwater, Bap. Adultery, seduction, and bastardy with Alice + N. Y. Orton, servant girl; confessed; resigned; + expelled. +1882 Crum, Rev. Taylor Andover, N. Y.; West Bap. Beating wife many times; arrested. Lying, vile + Candor, N. Y.; language; deposed. + Hornellsville, N. Y.; + Richburg, N. Y. + Contois, Rev. St. Louis, Mo. Cath. Embezzlement of church funds, swindling; fled. +1881 Copeland, Rev. A. C. alias Iowa City, Iowa.; Cedar M. E. Adultery and seduction at various places; gross + Rev. John Williams Rapids, Iowa.; St. swindling, forgery, embezzlement, lying, + Catharines, Can.; obtaini'g money by false pretenses; arrested; + Indianapolis, Ind. prison. +1882 Curtis, Rev. Lowell, Mich.; Charlotte, Gambling, lying, not believed under oath. + Mich. + Ceregheni, Rev. John Cincinnati, Ohio. Cath. Drunkenness, calaboose, swindling, obtaining + money by false pretense. +1879 Chase, Rev. Hamilton Tully, N. W. Chris. Adultery; seduction of Miss McCarthy, aged 11; + he, 70; she told. +1882 Curtley, Rev. Little Rock, Ark.; M. E. Adultery, drunkenness, robbery; prison. + Perryville, Ark.; + Dardanell, Ark. + Dawson, Rev. T. M. San Francisco, Cal. Pres. Adultery, bastardy. + Davis, Rev. G. M. Lincoln, Ill. Adultery with Mrs. W. M. Davis; caught by his + wife; this in church. +1878 Dowling, Rev. Indianapolis, Ind. Adultery with servant girl; caught in act. + Deardoff, Rev. Ev. Yates City, Ill. Adultery with three of the "sisters." + Daly, Rev. John Montgomery, Mo. Cath. Seduction of Lizzie McDonald; abortion. + Davidson, Rev. J. A. Pennsylvania. Drunkenness and disorderly conduct. + Dunlap, Rev. Richard Midland, Mich. Adultery. + Davis, Rev. Bap. Adultery with "sister" Burk. + Doolittle, Rev. Aug. Hoosic Falls, N. Y. Adultery with deacon's wife; false personation, + alias LeClair. + Doolittle, Rev. Juneau Co., Wis. Incest and rape on idiotic niece, adultery with + others, 63 years old; convicted, state prison 6 + years. + Dow, Rev. Lorenzo, P.E. Kentucky. M. E. Adultery, deserting wife, elopement with another + preacher's daughter; fled. + Dixon, Rev. Simeon Brooklyn, N. Y.; Adultery, seduction, bastardy with Sarah Jane + Baxtertown, N. Y. Williams. +1878 Davis, Rev. J. K. Ohio. M. E. "Unministerial" conduct; expelled. +1878 Dwyer, Rev. Peter Ev. New York, N. Y. Adultery, elopement with "sister" Melville, + deserting wife and family. +1879 Davis, Rev. A. J. Madelia, Minn. Bap. Assault, intent to murder J. F. Fisher; + arrested. + Dixon, Rev. Dr. Jas. A. New Albany, Ind.; Memphis, Adultery, seduction, of Miss Lizzie Kipley, + Tenn. fraud, lying, attempted suicide, deserting wife + and children. + Dobbs, Rev. A. S. Painesville, Ohio.; M. E. Beating wife; "inhuman monster," expell'd. + Meadville, Pa. + Demond, Rev. Charles Massachusetts. Embezzling church funds; arrested. + Dunbrowski, Rev. A., or Detroit, Mich. Cath. Seduction, bastardy with servant girl, + Dorenhoffer. compounding felony; fled to Europe. +1880 Dannehoffer, Rev. Morris, Ind. Cath. Inhumanly beating children; fined. + Daly, Rev. Morrison, Ill. Cath. Murdered his child by "sister" O'Connell; + indicted. +1881 Dorsey, Rev. Wm. Yonkers.; Tarrytown. M. E. Bigamy, adulte'y, married "sister" Richardson + while wife living, lying to her, told her wife + was dead; church trial; depos'd; fled. + Davenport, Rev. Isaac Newark, N. J. Pres. Lying; charged by Bro. Hawkins. + Duer, Rev. Henry E. Newburgh, N. Y. Bap. Larceny; arrested. +1882 Dunn, Rev. J. B. Philadelphia, Pa. Pres. Adultery, seduction of "sister," immoral assault + on women; fled. + Dupont, Rev. F. L. Farrington, Ky.; Drunkenness, attempted suicide twice; arrested. + Hopkinsville, Ky.; Atlanta, + Ga. + During, Rev. John Toledo, O. Inhuman cruelty to his daughter; she committed + suicide; church trial; resigned. + Dawe, Rev. Durfield, Mich. M. E. Arson; went to Europe; arrested. +1878 Decunie, Rev. C. L., or Flint, Mich.; Big Rapids, Cath. Adultery, bastardy, with housekeeper; swindling + Dunnick. Mich.; Grand Rapids, Mich. his sister out of her patrimony. +1882 Dillon, Rev. S. D., or S. J. Cincinnati, O. Bap. Larceny, stole money from his host; jailed. + Debeste, Rev. C. Kalamazoo, Mich. Luth. Larceny; caught; expelled; fled. +1878 Ellis, Rev. W. T. Woodstock, Conn. Cong. Vile, indecent, profane language; expell'd. + Eddy, Rev. George O. Gloversville, N. Y. Bigamy. + Edgerton, Rev. Gloversville, N. Y. Larceny. + Eastman, Rev. A. W. West Cornwall, Ohio. Adultery with the "sisters;" expelled. + Echenbery, Rev. John Peru, Ill. Incest with two daughters and daughters-in-law, + adultery, sodomy; fled. + Evans, Rev. W. H. Vincennes, Ind. Bap. Swindling under false pretense; fled. +1881 Ewing, Rev. Thos. Leavenworth, Kan. Bap. Adultery, seduction, and bastardy, with "sister" + Leah Barnett; arrested. +1882 Ellis, Rev. W. T. Ev. Abingdon, Ill. Fighting. + Ellis, Rev. Ed. H. Ev. Neponset, Mass.; North Bap. Adultery with a "sister," wife of a "brother;" + Haven, Me.; Thomaston.; arrested in pulpit while preaching; jumped his + Rockland, Me. bail and fled. +1879 Esmond, Rev. Worcester, Mass. Cong. Embezzlement of $100,000, church funds. + Fishback, Rev. Charles. Winchester, Ky. Assault with intent to rape a 14-years-old + colored girl; arrested. + Fiske, Rev. Dr. Syracuse, N. Y.; Michigan. Adultery; indicted; pleaded guilty. + Foster, Rev. H. Circleville, Ohio. Seduction of servant girl. + Fairchild, Rev. J. H. Boston, Mass.; Exeter, Adultery, seduction; arrested. + Mass. + Fay, Rev. Dr. Boston, Mass. Adultery, fornication, perjury; confessed. + Fink, Rev. Richard Grand Rapids, Mich. Adultery with a young sister; deposed. + Forham, Rev. Chicago, Ill. Cath. Embezzlement of church funds. + Fitz, Rev. E. S. Southampton, Mass. Adultery with "several sisters." + Foster, Rev. J. H. Hannibal, Mo. Adultery, bigamy, several wives, gambling; fled. + Fansette, Rev. Leaven Port Huron, Mich. Murder; hung. + Flesher, Rev. Andw. C. Bridgeport, Ill. Bigamy. +1879 Furniss, Rev. Wm. P. Ilion, N. Y.; M. E. Seduction, bastardy with Miss Celeste Watrous; + Pleasantville, N. Y. adultery, lying; fled to escape arrest. +1880 Franklyn, Rev. Thos. J. Philadelphia, Pa. Embezzlement; assault and battery on church + warden Brown. + Folger, Rev. S. W. Delhi, Ont. Bap. Suicide. + Frazee, Rev. I. D. Branchville, N. J. M. E. Immoral assault on wife of A. Halsted. + Fraeger, Rev. F. W. St. Paul, Minn. Forgery of note for $1,500. +1881 Fifer, Rev. Henry Nebraska City, Neb. Larceny, stealing wood from W. H. Hammond, W. E. + Dillon, and News office. + Fossett, Rev. Theo. Sacramento, Cal. M. E. Drunkenness; arrested. + Flora, Rev. Furos Co., Mo. Immoral assault on a "sister;" indicted. +1882 Finnerty, Rev. M. Mokena, Ill.; Chicago, Ill. M. E. Assault with intent to commit rape on Miss May + Sheridan; immoral assault on women; arrested; + prison. + Foster, Rev. E. S. Winchester, Vt.; N. Adams, Univers. Sodomy, lying, contempt of court; jailed; church + Mass.; Utica, N. Y. trial. +1881 Guiteau, Rev. Chas. J. Chicago, Ill.; Washington, Cong.; M. E. Murder of Pres. Garfield; lying, adultery; + D. C. religious tramp with Moody and Sankey; + convicted; executed. +1876 Gaskins, Rev. M. Washington, D. C. Bap. Bigamy. + Glendenning, Rev. J. S. Jersey City, N. J.; Henry, Pres. Seduction of a young sister, bastardy, lying; + Ill. she committed suicide. +1877 Gray, Rev. William Lexington, Ky. Bap. Larceny, robbing contribution box. + Graves, Rev. Uriel Baltimore, M. D. Luth. Embezzlement of missionary fund. +1878 Gray, Rev. John A. Texas. M. E. Drunkenness for two years. + Goddis, Rev. Maxwell P. Adultery, drunkenness. + Goodenough, Rev. New York, N. Y. M. E. Embezzlement from M. E. Book Concern. + Graber, Rev. Charles A. Meriden, Conn. Adultery. + Gilbert, Rev. Alfred N. Baltimore, Md. Adultery with a grass-widow. +1879 Green, Rev. R. T. Alisa Craig, Ont. P. E. Forgery; penitentiary. + Gabbert, Rev. R. R. Pellville, Ky. Suicide. + Goodnight, Rev. Ev. Corsicana, Texas. Adultery, bastardy with his female assistant + evangelist. +1880 Gard, Rev. W. M. Newport, Ind. Chris. Immoral assault on little Cordelia Schuman. + Gallahorn, Rev. J. H. Hannibal, Mo. Gross immorality; expos'd by church co'ncil. +1881 Gray, Rev. Plymouth, Pa. M. E. Robbed old Mr. Albrighten, larceny, lying; gave + up the money; confessed. + Gates, Rev. Shode Newberne, N. C.; Canada. Fighting for pulpit, whipped two preachers. +1882 Grant, Rev. C. E. Ev. alias Austin, Tex.; Bryan, Tex. Larceny, deserted wife and children, adultery, + Geo. Holmes. attempted bigamy; arrested. + Guy, Rev. Maysville, La. Cath. Sodomy, unnamed crime; driven from town. + Graves, Rev. Baltimore, Md. Luth. Swindling, fraud "indecencies;" trial. + Gallaway, Rev. H'nry N. Topeka, Kan.; Louisiana, Bigamy; arrested. + Mo. + Gleason, Rev. St. Louis, Mo. Cath. Adultery, seduction, bigamy; suspended. +1878 Howell, Rev. J. J. Minneapolis, Minn. Suicide. + Heath, Rev. Henry A. Morrison, Ill. Adultery many times, deserted wife and family. + Harlan, Rev. Dr. Nebraska. Slander and vulgarity; expelled. + Hopkins, Rev. Jer. D. Brooklyn, N. Y. Cheating by false pretenses. + Hoerlin, Rev. Martin Buffalo, N. Y. Arson, burned his house for insurance. + Houghoworth, Rev. J. Ev. Liscomb, Iowa; Gifford, Adv. Adultery, seduction of Miss Eva Roberts; she was + Iowa killed by her Lover, John Bell, who then + committed suicide, dying with her in his arms. + Harmon, Rev. Christ. Greenburgh, Ind. Bigamy; prison. +1879 Hines, Rev. H. K., P.E. La Grand, Ore.; Dalles, M. E. Adultery with Mrs. A. C. Huntington; fled. + Ore. +1879 Hayes, Rev. James New York, N. Y. Cath. Inhumanly beating orphan child; indicted. + Heroy, Rev. I. B. Hancock, N. Y. M. E. Adultery with Mrs. Lodiska Edwards, wife of A. + J. Edwards, who captured his letters; she + confessed; lying; Heroy denied. + Hobson, Rev. John T. Bedford, Ind. Gambling, bet $150 on confidence game. + Harris, Rev. Sherman, Tex. M. E. Embezzlement of church funds; swindling. + Hauser, Rev. George Scipio, Ind. Bap. Illegal marrying; indicted. +1880 Henderson, Rev. J. R. Van Wert, Ohio. M. E. Slander of Miss Nora Comer; she horsewhipped + him. + Hafermann, Rev. Henry Hoboken, N. J. Luth. Kissing his servant girl for her spirit'l good; + dismissed. Assaulting immorally another woman. + Hojda, Rev. Johann Baltimore, Md. Cath. Fornication, seduction of Miss A. Lieman. + Howell, Rev. E. W. Baxter Springs, Kan. M. E. Adultery with a "sister," wife of a good + citizen; confessed by both; deserted wife and + seven children. + Hunter, Rev. C. R. Hoboken, N. J. Adultery, elopement with a young "sister," Miss + Andervelt; deserting wife and children; + confessed. + Hunt, Rev. Hoyt E. Brooklyn, N. Y.; Woodbury, M. E. Sodomy, buggery, unnamed crime with his + N. Y. step-son, Abner Jones, aged 11; prison. + Hinman, Rev. S. D. Santee, Neb.; Dakota. P. E. Adultery, seduction of Indian girls at the + mission school where he was missionary; + patronizing brothels in Washington, D. C.; + published by Bishop Hare, Niobrara. + Hazlewood, Rev. Webst'r Roxsbury, Mass. Adultery; fraudulent divorce; expelled. + Hendry, Rev. John Saranac, Mich.; Carlton, Forgery of Mrs. Lydy's name to note, etc.; fled. + Mich. + Haddock, Rev. F. O. Waupacca, Mich. Cong. Resigned under charges. "Least said the better + at present." + Huebner, Rev. Middleton, Ohio. Luth. Adultery with Peter Weigold's wife, and others. + Handford, Rev. J. W. Toronto, Ont. Adultery with wife of Mr. Leslie, caught in act, + drunkenness. +1877 Hopkins, Rev. E. D. St. Johnsbury, Vt. Forgery; state-prison; expelled. +1878 Hayden, Rev. H. H. North Madison, Conn. M. E. Seduction and murder of Miss Mary E. Stannard. + Higgins, Rev. Sam. Shelbyville, Ind. M. E. Slander of Mrs. Jane Higgins; she cowhided him. + Hulitt, Rev. S. Jerico county, Ky. Adultery; arrested; suspended. + Hill, Rev. Dr. Wade Rutherford, N. C. Bap. Dueling--shot his son-in-law, And'w Scroggins, + in a duel. + Hayes, Rev. Robert Raleigh, N. C. Incest; penitentiary twenty years. + Hudkins, Rev. Jas. A. Mt. Airy, Ohio. Bigamy, three wives. + Huston, Rev. L. D. Baltimore, Md. Seduction of young girls ten to twelve years + old. + Holt, Rev. William Paris, Ill. Assault and battery, whipped a poor widow with + plow lines. + Hines, Rev. Archibald Knoxville, Tenn. Larceny. + Hardy, Rev. L. T. Shelbyville, Ky. Adultery and elopement with a "sister." + Hanna, Rev. J. W., P.E. Tennessee. M. E. Attempt to seduce Miss Parilla Naylor. + Hutchison, Rev. Austin Vermont. Incest and bastardy with his daughter, adultery; + she told. + Hutchison, Rev. John Boston, Mass. Swindling; house of correction 8 months. + Hiram, Rev. Greenville, N. Y. Adultery, fornication; convicted. + Humpstone, Rev. Malta, N. Y. Fighting and quarreling with his church. +1880 Healey, Rev. Marblehead. Cath. Assault and battery on a young lady for refusing + to buy his "photo;" convicted. +1880 Hartman, Rev. H. Council Bluffs, Iowa. Adultery, fornication, perjury; put up at hotel + with woman not his wife. +1881 Hemenway, Rev. Massachusetts. M. E. Larceny; state-prison; convicted. + Harbaugh, Rev. F. R. Red Bank. Pres. Irregularities; members deserted his church. + Hudgins, Rev. Osnabruck, Ont. M. E. Assault and battery, beating a woman; arrested. + Hargrave, Rev. Brooklyn, N. Y. M. E. Quarreling for the pulpit with Rev. Reeve. + Hammond, Rev. H. H. Solon, Iowa.; Center Point, M. E. Swindling, lying, obtaining money by false + Iowa. pretense, literary piracy; deposed. + Hall, Rev. Jas. E. St Louis, Mo.; Roxbury, Cong. Bigamy, breach of promise, adultery, lying, + Mass. engaged to marry 5 of "sisters;" depos'd. + Heinrich, Rev. Carl Woodhaven, N. Y. Adultery with wife of Deacon Crippendorf; + arrested; she told. Assault on Mr. C. + Hall. Rev. Newman Chicago, Ill. Divorced his wife to marry a new love. + Hoffman, Rev. Henry O. Bloomington, Ill.; Holden, M. E. Adultery, seduction and bastardy with Zeletta C. + Ill.; Quincy, Ill.; Robinson, bribery, lying about it; confessed, + Hillsboro, Ill. then denied; fornication; dismissed. +1882 Hall, Rev. Newman Chicago, Ill. Cong. Adultery, charged by his wife. + Herndon, Rev. Richmond, Va. Bap. Murder, adultery, seduction, seduc'd a young + "sister," murdered her to hide his crime, + assault and battery, trying to beat religion + into a fellow-convict; penitentiary. + Heinrich, Rev. Carl Wisconsin.; Naperville, Luth. Adultery, seduction of wife of "Brother" + Ill.; Woodhaven, N. Y. Crippendorf, assault and battery; expelled. + Healey, Rev. Lawrence, Mass. Cath. Adultery, eloped with a "sister." +1882 Hamilton, Rev. Chas. Rondeau, Can. Bap. Adultery, seduction, elopement with a + "brother's" wife; deserting sick wife and + children; embezzlement of church funds; inhuman + cruelty to wife. +1878 Hockpeppel, Rev. P. W. Wilmington, Del. Cath. Immoral assault on a young lady; embezzlement; + sent to monastery. +1879 Haight, Rev. Geo. L. Portland, Mich. M. E. Larceny, stole a lady's silver cup on the cars; + caught hiding it; arrested. +1881 Horville, Rev. Harry Avoca, Nebraska.; West U. B. Stopped at hotel, Council Bluffs, and slept a + Virginia. week with a strange woman, "Ollie," as his wife; + perjury in trying to escape. + Holquerst, Rev. alias McLean. Red Wing Minn.; Norwich, M. E. Adultery with wife of Rev. ---- of Mich., eloped + Mich. with her to Minn.; arrested. + Holyfield, Rev. Ellsville, Ala. M. E. Burglary, larceny, breach of hospitality; killed + while robbing store of his host, M. McLemore. +1882 Howland, Rev. Seneca Waterbury, Conn. M. E. Adultery, swindling, lying, "secularity;" + churched. + Hoff, Rev. Sam. Philadelphia, Pa. Forgery of election returns, fraud; arrested. + Hilton, Rev. Norton Pontiac, Mich. Bap. Adultery, "immoralities;" expelled. +1881 Johnson, Rev. W. L. Albany, N. Y.; Burlington, M. E. Larceny, stole goods from steamer Drew; + Vt. arrested. +1882 Johnson, Rev. A. P. Lansing, Mich. Drunkenness; assault and battery; prison ninety + days. +1876 Jones, Rev. Wm. H. Toronto, Ont. P. E. Embezzlement, drunkenness, falsehood, vulgarity, + and ten other charges; expelled. + James. Rev. F. D. Somerville, Mass. Forgery, long continued, $100,000; jailed. + Jones, Rev. John New York, N. Y. Bap. Forgery; arrested while fleeing to Europe. +1878 Johnson, Rev. Joshua Bayonne, N. J. M. E. Drunkenness and disorderly conduct; arrested. +1878 Johnson, Rev. W. H. Rahway, N. J. Larceny; arrested. + Johnson, Rev. Adultery; deposed; editor of the Evangelist. + Johnson, Rev. Williamson Co., Tenn. Adultery, seduction of girl 14 years old. + Jones, Rev. Joseph Ev. Baltimore, Md. Suicide after embezzlement of $50,000 church + funds. +1880 Jones, Rev. John T. New York, N. Y. Attempted suicide, shot himself three times; + assistant editor of Daily Witness. +1876 Kendrick, Rev. C. A. Columbus, Ga. Bap. Adultery, seduction of a girl of 13, caught in + the act in his church; adultery previously; + fled; arrested; prison; confessed. +1880 Kirk, Rev. A. J. Ottawa, Kan.; Kansas City, U. B. Adultery, seduction, deserting wife, swindling; + Mo. fled; arrested. + Kirkpatrick, Rev. Toronto, Ont. Pres. Fighting and quarreling in church. Riot in + church about having an organ. +1881 Koehler, Rev. Julius Chillicothe, Ohio. Luth. Adultery and drunkenness in house of ill-fame. +1879 Kallock, Jr., Rev. San Francisco, Cal. Murder of De Young, editor Chronicle. +1878 Knight, Rev. A. H. Mitchell circuit, Ind. M. E. Adultery with Mary Smith; suspended. + Kalloch, Rev. J. S., P.E. Massachusetts.; San Adultery at various times, slander. + Francisco, Cal.; Kansas. + Kendrick, Rev. Tunis T. Williamsburg, N. Y. Adult'ry, drunkenness, swindling; convict'd. + Keeley, Rev. Madison, Wis. Adultery with Miss Clemmens. + Kendreck, Rev. Seduction of girl of 9 years. + Kristeller, Rev. Newbridge, N. Y. Quarreling with Rev. K. N. Wright for pulpit. + Kirby, Rev. Chambersburg, Ohio. Seduction. + Kane, Rev. J. J. Inhuman treatment of wife; arrested. + Knowlton, Rev. DeWitt Boltonville. Adultery and bastardy with a "sister." +1879 Komer, Rev. Olark's Hill; Lafayette, Adultery; compounding felony. + Ind. +1880 Kensico, Rev. Immoral conduct, kissing promiscuously. + Krohn, Rev. Dr. West Troy, N. Y. Adultery; cheating; fled. +1881 Kirby, Rev. Camden, N. J. M. E. Quarreling with Rev. Shimp over ch. dues. + Kellogg, Rev. Iowa. Bap. Adultery; seduction of a "brothers'" wife; fled. + Kera, Rev. E. K. Clermont Co., Ill. Bap. Adultery with "sister" Bontware; tried; + resigned. + Knight, Rev. Henry Clifton, Kan. Assault and battery; church trial. + Kallsnberg, Rev. Miamisburg, O. Cath. Immoral assault on women. + Kingsley, Rev. C. S. Boise City, Ida. M. E. Incest, adultery, seduction of his niece, Miss + Hattie A. Parsons. + Kirkus, Rev. Baltimore, Md.; Portland, "Very objectionable;" resigned. + Or. +1882 Kochler, Rev. Julius Manistee. Adultery; sending obscene matter through mails; + arrested; fined $300. + Kelley, Rev. Lewisville, Pa. M. E. Adultery, seduction, elopement with Miss Carrie + Monroe; deserting wife and children embezzlement + of church funds. + Knight, Rev. A. H. Mitchell, Ind. M. E. Attempt to poison wife; suspend'd; adult'y. +1882 Lorimer, Rev. Dr. Chicago, Ill. Literary piracy, stealing Dr. Parker's sermon's. + Lewis, Rev. Elmira, N. Y.; Hartford, N. M. E. Pres. Adultery with wife of "brother" Kirkland. + Y. + Lansing, Rev. J. A. or G. A. Newark, N. J.; Brooklyn, M. E. Swindling; obtaining $14,000 from a widow by + Mass. false pretenses; arrested, indicted, prison. + Lichtenberg, Rev. Utica, N. Y. Luth. Drunkenness; dismissed. +1882 Levinson, Rev. Jacob L. New York.; Cincinnati, Jew. Forgery of $20,000; fled. + Ohio. + Little, Rev. Dr. J. Irondale, Mo.; St. Louis, M. E. Seduction and bastardy with Emma, a 19-year old + Mo.; Poplar Bluff, Mo. "yellow" girl; discovered by his letters; + arrested. + Lampe, Rev. Wheeling, W. Va. Luth. Assault with intent to rape a 12-year old girl. + Laros, Rev. Jesse Allentown, Pa. M. E. Rape on Ida Miller, aged 13, adultery; arrested. +1876 Lathrop, Rev. C. D. Amherst, Mass. Cong. Cruelty to family, "unchristian conduct;" + expelled. + Lee, Rev. Wm. H. Jersey City, N. J. Beating wife many times, profanity; arrest'd. +1878 Lautrell, Rev. Alf. M. New York, N. Y. Seduction of a young colored servant girl, + lying; arrested. + Luxumburg, Rev. Moritz New York, N. Y. Jew. Desertion of wife. + Lyda, Rev. Dr. Wheeling, W. Va. Poisoning starving children, assault with intent + to murder; arrested. + Linn, Rev. Pittsburgh, Pa. Adultery many times. + Langdon, D. D., Rev. New York, N. Y. M. E. Embezzlement, larceny from M. E. book concern. + Lindsay, Rev. Medina, N. Y. Murder, whipped a little 3-year old boy to death + for incorrectly saying Lord's Pray'r. + LeClaire, Rev. Aug. Hoosic Falls, N. Y. Adultery with deacon's wife, false personation, + alias Doolittle. + Leak, Rev. J. F. Troy, Kan. Seduction, bastardy with a young "sister." + Loring, Rev. Osage, Iowa. Adultery with wife of deacon Hawley, caught in + act; both confessed to many offenses. + Locker, Rev. John Cass City, Mich. M. E. Adultery; elopement with "sister" Bell; state + prison three years. +1879 Landers, Rev. Brooklyn, Mo. Bap. Fighting and quarreling for the pulpit with Rev. + Mr. Treadwell; riot in church. + Long, Rev. George Springfield, Mo. Bap. Murder of Frank Gaddy; arrested. +1882 Lofton, D.D., Rev. George A. St. Louis, Mo.; Memphis, Bap. Drunkenness; immoral assault on a lady in cars; + Tenn.; Georgia. knocked down by a passenger. Lying; church + trial. + Lewis, Rev. Peter Washington, D. C. Bap. Drunkenness; convicted; fined. +1876 McKilvey, Rev. Alex. New Jersey. Pres. Improper conduct; expelled from church. +1877 Moody, Rev. John Cincinnati, Ohio. Larceny, embezzlement of church funds; prison. + Moulton, Rev. DeWitt Boultonville, Ill. Seduction, bastardy with a "sister;" she told; + arrested. + McGhee, Rev. Sam. H. Ashton, Ill. Murder of wife; adultery with Miss Lorrille + Paddock; state prison 14 years. + McCaffery, Rev. D. M. New York, N. Y. Immoral assault on young wife of Mr. Leavitt; + attempted seduction; arrested. + McCarty, Rev. C. P. New York, N. Y. Breach of trust; abusive language. +1878 McCoskry, Rev. Bishop Samuel Detroit, Mich. P. E. Seduction; fornication, long continued, with + Miss Fannie Richards, aged 14; confessed; 75 + years of age; deposed by the house of bishops. + Merrill, Rev. Dr. St. Joseph, Mo. Bap. Unbecoming conduct; expelled. + Miller, Rev. Herbert C. Gouverneur, N. Y.; St. P. E. Adultery, seduction of Maria B. Foster, an + Lawrence Co., N.Y. invalid, bastardy with her; fled while under + arrest; escape from justice; desertion of wife + and children; lying, represented himself as + unmarried, engaged to marry respectable lady. +1878 Murray, Rev. David Ypsilanti, Mich. Pres. Lascivious conduct with Miss Mamie Johnson; + arrested. + Manson, Rev. T. New York, N. Y. M. E. Adultery, at M. E. book concern. + Maffitt, Rev. Jno. N. Ev. M. E. Adultery with many women. + Mitchell, Rev. S. M. Savannah, Ga. Adultery, gross falsehood. + Mills, Rev. Luke Norwich, Conn. M. E. Adultery, larceny, embezzlement. + Murray, Rev. Dr. Wm. G. Baltimore, Md. Drunkenness and profanity. + Magoon, Rev. Dr. Pres. Jonas college. "Very uncourteous conduct." + Macready, Rev. Chas. S. Middleboro, Mass. Suicide. + May, Rev. F. W. Chesaning, Mich. Adultery with several "sisters." + Morris, Rev. John H. Philadelphia, Pa., San Rape on Mary Rue, his 8-year old adopted + Antonio, Texas. daughter, caught by his wife, adultery for a + year. +1879 Murray, Rev. W. H. H. Guilford, Conn. Swindling, general recklessness. + Maupin, Rev. W. T. Farmer City, Ill. Chris. Adultery two years with "sister" Scott; she + told. + Mandeline, Rev. John Brooklyn, Ohio. Bigamy, 7 wives; confessed; penitentiary 5 + years. + McWilliams, Rev. Aurora, Ill. Larceny, embezzlement of his ward's (Miss Hill) + money, assault and battery, beat her with cane + and fist for remonstrating. + Martin, Rev. J. L. Missouri Valley, Iowa. Pres. Drunkenness in the hour of divine service. + Miller, Rev. S. S. Brookville, Pa. Luth. Adultery, seduction, bastardy with his adopted + daughter; she told; convicted. + McNeer, Rev. W. R. Prince George Co., Md. Adultery, seduction, bastardy with a young + "sister," swindling, deserting wife and + children. +1880 Mason, Rev. Jas. M. Floyd C.-H., Va. Swindling; convicted; jailed; whipped. + Morgan, Rev. Henry Boston, Mass. Publishing obscene literature, so says the + Christian Intelligencer. + Morse, Rev. John Dexter, Me.; Calais, Me. M. E. Adultery and other crimes; suspended. + Mitchell, Rev. G. Shelbyville, Ind. Deserting wife; attempted bigamy; fled. + Moulton, Rev. R. G. Michigan. Cong. Drunkenness, gambling, profanity; deposed. + Marshall, Rev. Frank. Fairland, Ind. Bap. Attempted bigamy; deserting wife and family. + Miller, Rev. T. B. Philadelphia, Pa. Forgery; arrested. + McClelland, Rev. Geo. T. Reynoldsville, Pa. Pres. Immoral assault on a reverend brother's wife, + who beat him severely. +1880 May, Rev. Portland, Or. Jew. Assault with intent to murder Mr. Waldeman. + May, Rev. C. S. Danvers, Mass. Adultery and abortion twice; adultery with + insane women under his charge. + Marsland, Rev. Jno. Center Village, Conn. M. E. Deserted his post suspiciously. +1881 Miller, Rev. B. C. Ev. Roxbury, N. Y. Ref. Kissing and hugging young wife of David + Williams; caught in act; immoral conduct; caught + at it; confessed; expelled. +1876 McGlenn, Rev. Boston, Mass. Cath. Slandering Jno. Fanning and wife; arrested. +1881 Mitchell, Rev. D. P. Topeka, Kan. M. E. Bribery, illegal voting, corrupting elections, + embezzlement of church funds, larceny; + convicted; expelled; candidate for Congress. + Morgan, Rev. Lloyd. Kittenning, Pa.; Bap. M. E. Larceny, stole books from a public library; + Cincinnati, Ohio. adultery with "sister," convicted; forgery. + Mattlack, Rev Robert. Little Rock, Ark.; Izard New Light. Murder repeated; bloody atonement. + county, Ark. + Mahony or Malony, Rev. Erie, Pa. Cath. Swindling, obtaining money by false pretense, + arrested; worked miracles for pay. +1881 Meredith, Rev. G. F. Washington, Ill.; Peoria, M. E.; M. E.; Swindling, obtaining money under false pretense; + Ill.; Kewanee, Ill.; Kansas M. E.; Pres.; adultery, repeated many times in each place; + City, Mo.; Soublette, Ill. M. E. seducing six married "sisters," drunkenness, + lying, profanity; resigned; expelled. Eloped + with wife of "Bro." O'Brien. + Moore, Rev. G. W. Toledo, Ohio.; Chicago, Swindling, lying, obtaining money by false + Ill.; Maryland. pretense. + McGill, Rev. John Weston, W. Va.; Toronto, Cath. Swindling tramp; arrested. + Can. + Miller, Rev. D. New London, Mo. Larceny; arrested; disgraced. + McIntosh, Rev. Geo. Newton, Ill. M. E. Forgery of Mr. J. W. William's note and sold it. + Mulford, Rev. Jacob Camden, N. J. M. E. Drunkenness in pulpit, drunken spree; suicide, + laudanum and whisky. + Malek, Rev. Chicago, Ill. Cath. Murder of Rev. Mielcuszny; arrested. + Mackey, Rev. Youngstown, Ohio. Adultery, seduction of wife of "Bro." J. T. + Meal, assault with intent to kill Meal with + revolver. + McCarty, Rev. Greenfield, Mass. Cath. Inducing wife to leave husband; shot. + Mahan, Rev. I. S. Urbana, Ohio. Bap. Adultery, seduction, lying, insulting ladies; + church trial. +1882 Maynard, Rev. F. W. New York.; Decatur, Ill. Chris. Drunkenness, "immoralities," charges; resigned. + McGill, Rev. John Toronto, Can.; Weston, W. Cath. Vagrancy, swindling; arrested. + Va. + Morgan, Rev. Floyd Galesburgh, Ill.; Bap. Adultery with many sisters; seduction of many + Logansport, Pa. women; dismissed; arrested; confessed. + McMurdy, Rev. Robert Niles, Mich.; Joliet, Ill. P. E. Adultery with many "sisters;" seduction. + Miller, Rev. Philadelphia, Pa. Abortionist; arrested. + Massingham, Rev. W. J. Chicago, Ill. Immoral assault on ladies; arrested, fined. + Mitchell, Rev. Frank Fairland, Ind. Bap. Attempt to commit bigamy; deserting wife and + children; fled. + Marshall, Rev. Jonas T. Rossville. M. E. Guilty under Art. 10, §2, book of Discipline. + Merritt, Rev. Battle Creek. M. E. Inhuman cruelty to wife; she attempted suicide. + Miner, Rev. J. W. St. Louis, Mo. Forgery; larceny many times; arrested. + McCord, Rev. Rush Center, Kan. Immoral assault on Mrs. McK. +1878 McElroy, Rev. White Plains, N. Y. Cath. Drunkenness; immorality. +1882 Martin, Rev. Joseph E. Lafayette, Ind. P. E. Inhuman cruelty to wife; held to bail, $500. + Newby, Rev. Thos. B. New York, N.Y.; Central P. Adultery, seduction, bigamy, lying, false + City, Col.; Ravenswood, N. pretense; adultery everywhere he went; expelled. + Y.; Lambertville, N. J. +1877 Noble, Rev. Mason Sheffield, Mass. Cong. Immoral assault on Miss Belle J. Clarke, a + pupil. +1878 Nolan, Rev. Hamlin Mt. Level, Va. Seducing a lot of colored girls, aged 13 to 15; + expelled. + Navin, Rev. Enoch Paris, Tenn. Nuisance, escaped jail, malicious mischief, + indicted. +1879 Newell, Rev. John Lafayette, Ind.; Clark's Adultery with Rev. Komer's wife, compounding a + Hill, Ind. felony. + Newbold, Rev. Geo. Belleville, Ont.; M. E. Adultery, bigamy, forgery, assault and battery; + Bartonville, Ont. convicted, prison; elopement with warden's wife; + fled. +1881 O'Malley, Rev. Bryan P. E. Beating and kicking wife; she procured divorce. + O'Brien, Rev. Milwaukee, Wis. Cath. Drunkenness; arrested. + O'Hanlan, Rev. St. Louis, Mo. Cath. Riot, drunkenness, assault and battery. +1877 O'Neil, Rev. R. Moffatt, or Vermont.; New York.; New P. E.; Cong.; Forgery of ordination papers, literary piracy; + Neil. England.; Waverly, Iowa. Pres.; Bap. expelled. Lying. Again forging ordination papers + at Brooklyn, N. Y.; Orange, N. J.; Bellerica, + Mass.; Fall River, Mass.; tried and expelled. + False personation, now Neil. +1878 Onderdonk, Rev. Bishop New York. Adultery. + Onderdonk, Rev. Bishop New Jersey. Adultery. +1880 O'Reiley, Rev. Cath. Adultery. +1881 O'Reiley, Rev. Carondelet, Mo. Cath. Assault and battery on a mechanic. +1876 Parker, Rev. L. D. P.-E. Catlettsburgh, Ky.; Louisa M. E. Adultery, seduction, elopement with Miss Winnie + C.-H., Ky. Sweetman, daughter of Rev. S. Sweetman; + deserting wife and children; swindling. + Pettaplace, Rev. R. M. Lowell, Mass. Adv. Adultery, accused by his wife; confessed; + resigned. + Phillips, Rev. Darling R. Hackensack, N. J.; Immoral assault on Mrs. A. B. Foote, forgery; + Richmond, Va. expelled. +1878 Pratt, Rev. H. L. E. Staten Island, N. Y.; New P. E. Adultery with Miss Mary Clark; arrested; + York, N. Y. expelled. +1881 Potts, Rev. Orange Co., Ind. Assault and battery, beat Frank Osborn over head + with club in church. + Pierson, Rev. Silas Greenup, Ill. Bap. Adult'ry, seduction, and elopement with Miss + Maynes, 17, deserting wife and 3 child'n. + Pennell, Rev. Geo. C. Newark, N. J. P. E. Secret marriage; disowning his son; desertion of + wife and child; cruelty to wife and child. + Parnell, D.D., Arch Dea. Kingston, Ont. P. E. Embezzlement of $12,000 church funds. +1882 Pinman, Rev. J. B. Worcester, Mass. Criminal conduct; resigned; fled. + Palmstrom, Rev. A. Hastings, Minn.; River Luth. Adultery, seduction, bastardy with Miss Anna + Falls, Wis.; Red Wing, Erickson; lying; deposed. + Minn.; Vasa, Minn.; Welsh, + Minn.; Leon, Minn. +1878 Phillips, Rev. Thor. B. or Barnesville, Ohio. M. E. Wanton conduct with Miss Alma Fuller; expelled. + Thorn. E. + Parker, Rev. Zacharia Dallas, Tex. Bap. Embezzlement; arrested; bond $3,000. + Pearson, Rev. R. W. Pittsburg, Pa. Swindling; gross fraud; arrested. + Parker, Rev. Benj. Elkhart, Tex. Assault with intent to murder colored man named + Worth. + Parry, Rev. Wm. Bristol, R. I.; Worcester, Drunkenness, long continued; expelled. + Mass. + Packard, Rev. E. P. W. Unjust confinem't of wife in insane asylum. + Phinney, Rev. B. F. Westboro, Mass. Adultery with the "sisters" in the church. + Pomeroy, Rev. Dr. Sec. American Board of Adultery; larceny; embezzlement. + Foreign Missions. + Porter, Rev. J. M. Bethlehem, N. Y. Adultery, long continued. + Porter, Rev. G. W. Danbyboro, Vt. Adultery, seduction of Miss Hattie Allen. + Parshall, Rev. Oakland, Cal. Adultery with the "sisters;" convicted. + Porter, Rev. John W. VanSycle's Cor., N. Y. Adultery, seduction of pupil, a mere child. + Pond, Rev. Lucius M. Worcester, Mass. Forgery $10,000; larceny; swindling; fled; + arrested. + Parker, Rev. Ashland, Ky. Adultery, seduction of deacon's daughter; + elopement; deserting wife and children. +1878 Patterson, Rev. J. B. Elizabeth, N. J. Adultery, drunkenness; confessed. + Phillips, Rev. N. L. Monticello, Iowa. Adultery, elopement with wife of Herbert Barnes, + desertion of wife and family. +1879 Parks, Rev. W. J. Canton, Ohio. Pres. Adultery with sister Hicks; confessed; + suspended. + Palmer, Rev. Lysander D. Jackson, Mich. Bap. Adultery with married woman; confessed; + resigned. + Pledge, Rev. W. H. Atlanta, Ga. M. E. Suicide, cut his throat. + Purcell, Rev. Arch-Bish. Cincinnati, Ohio. Cath. Larceny, embezzlement of $4,000,000 deposited + with him by his confiding dupes; confess'd; + causing death of 137 persons. + Powis, Rev. Atherton L. New York, N. Y. P. E. Adultery in house of prostitution, caught by his + sons; arrested. +1880 Paige, Rev. A. N. East Hampton, Conn.; E. M. E. Adultery, long continued (five years), while he + Glastonbury, Conn. kept preaching; confessed; prison. + Paul, Rev. New York, N. Y. Bap. "Scandalous conduct," charged by his wife. + Ponder, Rev. Chas. New Albany, Ind. M. E. Suicide. + Peltz, Rev. Jamestown, N. Y. Bap. Adultery; seduced two girls; caught in act; + fled. + Perry, Rev. John A. Rhode Island. Bap. Arson, burnt his home for insurance; prison. + Peck, Rev. H. C. Hanover, Mich. Assault and great bodily harm; suspended. + Pellett, Rev. Egerton, Mich. Swindling, "too free with sisters;" fled. +1878 Peck, Rev. H. P. Napa, Cal.; St. Louis, Mo. Attempted bigamy with a woman who had a husband, + deserting wife. + Quint, D. D., Rev. A. New England. Adultery. +1876 Reagan, Rev. James Madison, Ind. M. E. Adultery with widow McHenry, caught in the act; + suspended. +1877 Rublett, Rev. Albert Hoboken, N. J. Bigamy, adultery, drunkenness; prison. +1878 Rowland, Rev. D. Hackensack, N. J.; Immoral assa'lt on Mrs. A. B. Foote, forgery. + Richmond, Va. + Richardson, Rev. H. C. Baltimore, Md. M. E. Fighting, with superintendent Johnson about + Sunday-school collections. + Ross, Rev. T. S. Jefferson, N. C. Immoral assault and insulting proposals to Mrs. + Dan'l Idol; fled. + Ribble, E. G. DeKalb county, Ill. Adultery, seduction of four girls, desertion of + wife and children; fled. + Reed, Rev. Dr. Maldon, Mass. Adultery, fornication, seduction, sodomy, + "unnamed crime," rape. + Rice, Rev. Wm. Mason, Mich. Adultery. + Rim, Rev. D. S. K. Pittsburgh, Pa. Adult'ry, seduction of a young lady; she told. + Reedsdolph, Rev. Jas. Adrian, Mich. Swindling, drunkenness; prison. + Reynolds, Rev. Muhlenburgh Co., Ky. Compelling daughter to marry against her will; + assault and battery, whipped her brutally to + compel her. + Rose, Rev. J. H. Hartford, Mich. Forgery. + Rich, Rev. Chas. Boston, Mass.; Washington, "Gross immorality;" died in disgrace. + D. C. + Rudder, Rev. J. J. New Milford, Pa.; Newark, Adultery, horse racing; fled. + N. J. + Rea, Rev. F. F. Durham, Conn. Drunkenness. + Roberts, Rev. J. R. Allen, Wis. Slander, lying. + Ross, Rev. H. P. Bennett's Corner, N. Y. Larceny, charged by "Bro." Vanvauken. +1879 Rascoe, Rev. Stephen Mattewan, Mich. Bap. Robbing mails as postmaster. + Renforth, Rev. Jacob S. Lawndale, Ill. Bap. Adultery, seduction, bastardy with Ellen Manny; + arrested. + Rohan, Rev. Gaston de Halifax, N. S.; St. Louis, Cath. Forgery, drunkenness, penitentiary five years. + Mo. Swindling; prison at Halifax. + Rice, Rev. D. (clown) Ev. St. Louis, Mo. Adultery, took woman to Chicago, lived with her + as his wife. +1880 Roy, Rev. F. V. Cincinnati, Ohio. Bigamy; a converted Brahman. + Richardson, Rev. Henry Sea Cliff, N. Y.; Long Adultery, seduction, elopement with his wife's + Island. sister, Miss Lowther; deserting wife and + children; fled; arrested with his paramour; + prison. + Randall, Rev. N. B. Prattsburgh, N. Y. M. E. Immoral assault on Viola Smith, aged 14; she + attempted suicide; expelled. +1876 Reynolds, Rev. John N. Booneville, Iowa. Seduction of Miss Hattie Slater, a pupil under + his charge; penitentiary 4 years. +1881 Reeve, Rev. B. F. Brooklyn, N. Y. M. E. Quarreling for pulpit with Rev. Hargrave. + Rogers, Rev. Dr. Delphi, N. Y. P. E. Irregularities; invited to resign. + Ross, Rev. Geangaco, N. Y.; St. Johns, Adultery, bigamy, three wives and families; + Mich.; Ovid, Mich. deserting wife and children; forgery; states + prison; still preaching. + Rock, Rev. R. Canton, Ohio. U. B. Profanity; suspended. + Ryan, Rev. Cromwell, Conn. Cath. Drunkenness; immoralities; monastery. + Rohe, Rev. Charles H. Detroit, Mich. Luth. Embezzlement, malfeasance, lying. + Rexford, Rev. E. S. Detroit, Mich. Turned wife out of doors; divorced. +1882 Roeber, Rev. F. W. Elmhurst, Ill. Luth. Drunkenness, Sabbath breaking; resigned. + Ryan, Rev. St. Louis, Mo. Cath. Assault with felonious intent; riot, + drunkenness, fighting, quarreling. +1878 Robinson, Rev. Fred Putnam, Ill. Outrageous conduct; exposed. +1880 Robinson, Rev. E. Ev. Binghamton, N. Y. Adultery, seduction of many sisters; perjury; + lying; desertion of wife and family; fled; kept + diary of his liaisons in Greek and Latin; + assault with intent to commit murder. + Roberts, Rev. J. P. Troy, Kan. M. E. Adult'ry, attempted elopement with a young + "sister." + Ranson, Rev. Bryant Mount Vernon, Ohio. Inhuman cruelty, dug out live hog's eyes. + Ronault, Rev. Todoro Loretto, N. M., and Los Cath. Seduction, bastardy, elopement with Miss + Cruces, N. M. Marguerita Garcia, from convent; arrest'd. +1881 Rork, Rev. M. V. "Abominable crimes." +1878 Skews, Rev. Utah. Adultery; driven from town. + Smith, Rev. John R. Boston, Mass. Swindling. + Skillener or; Shiltner, Rev. Webster county Ky.; W. Va. M. E. Rape on a daughter of Ed. Baldwin only 6 years + J. old, shameful breach of hospitality; prison. + Steadman, Rev. C. M. Foxcraft, Me.; Dover, Me. Burglary, penitentiary six years. + Simpson, Rev. John A. Carolina Mills, R. I.; Univ. Larceny various times; arrested; one man, many + Simpson, Rev. Geo. A. Smith, Mansfield, Mass.; Maine.; aliases. + Rev. Geo. A. E. Boston, Mass. + Shaw, Rev. Flora, Ind. Adultery, incest with Mrs. Josie Shaw, his son's + wife. + Stray, Rev. Sydney M. East Lake.; St. George, N. Assault with intent to murder his wife, attempt + Y.; Warrensburgh, Ohio. at suicide, shot his wife then himself, adultery + with many "sisters;" deposed. Suicide. + Summerlat, Rev. Franz Waverly, Iowa. Luth. Drunkenness, assault and battery, trying to + choke orthodoxy down Aug. Miller; convicted; + fined. +1879 Smith, Rev. N. G. New Castle, Ind. Adult'ry with Miss Emily Stipler or Sheplar, + subornation of perjury; arrested for both. + Smith, Rev. J. H. Leavenworth, Ind. M. E. Adultery, seduction, eloping with a young + "sister," swindling; expelled. + Sanes, Rev. Ripley county, Ind. Luth. Adultery with a "sister;" locked out of ch. +1880 Sparks, Rev. Long Island, N. Y. Immoralities; "cut off" by Bishop Littlejohn. + Summers, Rev. Mark Louisville, Ky. Bap. Forgery; penitentiary 6 years. + Sherwood, Rev. Jas. M. Princeton, N. Y. Pres. Embezzlement of ward's money; convicted. Is + editor of Presbyterian Quarterly and Princeton + Review. + Schneider, Rev. Pres. Adultery; beating his wife, assault and battery; + arrested. +1877 Simpson, Rev. John C. Oregon county, Mo. Bap. Illicit distilling; convicted; penitentiary 20 + years. +1878 Smith, Rev. Frank Brooklyn, N. Y. Cong. Adultery, seduction of Miss Matilda Kettle; she + told; missionary of Beecher's ch. + Shaffer, Rev. W. H. Schoonover. Neptune, Ohio. U. B. Larceny; arrested in pulpit. + Schweinfurth, Rev. Geo. Ann Arbor, Miss. M. E. His tenets were those of the last female he met; + too susceptible; expelled. + Spencer, Rev. F. A. Athens, Ohio. Columbus, M. E. Adultery; immoral conduct; breach of + Ohio. hospitality; expelled. + Stephenson, Rev. J. W., P.E. Piqua, Ohio. Dayton, Ohio. M. E. Adultery, bastardy, drunkenness, immoral assault + on lady; convicted. + Schon, Rev. E. W. Louisville, Ky. M. E. Adultery. + Smith, Rev. Elgin, Ill. Murder of wife, held her under water. + Sands, Rev. Hoosic, N. Y. Adultery with "sister." + Steelson, Rev. A. Adultery with "sister;" confessed. + Strasburgh, Rev. Pres. Adultery with negro woman, miscegenation; + confessed. + Slang, Rev. Aug. C. Paterson, N. J. Rape on sister Pfennibucker. + Southard, Rev. New Orleans, La.; New Adultery, debauchery, drunkenness long + Jersey. continued; died in a brothel. + Stillen, Rev. Joseph Westchester, Pa. Seduction of Miss Sarah Hall, made her insane, + quoted scripture to convince her it was all + right. + Stillwell, Rev. J. K. Logansport Ind. Immoral assault on a "sister," perjury, + lying--this during a revival. + Speare, Rev. M. Mason, Ill.; Bloomington, Larceny, stole a roll of bills from a bank. + Ill. + Schneider, Rev. R. Mt. Vernon, Ind. Luth. Ev. Adultery, seduction, elopement with a girl of + seventeen, desertion of wife and children, + embezzlement of church funds; fled; pursued by + detectives. + Sluter, Rev. Geo. Shelbyville, Ind. Pres. Beating stepson inhumanly; arrested. + Severance, Rev. I. T. Burlington, Ill.; Elgin, M. E. Forgery; arrested by constable Schoonover. + Ill. +1881 Sapp, Rev. Wm. M. St. Joseph, Mo.; Savannah, Larceny, embezzlement of $4,000 county funds; + Mo. fled. +1877 St. Clair, Rev. P. Des Moines, Iowa. M. E. Fraudulent voting in conference, stuffing + ballot-box; tried, convicted, suspended. +1880 S----, Rev. Cincinnati, Ohio,; North Pres. Adultery, fornication with Susanna Schilling, + Hogan, Ind. attempt to murder her, adultery with lewd women, + swindling; arrested, prison; deposed. +1881 Sheldon, Rev. M. G. Harvard, Ill.; Marengo, M. E. Adultery, immorality, obscenity, vulgarity, + Ill. lying; church trial. +1882 Sherman, Rev. C. W. Ev. Abingdon, Ill. Fighting. + Stillwell, Rev. M. Englishville, Mich. Bap. Adultery with "sister" Barrows; she told. + Smith, Rev. R. M. Indianola, Iowa. M. E. Disorderly conduct; fined. + Stewart, Rev. W. H. U. Philadelphia, Pa. P. E. Deserting wife and family. +1876 Schueller, Rev. J. M. Andrew, Iowa. Luth. Seduction and adultery with a lot of little + girls at his asylum school; rape on Zetta + Meeker, 8 years old; seduction and adultery with + Delia Pardee and Mary Meeker, aged 14; Rose + Shaffer, 13; Libbie Ingham and Jennie Adair, 14 + years old; Bertha Nellis, 15; and many others; + confessed; resigned; fled. +1881 Sharp, Rev. Thos. Gowanda, N. Y.; Hamburg, N. M. E. Assault with intent to rape sister Zuber; lying; + Y.; East Otto, N. Y. she told; suspended. + Smith, Rev. W. L. Brunswick, N. Y.; Rutland, M. E. Seduction and bastardy with Miss Dora Farlies; + Vt. lying; she told on child-birth deathbed. + Simmons, Rev. Geo. B. Troy.; Greenbush. Bap. Seduction, adultery with Miss Lillie Aiken; + expelled. + Steman, Rev. Assault and battery on another preacher. +1878 Smith. Rev. M. H. New York, N. Y. Lying about what Miss Clara Morris told him. She + never told him anything. +1882 Strongfellow, Rev. Frank Farmville, Va. P. E. Murder of many Union men during the war. +1879 Schilling, Rev. Carl. Alleghany, Pa. P. E. Adultery; drunkenness; expelled. +1881 Shrimp, Rev. Camden, N. J. M. E. Quarreling with Rev. Kirby over church dues. + Sale, Rev. S. O. Mason City, Iowa. Bap. Adultery with "sister" Eva Brewer, lying; + deposed; fled. Swindling. + Shurtliff, Rev. Elmira, N. Y.; Hartford, N. M. E. Slander against Rev. Lewis; fined. + Y. +1881 Steller, Rev. Erie. Rich Valley, Ind. U. B. Immoral assault on Miss Beamer; fled. + Stone, Rev. Dan. H. Queens county, N. Y. M. E. Forgery, swindling, fraud, robbing Mrs. B. + Brooklyn, N. Y. Sherman (aunt of Gen. W. T. Sherman); indicted. + Smith, Rev. John L. Lebanon, Ind. M. E. Adultery, seduction of Mrs. E. Lovelace, 70 old, + caught in act by M. M. Russell, Att'y; church + trial. + Swift, Rev. Carlos Chicago, Ill. Bap. Adultery, seduction of several "sisters," + immoral assault on others; they told. + Spencer, Rev. Edward. Immoral assault on a "sister," embezzlement; + arrested. + Stine, Rev. I. J. alias T. J. Leavenworth, Kan. New York. Bap. Larceny, often repeated; arrested; confessed; + Black. prison. + Spargrove, Rev. J. M. Pittsburgh, Pa. Suicide. +1882 Taylor, Rev. J. W. Great Bend, N. Y. Bap. Adultery, bigamy; deserting wife and children; + Binghampton, N. Y. convicted; expelled from church. +1881 Teal, Rev. C. Ironton, Wis. Baraboo, Wis. Incest, seduction, adultery with his own + daughter; she is only 15, and told; arrested; + prison. + Thornton, Rev. Abner Bartholomew Co., Ind. Fighting and quarreling with Dr. Beck. + Thornloe, Rev. Jas. Montreal, Can. P. E. Larceny, long continued; arrested. + Taylor. Rev. Joseph. Philadelphia, Pa. Bap. Swindling; English convict. + Tice, Rev. David. Stillwater, Minn. M. E. Malicious prosecution of a poor widow. + Thompson, Rev. J. M. Philadelphia, Pa. Pres. Larceny, dishonesty, bribery; church trial. + Thompson, Rev. Alfred Elgin, Ill.; New York, N. Adultery, seduction of Mrs. Cobham; robbery of + Y. his paramour; deserting wife. Said in court, "We + all do such things more or less." State prison + at Sing Sing five years. + Thayer, Rev. J. A. Warren, Ohio. Drunkenness; arrested. +1878 Tice, Rev. Newark, N. J. Bap. Seduction of several girls; expelled. + Thames, Rev. Joseph Ashville, N. C. Seduction of Miss Laura Palm. + Thompson, Rev. L. M. P. Cincinnati, Ohio. Pres. Adultery many times. + Torry, Rev. Western New York. Seduction. + Thompson, Rev. A. T. Cincinnati, Ohio. Adultery, bigamy. + Todd, Rev. J. H. Sioux City, Iowa. Adultery with a milliner, elopement with her, + deserting wife. + Tresselman, Rev. T. Annetia, N. Y. Adultery, seduction of several girls, elopement + with wife of Mr. Hunt; bastardy. + Torry, Rev. A. W. Kalamazoo, Mich. Falsehood; tried and found guilty. + Thompson, Rev. Buffalo, N. Y.; Adultery many times. + Philadelphia, Pa. + Taylor, Rev. Horace Oberlin, Ohio. Seduction many times; convicted; prison. + Thompson, Rev. John J. Orange county, N. Y. Immoral assault on a young "sister." + Thompson, Rev. John J. Washington, D. C. Immoral assault on two young girls caught + crawling into their window in his night-shirt. + Thompson, Rev. Chas. Arson; arrested. +1879 Treadwell, Rev. Brooklyn, Mo. Fighti'g, riot in church against Rev. Landers. + Talmage, Rev. T. DeWitt Brooklyn, N. Y. Pres. Lying, deceit, extortion, abusiveness. + Thompson, Rev. J. P. New York, N. Y. Adultery, seduction of Mrs. Deland of his choir, + his love-letters caught by her husband; pastor + of Broadway Tabernacle. + Tabor, Rev. Lorenso Kansasville, Wis. M. E. Adultery, seduction of Miss Nellie Foster; + caught in act in her bedroom by Henry Combert; + arrested; bailed $500. +1880 Trumbrower, Rev. Brooklyn, N. Y.; Hoboken. Immoral assault on servant girl, kissing her for + N. J. her spiritual welfare; fled. +1881 Tupper, Rev. Kerr. B. Paducah, Ky.; Chicago, Bap. Arson, burning both churches; adultery, + Ill.; Margaretta, Mich. seduction, and bastardy with a girl; she left + babe in his woodhouse. +1880 Towes, Rev. Minnesota. Suicide. +1881 Thomas, Rev. Wm. Washington, D. C. Keeping gambling house. +1879 Uttey, Rev. W. H. Detroit, Mich. Swindling, obtaining money under false + pretenses. +1882 VanAlstine, Rev. J. J. or J. Elmira, N. Y.; Bradford, Bap. Adultery and seduction many times; seduced wife + W., alias George Ebers. Pa.; Richburg, Pa.; Corry, of a "brother" in Elmira; broke up the family; + Pa.; Buffalo, N. Y.; Ohio. seduced wife of another brother in Buffalo; + deserted her, seduced her daughter, lived with + her in Richburg; deserted his wife and children; + false personation; elopement with women. + Vanderborn, Rev. Saginaw, Mich. Cath. Adultery, seduction of wife of W. Colford, who + shot at him. Mrs. C. confessed. +1881 Veterling, Rev. Detroit, Mich. Drunkenness; immoral assault on women; arrested. +1876 VanOrden, Rev. M. Missionary to Brazil. Pres. Slaveholder; deposed. +1878 Vossburg, Rev. Geo. B. Jersey City, N. J. Bap. Assault with intent to murder wife; indicted. + Veal, Rev. W. G., P.E. Wasatchie, Tex. M. E. Rape of Mrs. John Griffin; arrested, convicted; + expelled. + Valentine, Rev. Paul T., New York, N. Y. Rape on many little girls under his charge in + D.D., Ph. D., LL. D. College for Homeless Children; sodomy, buggery, + unnamed crime on little boys under his charge; + penitentiary ten years. +1879 Vine, Rev. J. Thos. Ev. New York, N. Y. Deserting wife after squandering all her money. +1880 Van der Bone, E., or Van Der Saginaw, Mich. Cath. Adultery with parishioner's wife, caught in the + Born. act by Catherine Burk. +1881 Vandeusen, Rev. G. H. Troy; W. Amsterdam, N. Y. Forgery of pension-papers; indicted. +1876 Watson, Rev. Arthur Kinman. Prot. Murdered his wife. +1877 Warren, Rev. A. J.; Warner, North Vernon, Ind. M. E. Adultery, elopement with "sister" Stanton, + Rev. A. J.; Warren, Rev. A. embezzlement of church funds, lying, desertion + S. of wife and four children; one person, three + names. + Weizerbeck, Rev. Rudol. Bloomingdale. Luth. Forgery, swindling, fraud; arrested. + Whittemore, Rev. Jos. Mitchell, Iowa. Bap. Immoral assault and insult on wife of deacon + Geo. Cummings; convicted, fined. + Wiswall, Rev. Alvah Rochester, N. Y. P. E. Fraudulent bankruptcy, swindling, perjury. + Wells, Rev. T. M.; Wells, Lebanon, Ohio.; Bangor, Bap. Dunk. Adultery, bigamy; arrested while fleeing to + Rev. John M.; Chenowitz, Rev. Me.; Illinois. Europe; convicted; one man, 3 names. + T. M. + White, Rev. Reuben Little Rock, Ark. Adultery, seduction of Miss Bush. + Wheeler, Rev. Charles Mansfield, Ohio. Larceny, arrested. + Waters, Rev. Edward Pantego, N. C. Bap. Assault and battery on Miss Fanny Worland--held + her while wife put red pepper in her eyes. + Wray, Rev. New Brunswick, N. S. Suicide, because arrested for drunkenness while + in New York. + Wesley, Rev. Geneseo, Ill. Adultery, seduction. + Wood, Rev. M. D. Decatur, Ill. Seduction. + Wilcox, Rev. Illinois. Adultery, seduction, bastardy four times in one + neighborhood. +1878 Warren, Rev. Bussett Hills, N. Y. Adultery, bigamy; four living wives. +1878 Welsh, Rev. Wash'n W. Holly, Mich. Rape on Mrs. Louisa Green, wife of another + minister. + Washburn, Rev. Geo. Alleghany county, N. Y. Engaged to marry several ladies at the same + time, lying. + Williamson, Rev. R. H. Wilksbarre, Pa. Adultery in house of ill-fame. + Wright, Rev. K. N. New Bridge, N. Y. Quarr'ling for pulpit against Rev. Kristettar. + White, Rev. D. M. Pittsburgh, Pa. Larceny; penitentiary two years. + Watson, Rev. John S. Kansas. Murdered his wife. + Whipple, Rev. E. Hillsdale college, Mich. Adultery, seduction of deacon's wife. + White, Rev. Washington, Pa. Adultery, seduction. + Wilson, Rev. Sam. B. Louisville, Ky. "Immoral conduct;" deposed. + Wright, Rev. Ableman or Whitestown, N. Y. Adultery, seduction of a girl 12 years old; an + Ambleman. old man with married children. + Winslow, Rev. E. D. Boston, Mass. Forgery, swindling, $500,000; fled. + Wolfe, Rev. Brooklyn, N. Y. Beating his wife; arrested. + Wimberly, Rev. P. P. Atchinson, Pa. Larceny, embezzlement of church funds. + Williams, Rev. G. R. Griggstown, N. Y. Attempt to commit bigamy, wife appeared, and he + fled. + Wells, Rev. J. M. Springfield, Ill. Adultery, bigamy; convicted. +1879 Waugh, Rev. J. L. Brasher's Falls, N. Y. Pres. Beating wife, lying from pulpit; expelled. + Wiseman, Rev. D. M. Somerset, Ohio. Luth. Adultery, seduction, bastardy with Miss Hesse: + convicted; expelled; confessed. + Wayman, Rev. F. H. New York, N. Y. Cath. Larceny, embezzlement of $1,000 deposited with + him by two women; arrested. + Waite, Rev. Peter Madisonville, Ohio. M. E. Adultery, seduction of Agnes Murray, a young + "sister." He was over 60; entered house where + she worked, in the night, and was killed by a + watchman on the lookout for burglars. + Williams, Rev. Geo. Lanesboro, Minn. Pres. Rape on girl 15 years old; indicted. + Willey, Rev. J. H. Delaware. M. E. Adultery with a "sister." +1879 Wood, Rev. John Cedar Falls, Iowa. Pres. Adultery, seduction of two young girls of 14 and + 16; unministerial conduct, unchaste conduct; + confessed the two last. + Woodry, Rev. Henry Knox county, Ind. M. E. Adultery, seduction of Mary Shoaf; arrest'd. +1880 Willson, Rev. J. A. Jewell City, Kan. Adultery with a "sister;" expelled. + Walker, Rev. C. E. Somerset, Mass. M. E. Adultery, seduction, bastardy, abortion, with + Miss Moriss; arrested. + Woolpert, Rev. J. M. Fort Wayne, Ind. M. E. Adultery many times. + Williams, Rev. John New York. M. E. Inhuman cruelty to wife; convicted in divorce + proceedings. + Woodside, Rev. Nevin Pittsburgh, Pa. Quarreling for the possession of pulpit. + Walker, Rev. W. E. Iowa.; Vermillion, Dak. Adultery; drunkenness; deposed. + Willson, Rev. Chas. A. B. Pittsburgh, Pa.; New M. E. Larceny; arrested. + Baltimore, Ohio. +1881 Willson, Rev. David D. Henrietta, Tex. Breach of hospitality; rape and adultery upon + Mrs. Hickman; fled. + Winslow, Rev. Ed. C. New Haven, Conn. Cong. Inhuman cruelty to Louisa Rogers, 8 years old, + his adopted child. +1876 Wittrup, Rev. Julius Winfield, N. Y. M. E. Immoral assault on his niece, a young girl of + 16, showed his privates. +1881 Widdows, Rev. Kircardine, Can. M. E. Assault with intent to kill; disturbing meeting. + Wolchencraft, Rev. Chas. Larceny; arrested with stolen watch. + Wright, Rev. Henry N. Northville, N. Y. Cong. Lying; gross immorality; dishonesty; arson. + Webb, Rev. J. W. Bloomington, Ill. M. E. Slander, foul, false, and unchristian. + Whitcher, Rev. W. T. Providence, R. I. M. E. Larceny, lying; caught in act, arrested, fined, + confessed, resigned. + Way, Rev. Jesse Wabash, Ind. Incest, adultery, eloped with daughter-in-law. + Willson, Rev. Davenport, Iowa. Bap. Assault with intent to rape "sister" Bush. + Witt, Rev. Chas. Sheldon, Ill. Immoral assault on women; crawled under depot + platform and peeked up through cracks under the + ladies; arrested, fined. + Williams, Rev. La Plata, Mo. Adultery. Says the Lord commanded him "to desert + wife and children for this woman." + Washington, Rev. Topeka, Kan. Swindling, obtaining money by false pretense. + Weaver, Rev. Wayne county, N. Y. M. E. Immoral assault on lady; dismissed. + Willard, Rev. Wylie J. Boise City, Idaho.; Walla M. E. Swindling, embezzlement; cruelty to wife, + Walla, Wash. T. desertion of wife. + Waite, Rev. Arthur A. Ev. Lynn, Mass. Swindling, obtaining money by false pretense. + Webber, Rev. Chas. Saco, Me. Bap. Adultery, seduct'n, eloped with young sister. + Wetherwax, Rev. Berien Springs, Mich. Luth. Ejected from church for immoralities. +1882 Williams, Rev. Dr. R. H. Pennsylvania.; Milwaukee, P. E. Adultery in brothel; attempt at suicide. + Wis. + Williams, Rev. Jno. alias Cedar Rapids, Iowa.; St. M. E. Adultery, seduction; embezzlement; obtaining + Rev. A. C. Copeland. Catharines, Can.; Terre money under false pretense; arrested; prison. + Haute, Ind.; Indianapolis, + Ind. + Wardner, Rev. Morton or Little Genesee.; Milton, Adv. Adultery, seduction of a lot of young girls; + Wardness. Wis. lying; fled; church trial. + Walsh, Rev. A. C. Montreal, Can.; Port Royal, P. E. Fighting and riot for church; expelled. + Iowa. + Wright, Rev. Prince Chillicothe, Mo. M. E. Adultery; immorality, oft repeated; whipped by a + mob; deposed. +1881 White, Rev. Little Rock, Ark. Murder, adultery, seduction of a young girl, + attempted an abortion; killed the girl. Her + father shot at him four times, but he escaped + and fled. +1878 White, Rev. Reuben Adultery, seduction of Miss Bush; attempt at + abortion; she told and died; manslaughter; + arrested. + Willson, Rev. Reuben E. Harrisburg, Pa.; M. E. Drunkenness; obscenity; jailed. + Mifflintown, Pa. +1879 Wolf, Rev. Wm. New York, N. Y. Bap. Assault and battery; arrested. +1881 Walker, Rev. Prof. Philomath, Or. Adultery, seduction; lying--so says Rev. Isaac + Belknap. +1880 Young, Rev. G. B. Indianapolis, Ind. "Lewdness," swindling; church trial. + Yates, Rev. H. C. Dixon, Ill.; Soublette. Bap. Immoral assault on many ladies, immoral conduct, + lechery, lying, adultery, drunkenness, + seduction. +1878 Zuner, Rev. Jonathan Philadelphia, Pa. Larceny, embezzlement from Mr. Meyer; arrested. + + + +ADDITIONS FOR THIRD EDITION. + +1882 Allison, Rev. John Jessup, Iowa.; Milwaukee, Pres. Immoral assault, and indecent proposals to Mrs. + Wis. Alice Moffitt; expelled. + Allen, Rev. Wm. Osgoode, Ont. M. E. Adultery, seduction, bastardy with Eliza Hume; + got her married. +1875 Ackerman, Rev. G. E. Blue Mountain, Idaho.; M. E. Embezzlement of $3,000, church funds: a dead + Boise City. beat. +1882 Ahern, Rev. John C. Denver, Col. Cath. Adultery, immoral assault on women, insulting + ladies, lying: removed. + Ahern, Rev. Jere. Denver, Col. Cath. Immoral assault on Mrs. Miller; Mr. Miller + accused him. Bribery; the priest paid him hush + money. Drunkenness; says he was in liquor at + time. Lying about Rev. John C. Ahern. + Brooks, Rev. Wm. R. Hampstead, R. I. Adultery, bigamy--three wives. + Bartlett, Rev. Jos. Gorham, Me. Cong. Suicide; 70 years of age. + Billson, Rev. F. G. Kansas City, Mo. M. E. Drunkenness oft repeated; arrested, jailed, + confessed, fined. +1876 Boyd, Rev. T. B. Kittaning, Pa.; West Adultery, seduction, immoral assaults on many + Virginia. "sisters," and wife of "Brother Cook;" + confessed; jailed. +1881 Browning, Rev. Wm. G. New York, N. Y. Swindling, $10,000; convicted. +1878 Blanchard, Rev. Wheaton, Ill. Cong. Embezzlement of $3,000, college funds; lying, + slander; so say Rev. Chapman and Rev. Prof. + Webster. +1882 Balky, Rev. Geo. Chilicothe, Mo. Forgery; drew a note and signed his father's and + Andrew McCroskin's names to it; arrested, + escaped, fled. + Brisbee, Rev. John N. Madison, Tenn. Pres. Horse racing, gambling; church trial. + Bentley, Rev. Chas., Ev., E. Baltimore, Md. Seduction of Miss Emma Martin, a "sister;" + bastardy; kept evangelizing very successfully, + until presented with an heir; confessed, + expelled. + Bedall, Rev. W. Barnesville, O.; M. E. Adultery, seduction of Rosa Arnold, aged 15; + Beallsville, O.; Ozark, O.; elopement with her, deserting wife and three + Wheeling, W. Va. children, penniless; embezzlement of $400, + church funds: expelled. +1882 Brand, Rev. Oberlin, O. Slander from pulpit; sued by Bronson. + Brand, Rev. G. F. Wintersett, Iowa.; Guthrie M. E. Indecent exposure of person; church trial, + Center, Iowa. expelled. + Bush, Rev., Ev. Covington, Ky.; Cynthiana, Adultery, seduction of "sister" Sarah Sherman; + Ky. elopement with her. +1883 Beattie, Rev. T. R. or F. R. Brantford, Ont. Pres. Immoral assault; slandering Miss Sershman; + arrested; bail $4,000; sued for $10,000, + slander. + Brown, Rev. W. H., Ev. Sioux City, Iowa. Drunkenness; fined. + Ball, Rev. H. Burg Hill, O.; Wayne, O. Bap. Drunkenness, lying; got gloriously drunk, denied + it; expelled. + Bowen, Rev. Randolph, N. Y.; Ohio,; N. Bap. Assault and battery on a "brother;" lying, + Jersey,; Wisconsin. swindling, making debts everywhere, never + Michigan. paying; fled. +1878 Chapman, Rev. Wheaton, Ill. Cong. Lying, slander, so says Rev. Blanchard. +1882 Christian, Rev. J. T. Quincy, Ill.; Hannibal, Mo. Bigamy, adultery, lying, swindling; arrested. + Canary, Rev. Andrew New York, N. Y. Cath. Larceny, stealing horse, drunkenness; arrested. + Chapman, Rev. Richard Pine Bluff Spa, Tex. Bap. Murder of John Turner; stabbed him three times. + Colfelt, Rev. New York. Pres. Literary piracy; church trial. +1879 Clapp, Rev. Lowell, Mich. Bap. Swindling; prison. +1882 Cook Rev. Alvin O. Eugene, Or.; Springfield, Chris. Adultery, seduction, elopement with wife of Rix, + Or. deserting wife and children; temperance + lecturer. +1882 Cleniheim, Rev. Cincinnati, O.; Avondale, Pres. Fighting with one of his elders; got whipped; + O. elder's name, Robert Hood. +1883 Cobb, Rev. R. H. Taunton, Mass. M. E. Deserting wife, leaving her penniless and sick + in bed; investigated; resigned. + Corken, Rev. Salisbury P't, Mass.; Lynn, Cong. Literary piracy; preached Wilberforce's sermons; + Mass. quack doctor; sued for malpractice; deposed. + Cox, Rev. Henry, D.D., San Francisco, Cal. Gross swindling U. S. pension agent; robbed a + ("Hallelujah Cox"). blind and helpless soldier of $7,278, pension; + swindled a widow out of $2,535. +1883 Chambers, Rev. A. I. New Haven, Conn. M. E. Misappropriating church funds; sued. + Comstock, Rev. I. Tonganoxie, Kan.; Reno, Ad. Rape, adultery, on 13-year-old daughter of Mr. + Kan. Anderson; arrested; prison at Leavenworth. + Cook, Rev. Jo. Boston, Mass. Lying generally. + Copeland, Rev. Frasier Walhalla, S. C. Murder of W. J. Hunnicritt; confessed; hanged. +1878 Clark, Rev. W. J. Lisbon, N. Y. Pres. "Immoral conduct;" suspended. +1879 Curr, Rev. Alan Dubuque, Iowa.; Bap. Larceny, deserting wife, drunkenness, gross + Leavenworth, Kan. fraud, lying, cheating. +1882 Dye, Rev. J. H., P.E. Searcy, Ark. M. E. Assault and battery; knocked Capt. McCaulley + down and pounded him. + Denton, Rev. J. L. or J. W. Fayetteville, Ark. Suicide, charged with embezzlement. + Driver, Rev. S. M. Baker City, Idaho. M. E. Adultery with "sisters;" buried six wives. + Davis, Rev. Geo. Cleveland, O.; Fort Wayne, Deserting wife and children; proposing marriage + Ind. to several ladies; arrested. + Draper, Rev. Frank Youngstown, O.; Riverside, M. E. Robbery of his friend and room-mate; + O. drunkenness; fled; spent the cash; his friend + died; confessed. +1883 Davis, Rev. Geo., Ev., Logansport, Ind.; Fort In prison. + Wayne, Ind. + DePuy, Rev. Dr. M. E. Swindling in connection with "Isabella mine;" + editor Christian Advocate, resigned. + Davis, Rev. Madison, Ind. M. E. Seduction, bastardy, with "sister" Jennie + Williams; prosecuted. +1880 Deems, Rev. Dr. New York. Lying, so says Rev. Dr. Mackie. +1882 Dollman, Rev. W. Erie, Pa. M. E. Assault with intent to murder his wife and + family, with poison and "cold steel;" arrested; + prison. + Dowd, Rev. W. W. Portchester, N. Y. Pres. Swindling; would not pay bills. + Dollard, Rev. Wilmington, Del. Cath. Indecent proposals to Miss Lizzie Jordan; + slandered her and her family from the pulpit; + sued by her brother Charley Jordan. + Dufresne, Rev. Holyoke, Mass. Cath. Slander of P. Hackman; fined $3,400; selling + liquor in his church and school; fled to Canada. +1880 Dugan, Rev. Thos. Delavan, Ill.; Mason City, Cath. Rape upon his young housekeeper; she complained + Ill. to Bishop Spaulding. +1878 Dale, Rev., Ev., New Castle, Ill. Immoral assault on two girls, one 12, other 14; + fled. + Daley, Rev. John New York, N. Y. Cath. Drunkenness, habitual; workhouse. +1879 Esmon, Rev. Albert Alabama. Illicit distilling; two stills destroyed by U.S. + officials; fled. +1882 Ellis, Rev. Wm. T. St. Louis, Mo. Nuisance; arrested, fined. +1882 Ellis, Rev. Edwd. H., Ev. Thomaston, Me. Bap. Adultery, seduction, and elopement with Mrs. + John E. Rose; arrested, fined $400, jailed at + St. John's, N. B. + Eastman, Rev. Chas. A., Geo. Roxb'ry, Lewist'n, Me.;; Cong. Adultery, bigamy, lying, false personation, + E. Hindley, C. B. Merrill. Potterville, Whitehall,; deserting wife and family; first married Miss + Kendall, Alamo,; Mich.; Emma Keyes, of Lewiston, Me.; second marriage + Plainwell. with a Miss Piper, of Alamo; broke jail at + Kalamazoo; sent to Michigan penitentiary; very + religious. +1879 Eagan, Rev. D. San Francisco, Cal. Cath. Adultery with "sisters." + Edmonson, Rev. Nathan Schollsville, N. Y. Bap. Suicide; hung himself. +1882 Farmer, Rev. G. W. Tamaroa, Ill. M. E. Assault and battery; beat Deacon Johnson over + the head with a chair for saying "Good-morning." + Fern, Rev. Thomas, or Fernly, Philadelphia, Pa. M. E. Libel on William Entriken; arrested; most + Rev. Thos. A. popular preacher in the city. + Fulton, Rev. Dr. T. D. Brooklyn, N. Y. Libel upon Rev. T. B. Conway; sued for $40,000; + fighting. + Fleming, Rev. N. Cleveland, O. Cath. Drunkenness, visiting house of ill-fame; riot, + arrested, jailed, confessed, fined. +1883 Fleming, Rev. Boston, Mass. Cath. Assault and battery on a little girl; tore some + pictures away from her; she went into + convulsions; sued for damages by her father; + fined; riot with 1,000 Irish against the father. +1882 Garry, Rev. M. M. Cincinnati, O. Bap. Burglary, immoral assault; shot, badly wounded, + while scaling back wall of yard at midnight, by + Roger Pearson. + Gilmour, Rev. Bish. Ohio. Slander; sued by E. Cowlee, of the Leader. + Gray, Rev. J. A. Portland, Or. Bap. Drunkenness, confessed, resigned. +1882 Green, Rev. Abijah Philadelphia, Pa.; Atlantic Bap. Larceny, stealing books; fighting at church + City, N. J. trial with Rev. Wallace and others. + Gleason, Rev. P. J. St. Louis, Mo.; Louisiana, Cath. Seduction, bastardy, with Mary Proctor, née + Mo. Ryan; confessed, subsequently denied; after her + marriage adultery and bastardy with her again; + first child named John Patrick Gleason, second + Richard Gleason Ryan; suspended from priesthood + by Bishop Kenrick. +1883 Green, Rev. Mt. Gilead, O. Seduction, elopement with a 13-year-old daughter + of a "brother." + Gibbons, Rev. Baltimore, Md. Cath. Swindling Mrs. Simpson, while dying, out of her + James--Archbishop. property; sued. +1879 Gaines, Rev. G. W. Columbia, Mo.; Centralia, M. E. Adultery, seduction of Miss Maria Delly; took + Ill.; Louisiana, Mo. her to conference with him; slept with her at + hotel. +1882 Henderson, Rev. John Mexico, Mo. Larceny of cattle and hogs, notorious thief; + prison. + Hyde, Rev. F. S. New Haven, Conn. Insulted Mrs. Foster; demanded her removal from + hotel table because she was an actress. + Higgins, Rev. A. C. Hackettstown, N. J. M. E. Adultery, seduction, with wife of Mr. Hoff; + writing her to leave her husband and live with + him; detected, fled, deserting wife and + children. + Higbee, Rev. Jesse Drakeville, Iowa. Medical quack; ruined lady's nose; sued. +1883 Hooper, Rev. J. F. Petaluma, Cal. Cong. Breach of promise; engaged to three ladies; fled + to escape tar and feathers. + Henselman, Rev. C. D. Canton, O. Chris. Immoral assault on three married "sisters." + Healy, Rev. St. Louis, Mo. Cath. Immoral assault on "sister" Maggie Kinney; + bounced with a black eye by Mike Dunphey. +1882 Huderdault, Rev. Canada. Cath. Slandering Leon Lanson and Mathilde St. Jean; + sued. + Huber, Rev. F. X. Brooklyn, N. Y. Cath. Defrauding dying man out of $90,600; gross + swindling; compelled by courts to disgorge. +1883 Hull, Rev. M. S. Pelican Rapids, Minn. Slandering his hired girl, because she told of + his swearing, "God damn it!" + Haddock, Rev. Oshkosh, Wis. M. E. "Beecherism," charged by Dr Carhart. +1880 Hertzberger, Rev. H. A. Honesdale, Pa.; Port Luth. Drunkenness, lying, false personation; claimed + Jervis, N. Y. to be a French count; quarreling for the pulpit. + Hicks, Rev. Henry H. Camden, Mo.; San Francisco, M. E. Larceny, stole $310 from Neil Smith; fled. + Cal. +1876 Hanks, Rev. G. Litchfield, Ill.; St. Bap. Adultery; drunkenness in a brothel at St. Louis; + Louis, Mo. arrested. +1882 Hyde, Rev. Dr. W. A. Leadville, Col.; Portland, M. E. Adultery, seduction, elopement with a "sister," + Or. deserting wife and children; arrested by his own + son; forgery of recommendation. +1876 Irwin, Rev. G. A., Ev., St. Louis, Mo. P. E. Adultery, drunkenness, beating wife, profanity, + lying, assault to murder; arrested, prison. +1876 Johnson, Rev. W. J. Eureka, Ill. M. E. Adultery, seduction, elopement with wife of John + S. Brayman, leaving her children; Johnson is + single, and a great revivalist. +1879 Johnson, Rev. W. A. Lindsay, Pa.; Barre, Pa. Pres. Gross swindling of widow and orphan children: + arrested. +1882 Jeffries, Rev. M. St. Joseph, Mo. M. E. Robbing mails a long time; prison. + Jamison, Rev. Geneva, O. M. E. Embezzlement of church funds. + Keiser, Rev. Alex. S. Womelsdorf, Pa.; Luth. Seduction, bastardy, breach of promise; + Pottsville, Pa. arrested; seduced Miss Lizzie Miller; she + supported him while studying theology; he + married another; expelled; confessed on trial. + Kuhns, Rev. S. F. Lewisburg, O.; New Paris, U. B. Adultery, seduction of wife of "Brother" Hinkle; + O.; Dayton, O. confessed; said he "couldn't help it;" married. +1883 Kruel, Rev. Kankakee, Ill. Cath. Drunkenness, breach of promise, left the church; + promised to marry "Sister" Angela; took her to + hotel, staid with her several days, then + deserted her, and returned to priesthood. +1882 Lanritsen, Rev. Port Huron, Mich. Luth. Assault and battery; arrested; fighting for + pulpit. + Lane, Rev. Greenpoint, N. Y. Cath. Embezzling $174,000, church funds. + Loughlin, Rev. Bishop Brooklyn, N. Y. Cath. Swindling Catholic church at Greenpoint out of + church property to amount of about $200,000; + threatens excommunication if they "kick;" + obstructing legal process; defying the law. +1878 Lloyd. New York. Luth. Slander, drunkenness. +1882 Mesaros, Rev. Philadelphia, Pa. Pres. Quarreling, threatening to fight in church. + Morgan, Rev. L. Leechburgh, Pa.; Kentucky.; Bap. Adultery both in Kentucky and Pennsylvania; + Apollo, Pa.; Monongahela, marries a wife but retains an old "flame" as + Pa.; Ludwick, Pa. mistress; forgery of letters of recommendation; + lying; church trial. +1880 Mackie, Rev. New York, N. Y. Lying and libel, so says Dr. Deems. +1876 Murray, Rev. I. Brooklyn, N. Y. M. E. Fighting for the pulpit. +1882 Martin, Rev. Jos. E. Lafayette, Ind. P. E. Inhuman cruelty to wife; arrested, bailed; + adultery, fled. + Miller, Rev. J. H. Point Chautauqua, N. Y. Bap. Embezzlement of $10,000, church funds. +1883 Morgan, Rev. R. C. Connellsville, Pa. Bap. Adultery, seduction of a "sister," wife of R. E. + Booth; married, large family; editor Baptist + Messenger. + McGill, Rev., alias M. F. Cleveland, O.; Columbus, Cath. Drunkenness oft repeated; fined often; often in + Devlin. O.; Pittsburgh, Pa. workhouse; sent up for sixty days, and $25 fine. + McCosker, Rev. Rahway, N. J. Cath. Disturbing school; drove teachers and scholars + out of doors, and would not let them return; + brutal assault on women and children. + Martin, Rev. Joseph E. Lafayette, Ind. Inhuman cruelty to wife and children; divorced + by court. + Mongin, Rev. John New Albany, Ind.; Cath. Adultery, fornication, visiting house of + Louisville, Ky. ill-fame in Louisville; drunkenness, assault and + battery; arrested, fined; lying about it. +1882 Miller, Rev. T. B.; also Chicago, Ill. M. E. "Miller" as dean, and "Major" as secretary of + Major, Rev. Major the medical college; gross swindling, gross + fraud; allowed a paper reporter to register as a + student, and then for $25 gave him a diploma as + M.D.; Miller expelled, Major suspended. +1879 Munson, Rev. Henry J. Fitchburg, Mass. Ad. Lewd and lascivious conduct; convicted; + fraudulent divorce. +1878 Milligan, Rev. Parker Kansas City, Mo. Adultery, lechery, deserting wife, fled. +1883 Nicum, Rev. John Syracuse. Luth. Fighting for pulpit, lying. +1882 Nistor, Rev. Bishop St. Michaels, Alaska Suicide, leaped from steamer St. Paul. + Neal, Rev. W. H. St. Louis, Mo. F. M. "Immoral character;" dismissed; sodomy and + unnamed crime with young "brothers" of his + flock, too vile to print. + O'Niel, Rev. Peter Brooklyn, N. Y. Cath. Adultery, seduction of Mrs. Robert Hawks; caught + by her husband locked in her bedroom at night, + at 273 Thirty-first street, New York; she the + mother of several children; arrested. + O'Connell, Rev. Timothy Freemont, Neb.; P. E. Seduction, adultery with Mary Rogers, deserting + Cornellsville, Pa.; wife; illegal divorce; beating wife, lying, + Huntington, N. Y.; Nebraska perjury, drunkenness, and delirium tremens; + City. threatening to kill Bishop Kerwood and wife. + O'Donoghue, Rev. Morrow, O. Cath. Slander of Mrs. Green; Mr. Green killed him. + Parks, Rev. Noah Winston, Miss. Larceny, lynched, and nearly killed. +1882 Palmer, Rev. J. R. Mountain Peak, Tex. Chris. Indecent exposure of person to a lot of little + girls, pupils under his care; immoral assault on + Miss Ida Scott; failing in this, slandered her. + Philips, Rev. Shiloh, O. Assault and battery upon parishioner; pounded + Sunday law into him. + Parshall, Rev. R. F. Oakland, Cal. Bap. Immoral assault on many ladies and young + "sisters;" expelled ignominiously. + Penn, Rev. Texas. Prayed for the death of two men at church; one + died next day. + Podd, Rev. Jas. D. Chicago, Ill. Bap. Adultery, seduction, bastardy, with Cora + Wheeler. + Pringle, Rev. Paul Mansfield, La. Murder of Alfred Smith; hanged. + Posey, Rev. Dr. Oakland, Cal.; Dutch Flat, Swindling, obtaining money under false pretense. + Cal. +1879 Plunkett, Rev. Warren Springs, N. C. Pres. Adultery, seduction, elopement with Miss Kate + Ashton, daughter of a wealthy "brother," + deserting wife and children. + Pennington, Rev. Scott county, Iowa. Bap. Incest, adultery, seduction, elopement with + wife's niece, writing to his wife not to expect + him back; deserting wife and children. +1880 Rossvalley, Rev. Dr., Ev., Sing Sing, N. Y.; Larceny in Germany; drummed out as rebel + Plainfield, N. J.; surgeon; counterfeiting, state prison; literary + Doylestown, Pa.; Auburn, N. piracy, stole Ingersoll's temperance speech. + Y. + Ross, Rev. Wm. J. St. Louis, Mo. Murder, convicted, penitentiary. + Rockwell, Rev. J. B.; or Rev. De Witt, Neb.; Wilber, Neb. Cong. Gross swindling, illegal use of mails; arrested, + J. H. Harvey. prison. + Rope, Rev. Andrew, Ev., Taylorville, Ill. M. E. Rape, indicted, fled. +1882 Rope, Rev. Andrew J. Texas. Married Miss Gessner; forgery, signed a man's + name to note who could not write; discovered, + fled, arrested. + Reeder, Rev. J. J. Milford, Pa.; Newark. M. E. Gross swindling, made great debts and ran away; + immorality. +1876 Robinson, Rev. Kansas City, Mo. Adultery; arrested in a brothel. +1882 Richardson, Rev. Brooklyn, N. Y. "Moral wreck;" expelled. + Roe, Rev. Frank F. Scotland.; Athens, N. Y.; Various Drunkenness; expelled at Athens from Baptist + Morenci, Mich.; Oakwood, denominations. church; went to Michigan, became a + Mich.; Lapeer, Mich.; Congregational preacher, expelled; goes to + Pontiac, Mich. Oakwood, finally to Lapeer, where he changes to + Baptist again; pastor at Pontiac, again + expelled, but continues to preach; popular + preacher. + Stearns, Rev. Harvey Fort Worth, Texas. Bap. Murder of Jeff. Wood; prison. + Sedwick, Rev. T. B. Dakota. Adultery with Indian women; carried off and + supposed murdered by them; he was missionary + among the Crows. + Sheppard, Rev. T. J. Mt. Olivet, Mo. M. E. Adultery with "Sister" Wells, wife of Rev. M. F. + Wells, who is blind; caught by a neighbor; + church trial. + Sullivan, Rev. J. C. Salem, O. M. E. Adultery, seduction of "sister," wife of A. L. + Halwick; she told; Sullivan married. +1879 Saxon, Rev. Lowell, Mich. Bap. Swindling Deacon Post; prison. +1882 Saunders, Rev. Mother New York, N. Y. Lewd woman; arrested in house of ill-fame; was a + captain in Salvation Army. +1882 Sklorzik, Rev. Bay City, Mich. Cath. Assault with intent to murder the organist John + Richards; arrested; Richards died of the + injuries; slander from pulpit; sued by Daniels + for $10,000; judgment against him. + Sentenac, Rev. Roxton Falls, Can. Cath. Slander from pulpit of Dr. Desgrobois; sued; + compromised, paying $1,000. + Slater, Rev. Ira Cherry Valley, Ill. Bap. Larceny, stealing horse; arrested. +1883 Sherin, Rev. A., alias A. Pierre, Dak.; Huron, Dak.; M. E. Adultery, seduction, false personation; occupied + Sheridan, or A. Sherdin, or Flandran, Dak.; Big Stone same room at Dakota House, Huron, with Miss + A. Sherdian. City, Minn. Rice; registered as "A. Sheridan and wife;" + introduced her as "Miss Rice, my wife's niece;" + preached next day at Flandran, "Miss Rice, a + cousin," still with him; married, and family: + confessed registering "A. Sheridan and wife," + and occupying same room, "merely to protect from + harm a modest, timid, warm-hearted woman, of + generous impulses." + Shurtleff, Rev. Fabius, N. Y. M. E. Immoral assault, went into Miss Clark's bedroom + twice and tried to seduce her, while his wife + was sick; sued. + Smith, Rev. J. Hyatt Brooklyn, N. Y. M. E. Borrowed $1,128 for election expenses; wouldn't + pay, sued. + Spencer, Rev. Geo. T. Corinth, N. Y.; South M. E. Outrageous conduct, expelled; fled to escape tar + Corinth, N. Y. and feathers; adultery, seduction, bastardy, + with wife's sister, aged 16; confessed. +1883 Seguin, Rev. New York, N. Y. F. R. Brutal assault on a woman, sent to workhouse. + Satterfield, Rev. Jno. W. Brownsville, Pa. Drunkenness, beating wife very often; church + trial. + Starr, Rev. James Peru, Ind. Rape on a little five-year-old girl; caught in + the act, and arrested. + Smith, Rev. Silas Mexico, Mo.; St. Louis, Mo. Bap. Arson; burnt, with help of some "sisters," two + churches; arrested, prison. +1879 Surnley, Rev. John Begging while getting $1,400 a year; lying + generally. +1883 Stoddard, Rev. E. L. Jersey City, N. J. P. E. Criminal carelessness--or worse; killed his wife + accidentally(?) with a revolver. +1882 Tryston, Rev. C. F. W. Newark, N. J.; St. Louis, P. E. Beating wife; arrested, prison; robbing his wife + Mo. of money. + Victorian, Rev. Vicksburg, Miss. Cath. Unnamed crime with boys under his charge at + Brotherhood College; caught in act, expelled, + fled, arrested, prison; a most beastly wretch; + he was principal of the college. + Van Dersall, Rev. S. S. Forest Grove, Or. M. E. and Immoral assault on Widow Marsh; slander and + Cong. libel; read a paper before college trustees, + alleging that she tried to seduce him, and was a + bad woman with others; lying; expelled; perjury + on slander trial; a most infamous scoundrel; + convicted by a jury. +1878 Webster, Rev. Prof. Wheaton, Ill. Cong. Slander, lying; so says Rev. Blanchard, + president of the "parson factory." +1882 Willoughby, Rev. N. R. Yorkville, Can.; Brompton, M. E. Immoral assault on Miss Graham; church trial; + Can. lying. + Waite, Rev. A. A. North Adams, Mass.; St. Adultery, seduction, incest, with Lena Capron, + Louis, Mo.; Troy, N. Y. his twenty-year-old niece; deserting wife and + three children; beating wife; paramour + confessed; he was arrested; he "exposed + Spiritualism." + Whipple, Rev. Madison, O. Rape on girl 11 years old, he 70; arrested, + jailed. + Wharton, Rev. Henry Louisville, Ky.; Eufaula, Bap. Drunkenness oft repeated; church trial, + La. suspended. + Whipple, Rev. Henry Evanston, Ill. Grossly swindling a brother preacher, Rev. John + McComber, of Minnesota; gross fraud, sued. +1879 Webster, Rev. Lowell, Mich. Bap. Counterfeiting, prison. +1882 Waggoner, Rev. James Waverly, Tenn. Chris. Swindling creditors, fled. + Wharton, Rev. J. G., or J. W. Carthage, Mo.; M. E. Adultery, seduction, elopement with organist, + Wharton, alias J. D. Hill. Elizabethtown, Ky. wife of J. R. McGill; forgery for $2,600; + deserting wife and 15 children; stole $2,600 + from his wife; Mrs. McGill deserting three + children; embezzlement; arrested, indicted. + Woodruff, Rev. R. H. Baltimore, Md. Robbing mail; pleaded guilty, fined. + Wallace, Rev. Philadelphia, Pa. Bap. Fighting in pulpit with Rev. Green, threatening + to kill him. +1883 Waldron, Rev. Thomas, alias Buffalo, N. Y.; La Salle, Cath. Rape on Hattie Carr, aged 7 years, a pupil; + "Brother Frank." Ill.; New York, N. Y. arrested, state prison five years; principal of + St. Joseph's College; formerly; principal of De + la Salle (Catholic) Institute, New York. +1882 Walsh, Rev. South Natick, Mass. Cath. Embezzlement of $8,000, church funds. +1883 Woodworth, Rev. A. M. Otisville, N. Y.; Port M. E. Drunkenness for a week, gambling in a saloon. + Jervis, N. Y. + Walk, Rev. David Indianapolis, Ind. Chris. Egotism, puffing himself in the papers. + Worthen, Rev. H. W. Northfield, Vt.; M. E. Rape on Mrs. S. F. Gibbs, by means of opiates; + Burlington, Vt. sued. + Wright, Rev. Prince Chillicothe, Mo. M. E. Adultery, expelled; an old man. + Walker, Rev. J. B. R. East Hartford, Conn. Adultery, inhuman cruelty to wife; lying, + charged by wife in divorce suit. +1873 Weeks, Rev. Thos. J. New York. Bap. Larceny; prison two years. + + +ADDITIONS FOR FOURTH EDITION. + + Abernethy, Rev. J. T. Snow Hill, N. C. M. E. Kissing Mrs. Grimsley; shot by Mr. Grimsley, + resigned. + Anderson, Rev. J. T. Owsley Co., Ky. Pres. Because Wilson family deferred one year marriage + of their daughter to him, drove nail through + foot of their horse, necessitating killing, put + petroleum in their well, terrorized them with + forged warnings to leave, put powder in Wilson's + forge; escaped. + Andrews, Rev. Henry Marienfield, Tex. Cath. Murder (see under Peters, Rev. J. H.) + Andrews, Rev. Geo. Essex, Mass. Arson to obtain insurance. + Anderson, Rev. S. P. St. Louis, Mo. Bap. Theft and forgery; sentenced to five years' + imprisonment. + Adams, Rev. C. G. Lockport, N. Y. Epis. Charged with accepting bribes and embezzling. + Ali, Rev. Jos. Newark, N. J. Cath. Charged with assaulting nine-year-old girl. + Arnold, Rev. John Wellington, O. U. B. Charged with murdering wife. + Ahlfeldt, Rev. Carl San Francisco, Cal. Luth. Drunkenness; imprisoned. + Booth, Rev. James Coulton, O. Raping deaf and dumb girl. + Bonsack, Rev. David Westminster, Md. Dunk. Suicide. + Bowles, Rev. Marion Omaha, Neb. Chris. Raping parishioner's wife. + Bacon, Rev. Mr. Norwich, Conn. Obscene language. + Baxter, Rev. Geo. W. Des Moines, Ia. Pres. Sporting tendencies; engaged to two women at + once. + Barrows, Rev. C. D. San Francisco, Cal. Cong. Immorality. + Booth, Rev. C. M. Springfield, Mass. Bap. Forgery. + Bristor, Rev. Geo. R. Spring Valley. M. E. Seduction of sixteen-year-old ward. + Butler, Rev. Father Jersey City, N. J. Cath. Elopement. + Bennett, Rev. J. R. Morgantown, Ky. Meth. Obtaining money under false pretenses. + Benjamin, Rev. H. D. Portsmouth, O. Suicide. + Butler, Rev. Mr. Raleigh, N. C. Bap. Elopement. +1892 Best, Rev. Ed. Hamilton, Ont. Cursing his neighbor and praying the Lord to + destroy him; this in a disorderly manner and at + open window; fined $10. + Browne, Rev. Robert New York. Bap. Drunkenness. +1890 Bickley, Rev. F. D. T. Covington, Ky. M. E. Charged with immorality; lying; + maladministration; profanity. +1889 Bohannon, Rev. Chas. Louisville, Ky. Bap. Elopement. +1889 Boyle, Rev. J. J. Raleigh, N. C.; Winchester, Cath. In North Carolina, assault with intent to commit + Ill. rape; at Winchester, going to St. Louis on a + spree and attempting to shoot woman in a + disorderly house. + Bloom, Rev. Jos. Oswego, N. Y. Bap. Charged with theft of horse and sleigh. + Brom, Rev. Dr. B. Central City, Neb. Pres. Theft of $1,500; forgery. + Black, Rev. Mr. Springfield, O. Arrested on charge of slander. +1891 Bowers, Rev. E. T. Kansas City, Mo. Pres. Adultery. + Brushingham, Rev. J. P. Chicago. Meth. Charged with bastardy. (Was fond of abusing + Roscoe Conkling and other Freethinkers for + Infidelity and immorality.) +1891 Buck, Rev. Mr. Yankton, S. D. Faith Cure. Swindling by alleged cures; starving and + freezing his children; fled on suspicion of + having murdered his boy. +1892 Best, Rev. Jos. Hamilton, Can. Assault on wife. + Blanton, Rev. Mr. Cave Springs, Ga. Meth. Writing letter to mulattress to assign immoral + meeting; expelled. + Barr, Rev. D. A. Allentown, Pa. Slander; expelled. + Brown, Rev. Geo. Portland, N. Y. Bigamy. + Butler, Rev. Jas. Dunlap, Tenn. M. E. Elopement and horse-stealing. + Brown, Rev. Wesley Bedford, Ia. Chris. Breach of promise (engaged to five girls at + once). + Boone, Rev. Wm. Calhoun, Ga. Poisoning a family. + Buchanan, Rev. S. H. Little Rock, Ark. Charged with embezzlement of $5,000. + Bair, Rev. Mr. Royal Center, Ind. Charged with adultery. + Baxter, Rev. Charged by church committee with lying and + wholesale love-making. + Bowman, Rev. A. S. G. Reading, Pa. Arrested for breaking into church. + Broad, Rev. T. P. Topeka, Kan. Cong. Charged with criminal libel. + Burdette, Rev. Robt. ("Bob St. Louis, Mo. Bap. Charged with continuous drunkenness which caused + Burdette.") him to disappoint several audiences for + lectures. +1890 Carter, Rev. T. C., DD. Chattanooga, Tenn. Meth. Charged with adultery and suborning witnesses. +1890 Cruchet, Rev. A. B. Montreal, Can. Pres. Seduction. + Crocker, Rev. Sim. Sweettown, I. T. Bap. Murder of a preacher. + Conyer, Rev. J. F. Chattanooga, Tenn. Attempted murder. + Campbell, Rev. Jas. Columbus, Ind. Meth. Practicing abortion. + Clark, Rev. J. Dayton, O. Charged with murder. + Corder, Rev. Willis Marion, Ill. Bap. Drunkenness. + Canterbury, Rev. J. C. Redlands, Cal. Embezzlement. + Calvin, Rev. John Green Co., Ala. Meth. Murder. + Carter, Rev. H. R. O. Baltimore. Adultery. + Campbell, Rev. W. H. Akron, O. Intoxication and disorderly conduct. + Cave, Rev. W. A. Wooster. Theft. + Copper, Rev. E. K. Rochester, N. Y. M. E. Drunkenness. + Dobbs, Rev. A. S. Franklin, Wash.; Seattle, Cruelty to wife, forcing her to black his boots + Wash.; Cameron, Mo. before church and rewarding her with an insult; + she became insane, recovered, got divorce; + embezzlement at Cameron, Mo. + Dale, Rev. Walker R. Atlanta, Ga. Bap. Charged with bigamy. + Danks, Rev. John A. Pittsburgh, Pa. M. E. Threatening life; slander; convicted and + suspended. + Duncan, Rev. Henry Birmingham, Ga. Poisoned wife and eloped; hanged. + Dempsey, Rev. Thos. Highland, Wis. Cath. Made improper visits to Mr. Grace's wife; on + Grace's charging criminality eleven parishioners + dragged him to the priest's house amid cries of + "Lynch him!" when the priest beat him in the + face, the party forced him to his knees, and he + retracted to save his life; Grace sues for + $15,000. + Doelling, Rev. Adolph Gr'nd R'pids, Mich. Theft of watch and $2 from preacher; imprisoned + one year. + Dudley, Rev. Mr. Gibbon, Neb. Meth. Seduction; abuse and desertion of the seduced + girl after marriage. + De Ford, Rev. A. M. Hortonville, Wis. Counterfeiting. + Durant, Rev. A. H. Sumter, S. C. Murder. + Dyer, Rev. Ross Macomb, Ill. Bap. Elopement with a married woman, deserting wife + and children. + Davis, Rev. Geo. E. Chicago, Ill. Bigamy. + Downs, Rev. Mr. Boston, Mass. Bap. Charged with adultery. + Dill, Rev. A. C. Sterling, N. J. Indecent familiarities with women. + Dawson, Rev. G. E. Wheeling, W. Va. M. E. Lying, robbery, fraud. + Dumont, Rev. Wm. Kalamazoo, Mich. Swindling. + Dubs, Bishop. Indianapolis, Ind. Charged with circulating obscene literature. + Dittke, Rev. Herman Shawano Co., Wis. Luth. Charged with cruelty to children. + Donnelly, Rev. Father Los Angeles, Cal. Cath. Desertion of wife. + Derepentencigny, Rev. Father Montreal, Can. Cath. Illicit distilling. + Dunbar, Rev. Edw. Oxford, Ga. Meth. Bigamy. + Davie, Rev. Mr. New Haven, Mich. Charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct. + Dobbin. Rev. John Wacousta, Mich. Gross immorality. + Edgell, Rev. Mr. Parkersburg, W. V. Meth. Forgery of pension affidavits for purpose of + sale. + Early, Rev. Father Pou'keepsie, N. Y. Cath. Assault on a parishioner during services. + Edward, Rev. W. M. Portland, N. D. Charged with immorality with women; fled, + deserting family. + Eastman, Rev. Jas. M. Olmsted Falls, O. M. E. Seduction. + Flory, Rev. B. F. Pawnee City, Neb. Forgery. + Fritch, Rev. M. L. Shillington, Pa. Ref. Long course of theft. + Fitzgerald, Rev. Mr. Charlot, N. Y. Cath. Beating and choking a lady; fined $50. + Fleming, Rev, S. J. Monte Vista, Cal. M. E. Swindle of $6,000. + Finnerty, Rev. Mr. Dayton, O. Cath. Adultery. + Flaherty, Rev. Chas. Rochester, N. Y. Cath. Rape. + Fleming, Rev. Jas. Detroit, Mich. Cruelty to wife. + Farrington. Rev. F'r. Louisville, Ky. Cath. Drunkenness and disorderly conduct. + Guihot, Rev. Father Montreal, Can. Cath. Adultery. + Griffis, Rev. J. K. Waconda, Ill. Bap. Eloped with young parishioner, taking all wife's + money and jewelry. + Garland, Rev. J. B. Vermillion, S. D. Epis. Charged with embezzlement of $14,000. + Gordon, Rev. C. B. W. Petersburg, Va. Bap. Charged with selling vote and influence; asked + to resign. + George, Rev. Harry Fishkill, N. Y. Seduction, and abettal of an abortion which + proved fatal. + Garrett, Rev. Mr. Pa. Forgery, accessoriness to; expelled. + Goine, Rev. C. C. Fort Scott, Kan. Bap. Seduction; fled. + Gates, Rev. Geo. N. Savanna, Ill. Bap. Seduction; expelled. + George, Rev. A. Leeds, N. Y. Charged with seduction of his stepdaughter, + which resulted in her death. + Gordon, Rev. Frank South Solon, O. Disc. Seduction. + Gardner, Rev. C. M. Toledo, O. While married, writing love-letters to girls; + expelled. + Gurr, Rev. Henry Oakland, Cal. Epis. Cruelty to wife. + Gentle, Rev. George Washington, O. Attempted rape of ten-year-old girl. + Griesen, Rev. Mr. Chicago. Charged with slander. + Gifford, Rev. Wm. C. Meth. Charged with adultery. + Garrett, Rev. Philip Reading, Pa. U. B. Obtaining money on false pretenses. + Gratza, Rev. Father Hillsboro, Ill. Cath. Charged with circulating obscene pictures. + Gilford, Rev. W. E. Chicago, Ill. Meth. Immorality. + Hendricks, Rev. R. O. Meth. Assault with deadly weapon. + Hoddy, Rev. Carroll N. Decatur, Ill. Chris. Drunkenness. + Hayden, Rev. Francis Drunkenness and frequenting brothel. + Henderson, Rev. T. R. Lima, O. Meth. Charged with seduction. + Hoffman, Rev. John Waukesha, Mich. Meth. Charged with cruelty to wife. + Hall, Rev. C. J. New London, Wis. Bigamy. + Heininger, Rev. Elkhart, Ind. Falsehood and slander. + Hembree, Rev. C. C. Guthrie, Okla. Threatening with revolver new claimant of + pulpit, from which Hembree had been deposed for + disreputable conduct; arrested. + Hennessey, Rev. E. M. Dungannon, O. Cath. Assault and battery of a woman; fined $700 and + imprisoned ninety days. + Hogfin, Rev. A. O. Sabetha, Kan. Charged with criminal libel. + Hughes, Rev. Chas. S. Sedalia, Mo. Charged with forgery. + Holmes, Rev. Mr. Dubuque, Ill. Counterfeiting. + Healy, Rev. Mr. Pierce City, Mo. Cath. Arrested for criminal libel. + Holted, Rev. Nicholas Louisville, Ky. Cath. Charged with immorality with a young lady; + forced to resign. + Hooper, John F. Kingston, N, Y.; Mott Pres. Cruelty to wife at Kingston; elopement at Mott + Haven, N. Y. Haven. + Hildreth. Rev. T. F. Chicago, Ill. M. E. Charged with scandalous immorality. + Henry, Rev. Mr. Odessa, Mo. Charged with seduction. + Hammond, Rev. Wm. Montreal, Can.; Yreka, Bap. Extensive swindling; arrested for attempt to + Cal.; Franklin F'ls, Ill.; poison a lady whom he had married for her money. + Indiana.; Georgia. + Helmick, Rev. D. M. Neola, Ia. Meth. Unprovoked murder of a man whom he had failed to + intimidate from marrying a lady loved by both. + Hinsman, Rev. Z. K. Asotin, Wash. Meth. Elopement and wife desertion. + Hale, Rev. John Dayton, O. Fraudulent dealings. + Hibler, Rev. Sidney Saradia, Miss. Meth. Adultery; killed by husband. + Harrison, Rev. G. Cannon, Tex. Meth. Murder and suicide. + Holohan, Rev. John J. Hinsdale, N. H. Cath. Charged with lewdness. + Hallman, Rev. S. T. Concord, N. C. Seduction. +1892 Hallinger, Rev. Edw. Jersey City, N. J. Bap. Murder; hanged. + Hagins, Rev. Mr. Oswego, N. Y. Desertion of wife and children for another + woman. + Harris, Rev. Andrew Clinton, Miss. Bap. Murder. + Irvine, Rev. Ingram Braddock, Pa. Cong. Adultery; swindling. + Johnson, Rev. W. W. Laurel, Del. M. E. Attempt to elope and leave family. + Jones, Rev. Thomas R. Albion, Mich. Bap. Forgery. +1890 Johnson, Rev. H. E. Greenville, Pa. M. E. Charged on twenty-three counts with indecent + conduct with young ladies. + Jones, Rev. Geo. W. Long Branch, N. J. Embezzlement of church collections. + Jealicka, Father J. J. Chicago, Ill. Cath. Insulting little girls. + Johnson, Rev. H. R. J. Chicago, Ill. Threatening life of rival evangelist; held in + bonds to keep peace. + Jennings, Rev. J. B. Newark, N. J. Charged with wife-desertion, drunkenness, and + lying. + Kolasinski, Rev. Fath'r Toledo, O. Cath. Charged with rape of eleven-year-old girl. + Knauf, Rev. George Pittsburg, Pa. Charged with abetting murder. + Kuhlman, Rev. Chas. Marshall Ill. Cath. Immoral conduct. + Koehler, Rev. A. N. Farmer's Retreat, Ind. Luth. Indecent familiarities with women. + Kohn, Rev. Horace Bucyrus, O. Attempted seduction. + Kelsey, Rev. Joel S. McCook, Neb. Cong. Seduction of girls; fled to escape lynching. + King, Rev. T. Oakland, Cal. Drunkenness. + Knight, Rev. David Caldwell Co., N. C. Bap. Desertion of wife and twelve children to elope + with mother-in-law. + Kimball, Rev. O. D. Newton, Mass.; Leominster, Bap. Sodomy with boys; seduction of little girls; + Mass. dismissed; confessed. + Kelly, Rev. Alfred B. Brooklyn, N. Y. Theft; confessed. + Kroeger, Rev. Father Elkhart, Ind. Cath. Swindling in the amount of $17,000. + Kertly, Rev. F. S. Franklin, Ind. Chris. Forgery. + Kisler, Rev. J. B. Seneca City, Ga. Hol. Burglary. + Koesalsko, Rev. Jos. Hazelton, Pa. Cath. Libel; embezzlement. + Lord, Rev. William West Creek, N. J. Bap. Charged with seduction. +1899 Lightfoot, Rev. Mr. Newport, Ark. Bap. Swindling congregation; shot dead by them. + Lerch, Rev. Fred. Syracuse, N. Y. Cath. Indecent liberties with eight-year-old girl; + sentenced to penitentiary. + Lindler, Rev. George Nashville, Tenn. Swindling. + Laird, Rev. G. M. Gillespie, Mo. Attempt to blackmail. + Lennax, Ernest Chicago, Ill. Meth. Charged with embezzlement. + McArthur, Rev. Julius Dover, N. H. Bap. Horse-stealing and murder. + Moore, Rev. Henry C. Little Rock, Ark. Charged with passing counterfeit money. + Morse, Rev. Wm. F. Big Rapids, Mich. Wes. Elopement and desertion of family. + Mastin, Rev. J. J. St. Elmo, Tenn. Bap. Writing love letters to several ladies with whom + he had no acquaintance. +1889 McCready, Rev. R. H. Pittsburgh, Pa. Pres. Charged with obtaining money under false + pretenses; arrested. + Marquis, Rev. Mr. Osage City, Kan. Pres. Charged with immodest conduct with young ladies; + forced to resign. + Mowbray, Rev. Mr. Springfield. Bap. Adultery. + McIntosh, Rev. Mr. St. Louis, Mo. M. E. Charged with bigamy, and using obscene language. + Mertz, Rev. Matthew Columbus, Ind. Luth. Adultery. + McNeeley, Rev. Oscar Indianapolis, Ind. Chris. Charged with forgery. + Mitterling, Rev. D. J. Lucas, O. Luth. Gross immorality. + Murphy, Rev. Coniff Sioux City. Cath. Intoxication and disorderliness. + Martin, Rev. L. Detroit, Mich. Fornication. + Mayes, Rev. Jas. Arcola, Ill. M. E. Selling liquor without license. + Mailluchette, Rev. L. Detroit, Mich. Cath. Adultery. + Meyer, Rev. H. Lincoln, Ill. Luth. Charged with speculation and falsehood. + McBride, Rev. M. J. Harrisburg, Pa. Cath. Compelled dying man to will him his estate. + Michanowski, Rev. A. Jersey City, N. J. Cath. Embezzlement of church funds. + Miracle, Rev. Geo. W. Grove, Kan. Meth. Elopement with married woman, deserting wife and + four children. + McCready, Rev. R. H. Pittsburgh, Pa. Cong. Charged with theft of $319. + McManus, Rev. Wm. N. Springfield, Pa. Chris. Elopement with a parishioner's wife. + Meynardie, Rev. J. S. Atlanta, Ga. Immorality; expelled. + Mitchell, Rev. N. W. Fort Worth, Tex. Pres. Heavy forgeries; fled. + Moysant, Rev. J. Chicago, Ill. Cath. Seduction of and elopement with the wife of the + + famous politician McDonald, who says: "She + became a fanatic in religion, and the brute + brought a tremendous religious influence to bear + on her. Under his powerful leverage, the church, + he made her an easy prey. To think that he lived + on me, blessed my food, took my children on his + knee and blessed them!" + Mower, Rev. Mr. Pa. U. B. Immorality and forgery. + McFarland, Rev. A. B. Pittsburgh Pa. Assault and terrible cruelty to wife; divorce + given her. + Mills, Rev. Michael Detroit, Mich. Arrested for seduction and many immoralities + with women. + Martin, Rev. N. H. Chatham, Ont. Epis. Breach of promise (engaged to three girls); + fled. +1891 Moore, Rev. Geo. Louisville, Ky. Bap. Theft of Bible and other property. + Marshall, Rev. W. F. Kinderhook, N. Y. Seduction under promise of marriage, and + desertion. + Moore, Rev. H. H. Warren, Pa. Charged with immoralities. + Mayer, Rev. Mr. Erie, Pa. Wantonness; tarred and feathered. + Moore, Rev. Lewis Nashville, Tenn. Incest. + Matlock, Rev. Robt. Izard Co., Ark. Murder. + Martin, Rev. R. L. Evansville, Wis. Drunkenness. + Maczynski, Rev. Father Cath. Charged with embezzlement of $3,700. + McArthur, Rev. Julius Dover, N. H. Bap. Horse-stealing and murder. + Moore, Rev. Henry C. Little Rock, Ark. Charged with passing counterfeit money. + Nailand, Rev. Jas. Springfield, Mo. Theft; imprisoned ten days. + Norto, Rev. L. L. Macon City, Ga. Charged with theft. + Nutting, Rev. W. W. Lisbon, N. D. Elopement. + Nelson, Rev. Walter Port Burwell, Ont. Elopement and wife-desertion. + Orne, Rev. A. L. Haverhill, Mass. Faith Cure. Allowing child to die without medical service. + O'Donnell, Rev. Father Sedamsville, O. Cath. Drunkenness. + Orvis, Rev. Wm. Philadelphia, Pa. Cong. Medical swindling. + Oftedal, Rev. Gus. Wahpeton, N. D. Luth. Charged with whipping his servant-girl for her + spiritual discipline. + O'Riordan, Rev. M. V. Buffalo, N. Y. Cath. Drunkenness; forgery; consorting with lewd + women; embezzling church money. + Owen, Rev. Thos. Vernon, Ala. Bap. Insulting ladies who would not attend his + meeting; mobbed out of the neighborhood; + convicted. + Overton, Rev. W. A. Greene Co., Ga. Bap. Suicide. + O'Sullivan, Rev. John Camillus, N. Y. Cath. Charged with seduction and deposed. + Orbach, Rev. C. L. Sauk Rapids, Minn. Luth. Charged with adultery. + O'Connor, Rev. Father Wilmington, Del. Cath. Drunkenness. + O'Connor, Rev. Father Chicago, Ill. Cath. Criminal intercourse with girl under fourteen. + Otis, Rev. Father Calumet, Mich. Cath. Charged with seduction. + Phillips, Rev. R. D. Elmira, N. Y. Meth. Forgery. + Payne, Rev. J. H. Columbus, O. Theft. + Prouty, Rev. Enoch Beloit, Wis. Bap. Dishonesty, lying, wife-desertion, adultery. + Percival, Rev. Harold Detroit. Bap. Sodomy. + Powell, Rev. Wm. Macon. Ga. Perjury. + Parsons, Rev. M. Perry, Ia. Bap. Charged with embezzlement. + Pierce, Rev. Geo. J. Salem, Mass.; Philipston, Cong. Charged with many immoralities. + Mass; Bangor, Me.; Danbury, + N. H.; Portsmouth, N. H. + Parker. Rev. F. Sherman, Tex. Meth. Charged with forgery. + Parrault, Rev. Father Dickinson. N. D. Charged with forgery. +1889 Packard, Rev. J. Los Angeles, Cal. Hol. Ran up board bill until landlady became + embarrassed for money; suggested that he pawn + her watch for her, and did so and absconded with + the proceeds. +1891 Peters, Rev. J. H. Marienfeld, Tex. Cath. With Father Andrews governed a convent of boys; + one escaped and revealed that the two priests + had killed a student, telling the escaped one + that priests had a right to murder; Andrews, + with the justice of peace who held inquest, and, + being a strong Catholic and under the priest's + control, returned verdict of suicide, arrested; + Peters missing. + Pettit, Rev. Mr. Lafayette, Ind. Arrested for wife-poisoning. + Perry, Rev. Spurgeon Philadelphia, Pa. Horse-stealing. + Prather, Rev. E. L. Lincoln, Ill. Pres. Charged with many seductions; deposed. + Pistor, Rev. Mr. Albuquerque, N. M. Luth. Drunkenness and embezzlement of church funds; + deposed. + Phillips, Rev. J. W. Joliet, Ill. Adultery. + Petty, Rev. W. P. Maysville, Tex. Meth. Charged with indecencies with girls. + Paul, Rev. Mr. Heraldsburg, Cal. Meth. Libel. + Poole, Rev. Pedro Vera Cruz. Cath. Murder. + Price, Rev. J. W. Ottumwa, Ia. Bap. Criminal connection. + Quinn, Rev. Father Spokane Falls, Wash. Cath. Indecent liberties with little girls; under + assumed character of John Smith sentenced to + ninety days in workhouse, whereupon revealed + true profession and was but fined $100. + Quay, Rev. Father Snohomish, Wash. Cath. Sodomy. + Reynolds, Rev. Allen Mt. Pleasant, Mich. Adultery. +1892 Robinson, Rev. Mr. Detroit, Mich. Meth. Criminal connection. + Ransford, Rev. Edw. New York, N. Y. Assault with intent to rape. + Roe, Rev. John F. Wooster, O. Theft. + Roberts, Rev. R. M. Graham Co., N. C. Elopement with another man's wife, deserting his + own. + Rymarsky, Rev. Louis Carlstadt, N. J. Pres. Assaults on girls between twelve and fifteen + with intent to rape. + Rheinhart, Rev. J. P. Norwood. Evan. Theft of a theological work and other books. + Ryan, Rev. Francis Philadelphia, Pa. Cath. Theft. + Robinson, Rev. E. Girard, Ga. Meth. Charged with theft; fined for fighting in + church. + Rollins, Rev. J. M. Bonne Terre, Mo. Meth. Adultery, confessed; charged with sodomy. + Ray, Rev. John S. Wooster, O. Meth. Burglary. + Rodgers, Rev. Mr. Colton, Cal. Hol. Indecent conduct with women. + Riley, Rev. J. T. Pittsburgh, Pa. M. E. Indecent conduct with women. + Roberts, Rev. G. W. Toronto. Gross immorality. + Robertson, Rev. J. D. Savannah, Ga. Pres. Immoralities. +1890 Ryan, Rev. Peter Lowville, N. J. Cath. Struck lady in face with prayer-book and used + indecent language to her, because she refused + share of assessment demanded; deposed. + Richards, Rev. W. L. Stockton, Minn. M. E. Charged with embezzlement. + Ross, Rev. Orville Lockford, Cal. Cong. Killed wife, son, and self because wife would + not support him. +1889 Rogers, Rev. Euclid B. Franklin, Pa. Bap. Cruelty to wife; expelled; wife got divorce. +1888 Riley, Rev. John Council Grove, Kan. Adv. Sending to wife of a parishioner, with whom he + maintained a liaison, a love-letter such that he + was arrested for mailing obscene matter. + Reed, Rev. J. C. Grand Island, Neb. Bap. Elopement. + Rodden, Rabbi Max. Trenton, N. J. Heb. Fighting in church; arrested. + Roberts, Rev. Peter Scranton, Pa. Cong. Breach of promise; $3,000 damages. + Richardson, Rev. J. W. Marshfield, Mo. Chris. Elopement with fourteen-year-old girl, deserting + + family. + Robinson, Rev. Mr. Clarkston, Mich. M. E. Charged with indecent conduct with young ladies, + and proposing adultery to married. + Rogers, Rev. E. B. Burlington, Ia. Charged with deliberately planning the cruelties + that forced his wife to get divorce, so he could + marry another woman. +1890 Smith, Rev. D. A. Clam Falls, Minn. Elopement with a parishioner's wife. + Sanborn, Rev. Geo. M. Eureka, Cal. Cong. Elopement with a parishioner's wife. + Stone, Rev. Saml. G. Cowan, Ont., Can. Meth. Improper relations with a parishioner's wife. + Sims, Rev. G. P. Atwood, Ill. Immorality; deposed; threatened to kill church + officers; arrested for carrying concealed + weapons. + Steffens, Rev. Aloysius. L'g Isl'd City, N. Y. Cath. Slander; $1,000 damages given. + Schaberhorn, Rev. A. A. Clarkstown, N. Y.; Nyack, Pres. Drunkenness; using lewd language to women; + N. Y. desertion of wife and children. + Smedley, Rev. Mr. Des Moines, Ia. Meth. Charged with lying. +1889 Sutton, Rev. D. G. Boone, Ia. Blackmail. + Savage, Rev. Samuel Celina, Tenn. Bap. Twice running away with woman for a short time; + finally absconding with one altogether and + leaving wife in want. + Smith, Rev. Wm. A. Boston, Mass. Bap. Immorality, drunkenness; expelled. + Shelton, Rev. T. J. Little Rock, Ark. Chris. Non-support of wife; divorce granted her; + arrested for intoxication. + Stewart, Rev. Wm. J. Port Norris, N. J. M. E. Accused of seduction. + Simmons, Rev. W. H. Springfield, O. Meth. Charged with indecent conduct to married lady; + her husband and others dragged him from the + pulpit and stopped his preaching. + Samuels, Rev. A. Chicago, Ill. Swindling. + Sherwood, Rev. Dr. South Om'ha, Neb. Cruelty to boys. + Squire, Rev. S. R. New Portage, O. Immoralities. + Stevens, Rev. L. G. St. John. N. B. Epis. Charged with adultery. + Schmotz, Rev. Carl Challicoon, N. Y. Ref. Intoxication and indecent liberties. + Seals, Rev. C. B. E. Lynn, Ill. Elopement. + Smith, Rev. Father Delavan, Wis. Cath. Conducting lottery at church fair; arrested. + Scott, Rev. Monroe W. Baton Rouge, La. Attempted bigamy; murder and suicide. + Simmons, Rev. W. H. Springfield, O. M. E. Indecent liberties. + Snowden, Rev. Frank Chicago, Ill. Chris. Assault and battery. + Small, Rev. Sam. Charged with swindling in the sum of $1,000 by a + clergyman of Newton Lower Falls, Mass. + Souderstom, Rev. H. M. Burlington, Ia. Meth. Fraud; lying; suspended. + Saddlier, Rev. R. A. Minneapolis, Minn. Meth. Drunkenness, habitual; expelled. + Spencer, Rev. Joel F. Richmond, Mo. Chris. Borrowed $350 and left, leaving note that he + should commit suicide. + Stone, Rev. S. C. Tenn., Miss. & Ark. Murder. + Stratton, Rev. Mr. Oakland, Cal. Charged with hugging and kissing one of his + female teachers after she had retired for the + night. + Smith, Rev. John St. Johns, N. B. Swindling hotel. + Shibrow, Rev. Mr. Ono, Wis. Indecent conduct. + Squier, Rev. E. A. Taylorville, Ill. Meth. Charged with slander and lying. + Smith, Rev. R. M. Sterling, Ill. Meth. Charged with adultery. + Schwabe, Rev. F. B. Rock Island, Ill. Pres. Intoxicated; arrested. + Staunton, Rev. Benj. Fort Green, N. Y. Pres. Adulteries, and cruelty to wife. + Slusser, Rev. Jas. G. Stark Co., O. Charged with adultery. + Spurlock, Rev. M. Geneseo, Ill. Lying; immorality; adultery. + Shelter, Rev. John McClure, O. U. B. Selling liquor without license. + Smith, Rev. W. R. Hastings, Neb. Forgery; libel; embezzlement; opening others' + letters; false entries. + Serche, Rev. F. J. Syracuse, N. Y. R. C. Indecent assault on eight-year-old girl. + Staples, Rev. Alfred Amherst, N. S. Bap. Swindling; engaged to many girls at once; fled. + Stevens, Rev. W. L. Santa Cruz, Cal. M. E. Improper liberties with women; gambling; + drunkenness; expelled. + Schoonover, Rev. Mr. New Haven, Mich. Bap. Charged with drunkenness. + Seymour, Rev. D. Janesville, Minn. M. E. Elopement with Mrs. Henry; taking with him + missionary funds; leaving wife and five children + destitute; she leaving husband and two children. + Stone, Rev. Mr. Tacoma, Wash. Meth. Charged with desertion of wife for Mrs. + McIntyre, upon the latter's receiving $6,000 + insurance money. +1891 Shaffer, Rev. A. H. Des Moines, Ia. M. E. Cruelty to wife; adultery; falsehood. + Seeley, Rev. Father Granville, Wis. Cath. Indecent liberties with little girls at + parochial school; fled from tar and feathers. + Stevenson, Rev. Mr. Des Moines, Ia. Meth. Desertion of wife for other women. + Smith, Rev. C. Hudson Boston, Mass. Cong. Desertion of wife; liaison with prostitute; + return and redesertion of wife for same + prostitute. + Schrieves, Rev. S. R. Moss Run, O. Desertion of wife and children; evangelizing + accompanied by another woman as pretended wife. + Turner, Rev. R. G. Little Rock, Ark. M. E. Swindles aggregating several thousand dollars; + his conference in a warning circular describes + him as "a good preacher--can talk and cry a man + into believing him a saint." + Tipton, Rev. John C. W. Va. Forgery; two murders; threefold bigamy; theft; + arrested in pulpit at close of sermon. + Tatum, Rev. Jos. Camden, Ark. Murder of wife; hanged. + Trunnell, Rev. Evan Marion, Ind. Arrested on charge of burning church to get + insurance. + Triffit, Rev. J. F. Columbus, O. Adulteries. + Taylor, Rev. J. H. Jefferson City, Mo. Bap. Bigamy. + Thayer, Rev. O. B. Clinton, Ill. Pres. Swindling. +1892 Temple, Rev. John Evansville, Ind. Charged with murder. + Turrell, Rev. C. W. Wyandotte, Mich. Meth. Adultery. + Tighe, Rev. R. H. New York, N. Y. Charged with adultery and libel. + Tupper, Rev. C. T. Leavenworth, Kan. Epis. Charged with adultery. + Tevis, Rev. A. H. Kansas City, Mo. Meth. Charged with lying; suspended. + Trager, Rev. W. A. Washington, Ind. Charged with horse-stealing. + Vanetten, Rev. J. P. Youngstown, O. Meth. Embezzlement of $1,200 from a widow. + Van Buskirk, Rev. Dr. Indianapolis, Ind. Chris. Adultery with parishioner's wife. + Vedder, Rev. A. A. New York, N. Y. Pres. Seduction. + Vancil, Rev. George W. Duquoin, Ill. Counterfeiting. + Vest, Rev. E. B. Martinsville, Ind. Immodest conduct with a young lady; forced to + resign. + Van Horn, Rev. David Athens Co., N. Y. Forgery. +1889 Williams, Rev. G. W. Brooklyn, N. Y. Grand larceny--renting a furnished house and + selling the furniture; was found in Buffalo + living with a mulatto girl. + Woodward, Rev. J. H. Greenbush, Wis. Meth. Charged with "scandalous conduct." + Wharton, Rev. F. L. Milwaukee, Wis. M. E. Arrested on charge of slander. + White, Rev. J. H. Gonzales, Tex. M. E. Indecent language and letters; suspended one + year. + Whitman, Rev. Edw. Joliet, Ill. Bap. Thefts and improper conduct with girl. + Wood, Rev. D. C. Tama City, Ia. U. B. Elopement, leaving wife and seven children. + Woodruff, Rev. Chas. Boyleston, Ind. U. B. Elopement with Mrs. Covert, she taking + considerable of her husband's money. + West, Rev. Wm. T. A. Chesterton, Ind. Meth. Seduction and murder by poison of Susie Beck. + Wilson, Rev. Wm. Waco, Tex. Chris. Horse-stealing. +1893 Webster, Rev. S. E. Minneapolis, Minn. Charged with forgery. + Wood, Rev. D. W. Sioux City, Ia. Obtaining $17,000 under false pretenses. + Wilbur, Rev. Sidney Susp. Bridge, N. Y. P. E. Immorality. + Weih, Rev. John N. Hudson Co., N. J. Robbery of six churches. + Wright, Rev. J. N. Indianapolis, Ind. Meth. Suicide. + Watkins, Rev. M. Pleasant Plains, Ill. Rape. + Wood, Rev. C. F. Tulare, Cal. Cong. Indecent proposals to fifteen-year-old girl. + Worden, Rev. Jarvis New York, N. Y. Dishonesty; lying; suspended. + Ward, Rev. W. M. Portland, N. D. Meth. Criminal connection; fled, deserting wife and + family. + Welton, Rev. Sidney St. John, N. B. Bap. Charged with swindling. + Watson, Rev. W. L. Little Black, Wis. Epis. Charged with illegal liquor-selling. + Woolford, Rev. N. D. Indianapolis, Ind. U. B. Charged with coercing a weak-minded woman into + giving $20,000 to an institution of his. + Widemar, Rev. Howard Philadelphia, Pa. Epis. According to charges, persuaded wife to live + apart from him, and used this absence as ground + for divorce; obtained bishop's consent to + remarry by saying ground was adultery. + Wood, Rev. Andrew Los Angeles, Cal. U. B. According to charges paid improper attention to + Mrs. Bell; kicked wife out of bed because she + would not receive Mrs. Bell; threatened to put + her in jail; made her kneel and swear to obey + him in all things as the Bible commands, and + consent to his courting Mrs. Bell; arrested. + Washington, Rev. W. H. Marysville. Adultery with W. Dyer's wife; murder of Dyer. + Wilson, Rev. J. T. C. Beresford, Ia. Meth. Arrested on charge of rape of a + thirteen-year-old girl. + Waters, Rev. G. L. Cortland, N. Y. Desertion of family; immoralities with female + parishioners in Canada. + Watkins, Rev. W. F. Philadelphia, Pa. Charged with sodomy with boys. + Yodyzus, Rev. Math. Brooklyn, N. Y. Cath. Assaults, drunkenness, embezzlement; deposed. + Young, Rev. John Butte, Mont. Pres. Habitual drunkenness. + Young, Rev. Conrad Chicago, Ill. Charged with embezzlement. + Zyla, Rev. John Chicago, Ill. Cath. Assault and battery. + + + +ADDITIONS FOR FIFTH EDITION. + + Accoursine, Father Pierre, S. D. Cath. Drunkenness; violent assault on a butcher. +1894 Ackerman, Rev. Elmer Pres. Felonious assault on wife of elder. Accused; + arrested. + Agnew, Rev. T. H. Auburn, Ill. M. E. Violation of postal law; called brother minister + names on a card. Fined. +1893 Alford, Rev. Mr. Salem, O. Col. Malversation of funds; left town with + camp-meeting gate receipts. Accused. +1894 Anderson, Rev. Pierce Hermann, Mo. Bap. Horse stealing; confessed; 4 years in + penitentiary. +1894 Armstrong, Rev. Cal. Kokomo, Ind. Embezzlement, as county treasurer, 3 years. +1894 Barnett, Rev. James Columbus, O. Bap. Drunkenness; arrested for disturbing the peace. + Barrett, Rev. Dr. Banks Co., Ga. Bap. Illicit distilling; arrested; bound over. + Bartsch, Rev. Bernard Sutter, Ill. G. Evan. Abortion, charged with attempting to procure. + Arrested. +1894 Bates, Rev. W. H. Johnstown, Pa. Ref. Immorality, with disorderly woman; suspended by + church. + Baullauff, Rev. Paul East New York, N. Y. Desertion; also accused of bigamy and perjury. +1894 Beardsley, Rev. E. H. Pratt City, Ala. Meth. Grand larceny; pleaded guilty; to penitentiary. +1893 Bennett, Rev. Hampton D. Lebanon, O. Slander; sued for $10,000 by Pres. Long, Antioch + College. +1893 Bennetts, Rev. J. J. Meaderville, Mont. M. E. Accused of breaking up home of William Hay. +1894 Berry, Rev. B. F. Postville, Iowa. M. E. Lying; fraudulent dealings; immoral conduct. + Expelled from church. + Berry, Rev. John M. White Co., Ga. Robbery of co-operative store. In jail awaiting + trial; made saws of his wife's corset steels. + Escaped with five other prisoners. Says jailer: + "He was the most religious man I ever saw. He + prayed night and day." +1892 Blanton, Rev. T. M. Florence, Ala. Wrote insulting note to a lady; drunkard, opium + eater, threatened the life of another minister. + Whipped by citizens and run out of town. +1893 Bolton, Rev. R. H. Findlay, O. C. of G. Improper proposal to Mrs. Samuel Cole. She + knocked him down twice and swore out warrant for + his arrest Church revoked his license. + Bonewell, Rev. Benj. A. Madisonburg, O. U. B. Illicit relations with several members of the + church. Confessed, in substance, in meeting. +1892 Bonsack, Elder D. D. Carroll Co., Md. Dunk. Adultery; eloped with a married woman. Carried + away others' funds. +1894 Bowe, Rev. James F. Edgerton, Wis. Cath. Slander; verdict, $5,000. +1894 Bowman, Rev. W. T. Mississippi. Pension frauds. Sentenced 3 years. +1893 Boyer, Rev. T. F. Eureka, Ill. Deception; concealed his marriage when at + Chillicothe, Mo., and made love to girls. + Suspended by the church. +1893 Bragg, Rev. Charles M. Baltimore, Md. M. E. S. Adultery; eloped with organist, aged 17. Left + wife and five children. + Briger, Rev. E. Jennings, La. Cong. Slanderous talk about women; whipped in the + pulpit. +1893 Britton, Rev. G. W. Lancaster, O. Meth. Drunk and disorderly; arrested. +1893 Brown, Rev. I. J. Waupan, Wis. Meth. Burglary; arrested at St. Joseph, Mo. Confessed. +1893 Buchanan, Rev. S. H. Little Rock, Ark. C. of P. Embezzlement, while treasurer of the state + insane asylum. Indicted, arrested, confessed. +1894 Buck, Rev. Solomon T. Baltimore, Md. E. As. Receiving money under false pretenses. Had an + independent income from copyright on illus. + edition of Lord's Prayer and Ten Commandments. 3 + yrs in pen. +1890 Burns, Rev. R. T. Kingston, Ont. C. E. Defaulter, as ass't postmaster. Arrested, + confessed. +1893 Chase, Rev. E. B. Evanston, Ill. A. M. E. Assault on a letter carrier. +1892 Chadbourne, Rev. G. S. Boston, Mass. M. E. Swindling; accused, arrested. +1893 Chenowith, Rev. J. F. Wheeling, W. Va. M. E. Adultery; church trial; charges sustained. +1894 Clancy, Rev. Charles Frontier, Mich. M. E. Improper conduct; accused; tarred and feathered. +1890 Collins, Rev. S. A. Ashland, Wis. Meth. Immorality and misappropriation of funds. Found + guilty. +1894 Connolly, Rev. James E. Two Harbors, Minn. Cath. Rape; 20 years and 3 months. Attempted abortion, + also. While at Crookston was suspended from + church for alleged improper relations with + married woman. +1893 Cook, Rev. Edward Tecumseh, Neb. Horse stealing; accused; arrested. A traveling + evangelist and said to be mixed up in other + crookedness. +1894 Cox, Rev. Daniel Peru, Ind. Dunk. Murder, the victim having made charges + reflecting on Cox's daughter. +1895 Crummett, Rev. Benj. Leavenworth Co., Kan. M. E. Rape and bastardy; accused, arrested. +1891 Culpepper, Rev. Mr. Atlanta, Ga. Vulgarity and obscenity in pulpit. Accused. +1893 De Castries, L'Abbe de la Tacoma, Wash. Cath. Smuggling; accused; arrested; prosecuting + Croix. attorney failed to act. Jumped bail. +1893 Deener, Rev. R. S. Batesville, Ark. Meth. Forgery and immorality. Lived a double life. + Accused. Arrested. +1893 Dent, Rev. Joshua L. Cincinnati, O. A. Bap. Bigamy and perjury. Accused. Arrested. +1894 Dingleday, Rev. John Richmond, Ind. Cruelty, to inmates of Orphans' Home. Heavily + fined. +1893 Disney, Rev. Mr. Brazil, Ind. Violent assault on a young man. Fined. +1894 Dixon, Rev. J. K. Portsmouth, O. M. P. Fighting with Salvation Army worker. +1893 Dixon, Rev. Thomas New York City. Bap. Violation of law for protection of song birds. + Fined. +1893 Donnocker, Rev. Delbert G. Brockton, Mass. F. W. B. Rape and bastardy. Accused; indicted; arrested. +1894 Donnell, Rev. R. J. Vicksburg, Miss. Pension frauds. 3 years penitentiary. + Dozier, Rev. R. F. Arkansas. Rape. Accused; arrested. + Drew, Rev. W. P. Williamsbridge, N. Y. Bap. Forgery; pleaded guilty. +1894 Driver, Rev. Samuel M. Placerville, Cal. M. E. Adultery; embezzlement; eloped. +1890 Duncan, Rev. Henry Ozark, Ala. F. W. B. Adultery, murder; hanged. +1894 Dunlap, Evangelist Nyack, N. Y. Forgery, embezzlement, wife desertion, adultery. + Accused, arrested. +1894 Duvall, Rev. C. H. New Castle, Pa. Bap. Adultery with 14 year old girl. Accused; + arrested. +1893 Edwards, Rev. Rodney San Francisco, Cal. Epis. Embezzlement. Accused, indicted. +1891 Ellis, Rev. John W. San Francisco, Cal. Pres. Malversation of funds and false statement of + account. Promised to make good the loss, and + presbytery censured him. +1894 Englebrecht, Rev. E. J. Luverne, Minn. Cath. Criminal assault Accused, indicted. Brought + counter actions for slander. +1894 Feldman, Rev. Mr. Goshen, Ind. Luth. "Contracting debts without intention to pay." + Intoxication. Accused; left town. + Fordinsky, Rabbi Harris Brooklyn, N. Y. Jew Struck a child; fined. + Fritch, Rev. Martin L. Reading, Pa. Larceny; accused; confessed; arrested. +1890 Garrett, Rev. P. H. The Gap, Pa. U. B. Embezzlement, perjury, forgery, theft. Accused, + arrested. +1894 Gelvin, Rev. Mr. Patriot, Ind. M. E. Adultery; eloped with wife of another minister. + Sold his father's horse and buggy, after + borrowing them. +1894 Grayville, Rev. Mr. Washington, Ind. M. E. Assault and battery; went into neighbor's house + to break up dance; fined; refused to pay; + jailed. +1892 Guenthner, Rev. Nelson A. Portland, Me. Assault; accused, arrested. +1892 Haines, Rev. J. H. New Hampshire. Meth. Falsehood; convicted; deposed. +1893 Hall, Rev. J. R. Van Wert, O. Meth. Obtaining money under false pretenses; arrested; + suspended from ministry. +1892 Hamilton, Rev. James W. Winfield, N. Y. Murder; electrocuted. + Hammond, Rev. Dr. Victoria, B. C. Bigamy, embezzlement, accused. +1894 Haney, Rev. Conrad Chicago, Ill. Meth. Adultery; eloped. +1891 Hanks, Rev. Robert T. Dallas, Tex. Bap. Criminal libel growing out of newspaper + controversy; indicted. +1890 Hanna, Rev. Thomas, D.D. Chattanooga, Tenn. Swindler and dead beat; fled. +1891 Harris, Rev. Mr. Boston, Mass. Bap. Immorality, accused. +1890 Heath, Rev. W. Ray, jr. Bucksport, Me. Meth. Betrayal; arrested. +1893 Heddie, Rev. Thomas E. Highland, Mich. Seduction; 2 years. +1894 Henderson, Rev. I. R. Lima, O. M. E. Attempted immorality; at 70 tried to make + appointments with young girls. Suspended. Once + at Van Wert, O., cowhided for slandering women + of congregation. +1894 Henderson, Rev. Thomas Morristown, N. J. A. M. E. Immoral assault; accused, arrested. + Hickey, Rev. Michael J. Jersey City, N. J. Cath. Adultery; accused. +1895 Hicks, Rev. Charles W. Wantagh, L. I., N. Y. Larceny; accused, arrested. + Hicks, Rev. Henry S. Roundout, N. Y. A. M. E. Malversation of funds; accused. +1895 Hinshaw, Rev. William E. Belleville, Ind. Meth. Murder; accused, indicted, arrested. +1893 Hoerl, Rev. Lewis Sabina, O. Bap. Theft; accused, arrested. + Hoffman, Rev. A. F. Pierce City, Mo. Chris. Immorality; accused, whipped by husband. +1894 Hoffman, Rev. Wm. La Porte, Ind. Horse stealing; in 13 state penitentiaries. +1894 Howard, Rev. G. B. Many states. All-round swindler. 9 years, from Jackson, + Tenn., to Columbus, O., for fraud. +1894 Howard, Rev. Geo. S. V. Chicago, Ill. Meth. Forgery and obtaining money under false + pretenses. Accused, arrested. +1889 Howard, Rev. Wm. E. New York City. Swindling; 9 years and 6 months in Sing Sing. +1889 Hunt, Rev. Buck Mississippi. S. Meth. Murder of minister who had supplanted him; shot + him as he was preaching. Penitentiary for life; + escaped 5 years later arrested at East + Birmingham, Ala., where he had preached for 3 + years as W. W. Thompson. + Hutchinson, Rev. George Philadelphia, Pa. Bigamy; arrested. +1895 Irvine, Rev. Alex. F. New York & Omaha. Deserted wife; made false charges to get + divorce. +1893 Johnson, Rev. Charles Midville, Ga. Murder of another preacher; executed. + Johnson, Rev. Robert I. New York City. Swindling; begging; 6 months. +1893 Johnson, Rev. Wm. H. Parkerford, Pa. Stealing chickens; fled. +1890 Keeler, Rev. A. S. Mechanicstown, O. M. E. Adultery; eloped. +1894 Kepler, Rev. Charles O. Boston, Mass. Meth. Unfaithfulness and desertion. Was sued for + divorce, which was granted by default. + Koehler, Rev. Henry Cincinnati, O. Cath. Theft; stealing silver candlesticks from Cath. + churches; accused, arrested. +1894 Lando, Rev. Stephen Guthrie, O. T. Jew & Chris. Fraud; arrested. Victimized Christians in many + places. +1893 Latham, Rev. James Fenton, Mich. Meth. Adultery; eloped to Canada, arrested, pleaded + guilty. +1895 Lee, Rev. W. J. Benton, Mo. Pres. Adultery; accused. + Le Count, Rev. George Camden, N. J. Larceny; sentenced to jail, but sentence changed + to fine that he might preach at camp meeting. +1895 Lepore, Rev. Mariano North Denver, Col. Cath. Immorality and dishonesty. Accused, deposed by + bishop, arrested. +1890 Lesser, Rev. J. Henry York, Pa. Luth. Seduction; accused, arrested. +1894 Lewis, Rev. C. W. Chattanooga, Tenn. Pension frauds; accused, arrested. +1893 Lightner, Rev. John A. Marietta, O. Adultery, eloped; arrested. + Loomis, Rev. S. P. Shelton, Neb. Meth. Slandered doctor; cowhided by latter. +1891 Lowery, Rev. John A. Monroeville, Ala. Bap. Adultery; eloped. +1895 Mabry, Rev. W. D. Salt Lake City, Utah. Bap. Adultery; accused, arrested. +1890 Marshall, Rev. A. J. Winnebago City, Minn. Bap. Bastardy; accused, expelled from presidency of + North-western Baptist College. +1895 McAuley, Rev. Alex. G. Philadelphia, Pa. Pres. Immorality, visited low resorts for 5 years. 75 + years old. Dismissal recommended. + McChesney, Rev. Samuel Amsterdam, N. Y. Meth. Malversation of funds; accused, held for grand + jury. +1890 McEllery, Rev. J. C. Calera, Ala. Bap. Attempted fraud; accused, resignation demanded. +1894 McGuire, Father Lexington, Ky. Cath. Immorality; in the evening awarded medals at + Catholic colored school, and spent the night in + debauch with colored women; next day drunk on + street. + McKinney, Rev. G. R. Orlando, O. T. Pension frauds in Pennsylvania and Maryland. + Arrested. +1894 McKinnis, Rev. R. C. Marion, Ill. Bap. Leader of mob. Arrested. + Meinarezy, or Mlynarzyak, Menominee, Mich. Cath. Slander; accused, arrested. + Rev. Father + Michael, "Prince." Detroit, Mich. Seduction and adultery; many times; arrested. +1891 Morris, Rev. W. H. Greenville, Ala. Misappropriation of school funds; 13 months. +1890 Nations, Rev. J. Logan Little Rock, Ark. M. Prot. Adultery; accused. +1893 Nickelson, Rev. Joseph Detroit, Mich. Cruelty to prisoners, farmed out to him by + government. + Nicoll, Rev. M. H. Seattle, Wash. M. E. Criminal libel of his presiding elder; + convicted. +1894 Noonan, Rev. Joseph Los Angeles, Cal. Cath. Immorality; consorted with the frail; superiors + imposed 2 years penance. +1895 O'Connell, Rev. Timothy New York City. Bap. or Epis. Attempted assault on a little girl. Accused, + arrested. Also drunkenness. +1894 O'Grady, Rev. Dominick Cincinnati, O. Cath. Murder of Mary Gilmartin; attempted suicide, + confessed. +1893 Palmer, Rev. S. S. Pittsburg, Pa. Pres. False representations; suspended from ministry. + Had before tried to take child from his wife; + fined. +1894 Parker, Rev. Zachariah Paris, Tex. Meth. Forgery and pension fraud; for 18 years drew + pension in name of widow of former slave; woman + had been dead 15 years. 18 months' imprisonment. + Parkman, Rev. T. C. Denver, Col. Meth. Larceny as bailee of money belonging to + insurance companies of which he was agent. + Accused, arrested. +1894 Paxton, Rev. Dr. John R. New York City. Pres. Unlawful conduct; failed to report marriage of + W. C. P. Breckinridge in time prescribed by law; + fined. +1895 Penrod, Rev. Lemuel Vanceburg, Ky. Dis. Assault with pistol and dirk on a member of his + congregation in a dispute over infant baptism. + Then went to his church and preached eloquent + sermon. + Pettit, Rev. L. C. Cohoes, N. Y. M. E. Adultery; eloped. Accused. Wife took him back. + Petty, Rev. Jason Atlanta, Ga. Meth. Bigamy. Accused, arrested. Admitted, but thought + he had conclusive evidence of first wife's + death. + Pieffer, Father Duelm, Mich. Cath. Violent assault on a parishioner. + Porter, Rev. J. W. Liberty Center, Ind. Bap. False representation. Expelled from ministry. +1893 Potter, Rev. Dr. D. C. New York City. Bap. Falsification, intemperance, intent to defraud, + embezzlement, immorality, etc., all charged by + his assistant, Rev. J. W. Putnam. + Preyer, Rev. Charles D. Kearny, N. J. Pres. Slander; sued. + Price, Rev. A. A. Connersville, Ind. A. M. E. Assault with intent to kill his wife. Arrested. + Tried twice to commit suicide. +1893 Putnam, Rev. J. W. New York City. Bap. Libel, growing out of the Potter-Putnam quarrel + (see Potter, Rev. D. C.). Indicted. +1893 Reams, Rev. A. R. Merced, Cal. M. E. S. Adultery; eloped with his organist Arrested in + B. C. +1894 Ridenour, Rev. A. M. Ironton, O. Adultery. Pleaded guilty. + Sadlier, Rev. H. Hailey, Idaho. Meth. Drunkenness; visiting house of ill-fame. + Expelled from ministry by unanimous vote of + conference. + Sagebeer, Rev. Joseph E. Flemington, N. J. Meth. Libel; refused to retract. Prosecuted. + Sample, Rev. S. W. Minneapolis, Minn. Cruel and inhuman treatment of his wife. She + sued for divorce. +1894 Savage, Rev. M. H. Perris Indian School, Cal. Systematic defrauding of government as + superintendent. Accused by General Armstrong. + Fled. +1892 Singer, Rev. Robert H. Somerset, Pa. Dis. Assault and battery. Fined and imprisoned; judge + told him evidence would have convicted him of + the more serious charge of attempted criminal + assault. +1894 Schreffler, Rev. John A. West Salem, O. U. B., Cong., Incest with his daughters. Expelled from + & Ref. ministry; indicted; arrested. +1895 Sheldrake, Rev. Geo. H. Pittsburg, Pa. Pres. Adultery. Accused in Presbytery. +1894 Shinn, Rev. W. E. Buffalo, N. Y. A. P. A. Abused wife and children. Accused; resigned + leader. pastorate. +1890 Smith, Rev. James Parkersburg, W. Va. "Sensational and highly improper conduct with + several ladies." So accused by his wife in suit + for divorce. + Smith, Rev. Oscar A. Baker City, Or. M. E. Defamation of character. Accused; suspended. + Smith, Rev. W. B. Danville, Ky. Bap. Embezzlement. Penitentiary one year. +1892 Smoot, Rev. J. E. Midland City, Ala. Mis., Bap. Attempted rape of little girl. Arrested; held to + await action of grand jury. +1895 Spalding, Rev. E. L. Butte, Mont S. A. ldr. Counterfeiting. Accused; arrested. +1894 Stanley, Rev. D. T. Monmouth, Or. Dis. Adultery. Accused; expelled from membership in + ministerial association after he started the + "Amer. Patriot." +1894 Stephenson, Rev. J. G. Milton, Ill. Chris. Adultery; eloped. +1894 Stiles, Rev. F. J. Genessee Co., N. Y. Epis. Petit larceny; passing checks on banks in which + he had no funds. Arrested. +1893 Strickland, Rev. H. L. Hatchville, Mass. Cong. Bigamy. Confessed; dismissed from pastorate. +1894 Swartzher, Rev. B. B. Chatanooga, Tenn. Murder. Accused, arrested. +1893 Talbot, Rev. Louis B. Lewiston, Me. Bap. Incest with daughter. Accused, arrested. +1890 Taylor, Rev. G. W. Defiance, O. Bastardy. Accused, arrested. +1893 Taymar, or Waymer, Rev. J. Milaca, Minn. Meth. Adultery; eloped. +1894 Thomas, Rev. W. D. LaCrosse, Wis. Pres. Violation of postal law; sent cards dunning + another minister and accusations against him to + the minister and the sessions. Pleaded guilty + and fined. + Thompson, Rev. N. B. Brockton, Mass. Cong. Adultery and lying. Charges sustained by church + and fellowship withdrawn, 116 to 59. +1893 Timmis, Rev. George Phoenix, Ariz. Extreme cruelty to child, a boy of seven. Fined + $500 with alternative of 6 months in jail, the + full penalty. +1894 Todd, Rev. Ebenezer Wichita, Kan. Bap. Rape of 16 year old girl; by threats kept her + silent for months until concealment was no + longer possible. Arrested; jailed. +1894 Todd, Rev. William Ironton, O. Larceny of cow. In jail in default of bail. +1894 Tolliver, Rev. Peter Parkersburg, W. Va. Meth. Bastardy. Accused, arrested. +1893 Totheroh, Rev. W. N. Chicago, Ill. Pres. Lying, improper conduct, adultery; charges + sustained by presbytery. Suspended from the + church. + Tucker, Rev. Willis J. South Windham, Me. Fr. Bap. Improper propositions to a woman. Held guilty by + council and ordination papers surrendered. +1893 Vanderveen, Rev. Mr. New Whatcom, Wash. Extreme cruelty, wife beating; alleged in + divorce proceedings by wife. +1893 Van Horn, Rev. Daniel M. Athens Co., O. Meth. Forgery. Penitentiary; died in prison. +1893 Vernon, Rev. Leigh Joplin, Mo. Adultery; eloped. +1892 Vail, Rev. W. G. Waxahatchie, Tex. Meth. Adultery; attempt to seduce a young woman whom + he had just baptised. Expelled from church. + Von Kohn, Rev. H. F. Grenada Co., Miss. Bap. Terrible cruelty to his wife. When wife was + dying. + Walker, Rev. Geo. F. Wymore, Neb. Bap. Bastardy. Charge brought by his divorced wife, + at whose hotel he stopped after divorce was + allowed. F'd guilty. + Webster, Rev. H. D. Hart, Mich. Bap. Seduction. Suspended from the ministry. + Webster, Rev. Samuel E. Philadelphia, Pa. Forgery, of name of a minister to an order for + goods. Arrested. + Weisswasser, Rev. C. L. Scranton, Pa. Pres. Adultery; eloped; had crusaded bitterly against + amusements. +1894 Whismont, Rev. Q. O. Pana, Ill. M.E. So. Seduction of girl of 16. Forced to marry her; + expelled from church. +1893 Wiard, Rev. O. O. Erie, Pa. U. B. Attempted rape. Accused; arrested. +1890 Williamson, Rev. Thomas Markham, Ont. Meth. Forgery. Accused; absconded. +1891 Williford, Rev. Silas Geneva Co., Ala. Bap. Adultery; eloped with lewd woman. + Willison, Rev. Mr. Portland, Or. Forgery. Eighteen years in penitentiary. +1894 Wilson, Rev. C. P. New York city. Epis. Drunk and disorderly. Fined. +1894 Wilson, Rev. J. C. Beresford, S. D. Meth. Rape of 13-year-old daughter of one of his + parishioners. +1893 Wilson, Rev. Nathan F. New Brunswick, N. J. M. E. Assault of girl of 16; accused; arrested. +1890 Winfrey, Rev. William Hawkins, Co., Tenn. Meth. Forgery. Accused; fled. +1895 Witt, Rev. Mr. Gainesville, Tex. Bap. Assault with deadly weapon. Surrendered. +1889 Wood, Rev. John D. Port Allegheny, Pa. M. E. Bigamy. Expelled from church and ministry. + Woods, Rev. J. D. Wichita, Kan. Misappropriation of funds of Law and Order + League of which he was president. +1894 World, Rev. Richard Vicksburg, Miss. Pension frauds. Penitentiary, 3 years. +1894 Yates, Rev. Mr. Water Valley, Ky. Fought a duel with knives. +1893 Yoder, Rev. C. M. Wooster, O. Criminal libel. Arrested on complaint of young + woman parishioner. + Young, Rev. Richard N. Indiana. U. B. Cruelty, and adultery with lewd women, alleged + by wife in suit for divorce. + + + +ADDITIONS FOR SIXTH EDITION. + +1898 Andrews, Rev. Geo. A. B'zard's B'y, Mass. Jailed for spending on himself money collected + for sick soldiers. +1898 Ararosky, Rabbi D. Philadelphia, Pa. Jew. Plucking live chickens. Sent to jail. +1898 Arthur, Rev. C. W. Connecticut. Cong. Abused his wife so she got a divorce; liar, + fomenter of discord, slanderous, obscene, said + the ecclesiastical court that deposed him. + Armstrong, Rev. J. Z. Kansas City. Expelled from ministry for alleged immorality. +1898 Aston, Rev. Henry Philadelphia, Pa. Meth. Improper conduct, cruelty to wife; deposed. + Averill, Rev. G. W. Adv. Charged with improper conduct toward girl of + nine years. + Avery, Rev. J. H. Fort Dodge, Ia. Meth. Adultery; gave up his position as minister. +1898 Avis, Rev. F. C. Minnesota. Meth. Expelled from church for immoral conduct. +1896 Bailey, Rev. Samuel West Chester, Pa. Charged with murder of his wife. Her body found + in pond near their house. A short time before + she ran to a neighbor's, saying Bailey had + attacked her with a knife. +1896 Bailey, Rev. William North Platte, Neb. Attempting to imitate the Holy Ghost, husband + ejected him and mob gave him coat of tar and + feathers. Was a faith-cure miracle-worker, and + was stopping in house of a believer. +1898 Baldwin, Rev. Ralph Saginaw, Mich. Improper conduct. Eloped with young woman to + Detroit, where they lived a while. +1897 Barnaby, Rev. George Anaconda, Mont. Chris. Immorality. Wife sues for a divorce; says she + picked him out of the gutter when he was a + gambler and boozer. +1897 Bates, Rev. W. C. Toronto, Ont. Epis. Charged with theft of goods from a department + store; goods found on his person. + Belleville, Rev. Mr. Letohatchie, Ala. Bap. Assault, on another minister, in religious + quarrel. +1897 Berry, Rev. Charles L. Pawnee, Okla. Pres. Bank-wrecker; was convicted; was president and + cashier of bank. +1897 Boley, Rev. Adam Philadelphia, Pa. Luth. Suicide. +1896 Booth, Rev. Oliver J. New York. Epis. Alcoholism, said doctors at Bellevue hospital. +1896 Bridges, Rev. William Rome, Ga. Bap. Defalcation; was county school commissioner; + short $5,000; suspended from office; fled. +1897 Brittain, Rev. M. C. Leavittsburg, O. Meth. "Drank too much" on a trip to Niles; suspended + from ministry. +1897 Brown, Rev. C. O. San Francisco, Cal. Cong. Adultery, perjury, slander, lying. Long church + trial later, confessed, and dropped from + ministry. +1897 Brown, Rev. Leonidas St. Paul, Minn. Meth. Charged with rape of girl of fourteen; arrested + in church; admitted to bail; disappeared during + trial. +1898 Budlong, Rev. O. J. Providence, R. I. Sending obscene matter through the mails; + jailed. +1897 Burdine, Rev. J. L. Pickens co., S. C. Bap. Murder. Shot his wife and then himself. +1897 Burns, Rev. Charles E. Milford, Conn. Cath. Charged with embezzlement as administrator of an + estate; compromise, friends paying $1,300, the + amount of alleged defalcation. +1896 Caywood, Rev. James Maysville, Ky. Meth. Suicide. + Chase, Rev. H. E. Bird Island, Minn. Meth. Accused of indecent assault on 10-year-old girl. + Arrested. +1896 Chase, Rev. J. C. Fitzwilliam, N. H. Bap. Fornication; sent one girl away when about to + become a mother; ran away with another. +1895 Chubb, Rev. S. H. Norristown, Pa. Evan. Seduction. Convicted. +1898 Clark, Rev. William Hoboken, N. J. Grand larceny; to penitentiary; has record for + forgery, blackmail, horse theft, intimidation, + bigamy, assault, obtaining money under false + pretenses, and robbery of a child. +1896 Colburn, Rev. M. F. San Francisco, Cal. Meth. Sodomy. + Colby, Rev. Mr. Lacy, Ia. Meth. Gross immorality. Expelled from ministry. +1896 Conniff, Rev. Father Omaha, Neb. Cath. Rape and seduction; absconded when grand jury + indicted him. +1898 Cook, Rev. Leslie Virginia. Bapt. Arrested for forgery; said also to have two + wives. +1896 Cooper, Rev. Thomas St. Joseph, Mo. Meth. Gross immorality, slander, and profanity; church + committee recommended expulsion from church. +1896 Covert, Rev. Harry M. Brooklyn, N. Y. Adultery; left wife and eloped with a widow. +1896 Craft, Rev. Washingt'n Clay co., Ky. Bapt. Murder of two men. +1897 Cumming, Rev. F. H. Geneseo, N. Y. Meth. Improper relations, with two young women. +1897 Davis, Rev. A. C. Billings. Mont. Meth. Unnatural crime; fled to escape tar and + feathers. +1890 Decker, Rev. E. D. Newark, N. J. Meth. Conduct unbecoming a clergyman; dropped from + ministry; wrote love letters and kissed the + sisters. +1898 Doyle, Rev. Gregory Munfordville, Ky. Bapt. Seduction, abortion, murder. +1898 Dreischler, Rev. Gus. Newburg, N. Y. Luth. Suicide. +1898 Du Hamel, Rev. Wm. New York. Epis. Extreme cruelty; so wife alleged in divorce + suit. +1896 Duncan, Rev. J. W. Indiana. Meth. Illegal voting; arrested on charge of. +1896 Dwyer, Rev. Joseph Denver, Col. Disorderly conduct; arrested in New York. +1898 Eldridge, Rev. E. Olin Washington, D. C. Meth. Adultery; corespondent in divorce suit. +1898 Embree, Rev. E. S. Topeka, Kan. Meth. Charged with seduction of colored servant, + acquitted by his church although his attorney + had paid the girl $200. She died under abortion. + At Leavenworth Embree was fined for shooting a + valuable bird dog. +1898 Emerson, Rev. Mr. Nevada, Mo. Theft; accused. +1897 Emery, Rev. John Leavenworth, Kan. Suicide. + Evans Rev. C. M. Bloomfield, Ia. Meth. Undue intimacy; expelled from ministry. +1897 Farrar, Rev. Dr. H. C. Albany, N. Y. Meth. Gross immorality confessed; expelled from + ministry and church. +1897 Finley, Rev. David New York. Intoxication. +1897 Fisher, Rev. C. M. Toronto, Ont. Epis. Untruthfulness and deceit; asked to resign or + stand charges. +1896 Fisher, Rev. M. R. Waco, Tex. Immoral conduct; left Waco under those charges. +1897 Fitzgerald, Rev. J. M. Rochester, N. Y. Cath. Wanted for extortion and swindling. Under + conviction for burning a schoolhouse in + Charlotte. +1896 Fitzgerald, Rev. Mr. Masontown, Pa. Adultery; accused and arrested. +1895 Flaherty, Rev. Chas. Geneseo, N. Y. Cath. Assault on 16 year old girl. Convicted; 7 years. +1897 Flint, Rev. D. W. H. Metamora, Mich. Interference, causing divorce proceedings and + his whipping by the husband. +1897 Ford, Rev. W. T. Everett, Wash. Meth. Seduction of 15-year-old girl; convicted. + Fort, Rev. W. C. Louisville, Ky. Quarreling. + Francis, Rev. D. R. Trinidad, Col. Cong. Adultery; confessed; expelled by congregation. +1896 Frankin, Rev. Mr. Newark, N. J. Robbery; missing goods from department store + found in his house. +1898 Freeman, Rev T. F. Chaplain in navy. Suicide. +1897 Fridow, Rev. Ernest Woodhaven, N. H. Misappropriating property of his church; + arrested. +1898 Fuller, Rev. Henry R. New York. Relations with woman not his wife; wife secured + divorce. +1897 Furber, Rev. H. G. Philadelphia, Pa. Assault and battery; arrested at Old Orchard, + Me., on that charge. +1897 Garrison, Rev. J. H. Missouri. Meth. Libel--so says another minister--wants $10,000. +1898 Gary, Rev. R. W. Maroa, Ill. Forgery; confessed. + Gensike, Rev. John Winneconne, Wis. Luth. Cruel and inhuman treatment, and drunkenness; + alleged in wife's suit for divorce. +1897 Gibson, Rev. Philip S. Plainfield, N. J. Bapt. Arrested on charge of bastardy. + Gibson, Rev. J. T. Georgia. Meth. "Coveting neighbor's wife;" expelled. +1896 Gilpin, Rev. John Oakview, Ky. Meth. Charged with forcibly detaining a woman; + arrested; jumped bail; rearrested. +1898 Gill, Rev. John H. Aspen, Col. Meth. Illicit relations with servant girl of weak + mind; expelled from the ministry. +1898 Golding, Rev. W. E. Cal. and Nev. Unnatural crime. +1897 Goodwin, Rev. Chas. Buffalo, N. Y. Meth. Attempted rape of girl of eighteen; arrested. +1897 Goodwin, Rev. M. M. Chaplain in navy. Drunkenness. Resigned to escape court martial. + Green, Rev. William Arkansas. Bapt. Indicted by grand jury for stealing hog from + convict farm. +1898 Gurschke, Rev. A. W. Hoboken, N. J. Luth. "Chased by a mob for making an insulting + proposition to a respectable girl on the + street." +1897 Halst, Rev. Father L'g Isl'd City, N. Y. Cath. Malversation of funds entrusted by a widow for + two infants; in reply, said most was used for + masses for souls of woman and her husband. +1897 Hambly, Rev. Mr. Middleton, N. Y. Pres. Fraud, immorality in speech and behavior, + drunkenness, and profanity; said the presbytery. +1898 Hammond, Rev. E. N. Newark V'y, N. Y. Bapt. Attempting crim. assault; sued by young woman. +1897 Hampton, Rev. M. A. Charleston, Ill. Abduction of girl; convicted. +1897 Hand, Rev. J. Howard New York. Meth. Violation of game laws; arrested. + Harwell, Rev. J. H. Cambr'ge C'y, Ind. Meth. Forgery, passing worthless checks. + Hayden, Rev. J. W. Iowa co., Ia. Charged with embezzlement. +1896 Hazen, Rev. W. W. Iowa. Cong. Swindling; sentenced for six months. +1897 Hess, Rev. Henry Pennsylvania. Bastardy; girl of sixteen asks him to + acknowledge paternity of child. + Hepp, Rev. B. P. Racine, Wis. Meth. Charged with criminal neglect of girl when in + delicate condition. Arrested. + Hermann, Rev. F. Salt Lake City, U. Meth. Charged with murder of two girls; remains in + furnace of church; he disappears; warrant + issued. +1898 Hilgard, Rev. Myron South Dakota. Robbery. +1898 Hill, Rev. Palmer W. Muskegon, Mich. Polygamy. +1897 Holden, Rev. Edward New York. Cath. Intoxication. + Hoover, Rev. Geo. K. Chicago, Ill. Meth. Charged with slander by another minister; + arrested. +1898 Hostetter, Rev. Gabriel Canton, O. Bap. Counterfeiting outfit found in his cellar; + arrested. +1897 Howard, Rev. Prince Bigamy. +1898 Howe, Rev. O. R. New Haven, Conn. Cong. Improper hypnotic influence over servant girl. +1897 Howell, Rev. David T. Monticello, N. Y. Epis. Choked his wife; jailed in default of paying + fine. +1898 Howell, Rev. R. E. Warrensburg, Mo. Eloped with neighbor's wife. Nearly lynched. + Also charged with arson. Committed suicide. + Howland, Rev. H. E. Oakland, Cal. Charged with sodomy; arrested. +1896 Hubbs, Lieut. A. B. Duluth, Minn. S. A. Bastardy; charged by woman soldier of Army. +1898 Hudson, Rev. Jas. L. Detroit, Mich. Meth. Adultery, as charged by wife in suit for + divorce. +1896 Hughes, Rev. Thomas New York. Cath. Improper behavior; arrested on charge of + fifteen-year-old girl. +1896 Hull, Rev. J. C. St. Paul, Minn. Meth. Attempted wife poisoning; confessed; sentenced. + Hunnycutt, Rev. D. H. Morrillton, Ark. Bap. Arrested, charged with killing ten-months'-old + babe of his housekeeper. +1898 Hotaling, Rev. S. P. Stamford, Vt. Stealing; accused. Wife also accuses him of + immoral conduct. +1896 Jakinowicz, Rev. T. Mount Carmel, Pa. Cath. Embezzlement. Deposed by church. +1896 Jameson, Rev. James New York. Epis. Beating hotel. Stealing jewelry. + Jenkins, Rev. Fred. Fargo, N. Dak. Univ. Elopement and defalcation. +1898 Jernegan, Rev. P. F. Bap. Sea-water gold swindle. +1896 Johnson, Rev. J. S. Somerville, N. J. Murder. + Johnson, Rev. Mr. Fresno, Cal. Slander; said from pulpit two-thirds of girls of + Fresno were ruined before they were fourteen; + rescued from mob; left town. +1896 Johnson, Bishop W. Fort Scott, Kan. Meth. Making false pension affidavits; convicted. +1898 Jones, Rev. Henry D. Asbury Park, N. J. Epis. Assault and battery of servant girl. +1897 Jones, Rev. Mr. Monkstown, Tex. Left wife and children; eloped with 16-year-old + girl; purs'd by girl's father (Rev. J. Widsby); + shot dead. +1896 Keeley, Rev. Horace Millville, N. Y. Cong. Eloped with young girl, leaving wife with child. +1898 Kerr, Rev. Joseph R. New York. Pres. Adultery; dismissed from pulpit. +1896 Killeen, Rev. Father Bayonne, N. J. Cath. Indecent language in pulpit, keeping a mistress; + removed. +1898 Kincaid, Rev. D. L. Milan, Mo. Dealing in green goods, passing counterfeit + money; arrested. + Kirkland, Rev. R. L. St. Joseph, Mo. Bapt. Charged by the deacons with immorality. +1897 Kirkpatrick, Rev. D. M. Rochester, N. Y. Unministerial conduct; lost his pulpit. + Koblitz, Rev. O. T. Hopeville, O. Luth. Drunkenness; expelled from ministry. +1898 Kulp, Rev. George B. Gr'nd R'pids, Mich. Meth. Adultery. +1898 Lane, Rev. John Larned, Kan. Bapt. Bigamy. +1896 Lee, Rev. C. E. Bapt. Improper language and conduct. +1896 Leigh, Rev. H. W. Groom's C'rnr's, Vt. Meth. Breach of promise of marriage. +1897 Lester, Rev. Charles H. Shortsville, N. Y. Pres. Gross immoralities long continued. +1897 Lewis, Rev. J. Nelson Malden, Mass. Charged with attempt to defraud creditor; + arrested. +1897 Libby, Rev. Daniel L. Watertown, N. Y. Univ. Improper relations with parishioner's wife. + Dismissed from pulpit. + Lazenby, Rev. Mr. Ottumwa, Ia. Meth. Breach of promise of marriage; convicted; he was + 80; she an aged spinster. + Leydon, Rev. Father Aurora, Ill. Cath. Accused of seduction and bastardy; put on trial. +1896 MacAlduff, Rev. J. W. Brooklyn, N. Y. Charged by grand jury with sending improper + matter through the mails. +1898 MacCoun, Rev. G. T. Baltimore, Md. Epis. Suicide. +1898 Magett, Rev. W. A. North Carolina. Stole watch from his host, a bishop in his + church. +1898 Mallon, Rev. Father New York. Cath. Disorderly conduct at Sal. Army meeting. Fined. +1897 Manary, Rev. H. N. Terre Haute, Ind. Bapt. Slander. Apologized from pulpit. +1896 Manker, Rev. J. J. Chattan'ga, Tenn. Meth. Accused of alienating affections of wife of + minister. +1897 McCrea, Rev. William Pittsburg, Pa. Pres. Arrested on charge of attempting to pass forged + note. +1896 McDonald, Rev. Father Cath. Sued by young woman for $1,500, alleged to have + been obtained from her under false pretenses + when she was supposed to be dying. +1897 McLaughlin, Rev. Mr. Hot Springs, Ark. Meth. Contempt of court. Fined and jailed. +1898 McVettie, Rev. R. R. Wadena, Minn. Epis. Adultery. +1897 Meyer, Rev. George Bayonne, N. J. Cath. Violation of law requiring report of marriages. +1897 Mich, Rev. John Chicago, Ill. Suicide. +1898 Miller, Rev. James B. New Haven, Conn. Cong. Stealing books from counters of stores. +1897 Millington, Rev. E. J. O. Newark, N. J. Pres. Eloped with married woman; brought back; begged + pardon. +1898 Mitchell, Rev. George Delaware, O. Undue intimacy, says brother minister in suit + for divorce. +1898 Morris, Rev. Dr. Chas. Natchez, Miss. Epis. Brutal treatment of wife; divorce granted to + her. +1898 Morrison, Rev. G. E. Vernon, Tex. Murder; killed his wife by poison. +1896 Mott, Rev. Charles A. Lambertville, N. J. Attempted assault on wife of his host. +1894 Murphy, Rev. Charles Denver, Col. Theft. +1898 Murray, Rev. J. W. Humansville, Mo. Bapt. Eloped with domestic; caught. + Nash, Rev. Mr. Louisville, Ky. Quarreling. +1896 Noon, Rev. Samuel A. Norwich, Conn. Cong. Beating his wife. +1898 Nye, Rev. DeWitt C. Coshocton, N. Y. Meth. Eloped with young woman, leaving wife and grown + up daughters; also charged with grand larceny. +1897 Parker, Rev. S. P. Ottumwa, Ia. Bapt. Eloped with married woman, leaving wife and + children. +1898 Parks, Rev. Enoch Taylorville, Ill. Meth. Murder; killed his wife's lover. +1898 Parrish, Rev. Geo. R. Marshalltown, Ia. Cong. Forgery; long criminal career. Alias Rev. Mark + Thompson and Rev. Edward C. Aiken. + Passmore, Rev. F. F. Colorado. Meth. Defamation, unministerial, unchristian conduct. + Expelled from ministry. +1897 Phelps, Rev. Isaac N. Babylon, N. Y. Epis. Alienation of affections; whipped by husband. +1898 Phillips, Rev. J. Lafayette, Ind. Attempted criminal assault. Convicted. +1898 Pliszak, Rev. Anton Chicago, Ill. Cath. Charged with larceny. +1897 Polyakovitch, Rev. J. Passaic, N. J. Cath. Atrocious assault and battery. + Popp, Rev. Andrew Stanton, Ind. Luth. Drunkenness. Expelled from the ministry. +1897 Potter, Rev. Daniel C. New York. Bapt. Charged with adultery by wife in suit for + divorce; also with lying, dishonesty, + intemperance. + Privitt, Rev. H. Anderson, Ind. C of G Adultery, as charged in divorce suit of + parishioner. +1896 Pullman, Rev. Joseph Bridgeport, Conn. Slander of actress, Jane May. Sued, retracted, + settled with her lawyers. +1898 Putnam, Rev. Mr. Pleasant View, Mo. Immorality. +1898 Reynolds, Rev. John F. Chaplain in army. Bigamy. +1895 Richards, Rev. T. E. Camden, N. J. Bapt. Intimacy with young female evangelist. +1897 Richards, Rev. T. H. Dell Rapids, S. D. Epis. Sodomy, charged. +1897 Richmond, Rev. G. W. Kansas. Meth. Seducer and swindler. +1898 Ricks, Rev. Moses Monroe co., Ark. Outrageous assault on farmer's wife; confessed. +1896 Ritchie, Rev. Wm. M. Asbury Park, N. J. Slander; sued by Rev. Mr. Widdemar; mulcted. + Roberts, Rev. Mr. Iowa. Meth. "Acting in a manner not consistent with good + morals." Suspended from ministry. +1898 Robinson, Rev. George Victoria, B. C. Meth. Attempted suicide. +1897 Romine, Rev. James Jennings, Okla. Bapt. Turning out his wife and taking in another + woman; tarred and feathered. +1898 Rooks, Rev. T. S. Col. and Neb. Meth. Left family and eloped with young girl. +1898 Rumpf, Rev. Mr. Elizabeth, N. J. Luth. Pounded wife on head with brass-bound Bible; + wife paid his fine; got drunk on communion wine + and beat her again; that landed him in jail. +1896 Rusker, Rev. Gregory Jersey City, N. J. Arrested on charge of illicit manufacture of + cigars. +1896 Russell, Rev. Edwin B. Paterson, N. J. Epis. Arrested on charge of committing unnatural + crime. +1898 Ross, Rev. James Jacksonville, Fla. Cruelly beat and kicked 15-year-old daughter; + accused; in defense said she used profane + language. +1896 Scott, Rev. G. E. Waterloo, Ia. Meth. Seduction of girl of 15; eloped, leaving family. +1898 Segal, Rev. Mr. New York. Jew. Forcible entry of house and threatening + occupants with firearms; arrested. +1898 Shearer, Rev. F. E. New York. Pres. Assault on colored Sunday-school teacher. +1898 Shoemaker, Rev. J. W. Scottsboro, Ala. Meth. Charged with defrauding post office. +1893 Shoemaker, Rev. Mr. Wheeling, W. Va. Cruelty and neglect charged by wife in divorce + suit. +1896 Smith, Rev. Daniel Hamilton, N. Y. Suicide. +1894 Stark, Rev. Mr. Waukon, Ia. Pres. Accused of malicious trespass by his presbytery. +1898 Stevens, Rev. Mr. Manchester, Kan. Tried to break into room of female evangelist. + Stewart, Rev. C. A. Nebraska. Meth. Charged with breach of promise of marriage. +1895 Stinson, Rev. J. C. Downsville, N. Y. Pres. Fornication. + Street, Rev. Mr. Letohatchie, Ala. Quarrelling; knock-down row with Bapt. minister. + Stoneman, Rev. Mr. Oelrichs, S. Dak. Eloped with married woman, as charged. +1897 Taylor, Rev. O. D. Saginaw, Mich. Obtaining money under false pretenses. +1898 Thompson, Rev. Mr. Chadron, Neb. Bap. Undue familiarity with married woman; chased by + angry husband; fled; dismissed from church. +1898 Thompson, Rev. John Portland, Pa. Pres. Destruction of property; arrested, fined. +1896 Thorp, Rev. G. M. Rawlins, Wyo. Bigamy. + Tuttle, Rev. Thomas Windsor, Me. Attempted assault; three years. +1897 Vaughan, Rev. E. H. Dodge City, Kan. Meth. Lying; deposed from pastorate. +1898 Vedder, Rev. Henry Brooklyn, N. Y. Meth. Improper conduct. Deposed from ministry. +1898 Vineyard, Rev. D. M. Dexter, Mo. Pres. Improper actions toward little girls; left town. +1898 Vodyszus, Rev. M. Brooklyn, N. Y. Cath. Adultery, assault, business crookedness; + accused. +1897 Von Bast, Rev. John Sandy Creek, N. Y. Meth. Sodomy; confessed. +1895 Wagner, Rev. D. St. Joseph, Mo. Cath. Seduction, assault, abduction. Indicted by grand + jury. Married the girl, so escaping trial. +1898 Waldorp, Rev. Emmett Saginaw, Mich. Theft; accused; goods found in his house. + Walstein, Rev. John Washington, Ind. Chris. Manslaughter; killed baby in shooting at rowdies + who were hooting him as he preached. +1896 Warner, Rev. James E. Exeter, N. H. Extreme cruelty. Wife obtained divorce. +1897 Warner, Rev. Mr. Oakland, Mich. Attempted seduction; whipped by husband; conf'd. +1896 Waterman, Rev. H. B. Chautauqua, N. Y. Robbery of post office. Accused and arrested. +1898 West, Frederick F. Brooklyn, N. Y. Evan. Assault upon girl of eight years; sentenced for + nine years and six months. +1896 West, Rev. James A. New York. Improper behavior on street; accused; arrested. +1896 Wheeler, Rev. John D. Derby, Conn. Non-support of family; arrested. +1898 Whistler, Rev. John H. Minneapolis, Minn. Pres. Unnatural practices; turned out of the pulpit. +1898 White, Rev. Charles Clarksburg, W. Va. Pres. Adultery; took his organist to Pittsburg, where + they registered as man and wife; on their way + home she jumped from the steamer and drowned. +1896 White, Rev. George M. Gold Hill, Col. Robbery; opened another's registered letter; + accused; arrested. +1897 White, Rev. H. C. Circleville, Pa. Pres. Improper relations; accused. Deposed. +1897 White, Rev. Jesse Dixon, Ky. Disturbance of religious worship; fined $25. + Whiteman, Rev. Amos Anderson, Ind. Horse-stealing. When his first term expired six + deputies from three states with six warrants + were waiting for him. +1895 Widdemer, Rev. H. T. Asbury Park, N. J. Pres. Immoral character; dropped by the presbytery. +1898 Williams, Rev. C. S. Flatbush, N. Y. Meth. Disorderly conduct, in pointing pistol at two + men; "was excited," he said, and was let off. +1898 Williams, Rev. G. F. Washington, D. C. Epis. Bastardy; accused. Ecclesiastical court finds + him guilty of immorality. +1897 Young, Rev. C. C. St. Clair co., Mo. Bapt. Adultery, eloped. +1896 Young, Rev. F. F. Oakland, Cal. Cruelty to his children; adultery; accused and + threatened with tar and feathers. +1897 Young, Rev. P. J. L. Pomeroy, Wash. Immorality of various kinds. + + + + + + + + + +CRIMES OF PREACHERS--PART II. + + +(Each paragraph below gives in their order the date of the offense, +the name of the preacher, his residence and denomination, and the +character of the crime charged.) + + +1906. Abbott, Rev. E. J., Stony Point, N. Y. Presbyterian. Though + married, made love to postmistress. +1901. Abbott, Rev. John F., Henryville, Ky. Methodist. Adultery. +1906. Abel, Rev. A. C., Chicago. Methodist. Bigamy. +1899. Abernethy, Rev. Wm., Circleville, O. Assignation; adultery; + arrested; fined. +1901. Adams, Rev. C. G., Berkeley, Cal. Episcopal. Murder. +1909. Adams, Rev. C. G., St. Louis, Mo. Episcopal. Bigamy. +1907. Adams, Rev. H. A., New York. Episcopal. Left wife to elope with + young girl. +1911. Adams, Rev. Henry T., Arcata, Cal. Protestant Episcopal. + Arrested for larceny, and confessed. +1913. Adams, Rev. N. Q., Starkville, Miss. Baptist. Indicted as bank + director for receiving deposits after the bank was declared + insolvent. +1912. Adkins, Rev. G. W., Poteau, Okla. Baptist. Convicted of grave + robbery. +1902. Alden, Rev. Chas. A., New York. Grand larceny. Indicted. +1907. Alexander, Rev. Mr., Indianapolis, Ind. Arrested for shooting + craps. +1914. Alexander, Rev. Mr., Chicago, Ill. Murderous assault. +1907. Alexander, Rev. D. R., Bluefield, W. Va. Stabbed saloonkeeper. +1913. Alexander, Rev. Henry B., La Crosse, Wis. Obtaining money under + false pretenses. Sent to the state penitentiary for one year. + Ali, Rev. Joseph, Newark, N. J. Catholic. Assaulting 9-year-old + girl. +1909. Allan, Rev. A., Cleveland. Drunkenness; arrested and fined. +1905. Allen, Rev. Frank, Guthrie, Okla. Revivalist. Disturbing the + peace. Fined $5. which he refused to pay, and went to jail. +1903. Allen, F. T., exhorter, Santa Paula, Cal. Methodist. Assaulting + little girls. +1903. Allen, Rev. George, Morrisville, Pa. Stealing. Ten years at + hard labor. +1899. Allen, Rev. George, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Presbyterian. Engaged + to two women; tried suicide. +1906. Allen, Rev. G. E., Breckinridge, Ky. Found in compromising + position with wife of host. +1900. Allen, Rev. Henry E., West Derry, N. H. Methodist. Betrayal of + 16-year-old girl. +1910. Allen, Rev. Jesse, Nowata, Okla. Co-respondent in divorce. + Allen, Rev. Willard S., Boston, Mass. Methodist. Stealing + $80,000 from preachers' fund. +1899. Allen, Rev. W. A., Asbury Park, N. J. Methodist. Deserting + wife; cruelty; divorced. +1901. Allen, Rev. Mr., Uniontown. Hanged for outrage and murder. +1912. Alley, Rev. G. W., Royal Center, Ind. Methodist. Adultery; + pleaded guilty and paid fine. +1908. Allison, Rev. Charles E., Yonkers, N. Y. Presbyterian. Suicide. +1901. Ament, Rev. Mr., Missionary in China. Blackmailing Chinese. + Arrested. +1907. Amhyrst, Rev. H. G., Lafayette, Ind. Dishonesty; embezzlement; + falsifying. Suspended. +1907. Amis, Rev. W. T., Hot Springs, Ark. Baptist. Contempt of court. +1901. Ammons, Rev. W. J., Georgia. Breaking into post-office. + Convicted. +1900. Anderson, Rev. G. W., Frederick Co., Va. Deserting bride; + mobbed out of town. +1912. Anderson, Rev. James, Paterson, N. J. Baptist. Defaulted on + note given to a widow to secure loan. +1901. Anderson, Rev. Jos. (alias Geo. Hayford), Phoenix, Arizona, and + California. Evangelist. Bank swindles. +1912. Anderson, Rev. J. S., Houston, Tex. Baptist. Suspected of + complicity in the wholesale murder of Negroes. +1911. Anderson, Ralph D., Lincoln City, Del. Divinity student. Stole + horses. +1906. Anderson, Rev. T. C., Tarentum, Pa. Presbyterian. Beating and + choking his wife. +1911. Andrews, Charles, Portland, Ore. Street preacher. Arrested for + disorderly conduct, not specified. +1907. Andrews, Rev. J., Monroe City, Mo. Baptist. Left wife to join + circus; dealt faro bank; married snake charmer. +1902. Andrews, Rev. J. R., Lansing, Mich. Baptist. Delinquency in + money matters; arrested; went insane. +1903. Andrews, Rev. M. C., Oshkosh, Wis. Episcopal. Consorting with + immoral women. Whitewashed. +1914. Anthony, Rev. George W., New York, N. Y. Episcopal. Conspiracy. + Aquila, Rev. E. D., Mount Carmel, Pa. Catholic. Arrested in New + York for speeding. +1900. Archer, Rev. J. W., Norfolk, Va. Baptist. Illegal voting; + arrested. +1902. Ardman, Rev. John, Scranton, Pa. Catholic. Approved + assassination of President McKinley; enjoined by bishop. +1904. Armer, Rev. Norman, Sacramento, Ky. Presbyterian. Murder of + son; 21 years' imprisonment. +1907. Arnold, Rev. J. H., Ga. Evangelist. Cruelty to son. Six months + in chain gang. +1904. Arthur, Rev. A. A., Hiawatha, Kan. Evangelist. All-round fraud; + forged check for $10,000 in Texas; confessed; many aliases. +1898. Arthur, Rev. Chas. M., Weston, Conn. Congregational. Found + guilty by conference of obscenity, violent actions, cruelty to + wife; divorced. +1907. Arthur, Rev. C. W., Syracuse, N. Y. Congregational. Grand + larceny. +1908. Arthur, Rev. Mark, Spalding, Idaho. Presbyterian. Criminal + libel. +1899. Ashton, Rev. Mr., Union City, Mich. Baptist. Criminal neglect + of wife in child-bed. +1908. Assenicio, Rev. Mr., New York. Catholic. Attempted suicide. +1901. Astwood, Rev. H. C. C., Brooklyn, N. Y. Methodist. + Unministerial conduct; arrested for fraud; suspended. +1908. Atherton, Rev. Albert, St. Louis, Mo. "Household Faithful." + Taking indecent liberties. +1909. Atherton, Rev. D. F., Haverhill, Mass. Co-respondent in divorce + case. +1909. Atkins, Rev. P. J., Ogdensburg, N. Y. Methodist. Suicide. +1913. Atkinson, Rev. Edward J., Lima, O. Baptist. Abandonment and + non-support of 5-year-old daughter. +1908. Atkinson, Rev. J. C., Atlanta, Ga. Methodist. Sued for slander. +1900. Attaway, Rev. A. M., Columbus, S. C. Attacked his wife and died + of heart disease while attempting to throttle her. +1913. Atwood, Rev. W. C., Brookfield, Mo. Presbyterian. Assault. +1906. Austin, Rev. J. W., Gainesville, Ga. Methodist. Eloped with + married woman whom he had "saved" at a revival. +1899. Axtell, Rev. J. J., Royal Oak, Mich. Prize fighting; + non-support of wife; divorce. +1905. Ayres, Rev. Early, Lee Co., Tex. Cattle stealing; arrested in + Berwyn, I. T., while preaching. + Axtel, Rev. P. D., Pittsburgh, Pa. Presbyterian. Suicide. +1912. Ayres, Rev. William B., Wollaston, Mass. Congregational. Sued + for alienation of affections by an irate husband in his parish. +1907. Babcock, Rev. C. A. C., Frankfort, Ind. Campbellite. Illegal + marriage; immoral conduct. +1901. Babcock, Rev. Maltbie D., New York, N. Y. Presbyterian. + Suicide. +1913. Backtell, Harry S., Pittsburgh, Pa. Noted "boy evangelist" and + highly accredited "soul-saver." Swindling by means of worthless + checks. +1909. Bailey, Rev. Geo., Cincinnati. Abused his family. +1905. Bailey, Rev. J. J., Fletcher, Okla. Fighting. +1906. Bain, Rev. E. S., Waterloo, N. Y. Baptist. Arson. +1913. Baird, Rev. E. J., Woodland, Cal. Episcopal. Inhuman and + abusive treatment of wife. +1912. Baird, Rev. L. W., Winsted, Conn. Lay preacher. Arrested for + embezzlement. +1900. Baker, Rev. Mr., Cleveland, O. Discovered in a girl's room in a + compromising position. +1904. Baker, Rev. C. S., Wilmington, Del. Methodist. Gambling; + suspended. +1914. Baker, Rev. Francis C., New York. Congregational. Grand + larceny. +1899. Baker, Rev. Jos. S., Minneapolis, Minn. Evangelist. Wife + beating; convicted; ten days. +1904. Baker, Rev. Seward, Geneseo, Ill. Unitarian. Drunkenness; long + spree; dismissed. +1914. Baker, Rev. William L., New York, N. Y. Violation of the + medical law. +1904. Baldwin, Rev. Mr., Warsaw, Ind. Dunker. Assault and battery; + arrested. +1903. Baldwin, Rev. Ralph H., New York, N. Y. Marrying two wives and + deserting both. +1907. Balea, Rev. Moise, Cleveland. Greek. Criminal libel. +1907. Ballard, Rev. M., Texarkana, Ark. Murdered neighbor. Shot by + officers whom he resisted. +1906. Banbury, Rev. James, Brooklyn, N. Y. Congregational. Left wife + to elope with choir singer. +1900. Bandy, Rev. S. S., Arkansas City, Ark. Baptist. Assault on + 14-year-old girl. +1905. Bane, Rev. A. H., Hollow Rock, Tenn. Baptist. Unlicensed liquor + selling; prosecuted. +1902. Barbee, Rev. Wm., Cookville, Tenn. Evangelist. Bigamy; five + years' imprisonment. +1907. Bard, Rev. Paul, Detroit, Mich. Methodist. Took saloonkeeper's + wife. +1902. Barfell, Rev. Othias, Columbus, O. United Brethren. Suicide by + hanging. +1914. Barker, Rev. C. A., Benhams, Va. Methodist Episcopal. Lewdness; + convicted and fined. +1900. Barnard, Rev. E. H., Sylmar, Pa. Incest and child murder; + arrested. +1899. Barnett, Rev. Mr., Cambria, O. Methodist. Familiarity with + female member of flock; attacked marshal with knife; arrested. +1902. Barnhart, Rev. C. W., Tylers Switch, N. Y. Evangelist. Horse + stealing; fled from warrant. +1907. Barnwell, Rev. G. L., Atlanta, Ga. Baptist. Kissed married + woman. +1914. Barr, Rev. Earl, Macedonia, O. Christian. Immoral conduct. +1900. Barr, Rev. L. W., Fairmont, W. Va. Presbyterian. Forgeries and + embezzlements; absconded. +1911. Barrakman, Rev. Mr., Waterloo, Ill. Divinity student. Arrested + for robbery. +1911. Barranger, Rev. N. H., North Yakima, Wash. Christian. Sued for + $25,000 damages for stealing affections of another man's wife. +1909. Barret, Rev. J. W., Cleveland, O. Obtaining a signature under + false pretenses; 18 months. +1902. Barrett, Rev. Mr., Brazil, Ind. Evangelist. Slandering women; + fled from tar and feathers. +1910. Barrett, Rev. Wm. I., Blairville, Pa. Presbyterian. Arrested + for criminal libel. +1909. Bartemes, Rev. Mr., Amherst, O. Before grand jury for slander. +1899. Barth, Rev. Benj., Paterson, N. J. Christian. Absconding + debtor; household goods attached. +1907. Bartle, Rev. S. D., Mechanicsville, Ia. Methodist. Suspended + for intimacy with telephone girl. +1900. Bass, Rev. L. D., Saltsburg, Pa. Baptist. Fraudulent mail + business. +1899. Bateman, Rev. C. C. Army chaplain. Insubordination and + violation of articles of war; dismissed. +1901. Baum, Rev. H. M., New York. Bankrupt, he concealed assets with + intent to deceive. +1911. Baxter, Rev. C. L., Council Bluffs, Ia. Methodist. Sued for + breach of contract. +1911. Baxter, Rev. John F., Brooklyn, N. Y. Catholic. Charged with + using questionable methods in collecting money for benefit of a + church in Ireland. +1911. Baylis, Rev. Edgar E., Somerville, Mass. Sentenced to three + months in jail for libel. +1907. Baynes, Rev. H. L., Englewood, Ill. Left wife to elope with + girl. +1900. Beahm, Rev. J. C, Brentsville, S. C. Betraying 18-year-old + girl; penitentiary for five years. +1912. Beall, Rev. J. W. H., Hampden, Md. Assault and contempt of + court. +1905. Beavers, Rev. Geo. S., Gainesville, Tex. Incest with daughter; + arrested. +1899. Beceljak, Rev. John, Cleveland, O. Catholic. Vagrancy; + arrested. +1902. Beebe, Rev. Mr., Delaware, O. Horse stealing; arrested. +1913. Beeler, Rev. Orville, Plainsville, Ind. Larceny. +1912. Beers, Rev. W. L., Wakarusa, Kans. Methodist. Wife-murder. +1913. Beesley, Rev. Jesse, St. Louis, Mo. Baptist. Bigamy. +1899. Belding, Rev. J. M., Lapeer, Mich. Presbyterian. Indecent + advances to boys. Admitted his guilt. Suspended. +1902. Bell, Rev. Basil, Huntington, Pa. Murderous assault. +1902. Bell, Rev. Edwin, New Canaan, Conn. Baptist. Slander. Arrested. +1907. Bell, Rev. E. A., Chicago. Fighting. +1913. Bell, Rev. J. M., McKinney, Tex. Campbellite. Adultery and wife + desertion. +1912. Bennett, Rev. C. O., Millwood, Ga. Baptist. Killed in duel with + his cousin. +1913. Bennett, Rev. Fred E., Evanston, Ill. Attempting to bribe a + witness to commit perjury. +1902. Bennett, Rev. Jos., Lansford, Pa. Owed church $200; + disappeared, leaving letter for girl with whom he was accused + of intimacy, saying he had committed suicide. +1909. Bennett, Rev. Jos., Owensboro, Ky. Suicide. +1907. Bentz, Rev. John, Covington, Ky. Sued for slander. +1912. Bergen, Rev. John, New York, N. Y. Roman Catholic. Indecent + attempt on young girl; convicted; later gave name as Rev. John + P. Devaney. +1902. Berkemeier, Rev. H. J., Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Lutheran. Summoned + to court for detaining immigrant girl. +1899. Berrien, Rev. J. C, Steubenville, O. Crime of a revolting + nature with boys. + Berry, Rev. Chas. L., Pawnee, Okla. Presbyterian. Looting bank; + twenty years' sentence. +1907. Bertrand, Rev. August, Windsor, Mich. Attempted to entice + 12-year-old girls. +1911. Besse, Rev. Henry T., San Jose, Cal. Sued for breach of + promise. +1905. Bettes, Rev. Sam'l G., Parkersburg, W. Va. Evangelist. + Bastardy; arrested as he was about to sail for Panama as + chaplain appointed by President Roosevelt. +1900. Bettles, Rev. Albert, Lincoln, Neb. Evangelist. Poisoning + himself and girl he had betrayed. +1905. Betts, Rev. S. E., Topeka, Kan. Methodist. Slander of another + minister's wife. +1911. Bichel, Rev. Albert A., Baltimore, Md. Methodist. Deserted + family. +1911. Bichel, Carl, Kansas City. Divinity student. Held for murder. + Bigam, Rev. R. J., Milledgeville, Ga. Methodist. Immorality and + drunkenness. +1910. Biggs, Rev. George W., Cincinnati, O. Former chaplain of Texas + Legislature. Arrested as a common thief; confessed. +1908. Billings, Rev. C. M., Blackville, S. C. Baptist. Intimate with + Negro girl, servant of family. Resigned; left town. +1910. Bivans, Rev. J. T., Salina, Kan. Methodist. Immoral conduct; + suspended. +1901. Bivens, Rev. R. D., Nicholasville, Ky. Methodist. Assault; + pleaded guilty; fined. +1901. Bixby, Rev. Jos. P., Boston, Mass. Contempt of court. +1901. Black, Rev. Henry, chaplain British cruiser at St. Johns, N. F. + Suicide. +1901. Blackiston, Rev. W. E., Windsor, N. J. "Left a trail of scandal + behind him," says his wife. +1902. Blake, Rev. John H., Montclair, N. J. Methodist. "Serious + charge" by a woman; arrested. +1904. Blakemore, Rev. F. P., Tecumseh, Neb. Methodist. Immorality and + profanity. +1912. Blanchet, Rev. John B., Philadelphia, Pa. Episcopal. Charged + with stealing church and contents by means of a fraudulent + deed. Also arrested for cruelty to animals. +1910. Bliesz, Rev. A., Dayton, O. Catholic. Living in illegal state + with woman. +1899. Bliss, Rev. Leon D., Great Barrington, Mass. Congregational. + Defendant in $5,000 damage suit for slandering women. +1906. Bloom, Rev. A. W., San Jose, Cal. Christian. Eighteen months + for horse stealing on plea of guilty. +1909. Bockman, Rev. H., Beaver Dam, Wis. Lutheran. "Peeping Tom." + Ousted. +1904. Bolton, Rev. Floyd, Six Mile, Ind. Deceiving young women; fled. +1899. Boone, Rev. Daniel, Washington, Md. Stealing from woman; + disorderly; fined. +1910. Boord, Rev. Thomas G., Pittsburgh, Pa. Baptist. Tried to sell + his children at auction. +1911. Booth, Rev. A. L., Elizabeth City, N. C. Methodist. + Misappropriated missionary and conference funds. +1905. Booze, Rev. Coleman, Buchanan, Va. Baptist. Set fire to his + church and smashed doors of residence with an ax; arrested. +1905. Bope, Rev. F. W., Zanesville, O. Episcopal. Debauchery and + licentiousness. +1901. Born, Rev. Peter, Detroit, Mich. Lutheran. Abusing wife and + adultery. + Borrough, Rev. Geo. T., Brooklyn, N. Y. Episcopal. Passing + forged check; grafter. +1906. Boscher, Rev. Henry, New York. Lutheran. Vagrancy and fraud. +1908. Bostwick, Rev. Mr., Wyaconda, Mo. Methodist. Criminal assault. +1912. Bourne, Rev. Alexander P., Cambridge, Mass. Constructive + larceny. +1911. Bowen, Rev. Franklin, Paterson, N. J. Guilty of disorderly + conduct. + Bowers, Rev. E. T., Kansas City, Mo. Presbyterian. Criminal + intimacy and gross immoralities; found guilty. +1909. Boyd, Rev. F., Logan, O. United Brethren. Assault; six years. +1899. Boyer, Rev. C. H., D. D., Kansas City, Kan. Evangelist. Horse + stealing; five years in Missouri penitentiary. +1903. Boyer, Rev. Henry K., Robertsville, Conn. Deserting blind wife + after squandering her money. +1910. Bradburn, Rev. A. K., Charlotte, Mich. Methodist. Arrested for + larceny. +1908. Brady, Rev. James, Fort Smith, Ark. Catholic. Bastardy. +1914. Brales, S. Virum, San Antonio, Tex. Catholic. Shot by a + parishioner and his son, when caught by them in criminal + conduct in their home. +1903. Branham, Rev. Clifton H., Bluefield, W. Va. Murder of wife. +1900. Brannock, Rev. J. A., Cherryvale, Mo. Baptist. Inducing married + woman to leave home for him. +1911. Bray, Rev., Suffolk, Va. Took money and jewels from a woman. +1901. Bredlinger, Rev. Wm., Cumberland, Md. Evangelist. Criminal + intimacy with daughters, 16 and 12; justified his conduct with + Bible quotation. +1904. Breen, Rev. S. Edmund, Danbury, Conn. Congregational. Alleged + to be thief and liar. +1912. Brenton, Rev. Cranston, Hartford, Conn. Episcopal. Sued for + divorce on the ground of intolerable cruelty. +1910. Bresner, Rev. P., New York. Catholic. Intoxication. +1911. Brewer, Rev. Charles, Olustee, Okla. Baptist. Held for + dynamiting Fort Riley. +1906. Bridewell, Rev. C. P., Atlanta, Ga. Presbyterian. Suspended by + Presbytery for gross immorality. +1911. Briggs, Rev. George W., Cincinnati. Methodist. Larceny. +1902. Briggs, Rev. G. W., Paducah, Ky. Local. "Cutting with intent to + kill." +1902. Bright, Rev. T., Charlotte, N. C. Baptist. Fraudulently + obtaining money by "endless chain;" convicted. +1901. Brinsfield, Rev. G. W., Cambridge, Md. Local. Criminal assault + on sister-in-law. +1903. Brobst, Rev. F. J., Chicago, Ill. Attempting life of wife, + which he had insured. +1913. Brodt, Rev. John G., St. Louis, Mo. Presbyterian. Taking young + boys to disorderly resorts. +1901. Brooker, Rev. L. C, Kearney, Neb. Evangelist. Bastardy; + suicide. +1914. Brooks, Rev. Frank, Warsaw, Mo. Child abandonment. +1910. Brooks, Rev. Lawson, Rochester, N. Y. Collected money under + false pretenses. Had two families. +1913. Brooks, Rev. Walter, Passaic, N. J. Charged with assaulting his + wife and threatening to shoot her. +1905. Brooks, Rev. W. H., Princeton, Ind. Attempted train wrecking; + jailed. +1908. Brophy, Rev. J. F., Coney Island, N. Y. Catholic. Suicide. +1900. Brothemer, Rev. J. C., Frank, O. Catholic. Assault and battery. +1904. Broughton, Rev. Len G., Atlanta, Ga. Baptist. Fighting with + chief of police at Albany, Ga. +1899. Brown, Rev. Mr., Kansas City, Mo. Neglect of children; + arrested. +1900. Brown, Rev. C. O., Chicago, Ill. Conduct entitling wife to + divorce. +1905. Brown, Rev. Chas. S., Brooklyn, N. Y. Episcopal. Sued for + separation by wife; reason unprinted. +1901. Brown, Rev. Chas. or David, alias Leonidas Brown, Roxbury, Va., + N. St. Paul, Minn. Evangelist. Assaulting girl; jumped bail; + charged with felonious assault in 1897. +1908. Brown, Rev. Chas. S. S., Lee's Summit, Mo. Gambling. +1910. Brown, Rev. C. S., Kansas City, Mo. Christian. Murder and + suicide. +1908. Brown, Rev. F. C., Rowayton, Ill. Baptist. Seduction; expelled + from ministry. +1908. Brown, Rev. G. A., Bloomington, Ill. Mismanaged children's + home; used children to solicit funds. + Brown, Rev. Herbert, Paterson, N. J. Presbyterian. Resistance + to law. +1899. Brown, Rev. John W., Brooklyn, N. Y. Baptist. Attempt at + larceny; pleaded guilty. +1900. Brown, Rev. Lyman S., Liberty, Del. Methodist. Forgery; + indicted; suicide. +1906. Brown, Rev. O. M., Kentucky. Forgery. +1906. Brown, Rev. Wm., Burlington, Wis. Baptist. Arrested for + seduction and embezzlement. +1913. Brown, Rev. Will, Sterling, Ill. Caught with a woman in a + disorderly house. Pleaded guilty and was fined. +1912. Brown, Rev. W. A., Hyde Park, Mass. Presbyterian. Sued for + divorce on account of cruel and inhuman treatment. +1902. Brownback, Rev. G. W., Reading, Pa. Congregational. Conduct + compromising woman. +1907. Browning, Rev. W. T., Cleveland, Miss. Giving fraudulent + mortgage; arrested. +1912. Brownlee, Rev. J. M., Joplin, Mo. Baptist. Immoral conduct with + young girls. +1901. Bruce, Rev. J. G., alias J. B. Goddard, Selma, Cal. United + Brethren. Improper conduct toward women. +1913. Brueggeman, Rev. E. A., Zanesville, O. Disorderly conduct; + pleaded guilty and was fined. +1900. Brumbaugh, I. Harvey, Huntington, Pa. Dunkard (called Church of + the Brethren). Breach of promise. Convicted. Assessed $9,250 + damages. +1899. Bruner, Rev. Otto, Long Island. Methodist. Adultery and + elopement. +1907. Bryan, Rev. S., Millen, Ga. Methodist. Intimacy with young + woman; wife beating; suspended from ministry. +1903. Bryant, Rev. C. A., Jessup, Ia. Baptist. Swindling; deserting + wife. +1900. Bryant, Rev. Gay, Shoal Creek, N. C. Methodist. Inciting mob to + burn a Sanctificationist church. +1899. Bryant, Rev. H. A., Fayetteville, Term. Christian. Arrested for + arson; committed suicide. +1911. Bryant, Rev. W. M., Moultrie, Ga. Operated a "blind tiger." + Buchanan, Rev. S. H., Clarksville, Ark. Embezzlement of state + asylum funds. +1911. Buchanan, Rev. Dr. W. D., New York. Convicted of speeding. +1912. Buck, Rev. Mr., Ind. Free Methodist traveling evangelist. Sued + for divorce on the ground of adultery. +1911. Buckner, Rev. Henry, Fairgeld, Ill. Methodist. Attacked young + girl. +1906. Budanauro, Rev. E. E., Monmouth, Ill. Baptist. Disappeared, + leaving wife and debts. +1908. Buddington, Rev. A. L., Adrian, Mich. Free Methodist. Eloping. +1905. Budlong, Rev. C. J., Rhode Island. Campbellite. Illegal use of + mails; assault on 12-year-old girl; one year in jail; long + criminal record. +1901. Budzikowiski, Rev. F. J., Minneapolis, Minn. Catholic. Suicide + by shooting. +1913. Buell, Rev. Henry A., Washington, N. J. Baptist. Improper + conduct with daughter of a fellow-preacher. +1908. Bulgin, Rev. E. J., Hanford, Cal. Evangelist. Swindling; + ordered by court to make good. +1907. Bull, Rev. D. W., Syracuse, N. Y. Congregational. Practicing + ophthalmology without license; arrested. +1902. Bullard, Rev. Frederick, Circleville, O. Presbyterian. Inviting + girl to assignation; suspended. +1904. Bullock, Rev. C. S., Stratford, Conn. Independent. Bastardy. +1899. Bumkala, Rev. Jos., Chicago, Ill. Catholic. Absconding with + church funds. +1913. Bunn, Rev. W. G., Geneva, N. Y. Reckless speeding while drunk. + Fined on his plea of guilty. +1903. Bunnell, Rev. Noah, Up. Sandusky, O. Attempting suicide. +1907. Burbridge, Rev. A., Wichita, Kan. Murdered wife; attempted + suicide; executed. +1900. Burgess, Rev. C. C., Wolfville, N. S. Baptist. Though married, + seduced single woman; deposed. +1903. Burgess, Rev. Dawson, alias Bert Dawson, Wessington, S. D. + Christian. Left wife in Iowa; married again in S. D. and + decamped with mortgaged property, leaving creditors. +1911. Burgess, Rev. Dr. Frederick, Brooklyn. Episcopal. Arrested for + speeding auto. +1900. Burrows, Rev. Edward, Camden, N. J. Congregational. Bigamy; + arrested; three wives. + Burt, Rev. O. C, Quarryville, Pa. Methodist. Eloping with a + parishioner; whipped by girl's father and deposed; wife and two + children; bigamist. +1899. Bush, Rev. J. W., Cincinnati, O. Methodist. Theft and grafting. +1906. Butcher, Rev. A. C., Clinton, Ind. Arrested for criminal + assault on 14-year-old girl. Held for $1,500. +1900. Butler, Rev. J. B. K., Norfolk, Va. Baptist. Unministerial + conduct. +1912. Butler, Rev. George H., Sherwood Park, N. Y. Episcopal. Sued + for assault on a woman. +1911. Butler, Rev. G. H. H., Yonkers, N. Y. Episcopal. Slander. +1914. Butterworth, Rev. Robert F., Seattle, Wash. Reorganized Church + Latter Day Saints. Murderous assault. The clergyman refused to + quit a shack condemned by the city, and shot the health + inspector, who tried to eject him. +1907. Buttington, Rev. J. H., Hamilton, O. Jailed with his companion, + a married woman. +1903. Byars, J. P., Chattanooga, Tenn. Methodist. Eloping with + married woman. +1914. Byles, Rev. Charles H., Lockport, Ill. Congregational. In + trouble with his church for divers alleged improprieties. +1907. Byrnes, Rev. Wm., Luverne, Minn. Methodist. Suspended from + clergy for immoral conduct with two young girls. + Calaway, Rev. J. L., Adair, Mo. Methodist. Stealing horse and + buggy; woman in the case. +1903. Caldwell, Rev. J. M., Chicago. Methodist. Arrested on a serious + charge; attempted suicide. +1913. Call, Chaplain W. J., San Quentin, Cal. Grafting on prisoners. + Confessed and was removed. +1911. Callahan, Father Michael F., Denver. Catholic. Misappropriated + funds. + Calvin, Rev. John, Green Co., Ala. Methodist. Killed one man + and fatally wounded another in fight; intimacy with wife of man + killed. +1914. Cameron, Rev. Edward C., Palisade, Colo. Baptist. Larceny and + fraud. +1909. Campbell, Rev. H. R., Stamping Ground, Ky. Campbellite. left + wife for affinity; resigned; arrested. + Campbell, Bish. W. B., Toledo, O. Evangelist. Embezzling church + funds; arrested. +1900. Campeau, Rev. J. V., Manchaug, Mass. Catholic. Slander; sued + for $8,000. +1899. Canning, Rev. John, Exeter, Mass. Catholic. Seduction; sued by + girl's father. +1912. Capps, Rev. Marion, Bonanza, Ark. Methodist. Murder; sentenced + to death. +1904. Carack, Rev. Victor, Snowshoe, Pa. Catholic. Cruelly beating a + boy; jailed. +1914. Carlin, Rev. Philip C., Methodist. Wife-desertion. +1911. Carlson, J. S., Spokane, Wash. "Once a preacher." Fined for + intoxication. +1911. Carlson, Kurtz, Chicago, Ill. Lutheran. Bigamy; pleaded guilty. +1909. Carmichael, Rev. J. H., Battle Run, Mich. Murder; suicide. +1911. Carosini, Father Joseph A., Pueblo, Colo. Catholic. Arrested + for assault. +1912. Carpenter, Rev. Arthur H., Cromwell, Conn. Baptist. Resigned + pastorate under fire. Accused of "indiscretion" with married + woman. +1901. Carpenter, Rev. J. C., Eldersville, Pa. Methodist. Conspiracy; + indicted; arrested. +1907. Carpenter, Rev., Dover, Del. Holiness. Deceived wife; seduced + young woman. +1907. Carr, Rev. J. H., Baltimore, Md. Arrested for stealing. +1909. Carr, Rev. T. J., Topeka, Kan. Baptist. Wife-beating. +1909. Carroll, Rev. J. H., Wallingford, Conn. Catholic. Slander. +1902. Carrothers, Rev. Mr., Hackensack, N. J. Methodist. Conspiracy; + intimacy with a sister of the church. +1909. Carruthers, Rev. Francis, New Waterford, O. Presbyterian. + Arrested for drunkenness. +1907. Carska, Rev. A., Glassport, Pa. Murder. +1910. Carter, Rev. G. T., Paterson, N. J. Baptist. Paying attentions + to 15-year-old girl; divorced. +1908. Carter, Rev. Joseph, Columbus, Ind. United Brethren. + Intoxicated in company of two women. +1901. Cartledge, Rev. H., Rock Spr., Neb. Methodist. Attempted rape; + fined. +1910. Casey, Rev. M. A., Tacoma, Wash. Methodist Episcopal. + Immorality; resigned. +1901. Cash, Rev. W. B., Pierson, Ia. Christian. Eloping with + parishioner's wife. +1903. Cassada, Rev. W. R., Somerset, Ky. Violation of revenue law. +1913. Chadbourne, Rev. James P., Roxbury, Mass. Methodist. Wife + desertion. Sued for divorce, and hastily resigned from the + ministry. +1914. Chadwick, W. S., Greenville, S. C. Local preacher. Wife beating + and murder. +1905. Chamberlain, Rev. H. W., Priest River, Idaho. Congregational. + Attempted suicide. +1905. Chamberlain, Rev. Mr., Salt Lake City, Utah. Swindling in real + estate transaction. +1899. Chapman, Rev. Austin, New York, N. Y. Baptist. Assaulting wife; + jailed. +1913. Chapman, Rev. John C., New York, N. Y. Presbyterian. Fraud. +1903. Chase, Rev. Alfred, St. Johns, Mich. Stealing; arrested; fled. + Chase, Rev. E. H., Fairfield. Methodist. Stole another + minister's coat and Bible. +1908. Chase, Canon William Sheafe, Brooklyn, N. Y. Episcopal. + Contempt of court. +1906. Chattin, Rev. J. M., Chicago. Catholic. Immoral conduct with + inmates of his home for boys. +1909. Chavis, Rev. Jordan, 8th Regt., Ill. Co-respondent in divorce + case. +1900. Cheney, Rev. T. B., Washington C. H., O. Methodist. Suicide by + cutting throat. +1903. Cherry, Rev. B. A., Winchester, Tenn. Subornation of perjury; + incendiarism; fraud; expelled. +1899. Cheshire, Rev. Chas. B., Newark, N. J. Obtaining money under + false pretenses. +1908. Chew, Rev. F. R., Missouri. Methodist. Irregularities. +1900. Childs, Rev. John P., Marysville, O. Church of Christ. Failing + to provide for wife; sued for divorce. +1913. Chiles, Rev. John, Topeka, Kan. Illegal liquor-selling. +1911. Chilton, Rev. Charles H., Birmingham, Ala. Baptist. Arrested + for adultery. +1911. Chincaloni, Father Felice, Youngstown, Pa. Catholic. Arrested + for kidnapping. +1914. Chip, Rev. E. G., Parsons, W. Va. Deserting wife and child and + eloping with a woman. +1909. Christian, Rev. R. W., Ashtabula, O. Baptist. Embezzlement of + church funds; forgery. +1913. Christy, Rev. Robert, Columbus, O. Keeping disorderly house. +1912. Cissel, Rev. Cassius C., D. D., Kokomo, Ind. Methodist. + Unfrocked for adultery. +1899. Civill, Rev. Acton T., Mt. Kisco, N. Y. Methodist. Voluntarily + resigned as "unfit." +1909. Claflin, Rev. M. C., Garden City, Minn. Methodist. Disappeared + with money and girl not his own. +1899. Clare, Rev. E. H., Brooklyn, N. Y. Lutheran. Slander; summoned + to police court. +1908. Clark, Rev. Geo., Roseburg, Ore. Methodist. Money under false + pretenses. Eloped with 17-year-old girl. +1900. Clark, Rev. Thos., Wood Co., W. Va. Shot his neighbor, Dempsey, + dead. +1905. Clark, Rev. Warren E., New York. Episcopal. Raising and not + accounting for Japanese orphan fund. +1905. Clarkson, Rev. Nestor, Chicago, Ill. Evangelist. Non-payment of + alimony to wife who divorced him. +1901. Cleary, Rev. B. F., Chattanooga, Tenn. Methodist. Eloped with + 16-year-old girl. +1898. Clear, Rev. M. J., Grafton, O. Catholic. Assault on girl; fined + and transferred. +1901. Clemmons, Rev. H. E., Memphis, Tenn. Baptist. Selling mortgaged + property; arrested. +1913. Click, Rev. William, McAlester, Okla. Apostolic. Manslaughter. +1909. Clifton, Rev. J. J., Sioux City, Ia. Campbellite. Criminal + assault on 4-year-old girl. +1906. Cline, Rev. E. C., Eden Valley, Kan. Methodist. "Led about a + sister" not his own wife. +1912. Coad, Rev. J. E., Butte, Mont. Methodist. Charged with + immorality. +1904. Cockran, Rev. W. F., So. Bethlehem, Pa. Methodist. Gambling; + suspended. +1905. Codman, Rt. Rev. Bishop, Diocese of Maine. Episcopal. Criminal + libel; indicted by grand jury. +1908. Coff, Abis, Tahlihina, Okla. Choctaw Indian Missionary. Murder. +1899. Coffey, Rev. Wm. N., Des Moines, Ia. Christian. Robbed an old + lady of her life savings, $600. +1908. Coffman, Rev. S. C., Marion Co., W. Va. Methodist. Wife murder. +1913. Cohron, Rev. J. L., St Louis, Mo. Baptist. Embezzlement. +1907. Colin, Rev. J. H., Wenatchee, Wash. Catholic. Betrayed + 17-year-old girl; held for trial. +1902. Collins, Rev. Jas., Chittenango, N. Y. Catholic. Burglary in + third degree; convicted of assault in 1900. +1911. Collins, Rev. John M., Sacramento, Cal. Contributing to + dependence of 17-year-old girl. +1902. Coltharp, Rev. Ham, Knoxville, Tenn. Baptist. Divorced by wife. +1909. Colton, Rev. C. H., Buffalo, N. Y. Catholic. Embezzlement. +1899. Combus, Rev. B. C., Perry, Okla. Attempting extortion; jailed. +1903. Comer, Rev. J. L., Russiaville, Ind. Intoxicated; arrested; + fined. +1911. Condit, Rev. Henry J., Newark, N. J. Congregationalist. + Arrested for slander. +1906. Connell, Rev. W. J., Lamar, Col. Presbyterian. Assault on + 16-year-old girl; eighteen years in penitentiary. +1901. Conniff, Rev. Jas., Louisville, Ky. Catholic. Paternity of + child born out of wedlock. +1913. Conroy, Coadjutor Bishop Joseph; Ogdensburg, N. Y. Roman + Catholic. Conspiracy. +1911. Consolazio, Father Bernardin, Trenton, N. J. Catholic. Held for + trial for fraud; elopement. +1900. Cook, Rev. Elisha, Richmond, Va. Teaching boys to steal; six + months. +1907. Cook, Rev. F. J., Peoria, Ill. Methodist. Fined for assault on + 13-year-old girl. +1902. Cook, Rev. L. O., Kenton, O. Methodist. Arrested in hotel with + grass widow. +1907. Cooke, Rev. J. K., Hempstead, L. I. Episcopal. Left wife to + elope with his "spiritual" ward. +1906. Coombs, Rev. C. T., Pittsburgh, Pa. Living with affinity + instead of wife. +1909. Coons, Rev. W. F., Hoosick, N. Y. Baptist. Visiting disorderly + houses; divorced. +1912. Cooper, Rev. R. T., Springfield, Mass. Methodist. Immoral + conduct; caught during the Methodist conference at Minneapolis, + Minn., and sentenced to the workhouse. +1899. Copeland, Rev. John A., N. Tonawanda, N. Y. Slander; fled from + tar and feathers. +1904. Copeland, Rev. Levi B. H., Palmyra, N. J. Baptist. Improper + suggestions to lady, who brought charges. +1912. Cordell, Rev. Harold, Beulah, Ind. Christian. Obtaining money + under false pretenses. +1904. Cordova, Rev. J. F., South River, N. J. Methodist. Eloping; + abusing wife; four years. +1901. Corey, Rev. Geo., New York. Methodist. Fraudulent land + transactions; sued. +1905. Cormack, Rev. Jos., W. McHenry, Ill. Methodist. Kidnapping; + indicted by grand jury. +1910. Cornforth, Rev. Athelstane, New York. Episcopal. Left wife to + elope; suicide. +1901. Cory-Thomas, Rev. T., Ishpeming, Mich. Episcopal. Improper + conduct; guilty; debarred. +1914. Cottam, Rev. J. A., Dearborn, Mich. Methodist Episcopal. Arson. +1908. Coultman, Rev. D. M., St. Catharines, Ont. Baptist. Ministerial + conduct. +1910. Courtenay, Rev. A. M., Zanesville, O. Methodist. Fighting. +1902. Couzins, Rev. I. D., Elm Grove, W. Va. Church of God. + Drunkenness; arrested. +1909. Covell, Rev. H. E., Long Island. Non-support of wife. +1902. Cowherd, Rev. Alex., Indianapolis, Ind. Giving bogus mortgage; + arrested. +1913. Cox, Rev. A. T., Elm Grove, W. Va. Christian. Elopement with + 14-year-old girl. +1902. Cox, Rev. Charles, Morehead, Ky. Leaving wife and eloping with + girl. +1905. Cox, Rev. James B., Saltville, Va. Baptist. Chicken stealing; + 30 days in jail. +1907. Cox, Rev. J. R., Jonesboro, Tenn. Baptist. Chicken theft; + thirty days. +1911. Coyle, Rev. E. T., Indianapolis, Ind. Awaiting trial for + larceny. +1911. Crabtreeman, Rev. Mr., Wayne Co., Tenn. Presbyterian. Illicit + whisky selling. +1904. Crafts, Rev. Wilbur F., Washington, D. C. Misuse of U. S. + mails. +1908. Craig, Rev. John W., Newark, N. J. Episcopal. Swindling. +1903. Craig, Rev. Robert Lee, Omaha, Neb. Episcopal. Slaughtering + song birds; fined. +1911. Crane, Rev. William, Redke, Ind. Christian. Celebrated + successful ending of revivals by getting drunk and disorderly. +1899. Cranfill, Rev. J. B., Texas. Baptist. Slandering Rev. Dr. + Hayden; tried; $60,000 damages. +1902. Crawford, Rev. C. H., Amherst, Va. Contempt of court; cowhided + by judge. +1911. Crawford, Rev. E. D., Chicago. Methodist. Found guilty of + slander; fined $4,000. +1901. Crawford, Rev. R. E., Tioga Co., N. Y. Methodist. Petty + larceny; arrested. + Cree, Rev. E. C., City of Mexico. Episcopal. Stealing books; + caught in the act. + Critchlow, Rev. L. A., Iowa. Come-outer. Living with woman not + his wife; arrested. +1908. Crociata, Rev. F., No. Adams, Mass. Catholic. Complicity in + assault causing death; three years. +1900. Crockett, Rev. J. Ad., New York. Left wife, who sued for + divorce. + Crooks, Rev. James D., Troy, Ida. Methodist Episcopal. Murder. +1912. Cross, Rev. Holmes, Louisville, Ky. Methodist. Disorderly + conduct. +1913. Cross, Rev. Sydney, Westfield, N. J. Episcopal. Criminal + conduct with boys. +1900. Crow, Rev. T. P., Owensboro, Ky. Methodist. Drunkenness; + withdrew from church. +1902. Crowther, Rev. J. C., Vernon, N. Y. Consorting with + disreputable characters; sued for divorce. +1904. Crudup, Rev. Essex J., Plainfield, N. J. Misbehaving with four + women; arrested. +1900. Cuff, Rev. John, New York. Obtaining money under false + pretenses; jailed. +1906. Culley, Rev. G. H., Philadelphia, Pa. Campbellite. + Embezzlement. +1900. Culver, Rev. R. M., Bowling Green, O. Receiving stolen goods; + fined $50. +1906. Cummings, Rev. M. G., Murphysboro, Ill. Campbellite. Arson. +1908. Cummings, Rev. Wm., Elk Rapids, Mich. Eloped with wife's + sister. +1899. Cunningham, Rev. H., Franklin, W. Va. Robbery; stealing $1,500; + five years. +1899. Curran, Rev. Michael, Gloucester, N. J. Catholic. Assault and + threat to shoot. + Cusack, Rev. John, Cincinnati, O. Catholic. Drunkenness; + resisting officer; jailed. +1913. Cuthriell, Rev. John F., Baltimore, Md. Dismissed from ministry + for running after strange women. +1908. Cutler, Rev. Frederick, Yonkers, N. Y. Reformer. Fraud. +1908. Dack, Rev. Herbert W., East African Missionary. Methodist. + Forgery. +1911. Dagenais, Rev. Father, Bryson, Can. Catholic. Sued for + defamation of character. +1899. Dahlke, Rev. G. J., Colfax, Wash. Running away with married + woman; jailed. +1914. Dahlstrom, Rev. Albert, Tacoma, Wash. Founder of Heliga sect. + Convicted of white slavery. +1907. Dahlstrom, Rev. A., Chicago. Abduction of 17-year-old girl. +1913. Daily, Rev. Elmer, Topeka, Kan. Wife desertion. +1911. Damstater, Louis, Cleveland, O. Jewish rabbi. Sentenced to six + months in jail for larceny. +1913. Darby, Rev. William L., New York, N. Y. City missionary. + Non-support of wife. +1899. Daugherty, Rev. H. C., Scott Co., Tenn. Killing Wm. Ross with + shotgun. +1911. David, Rev. Israel, Providence, R. I. Baptist. Robbery. +1909. Davidson, Rev. E. E., Piqua, O. Church of Christ. Eluded + officer with warrant for desertion. Denied common law marriage. +1912. Davis, Rev. Ben., Louisville, Ky. Baptist. Wanted by police for + murder. +1913. Davis, Rev. Cader Russell. Ex-Christian preacher. Adultery. +1902. Davis, Rev. John, Pedricktown, N. J. Baptist. Deserting + affianced bride at altar; fled. +1900. Davis, Rev. Edwards, Oakland, Cal. Deserting wife. Sued for + divorce. +1910. Davis, Rev. J. A., Woodstock, Can. Methodist Episcopal. + Adultery with 16-year-old girl. +1902. Davis, Rev. J. P., Coshocton, O. Sanctificationist. Beating + wife; intimacy with other women; sued for divorce. +1901. Davis, Rev. King, Earleboro, Okla. Assault on 12-year-old girl; + killing her father. +1900. Davis, Rev. Wesley R., Washington, D. C. Passing worthless + check; arrested. +1902. Davis, Rev. W. L., Dublin, O. Deserting family; divorced; + failed to pay alimony; arrested. +1901. Davis, Rev. Mr., Easton, Md. Stealing; jailed; escaped. +1901. Dawkins, Rev. Eliphas, Cherokee Co., S. C. Murdering his wife. +1911. Day, Rev. John, Muskogee, Ok. Christian. Bigamist. +1906. Day, Rev. J. A., Revelstock, B. C. Financial fraud. +1899. Day, Rev. Mr. Fairbank, Ia. Intimacy with another man's wife; + fled to escape tar and feathers. +1901. Deal, Rev. Mr., Rutherford, N. C. Assaulting 15-year-old girl; + jailed. +1900. Dean, Rev. George, Findlay, O. Adventist. Eloping with school + girl; arrested. +1914. Decker, Rev. Nathaniel, Bolivar, Pa. Saint's church (faith + healing). Assault and battery. +1912. DeGroth, Rev. Frank, Chicago, Ill. Arrested for "improper + conduct." +1905. DeLarme, Rev. A. A., Paterson, N. J. Baptist. Accused of breach + of promise; resigned. +1907. Deller, Rev. W. N., Altoona, Pa. United Brethren. Found in + hotel with 19-year-old girl; resigned. +1906. Dempsey, Rev. J. M.. Lineville, Ia. Attempted to wed a second + time while first wife lived. +1904. Denham, Rev. Benj. Q., New York. Disciples. Indecent exposure. +1908. Denham, Rev. B. Q., New York. Disciples. Adultery. +1913. DePue, Rev. James H., Arlington, Va. Presbyterian. Receiving + money on false pretenses. +1905. Derrick, Rev. B., bishop, New York. Methodist. Libel, + conspiracy, maladministration, and other misdemeanors. +1907. DeVries, Rev. E., Grand Rapids, Mich. Christian Reformed. + Improper conduct; expelled. +1906. DeWoody, Rev. Chas., Utica, N. Y. Baptist. Conduct unbecoming a + Christian; resigned. +1914. Diamond, Rev. George I., D. D., Beaumont, Tex. Larceny. +1900. Diana, Rev. Fr., Alpha, N. J. Catholic. Drunkenness; + debauchery; forgery; arrested. +1905. Dick, Rev. Jacob, Indian Territory. Evangelist. Fraudulent real + estate transactions. +1902. Dickerson, Rev. Charles H., Newark, N. J. Congregational. + Stealing altar furniture; broke jail. +1907. Dickson, Rev. T. J., San Antonio, Tex. Chaplain. Shot a + soldier. +1903. Dillard, Rev. H. C., Spring Hope, N. C. Writing obscene letters + to a girl. +1903. Dillon, Rev. J. P., Rolla, Mo. Evangelist. Dual life; woman + confessed; sued, he fled. +1908. Dimmit, Rev. J. H., Valley Junction, Ia. Congregational. + Dismissed from ministry for misconduct. +1900. Dixon, Rev. Jos. K., Boston, Mass. Baptist. Adultery; divorced. +1911. Doak, Rev. J. A., Quinton, Kan. Criminally assaulted a little + girl. +1900. Dobson, Rev. Robert, New York, N. Y. Deceived Sunday school + teacher; borrowed her money and broke promise to marry; jailed. + Dodd, Rev. Richard, Clinton, Ky. Bastardy and complicity in + infanticide. +1905. Dodge, Rev. John, Lebanon, Ind. Holiness. Stabbing parishioner; + arrested. +1905. Doherty, Rev. Richard, Marcus Rock, Pa. Episcopal. False + report; horsewhipped. +1902. Donahoe, Bish. P. J., Philippi, Md. Catholic. Contempt of court + as executor of will; summoned. +1912. Donaldson, Rev. Aaron B., St. Louis, Mo. Methodist. Sentenced + to three years' imprisonment for swindling an aged parishioner. +1902. Donaldson, Aug. M., Rossville, N. Y. Manslaughter. "Straight + Edge" society leader. +1902. Donaldson, Rev. M. V., Vacaville, Cal. Nocturnal exploits with + women; drunkenness. +1911. Donatella, Francis, Pittsburgh, Pa. Catholic. Wanted for + abducting a 15-year-old girl. +1910. Donnelly, Rev. Ed., Bingham, Utah. Catholic. Dismissed from + church for drunkenness. +1899. Donnelly, Rev. Robert, Denver, Col. Evangelist. Burglary; + jailed. +1909. Donnelly, Rev. Mr., New York. Theft. +1908. Doolittle, Rev. Chas., Anderson, Ind. Evangelist. Non-support. +1904. Dorr, Rev. Henry, Brooklyn, N. Y. Thrice arrested for wife + beating. +1909. Dorsey, Rev. Wm., St. Louis, Mo. Campbellite. Stealing; jailed. +1909. Dougherty, Rev. R. T., Fargo, N. D. Congregational. Suicide + pact with college student; latter killed himself. +1899. Doughty, Elder L. M., Whitley, Ill. Improper conduct with girl; + resigned. +1914. Douglass, Rev. Archie, Sayre, Pa. Itinerant preacher. Arrested + on charge of serious offense against a 15-year-old girl. +1901. Douglass, Rev. Jas., Atlanta, Ga. United Brethren. Bigamy and + forgery in various states. +1911. Douthitt, Rev. S. W., Arkansas City, Kans. United Presbyterian. + Arrested for drunkenness and spent night in jail. +1912. Dow, Rev. T. J., Minneapolis, Minn. Christian. Sued for + alienation of affections. +1903. Dowie, John A., Chicago, Ill. Christian Catholic. Libel; + mulcted $2,000. +1911. Dowie, William, Cleveland, Ohio. Evangelist. Fined $10 for + assault and battery. +1911. Doyle, Rev. Clyde, Amite, La. Arrested and sent to jail in + Texas for four years for bigamy, embezzlement and wife + desertion. +1894. Doyle, Rev. Gregory, Hart Co., Ky. Baptist. Seduction; + abortion; girl died; sentenced for life. +1899. Drake, Rev. Edward, Chillicothe, O. Co-respondent in divorce + suit. +1913. Drake, Rev. Paul H., Beverly, Mass. Universalist. Disorderly + conduct and obstructing the sidewalk. +1907. Driver, Rev. S. M., Los Angeles, Cal. Methodist. Unbalanced by + drink. +1900. Dryden, Rev. M. F., Wheeling, W. Va. Methodist. Choked wife; + killed by her father. +1908. Dryer, Rev. Geo. H., New York. Methodist. Defalcation. +1901. Duceman, Rev. J. V., Goshen, O. United Brethren. Attempted + suicide by shooting. +1899. Duchon, Rev. Fr., St. Louis, Mo. Catholic. Fled with parish + funds and his housekeeper. +1900. Dudley, Rev. Lewis, St. Louis, Mo. Church of God. Assault and + battery; arrested. +1900. Duffy, Rev. Fr., Port Jervis, N. Y. Catholic. Suicide in New + York, found dead in hotel. +1909. Du Lubicz, Rev. Antonio, Winnipeg, Man. Catholic. Obtaining + money under false pretenses. +1909. Dumouline, Rev. W. G., San Francisco, Cal. Cruelty and + desertion; divorced. + Dunbar, Rev. Edward, Cal., Ark., N. Y. Methodist. Desertion of + wife, and adultery. +1909. Duncan, Rev. D. B., Crawfordsville, Ind. Presbyterian. Cruel + and inhuman treatment of wife; divorced. +1900. Duncan, Rev. Kenneth, San Francisco, Cal. Evangelist. Petty + larceny; stole clothes; jailed. +1913. Duncan, Matthew and Luke, Knoxville, Tenn. Baptist. Assault. +1904. Dundonough, Rev. Jas., Eau Claire, Wis. Ran away with girl, + forsaking flock. +1912. Dunn, Rev. William F., Evansville, Ind. Methodist. Immoral + conduct; three months in jail. +1909. Dunnigan, Rev. A. P., Hempstead, L. I. Catholic. Alienated a + wife's affections. +1908. Dunworth, Rev. Wm., New London, Conn. Catholic. Suicide. +1900. Duperon, Rev. Fr., Worcester, Mass. Catholic. Deceiver and + swindler. + Dwello, Rev. P. N., Marshalltown, Ia. Methodist. Slander and + libel. +1911. Dwindle, Dr. O. T., Peoria, Ill. Methodist. Misappropriated + funds of the church. +1901. Dye, Rev. Geo. E., Willows, Cal. Baptist. Intimacy with widow; + resigned. +1905. Dyer, Rev. W. T., Reedbrake, Ala. Deserting wife and eloping + with her sister. +1902. Dynia, Rev. M. A., New Bedford, Mass. Catholic. Co-respondent + in divorce suit; threatened accusing husband with a pistol, and + was jailed. +1903. Earl, Rev. Daniel, B. A., Bedford, Que. Methodist. Too great + familiarity with a young woman. +1905. Early, Rev. Fred, Maury Co., Tenn. Sanctificationist. Murder + and suicide. +1907. Easterday, Rev. G. H., Stewartsville, N. J. Congregational. + Entanglement with his "spiritual ward"; left town on 48 hours' + notice from deacons. +1899. Eastman, Rev. F. W., Nashville, Tenn. Presbyterian. Rape; + mistrial. + Eastman, Rev. J. M., Mohawk, O. Methodist. Seduction of young + girl; paid $2,600 to settle; deposed. +1900. Easton, Rev. Dr., Washington, D. C. Slandering Olga Nethersole, + the actress; sued; apologized. +1906. Eby, Rev. S. C., Clayton, Mo. Sued for divorce on ground of + intimacy with another woman. +1912. Eddings, Rev. John, Columbia, S. C. Holiness. Criminal assault + on 12-year-old girl; sentenced to thirty days' hard labor. +1911. Edson, Rev. G. Clement, Brooklyn, N. Y. Presbyterian. Eloped + with soloist of his church. +1911. Edwards, Rev. Alexander, Denver. Baptist. Killed by husband of + woman with whom he was criminally intimate. +1908. Edyvean, W. H., Cadillac, Mich. Methodist. Adultery. +1901. Eicher, Deacon J., Decatur, Ind. Amish. Forgery; 1 to 14 years. +1912. Eills, Rev. John, Springfield, Mass. Unitarian. Accused by wife + of neglecting her for other women; defended Richeson, the + murderer, in the pulpit. +1913. Ekeland, Rev. Emanuel, Madison, Minn. Lutheran. Arson. +1912. Elliott, Rev. Edward, Newark, N. J. Evangelist. Sued for breach + of promise. +1904. Elliott, Rev. M. C., Genesee, Ill. Giving out worthless checks; + jailed; he has a record as a juggler of funds. +1909. Elliott, Rev. R. W., Pittsburgh. Pentecost. Co-respondent in + divorce suit. +1900. Ellis, Rev. John, Foxboro, Mass. Unitarian. Cruelty to wife; + clandestine correspondence with another woman; sued for + divorce. +1914. Ellis, Rev. John, Bloomington, Ind. Presbyterian. Immoral + conduct. +1904. Ellis, Rev. Elwood O., Richmond, Ind. Friend. Went on a week's + vacation with young woman; pronounced moral degenerate. +1901. Ellison, Rev. John, Chattanooga, Tenn. Shooting Sophia Johnson; + arrested. +1911. Ellsworth, Rev. Philip B., Jefferstown, Ind. Lutheran. Forgery. +1903. Ellwood, Rev. Robert A., Wilmington, Del. Presbyterian. + Inciting to lynching. +1908. Ellwood, Rev. R. A., Leavenworth, Kan. Presbyterian. Seduction; + resigned. +1913. Elmore, Rev. C. E., New Albany, Ky. Christian. Assault. +1905. Elsworth, Rev. J. S., Paterson, N. J. Reformed. Injudicious + conduct with widow; resigned. +1912. Emelius, Rev. Charles, New Sweden, Me. Lutheran. Accused of + murder. +1901. Emerson, Rev. F. W., Topeka, Kan. Disturbance of the peace; + assaulting an officer; arrested. +1905. Erhard, Rev. Lawrence A., Chicago, Ill. Scandalous living; paid + $2,000 hush money. +1913. Erler, Rev. John, Seven Valleys, Pa. Lutheran. Disfrocked for + gross immorality. +1913. Eubank, Rev. Henry, Triplett, Mo. Christian. Mutilating public + records. +1900. Euster, Rev. W. T., Helena, Mont. Methodist. Common liar; + exposed by presiding elder at conference. +1912. Evans, Rev. Emerson G., Monroeton, Pa. Methodist. Allowed to + withdraw from church conference under threat of exposure for + immoral conduct. +1909. Evans, Rev. E. T., Port Huron, Mich. Episcopal. Seduced + 16-year-old girl; married her; spent her money on drink. Had + wife in Wales. +1899. Evans, Rev. W. R., Mandalin, N. Y. Methodist. Intimacy with a + girl he attempted to reform; lost pulpit. + Everett, Rev. M. L., Des Moines, Ia. Christian. Charged with + statutory offense; wife sued for divorce. +1908. Ewert, Rev. Arthur, Morrisonville, Ill. Methodist. Slander. +1908. Ewing, Rev. Emmett, Athens, O. Forgery. +1912. Ewing, Rev. U. P., Newton, Kan. Baptist. Wanted for + embezzlement. +1899. Eyton, Rev. Robert, London. Episcopal. Scandalous charges; + fled. +1899. Fagley, Rev. Joseph, Missouri. Evangelist. Train robber; 12 + years in penitentiary. +1912. Fairall, Rev. H. H., Iowa City, Ia. Methodist. Attempted + suicide on account of ill health. +1908. Fairfield, Rev. F. W., Sag Harbor, L. I. Baptist. Taking + indecent liberties with women. +1907. Falkner, Rev. John, Chicago, Ill. Lutheran. Desertion. +1901. Farber, Rabbi R., Denver, Col. Hebrew. Improper proposals to + women, who horsewhipped him. +1913. Farraday, Rev. Henry W., Broadway, N. J. Methodist. Seduction. +1909. Farrell. Rev. Thos., Brooklyn, N. Y. Catholic. Caught in raid + on disorderly house; fined. +1913. Farrell, Rev. William, Jersey City, N. J. Baptist. Abduction of + 20-year-old girl. The clerical rival of Don Juan is 70 years of + age. + Fee, Rev. Mr., Toledo, O. Methodist. Cheating widow in land + deal; found guilty. +1902. Fellows, Rev. C. A., Portsmouth, O. Methodist. Promiscuous + attention to females; guilty. +1910. Fennell, Rev. John, New York, N. Y. Swedish Lutheran. Larceny. +1909. Fenton, Rev. J., San Jon, N. M. Holiness. Murder. +1912. Fenyes, Rev. Louis F., Johnstown, Pa. Roman Catholic. Wanted + for embezzlement of church funds. +1902. Ferdinand, Rev. Mr., Omaha, Neb. Took up with another man's + wife; sued. +1913. Ferdon, Rev. Arthur I., Palisades Park, N. J. Evangelist. + Wife-beating. +1899. Ferguson, Rev. Geo., Kansas City, Kan. Congregational. Wrecked + by drink. +1907. Ferguson, Rev. W. P., Lincoln, Neb. Methodist. Adultery with + his landlady, confessed to by the latter under influence of one + of his sermons. +1911. Ferrant, Rev. Victor, Syracuse, N. Y. Baptist. Counterfeiter. +1911. Ferrell, Rev. W. A., Gaffney, S. C. Was about to marry an + Atlanta girl when discovery was made that he already had a + wife. +1903. Ferris, Rev. A. Frank, Grand Rapids, Mich. Deserted wife and + took another. +1907. Fischer, Rev. O. W., Bridgeton, N. J. Lutheran. Paid attention + to young woman. Left family and town. +1907. Fish, Rev. G., Denver, Colo. Fraud. +1910. Fisher, Rev. F. B., Neoga, Ill. Presbyterian. Sued for slander. +1908. Fitts, Rev. Joseph W., Independence, Kan. Baptist. Rape. +1901. Fitzgerald, Rev. Robert, Nash, Va. Evangelist. Stealing stamps + as postmaster. +1900. Fitzgerald, Rev. S. F., Newark, N. J. Catholic. Assault and + battery on woman. +1908. Fitzgerald, Rev. Wm., Millville, N. J. Catholic. Slander and + defamation. +1904. Fitzmaurice, Rev. M. O., Chicago, Ill. Episcopal. Used + fraudulent credentials; dismissed. +1902. Flaherty, Rev. Chas., Mt. Morris, N. Y. Catholic. Poisoning; + indicted for manslaughter; criminal relations with girl. +1914. Flannery, Rev. Lawrence S., West Plains, Mo. Methodist. + Manslaughter; convicted. +1909. Fleenor, Rev. L., Evansville, Ind. Alienating a wife's + affections. +1901. Fleming, Rev. E. T., Chicago, Ill. Presbyterian. Indecently + approaching women; convicted of lying. +1905. Fleming, Rev. Solomon, Etty, Va. Baptist. Shot Robert Mullins, + another preacher, in preachers' feud. +1911. Fliedner, Rev. Augustus, Irvington, N. Y. Episcopal. Fined $5 + for disorderly conduct. +1908. Flower, Rev. J. H., St. Louis, Mo. Methodist. Immoral conduct. +1912. Flynn, Rev. John M., Edgewater, Colo. Methodist. Improper + conduct with women and criminal libel; hushed up for the glory + of God and the peace of the church. +1902. Foith, Rev. Adolph, Cincinnati, O. Lutheran. Debauching little + girls; suicided. +1911. Folta, Father Joseph, and Father Rzadkowolski, Detroit, Mich. + Catholics. Arrested for autoing "in a dangerous manner." +1909. Force, Rev. W. H., Nevada, Mo. Bigamy; four wives; three years + in jail. +1911. Ford, Rev. E. E., New York. Accused of fraud in organizing the + World's Bible League corporation. +1901. Ford, Rev. Geo. E., Bridgeton, N. J. Methodist. Enticing young + girls into his church at night; discovered; fled. +1902. Forest, Rev. Fr., Jackman, Me. Catholic. Violation of game + laws. +1913. Forsell, Rev. K. E., Minneapolis, Minn. Lutheran. Violating + game law. +1908. Forses, Rev. W. H., Nevada, Mo. Bigamy; three years. +1912. Foster, Rev. Edward S., Richmond, Va. Criminal assault on a + little girl. +1910. Foster, Rev. Frank L., Sioux Falls, S. D. Free Baptist. + Adultery. +1899. Foster, Rev. Jas. H., Plainfield, N. J. Church of Christ. + Disappeared with another man's wife. +1913. Foster, Rev. J. W., Atlanta, Ga. Baptist. Adultery. +1905. Foster, Rev. Thomas, Athens, Ark. Methodist. Rape of an + 8-year-old girl; second offense. +1899. Fowler, Rev. A. R., South Carolina. Presbyterian. Forgery; + sentenced to penitentiary. +1899. Fox, Rev. Geo. J., Easton, Pa. Baptist. Confessed to sin and + departure from rectitude. +1911. Francis, Rev. A. M., Omaha, Neb. Charged with fraud. +1913. Francis, Rev. David, Richmond, Va. Christian. Forced to resign + for unbecoming conduct with a married woman. +1909. Francis, Rev. D. B., Ironton, O. Campbellite. Bastardy. +1908. Francis, Rev. Geo. A., Elizabeth, N. J. Baptist. Fraud. +1902. Francis, Rev. H. C, New Londonderry, N. H. Statutory offense + named in wife's successful divorce suit. +1902. Frederick, Rev. Jas., Wolf Creek, Ky. Baptist. Disturbing + school; stole bench warrants; fined. +1906. Frederickson, Rev. A., Milwaukee, Wis. Lutheran. Suicide while + depressed by drink. +1906. Freelander, Rabbi, Evansville, Ind. Orthodox Jew. Living with + wife's sister. +1911. Freeman, Rev. James, Murphysboro, Ill. Murdered his wife; + sentenced to imprisonment for life. +1908. Frees, Rev. R. W., Port Huron, Mich. Baptist. Wife beating. +1908. Freis, Rev. Phil., St. Louis, Mo. Arrested as pickpocket. +1904. Fritch, Rev. W. S., Attleboro, Mass. Congregational. Alienating + affections of another man's wife; sued; $1,334 damages awarded. +1911. Froelich, Rev. Father John von, Muncie, Ind. Catholic. Accused + of unnamed crime by a married woman of his church. + Frost, Rev. T. B., Chattanooga, Tenn. Evangelist. Eloped with a + prostitute. +1900. Frost, Rev. W. J., Harvey, Ill. Congregational. Confessed + intimacy with servant; ousted. +1905. Frye, Rev. James, Keokuk, Ia. Deserting family and eloping with + girl; arrested. +1913. Frye, Rev. M. H., Kiester, Minn. United Brethren. Arson. + Fulkerson, Rev. B. H., Eureka Springs, Ark. Methodist. Immoral + conduct and attempted suicide. + Fullers, Rev. Mr., Salem, W. Va. Methodist. Transgression of + 7th commandment. +1909. Furbush, Rev. A. C, Georgetown, Conn. Congregational. Intimacy + with young woman, though married; resigned and left town. +1902. Gablet, Rev. S., Toledo, O. Presbyterian. Shoplifting; + arrested. +1910. Gaines, Bishop, W. G., Camden, N. J. African Methodist + Episcopal. Embezzlement. +1914. Gardiner, Rev. Vernon A. Bird of passage. Evangelist. Fraud. +1911. Gardner, Rev. T. H. H., Kittitas, Wash. Methodist. Beat his + wife to death with a club. +1904. Garner, Rev. Harrison, Goshen, N. Y. Evangelist. Abduction; + jailed. +1912. Garretson, Rev. John, Geddes, S. D. Congregational. Accused of + immoral conduct and financial dishonesty; forced to resign + pastorate. +1906. Garstka, Rev. A., Pittsburgh, Pa. Catholic. Refused to give up + church records; shoots parishioner. +1906. Gay, Rev. T. B., Utica, O. Presbyterian. A "Peeping Tom"; + resigned and left town. +1911. Geis, Rev. Mr., Brooklyn. Arrested for beating his wife. +1912. Geisel, Rev. Theodore H., Bernardsville, N. J. Pleaded guilty + to charge of sending defamatory postcards through the mail; + sent to the workhouse for two months. +1899. Geoghegan, Rev. Thos., Hamilton, Ont. Catholic. Illicit sexual + intercourse. +1911. George, Rev. P. A., Cleveland, Ohio. Head of the "Kingdom of + God" society. Has two wives, his own and a "god-given" one, + regularly married to another man. +1901. Gerrish, Rev. Theodore, Sioux Falls, S. D. Gave fraudulent deed + to property; jailed. +1907. Gettman, Rev. Peter, Kossuth Co., Ia. Methodist. Murdered wife; + suicide. +1906. Gibbons, Rev. B. J., Norfolk, Va. Methodist. Bigamy; suicide. +1911. Gibbs, Rev. John, Tampa, Fla. Presbyterian. Horse thief. +1912. Gibson, Rev. Lewis, Bristol, Va. Methodist. Election fraud; + pleaded guilty and sentenced to a month's imprisonment. +1904. Gibson, Rev. Smith, Mt. Holly, N. J. Attempted corruption of + 11-year-old girl. +1908. Gibson, Rev. W., Hoxie, Ark. Kidnapping. + Gidding, Rev. Mr., Alton, Ill. Stabbed step-son to death. +1899. Ginner, Rev. S. G., St. Paul, Minn. Episcopal. Grand larceny; + three years in penitentiary. +1899. Giraud, Rev. Philip, Montreal, Can. Catholic. Fraudulently + obtaining money. +1899. Givens, Rev. Mr., West Virginia. Methodist. Counterfeiting; + indicted by grand jury. +1901. Gladden, Rev. Wm. E., Liverpool, O. Methodist. Conspiracy; + indicted; arrested. +1902. Glass, Rev. O., Ft. Worth, Tex. Evangelist. Indecent exposure; + fined. +1906. Glenn, Rev. H. L., Raleigh, N. C. Holiness. Destruction of + virtue of half a dozen girls from 13 to 17 years of age; + indicted for criminal assault on girl of 14. +1899. Gloria, Rev. Fr. G., Oakland, Cal. Catholic. Betrayed girl; + deposed; married her. +1908. Gneilinski, Rev. Mr., St. Louis, Mo. Catholic. Kidnapping + girls; immoral life. +1900. Goad, Rev. Geo., Pine Bluff, Ark. Sanctificationist. Embezzling + charity fund; arrested. +1911. Goddard, Rev. J. B., Portland, Ore. Methodist. Charged with + "statutory offense" against two young girls; held for trial. +1908. Godlin, Rev. Albert., Preacher of the end of the world. + Catahoula Parish, La. Incendiarism; lynched. +1911. Godrycz, Rev. John A., Philadelphia, Pa. Catholic. Arrested for + slander. +1909. Godssen, Priest, Henrietta, Tex. Catholic. Gambling. +1909. Goetchell, Rev. E., Kansas City, Mo. Swindling. +1910. Goins, Rev. E. R., Sandusky, O. Methodist. Boy's charge + disorderly conduct. +1900. Golden, Rev. R. F., Boston, Mo. Evangelist. Stealing horse and + cart; arrested. +1911. Goldstein, Samuel, Montreal. Jewish rabbi. Sentenced to federal + penitentiary for smuggling. +1912. Gongaware, Rev. George J., Pittsburgh, Pa. Lutheran. Charged + with unduly influencing a sick and incompetent woman to will + much of her property to the church. +1907. Gooden, Rev. R., Seabright, N. J. Assault on married woman. +1908. Goodin, Rev. H. H., Pontiac, Ill. Baptist. Abduction; one to + ten years. +1910. Goodrich, Rev. G. E., Jackson, Mich. Baptist. Immorality. +1904. Gordan, Rev. Jas. A., Cabin Hill, N. Y. Presbyterian. Breach of + promise; convicted. +1911. Gordon, E. G., Richmond, Va. Former Methodist minister. Accused + of drunkenness and "misconduct" with a married woman. +1900. Gordon, Rev. Jas. H., Nicetown, Pa. Baptist. Alienating + affections of choir singer from her husband. +1905. Gordon, Rev. M. D., Hudson, Mich. Episcopal. Paternity of + housekeeper's child; decamped. +1911. Gormley, Father; Wichita, Kan. Catholic. Seduced 15-year-old + girl. +1910. Gosgan, Rev. Richard, Hartford, Conn. Catholic. Suicide. +1914. Gossett, Rev. W. J., Vancouver, Wash. Brutal treatment of wife. + Gould, Rev. R. A., Cent. City, Neb. Free Methodist. Left wife, + eloping with girl of 15; penitentiary six years. +1913. Gouthy, Rev. Mr., Indianapolis, Ind. Free Methodist. Fined for + illegal hunting. +1909. Gow, Rev. Clyde, Mexico, Mo. Manslaughter; four years. +1907. Graff, Rev. B., Joliet, Ill. Baptist. Jailed for running + confidence game. + Grafton, Rev. T. W., Anderson, Ind. Campbellite. Contempt of + court; fined. +1911. Graham, Rev. David, Nashville, Tenn. Found guilty of running a + "blind tiger"; sentenced to jail for 60 days and fined $45 and + costs. +1908. Graham, Rev. J. H., Moundsville, W. Va. Horse stealing; life + sentence. +1908. Graham, Rev. J. S., Albany, N. Y. Catholic. Suicide. +1901. Graham, Rev. R. H., Topeka, Kan. Baptist. Rape on girl of his + flock; five years. +1899. Gram, Rev. W. O., Montrose, S. D. "A case of crim. con., no + doubt;" fled from Montrose. +1899. Grandison, Rev. Chas., New York, N. Y. Methodist. Drunkenness; + delirium tremens; a temperance lecturer. +1908. Grant, Rev. H. R., Halifax, N. S. Perjury; arrested. +1907. Grant, Rev. John, Little Rock, Ark. Methodist. Murder. +1914. Grantham, Rev. Daniel, Purvis, Miss. Baptist. Murder; sentenced + to five years in the penitentiary. +1911. Grass, Rev. Z. B., Moncton, N. B. Reformed Baptist. Charged + with setting fire to his home. +1912. Graves, Rev. L. W., Adrian, Mich. Methodist. Sued for divorce, + and committed suicide. +1909. Gray, Rev. I. N., St. Louis. Congregational. Passing bogus + checks. +1912. Gray, Rev. James H., Charleston, W. Va. Evangelist. Convicted + three times of horse stealing, and sentenced to life + imprisonment as a habitual criminal. +1912. Green, Rev. D. Hudson, Indianapolis, Ind. Evangelist. Charged + with theft of jewelry and clothing. +1900. Green, Rev. D. T., Rome, Ga. Methodist. Larceny of church + funds; guilty. +1901. Green, Rev. Rufus S., New York, N. Y. Presbyterian. Swindling. +1901. Greenberg, Rev. Moses, Philadelphia, Pa. Evangelist. + Non-support of aged father; held in $500 bail. +1912. Greene, Rev. Thomas E., St. Louis, Mo. Methodist Accused of + improper conduct with women. +1899. Greer, Rev. J. R., Millville, Pa. Methodist. Insulting young + woman in his congregation. +1905. Greer, Rev. Mr., Cairo, Ill. Do Right. Eloped with Mrs. Carr; + killed by Carr. +1913. Gregory, Rev. E. J., St. Johns, Mich. Baptist. Taking indecent + liberties with an 11-year-old girl; confessed guilt and was + sentenced to two years' imprisonment. +1899. Grey, Rev. Henry, Washington, D. C. Grand larceny; stealing + jewelry. +1913. Griegg, Rev. David B., Berwyn, Ill. Presbyterian. Bastardy. +1911. Grieves, Rev. Thomas, Greenwich, N. Y. Methodist. Arrested for + manslaughter. +1908. Griffin, Rev. Alfred, Chicago, Ill. Episcopal. Corrupting boys. +1913. Grigg, Rev. Samuel, Winnipeg, Can. Bigamy; sentenced to a + year's imprisonment. +1912. Griggs, Rev. Crawford, New York, N. Y. Baptist. Sued for + slander by a brother preacher. + Griggs, Rev. Edward, Big Rapids, Mich. Episcopal. Maltreatment + of wife; fled. +1899. Griggs, Rev. R. E., Binghamton, N. Y. Episcopal. Deserting + wife; arrested. +1908. Grimshaw, Rev. E. Cullum, Troy, N. Y. Baptist. Theft. +1912. Grobusch, Rev. Edward, La Salle, Ill. Shirked his debts to + gamble at the races. +1899. Groenendyke, Rev. M., Hartford City, Ind. United Brethren. + Hugging and kissing young woman without her compliance. +1903. Groenveld, Rev. Mr., So. Holland, Ill. Nameless crime; chased + from town. +1914. Grogg, Rev. Philip N., St. Mary's, Mo. Baptist. Murderous + assault. +1905. Grove, Rev. M. F., Visalia, Cal. Methodist. Collusion to obtain + divorce; previous charges of immorality sustained. +1901. Grumbine, Rev. J. G. F., Syracuse, N. Y. Luring girl away; + defamation of her mother; held in $1,000. +1913. Gryszar, Rev. Thomas, Toronto, Ont. Roman Catholic. Drunkenness + and assault. +1912. Guernsey, Rev. R. T., Long Prairie, Minn. Baptist. Sent to jail + for bad conduct with children, and committed suicide. +1901. Guirey, Rev. Geo., New York and Illinois. Baptist. Relations + with woman not his wife; divorced. +1913. Gullins, Rev. William R., Trenton, N. J. Methodist. Fraud. +1899. Gumba, Rev. Mr., Fishkill, N. Y. Methodist. Undue intimacy with + young woman. +1911. Gunn, Rev. J. G., Gilmar, Kan. Revivalist. Arrested for bigamy. +1913. Gunter, Rev. D. R., Greeneville, Tenn. Disciple. Accused of + attempted rape on own daughter. +1904. Gurley, Elder R. A., Huntsville, Ga. Christian. Carrying + concealed weapons; jailed. +1906. Haath, Rev. L. A., Rochester, N. Y. Suicide. +1913. Haff, W. P. W., Jr., Lynbrook, L. I. Lay preacher. Baptist. + Seduction and bastardy. + Hagaman, Rev. J. A., Anderson, Ind. Church of God. Caused + divorce suit by kissing wife of H. Morehead; called it + treatment for nervous trouble. +1905. Hagar, Rev. Washington, Hadley, W. Va. Baptist. Raising bills + from $1 to $10. +1908. Hagen, Rev. Emil, New York, N. Y. Dutch Reformed. Theft. +1900. Hagen, Rev. Henry, Rushing, Ark. Selling whisky without a + license; arrested. +1901. Haigler, Rev. J. A., Chattanooga, Tenn. Criminal malpractice; + arrested. +1900. Haist, Rev. F. H., Chicago, Ill. Assault and battery; arrested. +1900. Hale, Rev. Wm., Middleboro, Mass. Episcopal. Cruel and abusive + treatment of wife, who sued for divorce. +1910. Hall, Rev. E., Bloomington, Ill. Baptist. Illegitimate + parentage. Settled with mother. +1899. Hall, Rev. Henry, Peter Creek, Ky. Drunk, abused his wife, shot + by son. +1907. Hall, Rev. J. C., Kaukauna, Wis. Episcopal. Drunkenness; + deposed. +1901. Hall, Lay Pr. J. T., E. Orange, N. J. Episcopal. Grand larceny. +1900. Hall, Rev. Wesley, Hindman, Ky. Murdered his brother's widow, + who had refused to marry him. +1909. Hallan, Rev. A., Akron, O. Church of Christ. Drunkenness; + jailed; fined. +1900. Halloway, Rev. John, Linn, Mo. Cold-blooded murder; hanged. +1909. Halpern, Rev. Rabbi S. M., Newark, N. J. Selling liquor without + license. +1909. Hamilton, Rev. E., Muncie, Ind. Evangelist. Passed bogus check; + two wives. +1908. Hamilton, Rev. E. A., Newman, Ill. Methodist. Pandering. + Submitted wife and daughter to wealthy libertine for money + consideration. + Hamilton, Rev. Jas. B., alias J. L. Douglass, Lithonia, Ga. + Evangelist. Bigamy, larceny and other crimes. +1911. Hamilton, Rev. Wm. J., Chicago. Congregational. Adulterer. +1914. Hamrick, Rev. L. M., Pittsburgh, Kan. Methodist. Obtaining + property under false pretenses. +1902. Hance, Rev. Oscar T., Newburgh, N. Y. Stealing, passing bad + checks. +1907. Hancock, Rev. W. S., Chicago, Ill. Episcopal. Deposed for + debauchery. Held in London for poisoning his wife. +1901. Hand, Rev. A. L., Tuscumbia, La. Bigamy; arrested at the altar. +1912. Hand, Rev. David M., Moscow, Ida. Baptist. Convicted of + improper conduct with the young daughter of his Sunday school + superintendent; sent to the penitentiary for from five years to + life. +1905. Hand, Rev. J. Howard, Rye, N. Y. Methodist. Hugging and kissing + girl. +1899. Hanks, Rev. R. T., Abilene, Tex. Baptist. Rifling mails; + indicted. +1913. Hanmer, Rev. W. G., St. Charles, Ill. Free Methodist. Unfrocked + for adultery with the wife of another preacher. +1908. Hanna, Rev. J. C., Philadelphia, Pa. Methodist. Slander. +1899. Hanna, Rev. T. Carson, Union City, Ct. Baptist. Undue + familiarity; promiscuous kissing. +1913. Hanon, Rev. O. M., Jetmore, Kan. Methodist. Irregular conduct + with a married woman. +1912. Hansman, Rev. Joseph E., Topeka, Kan. Convicted of bigamy on + his own confession. +1901. Hanson, Rev. M. O., LaCrosse, Wis. Lutheran. Wife desertion; + tried and expelled. +1909. Hard, Rev. E. R., New Port, N. Y. Baptist. Alienation of a + wife's affections. Failure to pay judgment. +1914. Harder, Rev. John W., Vibbard, Mo. Christian Union. Violating + liquor law. +1911. Hardin, Rev. John, Beecher, Ill. Congregationalism. Bigamist. +1911. Hardy, Elder E. H., Reidsville, N. C. Primitive Baptist. + Contempt of court. +1907. Hardy, Rev. E. N., Cleveland, O. Congregational. Found in + disorderly house. Arrested. +1910. Hare, Rev. Louis T., Brooklyn, N. Y. Catholic. Clandestine + marriage. +1908. Hargrave, Rev. James T., Richmond, Va. Fraud by use of the + mails; eight months and $100. +1906. Hark, Rev. N. S., Greenville, Pa. Evangelist. Conduct + unbecoming a minister towards young woman. +1914. Harness, Rev. Murray, Kokomo, Ind. Christian. Adultery. +1910. Harper, Rev. E. J., Los Angeles. Presbyterian. Forced to resign + by unprintable charges. +1908. Harper, Rev. John, Chickasha, Ark. Methodist. Horse stealing. +1900. Harper, Rev. W. H., Shelbyville, Tenn. Methodist. Living with + young woman in absence of his wife. +1912. Harrall, Rev. Fleet, Greensburg, La. Fought duels with two men; + killed one, and wounded the other. +1901. Harrington, Rev. Geo. B., Oxford, N. J. Methodist. Suicide. +1909. Harrington, Rev. Mr., Helena, Mont. Catholic. Drinking and + misconduct with boys. +1900. Harriott, Rev. Wm. C., Fostoria, O. Consorting with immoral + women; sued for divorce. +1914. Harris, Rev. A. M., Metropolitan, Ill. Baptist. Duelling. + Harris, Bishop C. R., Asheville, N. C. African Methodist + Episcopal. Arson. +1903. Harris, Rev. J. Barr, Bozeman, Mont. Methodist. Seduction; one + year in penitentiary. +1901. Harris, Rev. Sheldon A., Milburn, Ill. Congregational. Running + get-rich-quick game on his flock; expelled. +1910. Harris, Rev. Sundy H., Cartersville, Ga. Methodist. Suicide. + Harris, Rev. Thos., Spartanburg, S. C. Baptist. Hanged for + murder. +1901. Harrison, Rev. G. W., Waco, Tex. Bigamy by direction of heaven, + he said; two years in penitentiary. +1907. Harsha, Rev. Wm., Denver, Colo. Had an affinity; horsewhipped + by whitecaps. +1899. Harsha, Rev. Mr., New York. Collegiate Reformed. Left his + pulpit under charges reflecting on his moral character. +1904. Hart, Rev. C. A. B., Brooklyn, N. Y. Episcopal. Arrested as + ticket of leave man, convicted of revolting crime against + morals and deported. +1908. Hart, Rev. W. G., Groesbeck, Texas. Rape and bastardy. Life + sentence. +1910. Hastings, Rev. H. L., Chicago. Methodist. Immoral conduct + toward boy. +1900. Hastings, Rev. Mr., South Orange, N. J. Presbyterian. Shooting + game in violation of law. +1913. Hatcher, Rev. James W., Wellston, Mo. Methodist. Wife-beating + and non-support. +1909. Hathaway, Rev., J. D., Maryville, Mo. Episcopal. Suicide. +1900. Hatton, Rev. Edward, Brooklyn, N. Y. Baptist. Abandonment of + wife; arrested. +1910. Hauberch, Rev. A. A., Miltonsburg, O. Lutheran. Stealing + jewelry. +1911. Hausman, Rev. Eugene, Kansas City, Mo. Methodist. Bigamist. +1913. Hawkes, Rev. Roy A., Spencer, Ia. Methodist. Indicted for + murder. +1905. Hawkins, Rev. J. S., Arkansas. Methodist. Immorality. +1901. Hawkins, Rev. Wm., Philadelphia. Baptist. Incendiarism; + arrested. +1907. Hawley, Rev. F. M., Fulton, Ky. Presbyterian. Wrecked a home; + horsewhipped by husband. +1912. Hawley, Rev. Richard, New York, N. Y. Roman Catholic. + Drunkenness. +1905. Haynes, Rev. Myron W. Methodist. Obtaining rail-road + transportation by fraud; intimacy with a female school teacher. +1910. Hays, Rev. Wm., Nowata, Okla. Baptist. Left wife for affinity. +1901. Heafy, Rev. Jer. J., Brooklyn, N. Y. Catholic. Getting insane + man's property by fraud. +1902. Heath, Rev. Henry R., Essex Co., N. Y. Baptist. Larceny; + jailed. +1901. Heath, Rev. Jas. T., Kansas City, Mo., and Castile, N. Y. + Baptist. Abandoning wife and getting divorce without notice and + by misrepresentation, to marry another woman. +1907. Heathcote, Rev. A., Wadena, Minn. Episcopal. Jailed for + wife-beating. +1905. Heather, Rev. Andley J., Wahoo, Neb. Congregational. Obtaining + money under false pretenses. +1911. Hedeberg, Rev. John R., Bozeman, Mont. Swedish. Grand larceny. +1912. Heery, Rev. P. M., Dennison, O. Roman Catholic. Drunkenness, + disorderly conduct and profanity. + Heideman, Rev. A. L., Calumet, Mich. Twice arrested for + violating game laws, and fined. +1904. Heilman, Rev. Edgar J., Wyndmoor, Pa. Lutheran. Breach of + promise; convicted. +1899. Hellenus, John, theological student, New York, N. Y. Baptist. + Intimacy with married woman; she confessed. +1910. Helwig, Rev. H. D., Evansville, Ind. Episcopal. Forged check; + arrested. +1904. Henderson, Rev. C. E., Butte, Mont. Methodist. Acknowledged + gambler. +1903. Henderson, Rev. Henry, Williamsburg, O. Criminal assault on + 12-year-old girl. +1899. Henderson, Rev. John, Brooklyn, N. Y. Methodist. Traducing + woman member; sued. +1900. Henderson, Rev. John M., Brooklyn, N. Y. Slander. +1899. Henderson, Rev. W. C, St. Louis, Mo. Using mails to defraud; + jailed. +1903. Hendrick, Rev. Fr., Rochester, N. Y. Catholic. False arrest; + sued. +1901. Hendricks, Rev. A. M., LaPorte, Ind., and elsewhere. Catholic. + Swindling; pleaded guilty. +1908. Henneman, Rev. J. W, Chippewa Falls, Wis. Methodist Episcopal. + Suicide. +1908. Henning, Rev. V., Winnipeg, Man. Lutheran. Seduced girl; + violated consent law; two years. +1909. Hensge, Rev. Paul, Portsmouth, O. Made, false oath. +1900. Hensley, Rev. A. J., Yorkville, S. C. Baptist. Slandering Dr. + Scoggins, who drubbed him in a street fight. +1901. Herald, Rev. Mr., Brooklyn, N. Y. Congregational. "Coarse and + brutal" slander of a woman; sued at law. +1908. Herberg, Rev. Marcellus, St. Louis, Mo. Impersonating an + officer. +1908. Herbert, Rev. D., Richmond, Ind. Drunkard and wife beater. +1901. Herborn, Rev. John, New York. Methodist. Interfering with + officer; fined $5. +1913. Herr, Rev. William J., Rose Point, Pa. Pentecostal. Obtaining + money under false pretenses. +1912. Hervey, Rev. Joseph L., D.D., New York, N. Y. Presbyterian. + Accused by parishioners of circulating scurrilous stories about + members of his flock. +1909. Herzog, Rev. C. A., Anthrax, O. United. Assault. +1907. Hetland, Rev. John, Clarion, Ia. Criminal assault. +1912. Hewitt, Rev. Jesse R., Bomarton, Tex. Baptist. Abduction and + white slavery; sentenced to fifty years' imprisonment. +1910. Hewson, Rev. Earl, St. Louis. Congregational. Desertion. +1906. Hibner, Rev. A. A., Hennessey, Okla. Running away with + another's wife. +1909. Hickey, Rev. E. D., Springfield, Mass. Catholic. Convicted of + assault on girl. +1902. Hickman, Rev. R. L., McKeesport, Pa. Methodist. Forged notes, + discounted them and skipped. +1913. Hickman, Rev. Thomas A., Webb City, Mo. Methodist. + Wife-desertion; divorce granted his wife. +1910. Hicks, Rev. R. O., Columbus, O. Smashed windows; stole jewelry. +1910. Hicks, Rev. William, Spokane, Wash. Methodist. Sued for + "get-rich-quick" swindling. +1899. Hicks, Rev. W. H., Hawesville, Ky. Baptist. Betrayal of two + young women; fled. +1908. Hicks, Rev. W. M., Paducah, Ky. Baptist. Swindling; forgery. +1905. Hicks, Rev. W. W., Chilhowie, Va. Methodist. Immoral conduct; + suspended by conference. +1899. Higgins, Rev. Geo. W., Levant, Me. Holiness. Breaking up homes; + tarred and feathered. +1906. Higgs, Rev. J. J., Cherry Valley, Ill. Methodist. Found in + hotel room with young woman; resigned. +1908. Hilbish, Rev. J. M., Turlock, Cal. Methodist. Horse-whipped by + women whom he slandered. +1901. Hiles, Rev. Henry, Laurel, Md. Evangelist. Cruelty and wife + beating; arrested. +1909. Hill, Rev. F. W., Duluth, Minn. Methodist. Burglary; ninety + days or $100. +1909. Hill, Rev. H. J., Huntington, W. Va. Jailed for carousing. +1899. Hill, Rev. J. Wesley, Butler, Ill. Methodist. Taking unwelcomed + liberties with young woman. +1911. Hill, Rev. Murry, with a half-dozen aliases, Brooklyn. + Methodist. Attempted grand larceny. +1912. Hill, Rev. Simeon C., D.D., Philadelphia, Pa. Episcopal. Driven + from the country at 75 years of age on account of his behavior + with a young girl of his congregation. +1911. Hillis, Rev. Dwight, Brooklyn. Fraud. +1900. Hills, Rt. Rev. R. P., Omaha, Neb. Episcopal. Bigamy; left wife + in England. +1900. Hilson, Rev. H. D., Kansas City, Kan. Killed wife, who had sued + him for divorce. +1913. Hilton, Rev. Thomas J., Plattsburg, Mo. Mennonite. Bigamy. +1908. Hines, Rev. David, New York. Theft. +1908. Hines, Rev. W. P., Lexington, Ky. Baptist. Lechery. +1907. Hinshaw, Rev. W. E., Belleville, Ind. Methodist. Murdered wife; + life sentence. Paroled, he seduced a married woman in 1908. +1908. Hinton, Rev. D. C, Pittsburgh, Pa. Episcopal. Drunk and + disorderly. +1902. Hintz, Rev. A. B., Odessa, Mo. Baptist. Bigamy; deserted two + wives. +1900. Hobes, Rev. John, Belleville, Ill. Evangelist. Seducing married + woman and mother. +1906. Hobson, Rev. Lemuel, Mitchel, Ind. United Brethren. Found in + compromising position with married woman. Shot by husband. +1905. Hofer, Rev. Fr., LaCrosse, Wis. Catholic. Criminal assault on + orphan girl; fled; arrested; convicted. +1913. Hoffman, Rev. Henry C., Owensboro, Ky. Methodist. Criminal + assault. +1899. Hoffman, Rev. Richard, Lynchburg, Va. Baptist. Two or more + wives; sued for divorce. +1900. Hoffman, Rev. R. T., Lexington, Ky. Fighting another preacher; + fined $100 and jailed. +1904. Hoge, Rev. Chas. M., California. Episcopal. Suicide by shooting + in head. +1907. Hogg, Rev. A. J., Norwood, O. Bigamy. +1908. Holcomb, Rev. Walt., Cartersville, Ga. Evangelist. Obscene + language in the presence of a female; $200. +1912. Holden, Rev. Albert, Toledo, O. Itinerant evangelist. Bigamy + and obtaining money under false pretenses. +1900. Holden, Rev. John, Matewan, W. Va. Methodist. Found in bed with + Mrs. Bostock; shot at by Mr. B. and wounded. +1906. Holgate, Rev. LeGrand, Ashland, Ore. Nazarene. Wife beating. +1901. Hollis, Rev. C. W., Davis, W. Va. Presbyterian. Issuing + fraudulent marriage certificate; other charges. +1904. Holly, Rev. J. B., Jacksonville, Fla. Baptist. Assault and + battery on Rev. W. Hobson; fined $250. +1911. Holly, J. C., Wilmington, Del. Former Quaker preacher. Murder + and arson. +1906. Holman, Rev. E. H., Ontario, Ore. Held for defrauding a number + of innocent Oregonians. + Holmes, Rev. W. D., Clarksville, Ark. Free Will Baptist. + Assault to commit rape; jailed. + Holmsen, Rev. H., Hudson, Wis. Christian. Cruelty to wife and + "more serious charges." +1901. Holp, Rev. Philip, Angelo, Ind. Congregational. Leading a dual + life; expelled. +1914. Holper, Rev. Father, Minnesota Lake, Minn. Catholic. + Kidnapping. +1903. Holt, Rev. W. J., Elkins, W. Va. Methodist. Lying, in that he + expressed himself as penitent for gambling, although he won + $5,000. +1909. Holtgreve, Rev. J. J., Plaquemine, La. Catholic. Criminal + libel; immoral conduct with boys. +1912. Homburger, Rev. Oscar, Chillicothe, Mo. Methodist. Wanted by + the police for abducting a 17-year-old girl; is a married man + with several children. +1912. Honeycutt, Rev. M. H., Jackson, Miss. Murderous assault on a + neighbor on account of a trifling dispute over a children's + quarrel. +1903. Hook, Rev. J. W., Dickens, Ia. Assaulting little girl + criminally. +1912. Hooker, Rev. Conrad, Westfield, Mass. Sneak thief and + shoplifter. +1907. Hopkins, Rev. A., Camden, N. J. Convicted of stealing whisky. +1909. Hopkins, Rev. F. E., Chicago, Ill. Congregational. Unpaid + bills; sued. +1914. Hopp, Rev. J. H., Portland, Ore. German Congregational. + Larceny. +1913. Horn, Rev. Frank, Richmond, Cal. Baptist. Adultery and bigamy. +1911. Horton, Rev. John H., Joliet, Ill. Bigamy. +1906. Horton, Rev. J. B., Commerce, Ga. Baptist. Forgery. +1908. Hoshauer, Rev. A. H., Norristown, Pa. Reformed. Deserted wife + to live with affinity. +1899. Hotema, Rev. Solomon E., Indian Territory. Presbyterian. Murder + of three neighbors; hanged. +1899. Houldsworth, Rev. H., New York, N. Y. Evangelist. Forgery in + various places. +1914. Housemann, Rev. Eugene, Kansas City, Mo. Methodist Episcopal. + Bigamy; pleaded guilty and received a three-year sentence. +1902. Howard, Rev. Geo. N., Batavia, N. Y. Baptist. Marital + unfaithfulness with several women. +1911. Howard, Rev. Herbert W., Le Roy, N. Y. Methodist. Immorality. +1909. Howard, Rev. I. J., Hartford City, Ind. Drunkard. Seduction. +1902. Howard, Rev. L. F. B., alias Harper, Detroit, Mich., and + elsewhere. Swindling; six years in penitentiary; escaped; + retaken; bad record. +1911. Howard, Rev. Samuel E., Macon, Mo. Baptist evangelist. Bigamy. +1910. Howard, Rev. W. M., Crook Co., Wyom. Baptist. Fraud. +1909. Howaweeney, Bishop R., Brooklyn, N. Y. Greek. Slander and + libel. +1902. Howe, Rev. G. F., Summitville, Ind. Prison evangelist. + Burglary; killed in the act. +1900. Howe, Rev. O. Raymond, New Haven, Conn. Accomplishing ruin of + his domestic; ordered to support the child. +1899. Howell, Rev. David L., New York. Prison chaplain. Alienating + affections of Mrs. Greene; husband brought divorce suit; Mrs. + Howell secured divorce. +1908. Howell, ex-Rev. David T., Newark, N. J. Episcopal. Suicide. +1912. Hubbard, Rev. W. J., Charleston, W. Va. Baptist. Criminal + assault. +1912. Hucless, Rev. Marcellus, New York, N. Y. Baptist. Sued for + slander, and defaulted at trial. +1912. Hudson, Rev. Joseph H., Chicago, Ill. Baptist. Assaulting two + young girls in an orphan asylum of which he was head; convicted + and sentenced to 25 years in the penitentiary. +1912. Hudson, Rev. Madison M., Terre Haute, Ind. Evangelist. Sued for + divorce on the ground of cruelty. +1903. Hudson, Rev. Roger J., New York. Evangelist. Corrupting girls; + jailed. + Hudson, Rev. Roy., Itinerant evangelist. Child desertion. +1913. Huggins, Rev. George D., Jacobstown, N. J. Methodist. Convicted + of rape. +1907. Hughes, Rev. E. C., Chicago, Ill. Swindler; one to ten years in + prison. + Hughes, Rev. Jasper S., Holland, Mich. Methodist. Malicious + destruction of property. +1910. Hughes, Rev. P., Milwaukee. Assault on two telephone girls. +1905. Hulme, Rev. George, Kecksburg, Pa. Church of God. Assault on a + female member of his congregation. +1908. Humble, Rev. G. T., Leetonia, Ohio. Methodist. Liberties with + women. +1909. Humes, Rev. John, Brooklyn, N. Y. Accused by two little girls. +1902. Hungate, Rev. Frank, Painesville, O. Baptist. Seduction; + criminal operation; 15 years in penitentiary. +1907. Hunt, Rev. E. I., Adultery and bastardy. Deposed. +1906. Hunt, Rev. Lawrence, Greenpoint, L. I. Presbyterian. + Co-respondent in divorce proceeding. +1910. Hunt, Rev. R., Atlanta, Ga. Congregational Methodist. Fighting. +1909. Hunt, Rev. W. F., Columbus, Ind. Presbyterian. Criminal + assault. +1909. Hunt, Rev. W. S., Elizabethtown, Ind. Presbyterian. Unbecoming + conduct with young woman. +1908. Hunter, Rev. A. D., Raleigh, N. C. Baptist. Suicide. +1910. Hunter, Rev. H., Lebanon, O. Conducting harem. +1909. Hunter, Rev. T. W., Houlton, Me. Methodist. Arson. +1913. Hurley, Rev. C. P., Stoutsville, Mo. Roman Catholic. + Drunkenness. +1908. Hutcheson, Rev. Joseph, Warren, R. I. Defamation. +1908. Hutchins, Rev. Ed., Topeka, Kan. Whipped by boy whose mother he + insulted. +1910. Hutchinson, Rev. A. P., Butler, Pa. Libel; indicted. +1908. Hutchinson, Rev. John, St. Louis, Mo. Evangelist. Bastardy. +1900. Hutson, Rev. I. S., Jacksonville, Fla. Receiving stolen goods; + two years' hard labor. +1900. Hutton, Rev. Chas. E., Saddle Rock, N. J. Lutheran. Too wide + interpretation of pastoral relations with women. Pursued by + husband with gun; resigned pulpit and departed. +1899. Hyler, Rev. John, Asheville, N. C. Free Will Baptist. Bigamy; + three wives; all living. +1903. Hylock, Rev. John, Mitchell Co., N. C. Jailed for bigamy; six + living wives. +1913. Iden, Rev. W. A., Visalia, Cal. Fraudulent sales. Sent to + penitentiary for five years. +1905. Iliff, Rev. T. C., Presiding elder and superintendent Utah + missions. Methodist. Plagiarism. Stole a sermon, which he + delivered as his own. +1901. Iliff, Rev. W. H., Hamilton, Ill. Methodist. Malicious + mischief. + Inman, Rev. Mr., Goldfield, Nev. Methodist. Contempt of court. +1900. Irvine, Rev. I. N. W., Huntingdon, Pa. Episcopal. Gross + immorality; unfrocked. +1901. Israel, Rev. Wm. F., Savannah, Ga. Running moonshine still. +1900. Jacamowics, Rev. T., Mt. Carmel, Pa. Catholic. Embezzlement; + jailed. +1913. Jackson, Rev. Crawford, Atlanta, Ga. Methodist. Drunkenness and + making improper advances to young girl. +1899. Jackson, Rt. Rev. H. M., D.D., Alabama. Episcopal. Drunkenness; + fell down at Eufala and could not get up. +1911. Jackson, Rev. John H., Cincinnati, O. Baptist. Embezzlement. +1899. Jackson, Rev. K., Creve Coeur, Mo. Wife-beating; fled. +1909. Jackson, Rev. L. F., Caruthersville, Mo. Methodist. Left wife + for young woman. +1906. Jackson. R. S., Boston. Bested in boxing match before Sharkey + A. C., New York. +1907. Jackson, Rev. S. T., No. Yakima, Wash. Baptist. Embezzlement of + church funds. +1907. Jackson, Rev. T. N., Waynesboro, Ga. Forgery and larceny. +1908. Jacobs, Rev. Marvin V., Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Baptist. Clerical + conduct. +1900. Jacobs, Rev. M. V., N. Colebrook, Conn. Baptist. Undue intimacy + with woman; fled. +1902. Jacobwitz, Rev. Jacobs, New York. Jewish. Brutally beating a + boy; arrested. +1906. James, Rev. E. L., Decatur, Ill. Baptist. Left town to escape + consequences of his assault on child. Expelled from church; + license revoked. +1912. Jamison, Rev. Guy, Altoona, Pa. Evangelist. Arrested for + burglary. +1908. Jaques, Rev. Wm., St. Louis, Mo. Mormon. Assaulted 11-year-old + girl. +1911. Jarman, Elder, Hub City, Idaho. Mormon elder. Adultery. +1910. Jasiak, Rev. Bartholemue, Toronto, Can. Catholic. Rape on a + girl of 10 years. +1900. Jedlika, Rev. John F., Yonkers, N. Y. Catholic. Cruelty to + animals; arrested. +1914. Jenkins, Elmer E., St. Louis, Mo. Gospel missioner. Accused of + abusing two little girls. +1912. Jenkins, Rev. John T., Lexington, N. C. Baptist. Expelled from + his pulpit for undue familiarity with one of the sisters. + Jenkins, Rev. Rufus, Knoxville, Tenn. Deserted wife for another + woman; deposed. +1913. Jeffrey, Rev. B. H., Bluefield, Va. Baptist. White slavery. +1910. Jerrett, Rev. Howard W., Grand Rapids, Mich. Methodist. + Seduction; ran away on exposure. +1906. Jesaheke, Rev. Henry, Stockholm, N. J. Unitarian. Found in + hotel with married woman; co-respondent in divorce case. +1900. Jester, Rev. Alex., London, Mo. Murder of a man named Gates. + Jewell, Rev. F. W., Wolverine, Mich. Methodist. Intimacy with + married woman; ousted from church. +1907. Jewett, Rev. E. H., New York. Suicide. +1907. John, Rev. J., Chicago. Congregational. Immorality. +1907. John, Rev. W. B., New Rochelle, N. Y. Baptist. Fired for + grafting. + Johnson, Rev. A. A., Oskaloosa, Ia. Methodist. Wronging a girl, + who shot and wounded him in the pulpit. +1901. Johnson, Rev. A. L., Bartow, Ga. Forgery; bigamy. +1907. Johnson, Rev. A. S., Knox Co., Tenn. Sued for libel. +1905. Johnson, Rev. Edward A., Newport, R. I. Baptist. Hugging, + kissing and taking other improper liberties with girls; + expelled. +1911. Johnson, Rev. George A., Baltimore, Md. Methodist. Murder. +1900. Johnson, Rev. G. W., Chicago, Ill. Evangelist. Misuse of girl + of 11. +1903. Johnson, Rev. H. A., Clayton, N. Y. Congregational. Eloping + with married woman. +1911. Johnson, Rev. H. H., Clarence, Mo. Methodist. Immorality. +1910. Johnson, Rev. H. J., Independence, Kan. Drunkenness. +1911. Johnson, Rev. John, Oswego, N. Y. Methodist. Immorality. +1900. Johnson, Rev. J. LeB., New York, N. Y. Episcopal. Eloped with a + nurse; wife got divorce; Johnson was fire chaplain. +1913. Johnson, Rev. J. M., Fargo, Okla. Baptist. Adultery. +1911. Johnson, Rev. M. C., Huntington, W. Va. Methodist. Murderous + assault. +1909. Johnson, Rev. M. D., Lebanon, Mo. Baptist. Shot and killed + another minister in quarrel. + Johnson, Rev. O. A., Oskaloosa, Ia. Fought pistol duel in + street; wounded. +1900. Johnson, T. J., Carmel, Ind. Evangelist. Assaulted an attendant + at one of his meetings; arrested; shot constable mortally; + constable returned fire, killing Johnson. +1899. Johnson, Rev. Wm., Maryville, Mo. Baptist. Indecent proposals + to woman; nine months. +1900. Johnson, Rev. Wm. E., Bamberg, S. C. Baptist. Murdering W. T. + Bellinger. +1902. Johnson, Rev. Wm. F., Brooklyn, N. Y. Corrupting young girls. +1910. Jones, Rev. B. Canfield, Paterson, N. J. Presbyterian. Two + young women named as co-respondents by wife in divorce. +1909. Jones, Rev. C. S., Detroit, Mich. Left home. +1901. Jones, Rev. D. B., Lagrange, N. C. Attempted rape. +1899. Jones, Rev. E. Mona, Long Island. Baptist. "Ministerial" + conduct and other improper behavior. +1907. Jones, Chaplain H. W., U. S. S. Minnesota. Deadbeat and too + fond of women. + Jones, Rev. J. W., Newport, Tenn. Abduction for purposes of + prostitution. +1908. Jones, Rev. Oliver, Brenham, Texas. Evangelist. Murderous + assault. +1907. Jones, Rev. Ralph, Selma, Ind. Kidnapping. +1906. Jones, Rev. W. H., Hendersonville, N. C. Baptist. Criminal + relations with a woman. +1900. Jones, Rev. W. H., Meriden, Conn. Methodist. Fraudulently + obtaining money. +1904. Jones, Rev. W. H. H., Junc. City, Kan. General misconduct; + expelled. +1910. Jones, Rev. N., Greenville, S. C. Seduction. +1900. Jones, Preacher, Garners, N. C. Local. Murdered his paramour + and five children. +1900. Jordan, Rev. Graham, Arlington, O. Fraudulent sale of timber + land. +1908. Jordan, Rev. John O., Jackson Hill, Ind. Baptist. Suicide. +1908. Jordan, Rev. W. F., Marshalltown, Ia. Methodist. Lying, + slander, perjury; expelled from church. +1912. Jorganson, Rev. Kent, Callender, Ia. Immoral conduct; fined in + police court. +1902. Jungblud, Rev. Chas., Niellsville, Wis. Assaulting his + 8-year-old ward; eight years in penitentiary. +1913. Jurco, Rev. John, Jessup, Pa. Lutheran. Suicide. +1910. Kain, Rev. Maurice J. L., Newark, N. J. Episcopal. Unnatural + relations with boys. +1910. Kaminski, Rev. Father, Buffalo, N. Y. Catholic. Slander. +1903. Kammer, Rev. A. M., Guttenburg, N. J. Catholic. Horse-whipping + small girl. +1902. Kantor, Rev. J. M., Alta, Ia. Methodist. Defrauding insurance + companies. +1909. Kasel, Rev. Ed., New Hradec, N. D. Catholic. Tampering with + mails. +1908. Kaye, Rev. J. A., Oak Park, Ill. Presbyterian. Counterfeiting; + two years. +1905. Kaylor, Rev. A. H., Pittsburgh, Pa. Evangelist. Outrageous + abuse of wife; divorced. +1910. Kazinsky, Rev. Father, Pittsburgh, Pa. Catholic. Perjury. +1911. Kearns, Father, Vineland, N. J. Catholic. Assault. +1901. Keep, Rev. R. H., Middleport, W. Va. New Jerusalem. Making love + to all the marriageable women in his congregation, and some + outside. +1911. Keffer, Rev. Mr., Seattle, Wash. Evangelist. Cruelty. +1901. Keller, Rev. John, Arlington, N. J. Episcopal. Ravishing Mrs. + Barker; shot by Barker; recovered; not tried. +1901. Kellerman, Rev. C. R., Midland, Mich. Methodist. + "Indiscretions;" fled. +1905. Kelley, Rev. Ad. A., Salem, W. Va. Methodist. Intimacy with + domestic; confessed by himself and girl. +1911. Kellmayer, Rev. E., Trenton, N. J. Presbyterian. "Conduct + unbecoming a minister." +1907. Kelly, Rev. A. M., Nashville, Tenn. Swindling. +1913. Kelly, Rev. Claude, San Jose, Cal. Baptist. Improper conduct + with girls. +1902. Kelly, Francis J., Jersey City, N. J. Evangelist. Deserting + family. +1910. Kelly, Rev. J. M., Nowata, Okla. Evangelist. Adultery. + Kelly, Rev. Fr., Elk Point, S. D. Catholic. Running away with + young woman. +1899. Kemp, Rev. K. L., Mechanicsburg, O. Drunkenness; arrested and + fined. +1908. Kemp, Rev. Morris, Chicago. Episcopal. Corrupting morals of + boys. +1911. Kemp, Rev. R. M., Chicago. Episcopalian. Drunkenness and + immorality. +1900. Kempton, Rev. Arthur C., Janesville, Wis. Baptist. Slander; + sued by young woman for $10,000. +1910. Keniston, Rev. George, Danville, Ill. Congregational. Criminal + assault. +1903. Kennedy, Rev. R. H., Hillsboro, Ore. Congregational. Burglary; + arrested. +1906. Kenyon, Rev. J. B., Bradford, Pa. Methodist Episcopal. Resigned + under complaint of immoral conduct with young woman. +1905. Kent, Rev. Alex, Buffalo, N. Y. Baptist. Conduct unbecoming a + minister; expelled. +1912. Kepler, Rev. Robert W., Boston, Mass. Evangelist. Corrupting + the morals of a boy and abducting a young girl; now serving + time in the penitentiary. +1911. Kerr, J. W., Portland, Ind. Methodist. Immorality. +1899. Kerr, Rev. Milton R., New Haven, Conn. Congregational. + Assignation with woman of his flock. +1899. Kerr, Rev. Dr., New York. Presbyterian. Lodging at a hotel with + a young woman, with whom he afterwards fled, leaving wife. +1907. Kessenger, Rev. Nat., Evansville, Ind. Drunkenness. +1909. Keuling, Rev. E. J., Woodhaven, L. I. Lutheran. Disappeared, + leaving wife. +1914. Kidder, Rev. Dr. Scott, Bayonne, N. J. Episcopal. Accused of + indecent assault on a 16-year-old girl. +1909. Kiekhoefer, Rev. H. J., Naperville, Ill. Made love to girls in + his college. +1899. Killingbeck, Rev. Wm., New York. Evangelist. Drunkenness; died + intoxicated. +1911. Kimmons, Rev. James, Rev. Bunyan and Rev. Judson, Ellijay, Ga. + Baptists. Murder. +1910. King, Rev. D. D., Ithaca, N. Y. Methodist Episcopal. Though + married, made love to another woman; resigned. +1902. King, Rev. J. V. M., Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Episcopal. + Drunkenness; suicide. +1902. Kinnunen, Rev. John, Houghton, Mich. Lutheran. Murder of wife + and child, and suicide. +1905. Kipartawy, Rev. H., New York. Catholic. Threat to kill; + assault; arrested. +1908. Kirreh, Rev. Justin, Port Chester, N. Y. Baptist. Obtaining + money under false pretenses. +1908. Kister, Rev. Frank, Providence, R. I. Theft. +1900. Kline, Robert and May, Kansas City, Mo. Evangelist. Theft. +1902. Kling, Rev. Walter, Canton, O. Presbyterian. Deceiving numerous + women of his flock; deposed. +1902. Knapp, Rev. D. E., Guthrie Center, Ia. Methodist. Abduction; + prosecuted. +1907. Knight, Rev. E. J., Philadelphia, Pa. Episcopal. Fighting. +1912. Knox, Rev. Maurice E., Parkersburg, W. Va. Methodist. Sued for + divorce for cruel and inhuman treatment. +1908. Knox, Rev. Robert, Toronto, Ont. Episcopal. Attempted suicide. +1914. Kolodzejczik, Rev. John, Chicago, Ill. Polish Catholic. + Contributing to dependency of 8-year-old girl; convicted. +1911. Korb, Rev. A. B., St. Louis, Mo. Assault. +1911. Korona, Father Antona, Bayonne, N. J. Catholic. Slander. +1901. Koslowski, Bishop, Chicago, Ill. Catholic. Charged with + borrowing money from patients in his hospital, and then causing + their death by injecting strychnine in their veins. +1901. Kossalko, Rev. Mr., Bridgeport, Conn. Catholic. Malicious + prosecution; sued for $5,000. +1910. Kovach, Rev. A., Dayton, O. Reformed. Mistreated little girl. +1910. Kowalski, Rev. Mr., Winnipeg, Man. Catholic. Felony. +1903. Krainhardt, Rev. Fred, Josephville, Mo. Catholic. Suicide. +1912. Kraisicki, Rev. E., Detroit, Mich. Greek. Adultery. +1902. Krell, Rev. Samuel, Lacon, Ia. Methodist. Suicide. +1900. Kreutzer, Rev. Frederick, Syracuse, N. Y. Methodist. Criminal + assault on woman. +1910. Kruzinaki, Rev. Ignacius, Stamford, Conn. Catholic. + Embezzlement. +1913. Kuhlman, Rev. H. W., Tillamook, Ore. Methodist. Accosting women + on the street; convicted, but let off in accordance with the + usual favoritism to a preacher. +1913. Kuhn, Rev. A., Mississippi, Miss. Roman Catholic. + Child-beating. +1908. Kurtz, Rev. J. S., Lancaster, Pa. Mennonite. Violating fishing + laws; fined; pleaded guilty. +1912. Kuryllo, Rev. Constantine, Pittsburgh, Pa. Greek. Criminal + assault on a girl. +1911. Kvantkovsky, Father Bolishlav, Jersey City, N. J. Catholic. + Seduced and abducted young girl. +1913. Kwiatowski, Rev. Barslow, Jersey City, N. J. Roman Catholic. + Embezzlement; arrested ten years before for assault and + battery. +1899. Labour, Rev. John, Chicago, Ill. Catholic. Disorderly conduct. +1907. Lagan, Rev. V. J., Chicago, Ill. Catholic. Absconded with + $6,000. +1913. Laguzzi, Rev. Joseph, Batavia, N. Y. Roman Catholic. Assault. +1899. Laird, Rev. A. M., Laporte, Ind. Christian. Adultery with + member of his flock at Elkhart. +1905. Lampkin, Rev. L. D., Duncan, Mo. Evangelist. Attempting assault + on woman during revival. +1909. Lander, Rev. A. J., Chicago, Ill. Baptist. Suicide. +1914. Landis, Rev. B. J., Prince's Fork, Va. Lutheran. White slavery. +1900. Lane, Rev. C. M., San Francisco, Cal. Desertion of wife, who + sued for divorce. +1913. Lane, Rev. John, Tulsa, Okla. Methodist and evangelist. + Drunkenness. +1907. Langan, Rev. J. J., New York, N. Y. Catholic. Stealing. +1907. Lange, Rev. A., Evansville, Ind. Lutheran. Divorced; decamped + with hairdresser. +1906. Lange, Rev. F. X., Chicago, Ill. Catholic. Sued by head of + family as father of 5-year-old member of that family. +1905. Lanning, Rev. J. C., Doniphan Co., Kan. Evangelist. Forgery; + jailed. +1901. Latimer, Rev. J. H., Rome, Ga. Baptist. Fighting with school + superintendent. +1913. Laudrais, Rev. Mr., La Rochelle, N. J. Roman Catholic. Arson; + sentenced to sixteen years at hard labor. +1900. Laurence, Rev. Thos., Montreal, Can. Jesuit. Swindling; three + years in state prison. +1900. Lawrence, Rev. John S., Cincinnati, O. Campbellite. Unlawful + cohabitation; proved. +1913. Lawrence, Bishop William, Cambridge, Mass. Episcopal. Sued for + defamation of character. +1902. Ledbrook, Rev. Dr., Moscow, Ida. Methodist. Seduction, murder + and suicide; chloroformed himself and girl with whom he eloped. +1914. Lee, Rev. Burton H., Ossining, N. Y. Episcopal. Sued for + separation by his wife. +1914. Lee, Rev. Frank L., Cory, Ind. Methodist. Suicide. +1903. Lee, Rev. Robert H., Middleburg, Ky. Murder of two; + penitentiary for life. +1911. Lenihan, Rev. Father D. C., Waterloo, Ia. Catholic. Assault. +1900. Lenk, Rev. Otto P., Cullman, Ala. Lutheran. Suicide by + shooting. +1900. Leonard, Rev. John, Horton, Kan. Baptist. Intimacy with choir + girl; dismissed. +1903. Lepore, Rev. Felix M., Denver, Col. Catholic. Gambling and + shooting. + Lewis, Rev. Clay, Kansas City, Mo. Evangelist. Selling borrowed + horse and wagon. +1912. Lewis, Rev. David D., New York, N. Y. Imprisoned for fraud; + made a sensational attempt to escape, but was recaptured. +1912. Lewis, Rev. F. E., Willard, Kan. Arson. Charged with burning + church to revenge himself on the congregation. +1905. Lewis, Rev. Harry, Richfield, Minn. Baptist. Theft of jewelry; + jailed. +1903. Lewis, Rev. James, Columbus, O. Beating wife. +1910. Lewis, Rev. James H., Brighton, Ia. Methodist. Adultery. +1913. Lewis, Rev. J. D., Alexis, Ill. Lutheran. White slavery, + larceny. +1901. Lewis, Rev. J. P., Petersburg, Va. Assault with deadly weapon. +1913. Lewis, Rev. W. A., Lansdowne, Pa. Methodist. Fined for cruelty + to chickens. +1903. Lewis, Rev. W. A., Texarkana, Ark. Baptist. Assisting prisoner + to escape; jailed. +1902. Lewis, Rev. Z. D., Richmond, Va. Baptist. Adultery; divorce + proceedings. +1899. Life, Rev. J. M., Hebron, O. Methodist. Attempting improper + relations; dismissed. +1906. Life, Rev. J. M., Canton, O. Methodist. Blacked wife's eye; + sued for divorce. +1911. Lightbourne, Rev. A. W., Wilmington, Del. Methodist. + "Irregularity." +1908. Limbeck, Rev. H. G., Cincinnati, O. Episcopal. Beating a boy. + Lindner, Rev. G. J., Nashville, Tenn. Campbellite. Swindling + banks; fled. +1902. Lindsey, Rev. Jos., Carbondale, Ill. Evangelist. Stealing + clothes. +1911. Line, Rev. Hood, Iola, Kan. Free Methodist. Immorality. +1902. Ling, Rev. F. D., Port Huron, Mich. Methodist. Attempted + intimacy with married woman. +1910. Little, Rev. Arthur W., Evanston, Ill. Episcopal. Suicide. +1900. Little, Rev. J. C., Rossville, Ind. Expelled for improper + relations; threatens editor with gun. +1901. Little, Rev. J. W., Beecher City, Ill. Baptist. Running away + with married woman. + Littleton, Rev. C. B., Edna, Kan. Methodist. Under suspicion of + causing wife's death; unfrocked. +1900. Lloyd, Rev. Williams C., Southod, L. I. Presbyterian. Mixed in + scandal involving the pregnancy of a worker in his church. +1909. Logan, Rev. A. W., Sterling, Ill. Baptist. Larceny. +1909. Logan, Rev. B., Tacoma, Wash. Criminal assault on 11-year-old + girl. +1910. Logan, Rev. P. B., Butler, Pa. Libel; indicted. +1901. Long, John, McKinney, Tex. Cut wife's throat with pocketknife. +1913. Long, Rev. J. Franklin, Canon City, Colo. Episcopal. Unlawful + cohabitation. +1909. Long, Rev. W. M., Plainfield, Ia. Methodist Episcopal. + Defaulter. +1910. Long, Rev. Wm., Monticello, N. Y. Theft; thirty days. +1900. Lonier, Rev. A. V., Mt. Holly, N. J. Methodist. Intimacy with + another's wife. +1914. Loomis, Rev. Chester E., Owosso, Mich. Methodist. Improper + conduct with married woman. +1909. Lorton, Rev. J. E., Edinburg, Ill. Campbellite. Unfaithfulness + and cruelty to wife. +1910. Lott, Rev. G. W., Chicago, Ill. Methodist. Annoying women on + elevated trains; fined $100. +1910. Lovejoy, Rev. M. T., Chambersburg, Pa. Church of God. Swapped + wives with the baker. +1911. Lowe, Rev. Gilbert, Willimantic, Conn. Methodist. Forgery. +1910. Lowe, Rev. Robert B., Bellefontaine, O. Baptist. Adultery. +1910. Lowery, Rev. M. C., Greenville, Ala. Shot his wife. +1901. Lowther, Rev. Frank, Winfield, Kan. Methodist. Assault and + destruction of property. +1909. Lubach, Rev. Sam., Staten Island, N. Y. Assaulted old man; + fined $10. +1901. Lucas, Rev. J. H., Hancock Co., W. Va. Methodist. Conspiracy; + indicted, arrested. +1899. Lumpkins, Rev. Lewis, Scottsboro, Ala. Baptist. Torturing by + burning his young grandson, who died; ten years in the + penitentiary. +1911. Lupton, Levi, founder of the Gift of Thomas cult, Akron, O. + Adultery. +1899. Luther, Rev. L. O., Garrison, Ia. Swindling merchants of + Garrison. +1910. Lutz, Rev. Mr., Ashland, Wis. Lutheran. Arrested for assault. +1908. Lyford, Rev. G. D., Port Huron, Mich. Congregational. + "Indiscreet" with married woman; resigned; disappeared, leaving + wife behind. +1912. Lyles, Rev. C. S., Logan, Ia. Methodist. Suspended by the + church conference for what is euphemistically described as + "high imprudence and unministerial conduct." +1908. Lynos, Rev. Ernest E., Suffolk, Va. Sanctificationist. Murder. +1904. Lyons, Rev. Chas. A., Sioux City, S. D. Bigamy; five living + wives or more. +1914. Lyons, Rev. David P., Newton, Ill. Holiness. Assault and + battery; convicted. + Mabry, Rev. W. D., Salt Lake City, Utah. Methodist. Discovered + in compromising position with well-known woman. +1904. MacGrail, Rev. Jos. T., Navy chaplain. Catholic. Gross + immorality; resignation required. +1913. Machlachlan, Rev. H. D. C., Richmond, Va. Christian. + Maintaining common nuisance. +1899. Mackay, Rev. T. J., Newport News. Baptist. Taking "unusual" + liberties with a woman. +1912. Mackelcan, Rev. George F. A., Detroit, Mich. Episcopal. + Habitual drunkard; committed to insane asylum on complaint of + his wife. +1900. MacKinney, Rev. Jas., Philadelphia, Pa. Enticing young girl; + fined $500. +1913. MacMurtry, Rev. Andrew J., Manilla, Ia. Presbyterian. Adultery; + divorce granted his wife. +1913. MacRorie, Rev. Willis S., Mount Hope, N. J. Methodist. + Adultery; convicted and sentenced to three months in county + jail. +1914. MacWeedsen, Rev. Robert, Willow Grove, Pa. Baptist. Disorderly + conduct and carrying concealed weapons. +1914. Maddox, Rev. Carroll S., Santa Monica, Cal. Baptist. Sued for + slander by woman. +1899. Maguire, Rev. H. W., Bayonne, N. J. Baptist. Assault and + battery. +1913. Main, Rev. Silas S., Britton, Mich. Christian. Equivocal + conduct with women. +1903. Malone, Rev. D. M., Wardell, Mo. Evangelist. Deserted his wife + and traveled with another woman; killed by a mob while under + arrest. +1913. Mann, Rev. Allen D., Marion, Ind. Larceny. +1910. Mann, Rev. A. M., Logan, Mich. Methodist. Immoral conduct. +1906. Marable, Rev. J. L., Haverhill, Mass. Baptist. Unlawful + cohabitation. +1912. Marcavitz, Rev. Jos., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Collecting money under + false pretenses. +1913. Marsh, Rev. Waldo B., D.D., Tacoma, Wash. Methodist. Unfrocked + for clerical impropriety. +1901. Marsh, Rev. W. H., Remington, Va. Methodist Eloping with young + girl. +1906. Marshall, Rev. C. C., Sault Ste. Marie, Can. Baptist. + Disciplined by church for striking a member of congregation. +1899. Marston, Rev. J. F., St. Louis, Mo. Baptist. Obtaining money + under false pretenses. +1909. Martin, Rev. D. C., Pittsburgh. Presbyterian. Larceny. +1905. Martin, Rev. G. W., Barron, Wis. Baptist. Seduction; ousted. +1904. Martin, Rev. L. P., Philadelphia, Pa. Evangelist. "Raising" + postal money orders; confessed. +1908. Martoogessian, Rev. L. M., New York, N. Y. Armenian. Blackmail + and extortion; two years. +1910. Maslowske, Rev. S., Chicago, Ill. Catholic. Attacked and + mistreated a girl. +1905. Mason, Rev. John T., Albany, Mo. Baptist. Criminal libel. +1913. Mason, Rev. O. H. L., Long Beach, Cal. Presbyterian. Improper + conduct with girl parishioners. +1910. Mason, Rev. W. A., San Bernardino, Cal. Menacing wife's life. +1905. Masterson, Rev. Chas. S., Garrett, Ill. Abandonment and + non-support of wife, who sued for divorce; name connected with + different women's. +1913. Mata, Rev. Domingo A., Los Angeles, Cal. Presbyterian. + Impropriety with his organist. +1900. Matschat, Rev. G. L., Hicksville, L. I. Lutheran. Drunk in the + pulpit. +1901. Matthews, Rev. Chas. H., Cumberland, Md. Methodist. Shooting a + boy. +1907. Matthews, Rev. E. E., Brooklyn, N. Y. Larceny. +1914. Matthews, Rev. Frederick R., Pasadena, Cal. Methodist. Cruelty + to boy. +1913. Matthews, Rev. John, Omaha, Neb. Baptist. Immoral conduct; + unfrocked on his own confession. +1909. Matthews, Rev. R. M., Connellsville, Pa. Bigamy. +1900. Matthewson, Rev. A. C., Brockport, N. Y. Consorting with a + strange woman in Buffalo. +1913. Maxey, Rev. I. W., Decatur, Ill. Financial crookedness. +1913. Maxson, Rev. C. W., Los Angeles, Cal. Christian. Vagrancy and + drunkenness. +1901. Maxwell, Rev. M. C., Clayton, Ala. Baptist. Shooting in church. +1905. Maybery, Rev. Mr., Salt Lake City, Utah. Methodist. Adultery + committed in his church. Jailed, jumped bail. +1899. Maynard, Rev. R. A., Denver, Colo. Independent. Improperly + obtaining a divorce and remarrying. +1905. McAccen, Rev. Jos. E., Gethsemane, Ky. Catholic. Theft of $110 + from another priest with whom he went on a spree in New York. +1901. McAllister, Rev. J. W., Lowells, Mich. Methodist. Attempted + seduction; disappeared. +1911. McAlwain, Rev. R. C., Council Bluffs, Ia. Episcopal. Defendant + in scandalous breach of promise suit for $30,000, plaintiff + being mother of his illegitimate child. +1901. McAmmond, Rev. F., Perth, Ont. Methodist. Drunk and disorderly + in Syracuse. +1899. McArdle, Rev. George, Troy, N. Y. Presbyterian. Cut his throat + in the presence of his wife. +1906. McAtee, Rev. J. Q., Philadelphia, Pa. Lutheran. Brutally + attacked his wife; shot by daughter. +1909. McBrian, Rev. J. D., Leavenworth, Kan. Grafting as chaplain of + penitentiary. +1902. McCall, Rev. D. H., Sharon Grove, Ky. Breaking into and robbing + a store. +1901. McCammish, Rev. J., Carbondale. Ill. Second Advent. Relations + with Mrs. Brown; shot Brown in fight. + McCampbell, Rev. J. H., Bolckow, Mo. Methodist Episcopal. + Suicide. +1899. McCauley, Rev. Clarence, Louisville, Ky. Evangelist. Attempted + assault on woman. +1909. McClasky, Rev. W. P., Alameda, Cal. Methodist. Left wife for + affinity. +1910. McClellan. Rev. H., Bloomington, Ill. Cruelty to wife. +1900. McClelland, Rev. G., Brooklyn, N. Y. Presbyterian. Falsehood + and attentions to woman. +1900. McClenaghan, Rev. Mr., East Orange, N. J. Withheld until after + her death the fact that he had married a young woman to his + nephew and allowed the public to believe her child was + illegitimate; forced to resign. +1899. McCool, Rev. H. W., West Point, Neb. Lutheran. Suicide. +1909. McCrossan, Rev. C. W., Los Angeles, Cal. Baptist Exaggerated + mine prospects. +1912. McCutcheon, Rev. T. M., Pittsburgh, Pa. Evangelist. Adultery; + caught by detectives in flagrante delicto. +1913. McDaniel, Rev. George W., Richmond, Va. Baptist. Maintaining + common nuisance. +1912. McDaniel, Rev. J. G., Rogers, Ark. Embezzlement; sent to the + penitentiary. +1902. MacDonald, Rev. Geo. A., Long Island City, N. Y. Baptist. + Drinking too much; resigned. +1902. McDonald, Rev. W. H., Spring Valley, N. Y. Baptist. Absconding + with church funds. +1910. McFall, Rev. Arthur, Orange, Tex. Baptist. Suicide. +1900. McFarland, Rev. E. G., Coshocton, N. Y. Episcopal. Adultery; + confessed and quit. +1903. McFarland, Rev. J. T., Topeka, Kan. Contempt of court; $25 + fine. +1903. McFarland, Rev. Wm., Peoria, Ill. Methodist. Gross immorality. +1912. McFarland, Rev. W. D., D.D., Greenville, Tenn. Presbyterian. + Causing girl's death by criminal operation. Convicted and + sentenced to a year's imprisonment. +1912. McGann, Rev. William T., Elgin, Ill. Deserted his wife, who + thereupon sued for divorce. +1901. McGowan, Rev. John, South Brooklyn, N. Y. Catholic. Undue + intimacy with Sunday school teacher. +1902. McGuinness, Rev. Jas., Truxton, N. Y. Catholic. Drunkenness; + died of alcoholism. +1909. McHenry, Rev. A. C., Cleveland, O. Congregational. Performed + illegal marriage; assaulted his accuser. +1907. McHenry, Rev. John, Benton Harbor, Mich. Campbellite. Made date + with married woman. + McIntyre, Rev. Lee A., Louisville, Ky. African Baptist. + Malicious shooting and wounding; convicted. +1901. McIntroff, Rev. David N., Spokane, Wash. Methodist. Defrauding + a widow of $700; convicted. +1904. McKay, Rev. C. B., Mapleton, Ia. Methodist. Seduction and rape + of girls. +1907. McKay, Rev. Thos., New Haven, Conn. Congregational. Plagiarism. +1904. McKinney, Rev. H. L., Pittsburgh, Pa. Evangelist. Posed as girl + correspondent and swindled men. +1902. McKnight, Rev. Mr., Pittsburgh, Pa. Methodist. Selling liquor + on Sunday. +1912. McKoy, Rev. Charles F., Bar Harbor, Me. Baptist. Driven from + town on account of his conduct with a 10-year-old girl. +1913. McLain, Rev. E. B., Little Rock, Ark. Forgery. Declared insane, + and sent to asylum. +1905. McLaurin, Rev. Archibald, Brooklyn, N. Y. Baptist. Too great + familiarity with women, intemperance, and other offenses. +1910. McLeod, Rev. W. H., Woodstock, Can. Baptist. Intimacy with + young women; resigned. +1909. McMasters, Rev. Josc., Galveston, Tex. Methodist. Criminally + assaulting 15-year-old girl. +1910. McMurry, Rev. W. F., Cape Girardeau, Mo. Methodist. Accused of + murder. +1913. McMurty, Rev. A. J., Oakland, Neb. Presbyterian. Immoral + conduct. +1900. McNamee, Rev. B., Urbana, O. Evangelist. Wife beating; $50 and + three months. +1902. McNellis, Rev. Ch., Titusville, Pa. Catholic. Eloping with + married woman; arrested as a vagrant. +1914. McVicker, Mrs. B. L., Marion, Ind. Quaker pastor. Unlawful + cohabitation. Even the ladies in the pulpit cannot escape the + contamination which follows the profession so persistently. +1902. McWilliams, Rev. Robt., Vineland, N. J. Cruelty to young wife. +1907. Mears, Rev. W. H., New York, N. Y. Episcopal. Consorting with + public woman. Arrested; deposed. +1899. Melbourne, Rev. J. D., Briscoe Co., Tex. Baptist. + Counterfeiting; admitted guilt. +1908. Meloy, Rev. J. B., La Porte, Ia. United Evangelist. Slander. +1900. Merchant, Rev. E. W., St. Louis, Mo. Adultery; threatening + wife's life. +1913. Merington, Rev. R. W. E., Essex Falls, N. J. Episcopal. + Attempted suicide. +1900. Meriwether, Rev. P. M., Clarksville, Tenn. Abducting for + purposes of prostitution. +1909. Metcalf, Rev. E. F., Alexandria, S. D. Campbellite. Seduction + of 14-year-old girl. +1914. Metcalf, Rev. Milton Y., St. Louis, Mo. Baptist. Embezzlement. +1913. Michael, Rev. George, Pittsburgh, Pa. Greek Catholic. Criminal + assault. +1902. Miller, Rev. Chas. B., Griffin, Ga. Methodist. Forging and + swindling. +1910. Miller, Rev. C. E., Marion, O. Campbellite. Charged by wife + with immorality; resigned. +1898. Miller, Rev. Jas. N., New Haven, Conn. Congregational. Stealing + $500 worth of books. +1910. Miller, Rev. J. M., Butler, Pa. Lutheran. Libel; indicted. +1913. Milligan, Rev. Robert F. T., Chicago, Ill. Evangelist. + Attempted criminal assault; sentenced to from one to fourteen + years in the penitentiary. +1901. Milliken, Rev. Lee B., Cincinnati, O. Presbyterian. Swindling; + borrowed money and skipped from Washington, Ind. +1913. Milton, Rev. Mr., Hastings, Neb. Methodist. Unlawful + intercourse. +1914. Minehart, Rev. James T., Chicago, Ill. Using mails to defraud. +1910. Miraglia, Rev. Paolo. Catholic. Excluded as undesirable person + because of crimes in Italy. +1901. Mitchell, Rev. H. M., Sugartown, Ga. Methodist. Fighting with a + knife. +1896. Mitchell, Rev. T. E., Knoxville, Tenn. Perjury; two years' + sentence. +1914. Mlynarezyk, Rev. Father, Cleveland, O. Polish Catholic. Rape. +1914. Mohammed, Rev. C., Bristol, Va. Syrian. Obtaining money under + false pretenses; convicted and sentenced. +1909. Mollineaux, Rev. E. H., Hempstead, L. I. Baptist. Eloped with + another's wife. +1901. Moment, Rev. Alfred, Brooklyn, N. Y. Presbyterian. Misconduct + with young married woman. + Monda, Rev. L. A., Connellsville, Pa. Catholic. Seduction; + arrested; jumped bail. +1912. Monteuffel, Rev. Julius, Passaic, N. J. Roman Catholic. + Assault; charged with striking a woman in the face. +1902. Montgomery, Rev. Mr., Woodbridge, N. J. Presbyterian. Conduct + meriting imprisonment. +1908. Moore, Rev. Allie, Bellefontaine, O. Episcopal. Forgery. +1913. Moore, Bishop David H., Indianapolis, Ind. Methodist. Libel. +1900. Moore, Rev. Green, Louisa, Ky. Baptist. Convicted on paternity + charge. + Moore, Rev. Dr. H. H., Corry, Pa. Methodist. Indicted on + "serious charge." +1901. Moore, Rev. Philip, Indianapolis, Ind. Evangelist. Assault and + battery on wife and child. +1907. Moore, Rev. R. L., Garrett's Ford, Pa. Evangelist. Larceny. +1899. Moore, Rev. W., Benton, Ky. Methodist. Immorality with young + girl. +1899. Moran, Rev. S. Wilson, Minneapolis. Episcopal. Nameless crime. +1899. Morelle, Rev. Daniel, Wilmington, Ga. Suicide in New York. +1903. Morgan, Rev. F. A., Oklahoma City, I. T. Holiness. Fornication. +1900. Morris, Rev. John W., Indianapolis, Ind. Evangelist. Adultery; + eloped with married woman. +1910. Morris, Rev. Wm., Los Angeles. Episcopal. Craving for coin and + beer; arrested. +1908. Morris, Rev. Mr., Milford, Ga. Methodist. Attempted assault on + woman; shot by husband. +1914. Morrison, Rev. Arthur M., Newburyport, Mass. Evangelist. + Forgery. +1905. Morrison, Rev. A. B., Texarkana, Ark. Baptist. Eloped with girl + of 13; prosecuted under age of consent law; ten years. +1905. Morrison, Rev. D. H., Emporia, Kan. Methodist. Improper conduct + with girl 8 years old. +1899. Morrison, Rev. G. E., Vernon, Tex. Methodist. Wife murder; + hanged. +1902. Morrison, Rev. W. F., Chelsea, Mass. Navy chaplain. Suicide. +1912. Mortimer, Rev. Alfred G., D.D., Philadelphia, Pa. Episcopal. + Immorality. +1911. Moss, Rev. Richard H., Akron, O. Methodist. Convicted of + robbery. +1898. Mott, Rev. Charles A., Stockton, N. J. Baptist. Attempted rape + of married woman; confessed. +1908. Mott, Rev. Henry Elliott, D.D., Elizabeth, N. J. Presbyterian. + Immorality. +1914. Moulton, Rev. R. C., Des Moines, Ia. Methodist. Brutal assault + on child. +1909. Moyer, Rev. C. H., Chicago, Ill. Methodist Episcopal. Confessed + to embezzlement of $1,700. +1912. Muehlfeldt, Francis W., New York, N. Y. Lay evangelist. Robbery + and murder. +1913. Mueller, Rev. Kurt, Chicago, Ill. Lutheran. Bigamy. +1913. Mueller, Rev. Philip, D.D., Stillwater, Wis. Manslaughter. +1901. Muldoon, Rev. Mr., Chicago, Ill. Catholic. Scandalous conduct, + drunkenness, etc. +1914. Mullin, Rev. J. J., Chicago, Ill. Catholic. Murder. + Murphy, Rev. S. E., Eufala, Ark. Evangelist. Forgery; deserting + his wife. +1901. Murray, Rev. Abr., Chicago, Ill. Methodist. "Transgressions of + the most serious sort." +1905. Murray, Rev. O. E., Bijou Hills, S. D. Sued by H. A. Schmidt + for seduction of minor daughter. +1899. Murray, Rev. William, Dyersburg, Tenn. Methodist. Immorality. +1899. Musgrove, Rev. C. J., Lewiston, O. Methodist Protestant. + Burglary and larceny. +1908. Myers, Rev. Clement, Portland, Ind. Debauchery, etc. +1910. Myers, Rev. C., Boston, Mass. Baptist. Sued for libel. +1912. Mylnarczyk, Rev. A., Utica, N. Y. Polish Catholic. Mailing + obscene literature. +1906. Mynarczyk, Rev. W. A., New Kensington, Pa. Catholic. Rape. +1913. Nawrocki, Rev. Adelbert, Brooklyn, N. Y. Polish Catholic. + Criminal libel; pleaded guilty. +1906. Nazarian, Rev. Saliag, Fresno, Cal. Catholic. Abduction of + 14-year-old girl. +1911. Neal, Rev. B., Springfield, Ill. Christian. Seduced a little + girl, who at the age of 13 gave birth to a child. +1911. Neece, T. Clay, Dallas, Tex. Former Baptist preacher. Horse + thief. +1899. Neeley, Rev. H. D., Higginsport, O. Methodist. Indulgence in + immoralities. +1913. Neil, Rev. B. M., Modesta, Ill. Seduction of young girl; sent + to penitentiary for 25 years. + Nellis, Rev. Charles, Titusville, Pa. Catholic. Elopement with + married woman. +1904. Nelson, Rev. H. P., Seattle, Wash. Evangelist. Left wife to + live with another woman. +1902. Nelson, Rev. Ludwig, Pittsburgh, Pa. Robbing patients in + hospital and swindling merchants. +1903. Nesbit, Rev. N. Hill. Desertion; divorce; alimony. +1913. Nettles, Rev. Stephen A., Spartansburg, S. C. Methodist. + Improper conduct toward a young woman, assault and + miscellaneous minor offenses. +1912. Newell, Rev. William R., Chicago, Ill. Evangelist. + Excommunicated by Moody Church for misconduct with women, + habitual use of narcotic drugs, and unreliability of + statements. +1914. Newill, Rev. E. P., Los Angeles, Cal. Contempt of court. +1899. Newman, Rev. Newman, Waco, Tex. Evangelist. Counterfeiting; one + year in the penitentiary. +1909. Newman, Rev. P. I., Vandalia, Ill. Crime against little girl; + one to twenty years' sentence. +1900. Newsom, Rev. Mr., Elizabethtown, Ky. Methodist. Fighting on the + street. +1900. Nichols, Rev. C. E. O., Burlington, N. J. Episcopal. + Maltreating a boy pupil; fled. +1899. Nichols, Rev. C. W. DeL., New York. Episcopal. Gross + immorality; deposed by Bishop Potter. +1900. Nichols, Rev. J. E., Riverhead, L. I. Methodist. Living with + another man's wife. +1904. Nichols, Rev. R. A., Worcester, Mass. Church of Christ. + Mishandling funds entrusted to him. +1903. Nickelsen, Rev. C. D., Colfax, Wash. Methodist. Enticing a + woman; withdrew from the ministry. +1913. Nickerson, Rev. Wm. H., Westfield, Ill. United Brethren. + Murderous assault. +1904. Nickerson, Rev. Mr., Columbus, O. Baptist. Bigamy; penitentiary + for one year. +1909. Nieman, Rev. John, Pittsburgh, Pa. Abused 15-year-old girl; + struck wife. +1908. Nimmo, Rev. J. H., Barriefield, Ont. Anglican. Eloped; deposed. +1913. Niskowici, Rev. A., Youngstown, O. Independent Catholic. + Forgery. +1912. Nix, Rev. J. W., Clarkson, Miss. Methodist. Convicted of + attempted assault on a 9-year-old girl; sentenced to one year + in prison. +1913. Noon, Rev. Samuel H., Cambridge, Mass. Methodist. Suicide. +1912. Norris, Rev. J. Frank, Fort Worth, Tex. Baptist. Accused of + arson. +1899. Norris, Rev. Reginald, St. Paul, Minn. Evangelist. Bigamy; four + or five wives. +1900. Northrup, Rev. C. V., Owosso, Mich. Baptist. Seduction; + deposed. +1900. Norton, Rev. A. Q., Amityville, N. Y. Methodist. "Indiscreet + conduct;" fined $25. +1906. Norton, Rev. J. G., Valdosta, Ga. Baptist. Suicide. +1911. Novak, Rev. Matthew, Milwaukee, Wis. Catholic. Viciously + assaulted a boy. +1898. Nye, Rev. D. C., North Coshocton, N. Y. Methodist. Left wife + and eloped with young woman. +1900. Nye, Rev. Moses, Newark, O. Evangelist. Assaulted brother + preacher. +1912. Oakes, Rev. John A., Belford, N. J. Methodist. "Indiscretion" + with young girls. +1899. Oakes, Rev. J. A., Sharpestown, N. J. Methodist. Indecent + assault on girl. +1910. O'Brien, Rev. D., Sandy Hill, N. Y. Catholic. Immoral relations + with school teacher. +1905. O'Callaghan, Rev. P. J, Chicago, Ill. Catholic. Keeping + gambling house; arrested. +1900. O'Cantey, Rev. Mr., Elliott, S. C. Ravishing 10-year-old girl. +1904. O'Connell, Rev. M. J., New York, N. Y. Catholic. Attempting + suicide. +1909. O'Dell, Rev. Sol., Lebanon, Mo. Presbyterian. Drew knife on a + minister who then shot him. +1914. Odjada, Rev. Macairo, San Bernardino, Cal. Head of Spanish + mission. Failure to provide for family. +1900. O'Donnell, Rev. John J., New York, N. Y. Catholic. Suicide. +1900. Odum, Rev. B., Atlanta, Ga. Baptist. "Beating landlady out of + his board bill." +1912. Offstedahl, Rev. M. E., Grafton, N. D. Lutheran. Suicide. +1905. Oggle, Rev. Mr., Roan Mountain, Term. Baptist. Organized church + club into which females were initiated nude; lodged in jail in + Bakersville, N. C. + O'Hara, Rev. Anthony, Philip, S. D. Catholic. Rape of + 12-year-old girl. +1899. Olden, Rev. G. D., Topeka, Kan. Baptist. Parentage of + illegitimate child. +1899. Oliver, Rev. Robt., Atlantic City, N. J. Stealing lumber to fit + up camp grounds. +1909. Olson, Rev. O. M., Batavia, Ill. Methodist. Disorderly conduct. +1907. Oplinger, Rev. H. J., Slatington, Pa. Young woman the mistress, + wife the domestic in his household. +1912. O'Ryan, Father William, Denver, Colo. Catholic. Attempted to + bribe a witness. +1902. Orwick, Rev. J. F., Jackson, Mich. Visiting assignation houses; + habitual immorality. +1909. Osborn, Rev. A. O., Bloomfield, Ind. Campbellite. Embezzlement. +1909. Osborn, Rev. Joel, St. Joseph, Mo. Baptist. "Peeping Tom;" + fined. +1899. O'Shay, Rev. Charles, Chillicothe, O. Christian. Intimacy with + woman not his wife; breaking up home of Ch. Summers. +1900. O'Shea, Rev. Chas., Provo, Utah. Known to be a bigamist; + suspected of murder. +1908. Osterfield, Rev. Dudley, Ozone Park, L. I. Methodist. Violation + of marriage vows; sued for divorce. +1904. O'Tool, Rev. M. J., New Sharon, Ia. Peddling without license; + arrested. +1909. Owen, Rev. Gustave, Clarksville, Tenn. Selling liquor without + license; chain gang. +1908. Owen, Rev. Thomas, Newton, Mass. Episcopal. Adultery. +1909. Owen, Rev. W. D., Augusta, Ga. Campbellite. Jailed for land + frauds. +1901. Owens, Rev. C. T., Atlanta, Ga. Methodist. Drunkenness and + breach of promise. +1912. Owens, Rev. Eben J., New York City. Evangelist. Extortion. +1913. Owens, Rev. Joe, Rosedale, Va. Baptist. Adultery and + embezzlement. +1913. Owens, Rev. Joseph, Abingdon, Va. Baptist. White slavery. +1913. Owens, Rev. Oscar Lee, Baltimore, Md. Baptist. cruelty to wife; + separation granted her. +1912. Oxnard, Rev. Henry E. E., New Bedford, Mass. Constructive + larceny. +1901. Pace, Rev. John P., Russellville, Ala. Baptist. Adultery; six + months' sentence. +1914. Paciarelli, Rev. Joseph, Altoona, Pa. Methodist. Libel. +1910. Paisley, Rev. J. A., Moorsville, N. C. Presbyterian. Seduction, + adultery. +1901. Papageorgopoulos, Rev. Agathodorus A., New York. Greek + Catholic. Adultery; co-respondent in divorce suit. +1913. Papineau, Rev. Arthur B., Wayland, Mass. Episcopal. Sued for + defamation of character. +1912. Pappilon, Rev. J. J., Willimantic, Conn. Roman Catholic. + Obstructing justice. +1900. Pappon, Rev. Karol, Springfield, Mass. Catholic. Assaulting a + woman. +1899. Parish, Rev. F. G., Indianapolis, Ind. Baptist. Cruelty to + wife; divorced. +1907. Park, Rev. W. H., Goshen, Ind. Suicide. +1907. Parker, Rev. G. C., Hopkinsville, Ky. Methodist. Used church + collection to get drunk. +1912. Parker, Rev. J. A., Kempton, Ind. Christian. Adultery. +1901. Parker, Rev. J. T., Baltimore, Md. Baptist. Bigamy. +1907. Parker, Rev. W. G., Goshen, Ind. Suicide. +1901. Parker, Rev. W. H., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Interfering with an + officer; jailed. +1910. Parkinson, Rev. B. E., Grand Rapids, Mich. Methodist. Engaged + to young woman; wife in Iowa. +1897. Parrish, Rev. Geo., Marshalltown, Ia. Congregational. Forgery. +1912. Passley, Rev. Robert, New York, N. Y. Baptist. Grand larceny. +1912. Patten, Rev. Samuel, Cincinnati, O. Disorderly conduct and + attempted suicide. +1901. Patterson, Rev. C. T., Minneola, Fla. Methodist. Threatening + life of wife; arrested. +1907. Patterson, Rev. E., Enid, Okla. Jailed for stealing. +1910. Patterson, Rev. V. M., Brooklyn, N. Y. Congregational. Left + wife to court former sweetheart. +1913. Pawlikowski, Rev. Roman, St. Louis, Mo. Alienation of + affections; verdict against him of $750. +1899. Payne, Rev. Thos. J., Benton, Tenn. Baptist. Making moonshine + whisky. + Payseur, Rev. J. J., Charlotte, N. C. Baptist. Shot farmer on + whose lands he was hunting. +1902. Peabody, Rev. D. C., Decatur, Ill. Episcopal. Suicide. +1907. Peabody, Rev. P. B., Utica, N. Y. Episcopal. Petty larceny; six + months. +1909. Pembroke, Rev. D., St. Joseph, Mo. Catholic. Blackmailing; six + months. +1912. Perinchef, Rev. Percy, D.D. Methodist. Accused of slandering + and intimidating a woman. + Perkins, Rev. G., Marshalltown, Ia. Baptist. Cheating by false + pretenses. +1912. Perkins, Rev. Reece W., New Orleans, La. Baptist. Frequented + houses of ill fame. + Perry, Rev. Harry M., Lincoln, Neb. Methodist. Violation of + liquor law. +1910. Perry, Rev. Isaac, Williamsburg, Ky. Murder. +1910. Perry, Rev. M. W., Gadsden, Ala. Adultery and embezzlement of + $165. +1909. Person, Rev. R. T., Philadelphia, Pa. Made love to workingman's + wife. +1913. Peterson, Rev. Carl, Northampton, Mass. Using mails to defraud. +1900. Peterson, Rev. Jacob B., New York, N. Y. Armenian. Drunk and + disorderly; demolished furniture. +1912. Peterson, Rev. W. A., Oshkosh, Wis. Methodist. "Indiscretion" + with lambs of the female persuasion. +1903. Petty, Rev. W. O., Gainesville, Ga. Shooting at a divekeeper + and hitting another man. +1906. Phalen, Rev. J. R., Clement City, Mich. Baptist. Jailed for + passing worthless checks. Received compromising letters from + women of congregation. +1910. Pheley, Rev. Dr. W. H., Providence, R. I. Presbyterian. + Drinking habits. +1908. Phelps, Rev. James Duane, Syracuse, N. Y. Methodist. Suicide. +1899. Phelps, Rev. J. D., Buffalo, N. Y. Methodist. Immoral + character, according to rumor. +1901. Phillips, Rev. E. S., Hazleton, Pa. Catholic. Came to New York + on a spree, and died in a disorderly house. +1903. Phillips, Rev. Harry L., Randolph, Co., W. Va. Methodist. + Forgery. +1900. Phillips, Rev. J. H., Huntsville, Ala. Left wife and + disappeared with another. +1909. Pick, Elder E., Mount Lebanon, N. Y. Shaker. Unbecoming conduct + with eldress; unfrocked. +1906. Pickle, Rev. John, Colfax, Wash. Jailed for wife-beating. +1905. Pierce, Rev. David, Southbury, Conn. Congregational. Attempting + to shoot wife and daughter; placed in an asylum. +1909. Pike, Rev. G. R., Eau Claire, Wis. Congregational. Detraction; + prosecuted. +1900. Piner, Rev. W. F., Hopkinsville, Ky. Methodist. Called on wife; + whipped husband who objected. +1910. Pippen, Rev. W. E., Shreveport, La. Baptist. Obtaining money by + false pretenses. +1913. Pippin, Rev. William E., Prescott, Ark. Baptist. Forgery; + sentenced to three years in penitentiary. +1900. Pirstle, Rev. B. J., Jasper, Tenn. Presbyterian. Suicide. +1910. Pittman, Rev. A. J., Brandenburg, Ky. Baptist. Wife-beating. +1903. Plannette, Rev. E. E., Los Angeles, Cal. Presbyterian. Petty + larceny; confessed; jailed. +1905. Plant, Rev. Robert, Rockland, Me. Episcopal. Libel; sued. +1913. Plantz, Rev. Howard J., Sycamore, Ill. Free Methodist. + Corrupting morals of child; confessed guilt. +1911. Plass, Rev. Norman, Boston, Mass. Protestant. Sold bogus mining + stock. +1904. Platt, Rev. A. L., Santa Cruz, Cal. Christian. Deserting wife + and eloping. +1908. Pledger, Rev. C. P., Warrensburg, Ill. Evangelist. Defamation. +1909. Pniak, Rev. Simon, Utica, N. Y. Catholic. Criminal assault on + girl. +1913. Podin, Rev. Carl, New York, N. Y. Presbyterian. Non-support of + wife. +1905. Pohl, Rev. Titus, Chicago, Ill. Lutheran. Bastardy; resigned. +1903. Poleet, Rev. John, Springfield, Ill. Murder of C. Isaksson; + confessed; life sentence. +1907. Poole, Rev. G., Gloucester City, N. J. Baptist. Put out of + church on serious charges. + Pooler, Rev. G., Burr Oaks, Mich. Presbyterian. Cruelty to and + non-support of wife. +1900. Popke, Rev. A., Baltimore, Md. Catholic. Adultery; woman's + husband got divorce. +1902. Porter, Rev. C. H., Newport, R. I. Unitarian. Cruelty to wife, + who secured a divorce. +1900. Porter, Rev. Farley, Batavia, N. Y. Presbyterian. Slander; sued + for $5,000. +1912. Porter, Rev. Robert B., Downieville, Pa. Sued for divorce on + grounds of cruelty and neglect. +1904. Porter, Rev. Wm., Huntsville, Ala. Embezzling funds; arrested. +1900. Porterfield, Rev. C. L., Franklin, Pa. Baptist. Assaulting + 15-year-old girl; sent to Western Penitentiary. + Porubsky, Rev. John, Binghampton, N. Y. Catholic. + Misappropriation of church funds. +1903. Posey, Rev. O. K., Pottawatomie Co., Kan. Christian. Deserting + wife; eloping with young girl. +1899. Potter, Rev. Daniel, New York, N. Y. Baptist. Improper conduct + with his housekeeper. +1904. Powell, Rev. George, Utica, N. Y. Attempted suicide. +1900. Powell, Rev. James, Elfort, O. Evangelist. The murder of Frank + Reed. +1912. Powell, Rev. J. W., Van Buren, Ark. Baptist. Convicted of + criminal assault on a young girl. +1899. Powell, Rev. Thos., Madison, Ind. Drunkenness; lost pulpit + through drink. +1900. Power, Rev. J. W., New York, N. Y. Catholic. Procuring will in + his favor through fraud. +1909. Powers, Rev. P., Chicago. Methodist Episcopal. Held responsible + for suicide of woman. Removed by bishop. +1901. Powers, Rev. Samuel, Philadelphia, Pa. Methodist. Suicide. +1912. Prentess, Rev. S. Henry, Charlottesville, Va. Evangelist. + Burglary. +1907. Presby, Rev. J. H., New Haven, Conn. Sued for divorce; intimate + with young woman of congregation. +1899. Preston, Rev. Charles E., Jamestown, N. Y. Disappeared from + steamer Puritan under circumstances pointing to suicide, + leaving a note, in which he said, "Let not those 'insane + babblers' or Infidels get hold of this for their miserable + God-dishonoring, yearly book on the crimes of preachers." He + was afterward found in Albany, N. Y., living with a woman + member of his church as her husband. Expelled from ministry, + wife securing divorce. +1908. Preston, Rev. E. J., Glens Falls and Enterprise, W. Va. + Methodist. Swindling. +1914. Price, Rev. Jacob E., D.D., New York. Methodist Episcopal. + Improper conduct with women; admonished by church court. +1911. Price, Rev. Dr. Walter, McKeesport, Pa. Presbyterian. Improper + conduct with girls. +1907. Pritchett, Rev. A., Clayton, Mo. Methodist Episcopal. Chased + out of town by women he slandered. + Protisch, Rev. G. D., Philadelphia, Pa. Lutheran. Deserted wife + for another woman; deserted her. +1914. Pruitt, Rev. L. B., Colena, Ia. Baptist. Drunkenness; fined in + police court. +1907. Puffer, Rev. C. H., Salem, Mass. Universalist. Made love to + another's wife while on "trial divorce" from his own. +1900. Queen, Rev. Z. T., Mystic, Ia. Campbellite. Two wives; found + guilty by his church. +1904. Quick, Rev. S., Sigourney, Ia. Evangelist. Alienating the + affections of married woman. +1901. Quimby, Rev. David B., Brooklyn, N. Y. Passing worthless check. +1906. Quinn, Rev. Mr., Atlantic Highlands, N. J. Catholic. Found dead + in New York lodging house with rectory housekeeper. Married + man. +1902. Rabe, Rev. Wm. G., Omaha, Neb. Baptist. Asphyxiated in close + embrace with a lady missionary, in pastor's room of church. +1904. Raczaszeek, Rev. I. Paul, New York. Catholic. Slander; + arrested. +1900. Radford, Rev. Walter, Waubay, S. D. Congregational. Ruining his + own daughter; confessed. +1899. Rafferty, Rev. C. P., Columbus, O. Catholic. Drunkenness; death + due to alcoholism. +1907. Rafter, Rev. W. S., Oxford, Conn. Episcopal. Deposed for low + morals. +1914. Ragdale, Rev. C. B., Atlanta, Ga. Perjury. +1910. Rakowski, Rev. W., St. Joseph, Mo. Catholic. Took $300 to save + a soul; stayed away. +1904. Ramsey, Rev. Alex., New Castle, Pa. Evangelist. Horse stealing; + convicted; jailed. +1909. Ramsey, Rev. J. J., Fruita, Col. Seduction; girl attempted + suicide. +1901. Raub, Rev. F. E., Frankford, Pa. Moravian. Breach of promise; + convicted. +1905. Ravens, Rev. D. F., Farmington, Wash. Campbellite. Abusing wife + who sued for divorce. +1900. Ravidon, Rev. M., Evans, W. Va. Baptist. Ravishing 11-year-old + girl. +1905. Rawlins, Rev. G. W., Valdosta, Ga. Murdering the two children + of the Rev. W. L. Carter; hanged. +1908. Ray, Rev. J. M., Peoria, Ill. Swindling. +1909. Raycroft, Rev. J. R., Chicago, Ill. Evangelist. Home + insanitary; child died for lack of medical attention. +1913. Raymond, Rev. Charles E., Peoria, Ill. Lutheran. Deposed and + expelled from the synod for immoral conduct. +1910. Raymond, Rev. R. D., Boston, Mass. Baptist. Forgery. +1906. Rea, Rev. J. L., Mangum, Okla. Campbellite. Murder; suicide. + Reams, Rev. A. R., Merced, Cal. Baptist. Seduction; arrested; + escaped. +1912. Reardon, Rev. Mr., Peoria, Ill. Name given by a Roman Catholic + priest, who was arrested in a state of beastly intoxication. +1913. Redecker, Rev. C. E., Tacoma, Wash. Methodist. Sued for divorce + for non-support; formerly kicked out of pastorate for + attentions to women. + Reed, Rev. A. M., Oakland, Cal. Evangelist. Theft of a horse + from his fiancee. +1913. Reed, Rev. Draper, Newburg, Ind. Free Methodist. Assault and + battery of wife; fined for offense. "The devil was in me," his + excuse. +1913. Reed, Rev. Robert H., McCleary, Wash. Methodist. Sending + obscene letters through the mail; sentenced on his own + confession. +1909. Reese, Rev. D. L., Anderson, Ind. Lutheran. Drunkenness. +1913. Reinhardt, Rev. Max, Soldier, Ida. Baptist. Stealing church + building. +1899. Renear, Rev. B., Millville, N. J. Attempting suicide. +1900. Rexroad, Rev. J. T., Weston, W. Va. Evangelist. Fomented bloody + feud; was asked to leave and did. +1909. Reynolds, Rev. E. V., Los Angeles, Cal. Catholic. Murder; + arrested in Salt Lake City for immoral conduct with boys. +1906. Reynolds, Rev. G. L., Columbus, O. Baptist. Arrested for + bigamy. +1902. Reynolds, Rev. J. M., Bedford City, Pa. Presbyterian. Juggling + funds; untruthfulness; expelled from the ministry. +1901. Reynolds, Rev. J. S., Riverton, Ill. Campbellite. Embezzlement + and bigamy. +1899. Rhianhart, Rev. J., Steinauer, Neb. Catholic. Eloped with a + married woman. +1912. Rhodes, Rev. Walter R., Onancock, Va. Baptist. Suicide. +1905. Rice, Rev. John Bell, Louisville, Ky. Suicide by shooting. +1909. Rice, Rev. J. R., Toledo, O. Implicated in hold-up. +1908. Rice, Rev. T. M., Columbus, Kan. Baptist. Bigamy; pleaded + guilty; five years at hard labor. +1913. Rice, Rev. U. T. S., Mattoon, Ill. Baptist. Embezzlement; + pleaded guilty and sent to penitentiary for from one to ten + years. +1900. Rich, Rev. Alonzo, Kansas City, Mo. Evangelist. Convicted of + perjury; a bigamist. +1900. Rich, Rev. E. L., Watsonville, Cal. Presbyterian. Selling pork + that had died of itself. +1901. Rich, Rev. John M., Hackensack, N. J. Slander; apologized to + avert consequences. +1909. Richards, Rev. E. A., Chattanooga, Tenn. Campbellite. + Swindling. + Richardson, Rev. John, Missouri. Abducting girl for immoral + purposes. +1911. Richeson, Rev. C. V. T., Boston. Baptist. Murder. +1909. Richey, Rev. J. W., Carmel, Ind. Methodist. Sold mortgaged + property. Left wife for young woman. Two years. +1907. Richmond, Rev. W. C., Cambridge, Mass. Baptist. Divorced by + wife. Larceny; jailed. +1905. Richtartsik, Rev. E. F., Bayonne, N. J. Catholic. Assault and + battery; arraigned. +1909. Richter, Rev. W. J., Grand Rapids, Mich. Divorced for cruelty. +1902. Rickey, Rev. Albert, Scottsburg, Ind. Baptist. Theft of a cow; + arrested; escaped. +1900. Riddick, Rev. J. E., White Plains, Va. Methodist. Manslaughter; + convicted. +1902. Ridge, Rev. Thomas, Hart, Mich. Murder of W. L. Shafer. +1912. Riedl, Rev. John, Milwaukee, Wis. Roman Catholic. Offering + bribe to chief truancy officer to secure his brother's + appointment as an officer. +1901. Riegel, Rev. C. P., Cheltenham, Pa. Catholic. Came to New York + on a spree; got into bad company; found dead in hallway. +1909. Rightmeyer, Rev. G., Dayton, O. Lutheran. Drunkenness; + arrested. +1910. Ringland, Rev. Thos., Weldon, Ill. Methodist. Disorderly + conduct; arrested with girl. +1911. Ringle, Otto, Duluth, Minn. Former preacher. Drunkard and + vagrant. + Ritanour, Rev. A. M., Bedford, Va. Baptist. Expelled from + church on charges by wife. +1908. Ritchie, Rev. Wm., Charlottesville, Ind. Methodist. Defaulted; + embezzled church funds; disappeared with servant girl, leaving + family dependent on congregation. +1906. Rittgers, Rev. J. B., Glendola, N. J. Methodist. Implicated in + church scandal; resigned. +1913. Rivera, Rev. J. M., Brooklyn, N. Y. Roman Catholic. Seduction; + ran away. +1914. Robbins, Rev. E. E., Salinas, Cal. Methodist. Mailing improper + letters; three years in the Federal prison. +1907. Robbins, Rev. J. W., Maurice, Ind. Campbellite. Immoral conduct + with children. +1907. Roberts, Rev. John, Cocke Co., Tenn. Ten years for murder. +1909. Roberts, Rev. J. T., Noblesville, Ind. United Brethren. + Criminal libel. +1907. Roberts, Rev. N. J., Shreveport, La. Methodist Episcopal. + Expelled from conference for immorality. + Roberts, Elder Sam, Stuart, Ia. Church of God. Eloping with the + wife of Elder Sharp. +1904. Robinette, Rev. M. D., Richmond, Va. Baptist. Making moonshine + whisky. +1900. Robinson, Rev. B., New York, N. Y. Baptist. Forgery. +1910. Robinson, Rev. C. W., Philadelphia, Pa. Episcopalian. + Seduction. +1910. Robinson, Rev. G. J., Dayton, O. Methodist. Removed under a + cloud. +1900. Robinson, Rev. Lewis, Camden, N. J. Evangelist. Attempting the + life of his wife. +1910. Robinson, Rev. S. D., Herkimer, N. Y. Methodist. Betrayed + 19-year-old girl; left town. +1907. Robinson, Rev. Wm., Helena, Ark. Swindling. +1900. Robottom, Rev. P. J., Lancaster, Pa. Episcopal. Intimacy with + woman; husband sought divorce. +1911. Rockwell, Rev. C. W., Waynesburg, Pa. Baptist. wife-beater. +1910. Rockwell, Rev. R. H., Butler, Pa. Presbyterian. Libel; + indicted. +1901. Rodgers, Rev. J. E., Bloomington, Ind. Baptist. Arrested on + paternity charge of 16-year-old girl. +1910. Roehl, Rev. William E., St. Louis, Mo. Traveling evangelist. + Drunkenness. +1910. Rogers, Rev. J. A., Chicago, Ill. Theft. +1902. Rogers, Rev. J. L., Santa Cruz, Cal. Baptist. Arson; arrested; + confessed. +1900. Roney, Rev. M. F., Philadelphia, Pa. Catholic. Delirium tremens + in Cincinnati. +1903. Rooks, Rev. T. S., Bridgewater, Ia.; Col., Cal., Okla. + Adultery; seduction; jail; tar and feathers. +1913. Rorsos, Rev. Steven, Delray, Mich. Assault and battery + committed on 10-year-old boy. +1911. Rose, Rev. B. L., Pittsburgh, Pa. Baptist. Charged with felony. +1912. Rose, Rev. J. B., Lemoore, Cal. Presbyterian. Used obscene + language in the presence of women, and threatened to murder an + editor. + Rose, Rev. J. D., Campbell, Ark. Baptist. Deserting wife and + children and eloping with girl of 15; forged check for $65. +1900. Rose, Rev. Owen W., Sabula, Ia. Leading lynching mob. +1908. Roseberry, Rev. H. E., Chattanooga, Tenn. Abduction; three + years. +1909. Rosell, Rev. W. H., Oxford, O. Evangelist. Fraud. +1902. Ross, Rev. I. S., El Reno, Ark. Betrayal of financial trust. +1908. Rowe, Rev. F., Carthage, Mo. Adventist. Jailed for wife + abandonment. +1911. Rowe, Rev. Gilbert J., Willimantic, Conn. Passed bogus check. +1901. Rowland, Rev. J. M., Grand Rapids, Mich. Christian. Suicide. +1907. Royer, Rev. John, Columbus, Ind. Methodist. Kissing member of + congregation; suspended. +1899. Ruby, Rev. H. W., Ponca City, Ok. Free Methodist. Killing a + deputy sheriff. +1912. Rucker, Rev. Thomas, Benton, Mo. Methodist. Forgery. +1899. Rumpf, Rev. Charles, Union Hill, N. J. Lutheran. Drunkenness + and wife-beating; 90 days. +1908. Runyan, Rev. P. D., West Derry, Pa. Baptist. Beat a little + girl; fined $10. +1901. Russell, Rev. F. B., New York, N. Y. Extortions as head of a + law and order league. +1900. Russell, Rev. L. M., Eddyville, Ky. Methodist. Writing love + letters to a married woman; withdrew from church. +1911. Ruth, Rev. Leroy, Sultan, Wash. Methodist. Criminally assaulted + a girl 10 years old. +1900. Rutledge, Rev. Wm., Paducah, Ky. Baptist. Making and selling + moonshine whisky. +1908. Rutledge, Rev. W. E., St. Louis, Mo. Baptist. Used mails to + defraud. +1905. Ryan, Rev. J. A., Chicago, Ill. Catholic. Adultery; named as + co-respondent in divorce suit. +1909. Ryan, Rev. J. A., Denver, Colo. Catholic. Eloped with girl. +1910. Ryan, Rev., Benton Harbor, Mich. Catholic. Seduction. +1899. Rymarfski, Rev. L., Cleveland, O. German evangelist. Suicide by + poison. +1912. Sachs, Rev. William P., St. Louis, Mo. Lutheran. Arrested for + deserting his wife. +1908. Samson, Rev. Maurice, Spring City, Pa. Reformed. Marital + unfaithfulness. +1913. Sanders, Rev. L. L., Spokane, Wash. United Presbyterian. Using + mails to defraud; pleaded guilty. +1901. Sanderson, Rev. D. C., Almonte, Ont. Methodist. Drunkenness and + debauchery at Syracuse. +1911. Sandford, Rev. Frank, Portland, Me. Head of Holy Ghost and Us + Society. Caused death of six of his followers on voyage of + yacht. +1908. Saphore, Rev. E. Warren, Syracuse, N. Y. Episcopal. Enticing + young woman. +1906. Savery, Rev. H. S., St. Martin's, Can. Congregational. + Attempted to marry young woman, though having a wife in Boston. +1905. Sayre, O. L., Byesville, O. Methodist. Attempted rape; lynching + threatened. +1913. Schade, Rev. Augustus E. F., Panama. German Reformed. Suicide. +1912. Schell, Rev. L. C., Indianapolis, Ind. Methodist. Accused of + improper conduct toward fair parishioner. +1907. Schell, Rev. Jos., Tony, Wis. Catholic. Obtaining money under + false pretenses. +1909. Schenk, Rev. G. F., St. Louis, Mo. Evangelist. Seduced girl of + his household. +1913. Schenck, Rev. Hallack F., Manasquan, N. J. Methodist. Convicted + in church trial of indiscretions with female members, and + forced to resign. +1899. Schermerhorn, Rev. L. B., N. Ottawa, Kan. Bigamy. +1900. Schermerhorn, Rev. L. M., Dubuque, Ia. Baptist. Desertion and + non-support of wife. +1907. Schmidill, Rev. Chas., Chicago. Ministerial masher. Arrested. +1913. Schmidt, Rev. Hans, New York, N. Y. Roman Catholic. Murder; + convicted. +1911. Schmidt, Rev. Lawrence, Rochester, N. Y. Robbed his wife of + watch and money after their separation. +1911. Schock, Rev. J. T., Plainfield, N. J. Reformed church. Under + arrest for complicity in fraudulent get-rich-quick scheme. +1912. Schoenlein, Rev. G. A., Lima, O. Lutheran. Sued by wife for + divorce on account of improper attentions to other women. + Schultz, Rev. H. D., Sunbury, Pa. Evangelist. Sued wife for + divorce, and was shown by her counsel to be an immoral man. +1905. Schultz, Rev. Wm., Freelandsville, Ind. Evangelist. Fraud, + swindling, lying, etc.; deposed. +1908. Schwartz, Rev. Robert E., Des Moines, Ia. Drunkenness; + divorced. +1907. Schwerzmann, Rev. S., Cortez, Colo. Methodist. Theft and + forgery. +1911. Scotford, Rev. H. C., Chicago, Ill. Congregationalist. In same + predicament as his colleague Schock, and for similar offense. +1906. Scott, Rev. G. E., Waterloo, Ia. Eloped with 16-year-old girl. +1903. Scott, Rev. Mark, Seattle, Wash. Methodist. Violation of + colored girl, aged 14, who gave birth to a child and died; + jailed. +1900. Scott, Rev. W. D., San Francisco, Cal. Became a physical wreck + through drunkenness and debauchery. +1909. Scoville, Rev. V. P., Climax, Ga. Married couple against wishes + of girl's parents. +1913. Scull, Rev. William, Joliet, Ill. United Brethren. Carrying + concealed weapons. +1908. Seachery, Rev. J. W., Moore, Mont. Rape. +1914. Sears, Dr. F. W., New York, N. Y. New Thought. Adultery; wife + obtained divorce. + Secombe, Rev. S. H., Goshen, Mass. Congregational. Gained + sympathy and money by fake. +1911. See, E. A., Chicago, Ill., founder of "Absolute Life" cult. + Abducted 17-year-old girl, whom he "took for a wife" on the + European plan. +1904. Selby, Rev. Isaac, San Francisco, Cal. Evangelist. Attempt to + kill Judge Hebbard on the bench; a noted "Infidel smasher." +1903. Senesac, Rev. Jos. E., Waterbury, Conn. Catholic. Alienating + the affections of a wife; sued by husband. +1914. Settles, Rev. Edward W., Los Angeles, Cal. Larceny. +1911. Severence, Rev. C. M., Bangor, Me. Under suspended sentence, + after pleading guilty to charge of using mails to defraud. +1902. Seytone, Rev. W. R., Dunkirk, N. Y. Disciples. Forging + signatures to a note. +1907. Sezeigell, Rev. Ludwig, Pittsburgh, Pa. Shot two; killed one. +1901. Shaffer, Rev. George, Bellevue, Pa. Methodist. Conspiracy; + indicted; arrested. +1908. Shaffer, Rev. Wm. H., Morganstown, Pa. Methodist. Ministerial + conduct. +1902. Shannon, Rev. T. H., Glen Easton, W. Va. Methodist. Bastardy; + expelled. +1901. Sharp, Rev. W. D., Alvin, W. Va. Methodist. Using mails to + defraud; confessed to series of forgeries. +1910. Sharpe, Rev. C. D., Schenectady, N. Y. Abduction of 14-year-old + girl. +1908. Shaw, Rev. C. F., Clare, Mich. Congregational. Swindling. +1909. Shaw, Rev. W. S., Onaway, Mich. Drunkenness; resigned. +1901. Shepherd, Rev. Geo. C. E., Liverpool, O. Methodist. Slander and + conspiracy; indicted by grand jury at Dunbar, Pa.; arrested. +1908. Shepherd, Rev. J. E., Webb City, Mo. Presbyterian. Assault. +1906. Shepley, Rev. E. H., Geneva, Ill. Congregational. Threatened + life of girl if she refused to marry him; resigned, left town. +1911. Sherman, William, New York, N. Y. Former Catholic priest. + Attempted to extort money from saloon-keeper while posing as an + officer; held for trial. +1899. Shields, Rev. D. H., Navy chaplain. Methodist. Drunkenness; + scandalous immorality; courtmartialed. +1908. Shinn, Rev. C., Riverton, N. J. Urged wife to debase herself to + raise money. +1908. Shipman, Rev. S. P., Hurlock, Md. Methodist. Immorality; found + in married woman's bedroom. +1909. Siana, Rev. N., Newark, N. J. Catholic. Abduction. +1913. Silke, Rev. Cornelius A., Moravia, Ill. Roman Catholic. + Assault. +1906. Simmons, Rev. G. H., Peoria, Ill. Expelled from town on charges + of immoral conduct preferred by boys; mismanaged bank of which + he was president; suicide. +1899. Simpson, Rev. J. A., New England. Baptist. Thievery, + incendiarism, bigamy and murder. +1907. Sims, Rev. W. P., Utica, N. Y. Found an affinity. +1899. Sinclair, Rev. F. N., Rochester, N. Y. Catholic. Slander; + accusation made by another priest. +1908. Skaggs, Rev. Elijah, Prophet of the Millennium, Fort Smith, + Ark. Assault and rape. +1913. Skeley, Rev. Alexander, Brownsville, Pa. Reformed Presbyterian. + Larceny. +1912. Skovgard, Rev. Thale P., Council Bluffs, Ia. Lutheran. Sued by + wife for separate maintenance. +1913. Skulik, Rev. Bernard L., Rock Island, Ill. Polish Catholic. + Fraudulent use of mails; skipped bail. +1910. Skulik, Rev. B., Chicago, Ill. Catholic. Arrested in hotel in + company of 15-year-old girl. +1903. Skyles, Rev. John, Port Gibson, Miss. Bigamy; seven wives. +1913. Slater, Rev. Virgil B., Youngstown, O. Wife desertion. +1909. Slaughter, Rev. A. J., Tulsa, Okla. Baptist. Fighting. +1906. Slayton, Rev. J. R., U. S. Navy. Deserted. +1911. Slick, Rev. Joseph, Lincoln, Neb. "Cruelty and misconduct with + other women," is the charge in his wife's suit for divorce. +1900. Small, Rev. Sam, Havana, Cuba. Evangelist. Swindling + operations; jailed. +1902. Small, Rev. Sam, Georgia. Evangelist. Too drunk to lecture at + Brattleboro, Vt. +1899. Smalley, Rev. M. J., Waterbury, Conn. Congregational. Offensive + attentions to young women; biffed by a worker; left. +1910. Smith, Rev. A. F., Nowata, Okla. Methodist. Eloped with wife's + money and another woman. +1914. Smith, Rev. A. N., Paterson, N. J. Methodist Episcopal. Sued + for slander. +1911. Smith, Rev. Ben., Swainsboro, Ga. Wounded officer sent to + arrest him for a petty offense, and was hanged by a mob. +1900. Smith, Rev. Chas. F., Michigan. Deserted wife; eloped with + unmarried woman. +1908. Smith, Rev. Charles W., Wyoming, Pa. Methodist. "Ministerial + conduct." +1909. Smith, Bishop C. S., Atlanta, Ga. African Methodist Episcopal. + Grafting and tyranny. +1905. Smith, Rev. C. W., Binghamton, N. Y. Methodist. Attempted + seduction of 16-year-old girl; guilty. +1900. Smith, Rev. C. Y., Louisville, Ky. Methodist. Skipped, leaving + unpaid bills. +1903. Smith, Rev. E. A., McMinnville, Ore. Took prize won on a stolen + oration. +1914. Smith, Rev. Francis F., Newark, N. J. African Methodist. The + statutory offense; pleaded guilty; six months. +1899. Smith, Rev. F. M., Houston, Tex. Murder of Mrs. Varoters; + sentenced to death; had killed wife and mother-in-law in + Alabama. +1900. Smith, Rev. Guy, Oakland, Cal. Campbellite. Indiscreet conduct + with woman; divorced his wife by misrepresentation. +1914. Smith, Rev. Herman L., Binghamton, N. Y. Obtaining merchandise + under false pretenses. The defense is the usual convenient kind + of insanity which is noticed only when one is caught in the + act, and no other excuse will work. +1909. Smith, Rev. H. J., Columbus, O. Methodist. Alienated wife's + affection; abused husband for not receiving her back. +1908. Smith, Rev. John A., West Suffield, Conn. Congregational. + Perversion. +1899. Smith, Rev. John F., New York, N. Y. Evangelist. Stealing from + his employer. +1911. Smith, Rev. Joseph R., Sewanee, Tenn. Pleaded guilty of making + moonshine whisky. +1911. Smith, Rev. J. A., Omaha, Neb. Suspended for slander and + because of a bad financial record. +1913. Smith, Rev. Milford H., Saranac Lake, N. Y. Sued for libel. +1904. Smith, Rev. Oscar, Seattle, Wash. Methodist. Rifling U. S. + mails. +1913. Smith, Rev. Paul Jordan, Chicago, Ill. Congregationalist. + Cruelty to wife and children; wife granted divorce with custody + of children. +1911. Smith, Rev. Samuel G., St. Paul, Minn. Arrested for tampering + with a jury. +1904. Smith, Rev. Sidney, New York, N. Y. Using threats and a pistol + to extort money; two years in Sing Sing. +1914. Smith, Rev. Simon, Purvis, Miss. Eloping and wife-desertion. + The preacher possesses a wife and five children. The oldest + child is twelve and the youngest was born this summer, after + the elopement, which was with his wife's sister. +1902. Smith, Rev. Victor C., New York, N. Y. Episcopal. Suicide. +1914. Smith, Rev. William R., Marshall Co., Ga. Methodist. Using + mails to defraud; convicted. +1907. Smith, Rev. W. N., Middleburg, Fla. Murderer of step-daughter. +1914. Smith, Rev. W. P., Wolf Creek, Ore. Presbyterian. Run out of + town by citizens for vile slanders against women. +1901. Smith, Rev. Mr., Waco, Tex. Baptist. Fighting with Rev. Mr. + Cranfill. +1905. Smouse, Rev. J. W., Dallas Centre, Ia. Methodist. Seduction; + arrested. +1900. Smythe, Rev. Thomas, Sing Sing, N. Y. Catholic. Attempting + suicide. +1911. Snyder, Rev. Charles, Attica, Ind. Catholic. Stripped of + priestly authority and secretly removed from town after a + drunken debauch. +1911. Snyder, Rev. Frank, Topeka, Kan. Christian. Sued for divorce by + invalid wife on grounds of cruelty and neglect. +1908. Snyder, Rev. Leonard W., Richmond, Va. Immoral practices. +1911. Snyder, Rev. R., Goldfield, Nev. Presbyterian. Dismissed + because of criminal intimacy with married woman, and left town + after being beaten by the injured husband. +1910. Solomon, Rabbi I., Logansport, Ind. Jewish. Obtaining money + under false pretenses. +1913. Solomon, Rev. Jacob, Rockaway Beach, L. I. Baptist. Violating + prison parole, after sentence for larceny. +1914. Soper, Rev. Ben W., Cresco, Ia. Adultery. Arrested, and skipped + his bail. +1911. Sorenson, Rev. A., Battle Creek, Mich. Arrested for threatening + to kill man with whom he was associated in business. +1908. Sower, Rev. D. W., Oak Harbor, Ohio. Methodist. Lechery. +1907. Spates, Rev. D. D., Nacogdoches, Tex. Embezzlement. + Spencer, Rev. E. J., Columbia, Mo. Methodist. Adultery; + convicted on two counts. +1912. Spray, Rev. Walter, Kokomo, Ind. Holiness. Caught in + compromising position with a woman. +1901. Springfield, Rev. W. H., Woodbridge, Cal. Leaving his wife and + eloping with his niece. +1911. Stalnaker, Rev. W. K., Kansas City, Mo. Methodist. Criminally + assaulted his niece and adopted daughter, aged 12; pleaded + guilty and was sentenced to ten years in the pen. +1899. Stamm, Rev. Robert, Anderson, Ind. Evangelist. Assault with + revolver and slung shot; arrested. +1899. Stampers, Rev. A., Dawson, Ga. Assassination of George Dennard. + Stanford, Rev. John, Utica, N. Y. Methodist Episcopal. Suicide. +1909. Stanley, Rev. A. B., Flat Rock, Mich. Baptist. Eloped with + stenographer. +1906. Stanley, Rev. H. D., Seattle, Wash. Church of Christ. Fraud; + misappropriating funds. +1905. Stanley, Rev. Robert Lee, Hamburg, Tenn. Presbyterian. Drunk + and created public disturbance in Waco, Tex.; fined in city + court. +1900. Stanton, Rev. Frank, Clinton, Ind. Catholic. Made co-respondent + in divorce suit of John L. Horney. +1905. Stark, Rev. J. B., Lakeview, Ore. Methodist. Appropriating + funds belonging to congregation; dishonesty and lying; deprived + of his standing by conference. +1900. Starr, Rev. S. A., Portland, Ore. Methodist. Immorality; + expelled from ministry. +1909. Staskiewicz, Rev. J., Chicago, Ill. Catholic. Embezzlement; + raffling. +1901. Stauffer, Rev. Byron H., Buffalo, N. Y. Methodist. Slander; + sued for $10,000 damages; assault. +1907. Steed, Rev. G., Cal. Methodist. Immoral conduct toward a woman. +1912. Steele, Rev. William, Gray, Ind. Murder. + Stephan, Rev. T., Sioux City, Ia. Lutheran. Abused his wife. +1908. Stettler, Rev. Martin H., Reading, Pa. Slander. +1910. Stetson, Rev. Oscar F., Sutton, Mass. Congregational. Adultery. +1899. Steumpeges, Rev. J. J., Mitchell, S. D. Methodist. Fraudulent + sale of mortgaged property; arrested. +1905. Stevens, Rev. Edward, New York, N. Y. Methodist. Attempted + suicide; locked up. +1899. Stevens, George H., Easton, Pa. Incendiarism; nine years' + imprisonment. +1908. Stevens, Rev. O. C., East Liverpool, O. Abusive language; five + days and $15. + Stevenson, Rev. Alten Z., New York, N. Y. Methodist. Mailing + scurrilous postcard. +1900. Stewart, Rev. Clifford, Laporte, Ind. Campbellite. Confessed to + leading a double life. +1914. Stewart, Rev. C. A., D.D., Clinton, Ia. Inciting riot; fifteen + days in jail. +1909. Stewart, Rev. P., Oakland, Cal. United Presbyterian. Charged by + wife with having six affinities. +1908. Stickney, Rev. Alfred, Howell county, circuit, Mo. Methodist. + Abandonment. +1903. Stiles, Rev. Samuel, Cuero, Tex. Baptist. Murder of Henderson + Edwards. +1903. Stiles, Rev. Fred, New London, Conn. Baptist. Jumped board bill + and eloped with daughter of the house, whom he deserted in New + York. +1912. Still, Rev. Roy, Seymour, Ind. Holiness. Assault and attempted + murder. +1903. St. John, Rev. Jos., Pontiac, Mich. Evangelist. Assaulting + colored girl; 18 months in pen. +1901. Stofilet, Rev. Jas. P., Jersey City, N. J. Presbyterian. Having + girl in woods after sunset; girl had illegitimate child. +1912. Stokley, Rev. C. L., Turner, Kan. Baptist. Sued for divorce for + undue intimacy with the wrong woman. +1913. Stockwell, Rev. George W., D.D., Fort Plain, N. Y. Methodist. + Assault and battery. +1907. Stokes, Rev. R. W., Clarksville, Tenn. Drunkenness. +1914. Stough, Rev. Henry W. Evangelist. Sued for slander. +1899. Stout, Rev. A. W., Hartford, Ind. Methodist. Criminal intimacy + with young girl. +1903. Stout, Rev. Chas. L., Lawrenceburg, Ind. Baptist. Abusing wife + and eloping with another woman. +1906. Stovall, Rev. J. M., South Bend, Ind. Baptist. Violation of + court order; eloped with woman whose intimacy with him caused + her husband's death. +1908. Strauss, Rev. V., Herrman, Mo. Evangelist. Homicidal mania; + shot several persons. +1899. Streeter, Rev. Lewis R., So. Brooklyn, N. Y. Methodist. + Concerned in Kootenai water swindle. +1907. Strouse, Rev. C. B., Bowling Green, Ky. Immoral. +1910. Strunk, Rev. Thomas, Frankfort, Ky. Criminal assault. +1909. Stuart, Rev. A. K., Don Luis, Ariz. Assaulting 11-year-old + girl. +1900. Stuart, Rev. D. E., Wyoming, Pa. Baptist. Killing his young + wife by a criminal operation. +1909. Stuckey, Rev. Wallace M., Waukegan, Ill. Campbellite. + Abduction; convicted; fled and recaptured in 1914. One to five + years' imprisonment. +1908. Studeven, Rev. James G., Newark, N. J. Congregational. Bigamy. +1910. Sturdevant, Rev. Sam., Baltimore, Md. Assault; three years. +1901. Stutchell, Rev. W. T., Jersey City, N. J. Presbyterian. Having + girl in his room at night; girl had illegitimate child. +1908. Summers, Rev. G., Gardiner, Ore. Abduction; bastardy. +1905. Sutherlin, Rev. U. G., Albany, Ind. Christian. Arrested on + warrant charging wife murder. +1911. Sutton, Rev. E. B., Seattle, Wash. Found guilty of fraudulently + entering names upon registration books. +1901. Swallow, Rev. Silas C., Harrisburg, Pa. Methodist. Lying; + suspended by conference committee. +1911. Swartz, Rev. C. E., Woodsfield, O. Presbyterian. Murderous + assault. +1910. Swartz, Rev. W. P., Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Accused of fraud in + will case. +1902. Sweeney, Rev. M. M., Pittsburgh, Pa. Methodist. Suicide. +1911. Sweeney, Rev. Zack, Indianapolis, Ind. Embezzled more than + $7,000 while fish and game commissioner. +1911. Sweet, Rev. Chester H., Middletown, Conn. Congregational. + Misappropriated church funds and pleaded guilty. +1899. Sweet, Rev. John, Owosso, Mich. Slander; assessed $1,000. +1907. Sweeten, Rev. H. W., St. Louis. Evangelist. Cruelty to wife; + non-support. +1901. Swift, Rev. Charles L., E. Liverpool, O. Methodist. Conspiracy; + indicted; arrested. +1907. Swift, Rev. J. H., Winterset, Ia. Campbellite. Blackmail. +1909. Switzer, Rev. G. W., Lafayette, Ind. Methodist. Evading taxes. +1908. Sydow, Rev. Mr., Big Run, Pa. Rape; jumped bail. +1909. Sykes, Rev. John, Trenton, N. J. Embezzlement and forgery. +1911. Symington, Rev. Geo. A., Seattle, Wash. Episcopal. Pleaded + guilty to a technical charge of assault in the second degree + involving an immoral act, and sentenced to jail. +1907. Szcygiel, Rev. Ludwig, Pittsburgh, Pa. Catholic. Murdered two. +1909. Szepessy, Rev. J., Cleveland, O. Sued for breach of promise. + Talbot, Bishop E., Central Penn. Episcopal. Violation of + ordination vows; woman in the case. +1910. Tallent, Rev. O. S., Atlanta, Ga. Congregational Methodist. + Fighting. +1902. Tart, Rev. E., Richmond, Va. Baptist. Appropriating funds of + church. +1907. Tartt, Rev. Eli, Petersburg, Va. Baptist. Assault with pistol; + thirty days and $25. +1911. Tate, D. P., Danville, Va. Former Methodist minister. Swindler. +1902. Taylor, Rev. Chas., Richmond, Ind. Convicted of assault on + young girl. +1907. Taylor, Rev. C. F., Brooklyn, N. Y. Swindling. +1903. Taylor, Rev. I. B., Wilmington, Del. Bigamy; four years. +1904. Taylor, Rev. J. B., Sigourney, Ia. Evangelist. Bigamy; four + years. +1907. Taylor, Rev. J. M., Saginaw, Mich. Made love to married woman. + Taylor, Rev. Wm., Innisfail, Can. Presbyterian. Drunkenness, + profanity, lying, consorting with lewd women; deadbeat and + liar, says an acquaintance. +1908. Taylor, Rev. Wm. L., Cincinnati, O. True Reformer. Swindling. +1910. Temple, Rev. J. C., Harrisburg, Pa. Assault on his wife. +1900. Tenney, Rev. Chas., Lynn, Mass. Baptist. Assaulting a girl of 4 + years. +1910. Tenney, Rev. C. T., Des Moines, Ia. Baptist. Criminal assault + on 8-year-old girl. +1902. Tesnon, Rev. H. M., Denver, Col. Visiting houses of + prostitution; wife sued for divorce. +1913. Tetreault, Rev. Frederic, Drummondville, Quebec. Roman + Catholic. Libel. +1913. Thacker, Rev. James, Rome, Ga. Congregational Methodist. + Immoral relations; convicted and sentenced to six months on the + chain-gang. +1907. Thoburn, Bishop J. M., Syracuse, N. Y. Methodist Episcopal. + Fined $500 for slander. +1905. Thomas, Rev. A. C., Sidney, O. Methodist. Intimacy with two + girls; ducked in the Miami river by congregation. +1907. Thomas, Rev. C. H., Rockford, Ill. Accomplice in forgery. +1901. Thomas, Rev. George, Urbana, O. Baptist. Obtaining money under + false pretenses. +1908. Thomas, Rev. Jas., Malvern, Ark. Methodist. Cattle thief. +1910. Thomas, Rev. Jas., Piqua, O. Criminal assault on 7-year-old + girl; jailed. +1913. Thomas, Rev. John, Camden, N. J. Unnatural practices. +1910. Thomas, Rev. J., Nowata, Okla. Selling whisky in prohibition + state. +1905. Thomas, Rev. J. C., Palmyra, N. Y. Baptist. Enticing wife of + one of his parishioners. +1902. Thomas, Rev. J. M., Pittsburgh, Pa. Baptist. Breach of promise; + judgment, $2,500. +1908. Thomas, Rev. J. P., colored, Kokomo, Ind. Breaking up a home. +1910. Thomas, Rev. Wm., Corona, L. I. Evangelist. Confessed bigamist. + Thomas, Rev. William J., Evanston, Ill. Evangelist. Disorderly + conduct; convicted and fined. +1903. Thompson, Rev. Ab'm S., Paterson, N. J. Alienating affections + of married woman; sued for $50,000. +1913. Thompson, Rev. C. C., Waco, Tex. Presbyterian. Cruelty to wife, + for which divorce was granted her; assault and contempt of + court. +1907. Thompson, Rev. D. W., Des Moines, Ia. Used mails to defraud. + Thompson, Rev. G. T., Philadelphia, Pa. Baptist. Sued for + slander by stock market men. +1911. Thompson, Rev. H. M. D., Montrose, Cal. Baptist. Embezzler. +1911. Thompson, Rev. J. E., Cleveland, Ohio. Baptist. Charged with + criminal slander. +1907. Thompson, Rev. Wm., Chicago, Ill. Caused girl's downfall; + procured criminal operation. + Thompson, Rev. Wm., Cartersville, Ga. Local. Marrying three + wives; divorcing none. +1910. Thornton, Rev. Jesse B., New York, N. Y. Obtaining money under + false pretenses. +1912. Thurman, Rev. J. M. D., Hagerstown, Md. Christian. Murderous + assault. +1908. Thurston, Rev. L. L., Oklahoma City, Okla. Methodist Episcopal. + Immorality; suspended. +1909. Tilburn, Rev. O., Linton, Ind. Campbellite. Embezzled church + funds; seduced girl. +1910. Tillmans, Rev. Theo., Chicago, Ill. Lutheran. Abandoned wife; + friendly with shop girl. +1900. Toal, Rev. Wm. H., Newburgh, N. Y. Catholic. Raising a + disturbance in New York; sent to Bellevue Hospital. + Todd, Rev. Thos., Cedar Falls, Ia. Expelled from church and + normal school for illicit relations with woman of faculty. +1913. Tompkins, Rev. George, Brookline, Mass. Larceny. +1908. Toms, Rev. F. E., Kan. Baptist. Bigamy. + Tomson, Rev. G. W., Woodbury, N. J. Presbyterian. Love + entanglement with three women. Suicide. +1899. Torrey, Rev. R. A., Chicago, Ill. Evangelist. Permitted three + of his children to die from lack of medical attendance. + Totheroh, Rev. Dr., Chicago, Ill. Presbyterian. Dalliance with + lady member. +1899. Townes, Rev. C. H. W., Cincinnati, O. Presbyterian. Stealing + gifts intended for the poor. +1900. Towns, Rev. C. Hill, Columbus, Ind. Methodist. Drunk and + disorderly; fined. +1907. Townsend, Rev. T. J., Nashville, Tenn. Baptist. Carrying + concealed weapons. +1900. Tracey, Deacon E., Somerset, Me. Baptist. Eloping with girl 17 + years old, leaving wife. +1910. Tranter, Rev. W. W., Covington, Ky. Forgery. +1908. Trick, Rev. Albert, New York, N. Y. Presbyterian. Suicide. +1910. Trimble, Rev. D. H., Eugene, Ore. Methodist. Slander. +1914. Triplett, Rev. J. Edwin, Jr., Woodbury, Conn. Presbyterian. + Sued by wife for separation for cruel and inhuman treatment. +1907. Triplett, Rev. J. E., New York, N. Y. Presbyterian. Criminal + libel. +1899. Trompen, Rev. J. N., Hackensack, N. J. Reformed. Criminal abuse + of adopted girl. +1910. Troy, Rev. John H., New York, N. Y. Baptist. Attempted + seduction. +1910. Tucker, Rev. S. W., Scuffletown, Va. Nine wives; jumped his + bail. +1909. Tucker, Rev. T. P., Wilson, N. C. Arrested for desertion. +1907. Tupper, Rev. K. B., Philadelphia, Pa. Sued for unpaid note; + many overdue debts. +1910. Turley, Rev. F., Cincinnati, O. Methodist. Disorderly conduct; + arrested and fined. +1912. Turner, Rev. David, Jersey City, N. J. Baptist. Procuring women + for immoral purposes. +1909. Turner, Rev. S. D., Huntington, Ark. Jailed for arson. +1911. Turner, Rev. William, Jackson, Ga. Colored. Incited race riot. +1899. Turney, Rev. Wm., Muncie, Ind. United Brethren. Attacking sick + woman in bed. +1900. Tyron, Rev. Wm., Chillicothe, O. Forgery, bigamy, murder. +1911. Ulitsky, Rev. Alexander, Jersey City, N. J. Greek Catholic. + Charged with malicious mischief. +1913. Upsher, Rev. John, Baltimore, Md. Accessory to larceny. +1912. Upton, Rev. T. A., Okla. Rape. +1909. Vahey, Rev. F. V. G. H., Jersey City, N. J. Methodist. Suicide + pact with wife; both dead. +1909. Van Auken, Rev. H. R., Ashland, Neb. Congregational. Deserted + wife and children; eloped with nurse. +1905. Van Buren, Rev. Otto, Utica, N. Y. Lutheran. Unwelcome + attentions to married woman, whom he sought to entice. +1899. Vance, Rev. Frank E., Piqua, O. Methodist. "Indiscretion." +1901. Vance, Rev. Thos., Irvington, Ind. Christian. Shooting at his + daughter's young man. +1902. Van de Water, Rev. Geo. R., New York, N. Y. Episcopal. + Adultery; co-respondent in Watt divorce suit. +1899. Van Herlich, Rev. J., Wichita, Kan. Episcopal. Denying his + wife; "graver charges;" escapade in the Tenderloin. +1910. Vanover, Rev. Robert, Williamsburg, Ky. Fighting. +1900. Van Winkle, Rev. Jas., Indianapolis, Ind. Petty theft; ducked + by students at Butler University. +1904. Vaughan, Rev. E. W., Denver, Colo. Confessed to killing a + child. +1912. Vaughn, Rev. Thurston U., Greenville, S. C. Baptist. Criminal + assault; convicted on his own confession; sentenced to death. +1909. Venerable, Rev. W. D., Keokuk, Ia. Baptist. Embezzlement. +1900. Vernon, Rev. Jas., Salt Lake City, Utah. Missionary. The + attempted violation of unmarried woman. +1908. Villiers, Rev. W. H., Chicago, Ill. Divorced; ordered to pay + alimony. +1904. Vincent, Rev. Mr., Winnipeg, Man. Seduction of member of his + choir. +1901. Vines, Chas. N., Bremen, Ga. Methodist. Counterfeiting. +1906. Von Buren, Rev. Otto, New York, N. Y. Lutheran. Made love to + organist; expelled. +1907. Waddel, Rev. C. W., New Albany, Miss. Evangelist. Murder. +1906. Wade, Rev. Goodone, Waukegan, Ill. Congregational. Sending + obscene literature through mails to boys; attempted suicide. +1910. Wade, Rev. J. W., Chicago, Ill. Universalist. Forgery and + fraud. +1899. Wade, Rev. N. E., W. Kortright, N. Y. United Presbyterian. + Stealing; expelled by church. +1904. Wade, Rev. W. H., Velpin, Ind. Campbellite. Passing counterfeit + money; indicted. +1905. Wadsworth, Rev. W. W., Hartwell, Ga. Methodist. Immorality; + suspended. +1904. Wagner, Rev. Samuel, Croton, O. United Brethren. Criminally + assaulting girl of 14. +1909. Wagner, Rev. Mr., Wyalusing, Wis. Threatened by women for + breaking up a home. +1906. Wainscot, Rev. John, Elkinsville, Ind. Evangelist. Assault. +1901. Wainwright, Rev. H., Roanoke, Va. Sanctificationist. + Housebreaking and robbery. +1902. Waldrop, Rev. Emmet L., Cleveland, O. Lying, stealing, neglect + of family. +1907. Walenta, Rev. M. J. H., New York, N. Y. Found his platonic + affinity in parishioner's wife. +1903. Wales, Rev. J. W., Charlottesville, Va. Baptist. Co-respondent + in divorce suit. +1912. Walker, Rev. J. Franklin, Cincinnati, O. Baptist Corrupting + morals of young girls. +1913. Walker, Rev. Raymond B., Providence, R. I. Baptist. + Wife-beating. +1910. Walker, Rev. Raymond D., Boston, Mass. Episcopal. Forgery. +1906. Walker, Rev. R. D., Windham, Vt. Baptist. Dropped by church for + moral and commercial irregularity. +1909. Walker, Rev. R. E., Providence, R. I. Forgery; arrested. +1899. Wall, Rev. Rufus, Memphis, Tenn. Wife murder. + Wallace, Rev. Foy. Traveling evangelist; Campbellite. Run out + of town for attempt to seduce married woman. +1903. Walling, Rev. W. A., New York, N. Y. Fraud; locked up. +1903. Wallis, Rev. E. H., Evening Shade, Ark. Methodist. Lying; + convicted on four counts. +1911. Walstrom, Rev. W. H., Versailles, Ill. Pastor Christian church. + Stole collection of rare old coins, and confessed after; found + with aid of bloodhounds. +1913. Walt, Rev. J. W., Springfield, Mo. Methodist. Abduction. + Walters, Rev. Alex., Hackensack, N. J. Methodist. Assault and + battery on girl. +1914. Walton, Rev. M. R., Glendale, Cal. Methodist. Improper advances + to women. +1900. Walton, Rev. T. J., Burton, Ky. Shooting John Gray. +1910. Wand, Rev. John B., Meppen, Ill. Catholic. Criminal assault. +1906. Wannamaker, Rev. H. S., Elyria, O. Congregational. Made love to + organist; divorced by wife; dropped by church. +1905. Ward, Rev. D. F., Claremont, Va. Episcopal. Fighting; thrashed + outgoing pastor Ridout. +1912. Ward, Rev. L. T., Collierville, Tenn. Embezzlement. Confessed + and sentenced to three years' imprisonment. +1909. Ward, Rev. S., Freewater, Ore. Baptist. Bigamy; four wives; + five years. +1900. Ward, Rev. Wm., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Catholic. Drunk and + disorderly; arrested. +1906. Ware, Rev. G. G., Deadwood, S. D. Episcopal. Conspiracy to + defraud the government with false homestead entries. +1905. Ware, Rt. Rev. Archdeacon T. C., Black Hills District, S. D. + Episcopal. Hilarious drunk in Lead City. +1906. Warlick, Rev. Mr., Elorado, Okla. Violation of an 18-year-old + girl. +1902. Warner, Rev. A. J., Clinton, N. C. Misappropriation of money; + indicted. +1905. Warner, Rev. H. H., Denver, Col. Bigamy; living with one wife + and supporting another. +1899. Warren, Rev. B. E., Helena, Mont. Methodist. Charged with + immorality; resigned. +1906. Warren, Rev. F. J., Portland, Ore. Episcopal. Despoiled a + brother minister's home. +1909. Warren, Rev. L. W., Los Angeles, Cal. Presbyterian. Unprintable + crime. +1913. Warren, Rev. W. D., Columbus, O. Methodist. Attempted suicide. +1911. Watkins, Rev. R. B., Buffalo, N. Y. Presbyterian. Arrested on + "a serious charge" preferred by a young woman of Richmond, Va. +1906. Watson, Rev. J. A., No. Plainfield, N. J. Murder. +1910. Watson, Rev. W. E., Urbana, O. Methodist. Embezzlement. +1910. Way, Rev. H., Hoboken, N. J. Evangelist. Accused by 17-year-old + girl. +1909. Wear, Rev. W. M., Birmingham, Ala. Baptist. Seduction of + another's wife. Resigned. +1904. Weaver, Rev. T. E., Tazewell, Va. Methodist. Failing to account + for money placed in his hands. +1899. Webb, Rev. James, Atlantic City, N. J. Baptist. Stealing + lumber; arrested. +1905. Weeks, Rev. Mr., Toronto, Ont. Baptist. Caught in park with + female member of his own church; resigned. +1905. Welch, Rev. Clarence M., Grand Rapids, Mich. Evangelist. + Bastardy; jailed for non-support of child. +1906. Welch, Rev. C. E., Nashville, Mich. Methodist. Immoral + relations with two girls, resulting in the death of one of + them. +1899. Welch. Rev. D. S., Macksburg, O. Methodist. Fraudulently + procuring a divorce from his wife. +1909. Welch, Rev. V. P., Fostoria, O. Slander. +1911. Wells, Rev. H. H., St. Louis, Mo. Methodist. Held for trial for + passing a check which he forged. +1899. Wells, Rev. J. H., Selma, N. C. Baptist. Making moonshine + whisky; jailed. +1905. Welsh, Rev. Fr., Pittsburgh, Pa. Catholic. Drunk; assaulted + President Dreyfus of the Pittsburgh Baseball Club; suspended. +1899. Wenger, Rev. Mr., Harrisonburg, Va. Mennonite. "Transgression" + with hired girl. +1914. Werlein, Rev. Halsey, San Jose, Cal. Episcopal. Sued for + divorce on the ground of extreme cruelty. +1898. Wesley, Rev. G. W., Louisa, Ky. Baptist. Convicted of having + three wives. +1909. West, Rev. J. W., Richmond, Va. Accused by little girls of + being too intimate. +1911. Westenberg, Rev. C. A., San Francisco, Cal. Swindled public in + selling stock in an alleged California placer mine. +1901. Westlake, Rev. C. M., Providence, R. I. Deserted his wife; + divorced. +1908. Weston, Rev. W. W., Los Angeles, Cal. Methodist. Swindling. +1905. Whalen, Rev. C. D., Los Angeles, Cal. Methodist. Deserting + family and eloping with Mrs. Jennie H. Clark from Plattsburg, + N. Y.; jailed. +1900. Wharton, Rev. H. M., Ocean City, N. J. Baptist. Obtaining + property under false pretenses; jailed. +1901. Wharton, Rev. Geo., Jackson, Miss. Baptist. Attempting to hug + the female pupils of Hillman Female College, of which he was + president; fled. +1910. Wheaton, Rev. J. M., Chicago, Ill. Methodist. Abusive + trespasser. +1908. Wheeler, Rev. A. J., New York, N. Y. Adventist. Suicide. +1901. Wheeler, Rev. G. F., Greendale, Mass. Baptist. Kissing and + hugging young ladies to the neglect of his wife; disciplined. +1910. Wheeler, Rev. James M., Akron, O. Methodist. Malicious + destruction of property. +1900. Wheeler, Rev. J. B., Bridgeport, Conn. Missionary. Leading + women astray. +1913. Whitaker, Rev. T. A., Waltham, Mass. Baptist. Non-support of + wife. +1908. Whitaker, Rev. Wm. G., Exeter, Kan. Episcopal. Fraud. +1914. White, Rev. Dennis, Windsor, Conn. Arson; convicted and given a + prison sentence of two to five years. +1899. White, Rev. D. R., Palmyra, Mo. Baptist. Shoplifting; caught + with goods on. +1901. White, Rev. Geo. W., Orion, Ill. Baptist. Incontinence and + dishonesty; deposed. +1909. White, Rev. H., Marion, Ind. Bigamy; six wives. +1900. White, Rev. John W., Chillicothe, Mo. Methodist. Beating + children with iron poker; arrested. +1903. White, Rev. J. L., Washington, D. C. Obtaining money under + false pretenses. +1901. White, Rev. Minor, Elkinsville, Ind. Ministerial misconduct; + locked out by congregation. +1905. White, Rev. M. J., Carthage, Mo. Catholic. Threatening life of + A. L. Franks; arrested. +1910. White, Rev. R. G., Portland, Ore. Presbyterian. Fell in love + with student under him; expelled from academy and ministry; + divorced. +1908. White, Rev. Samuel, St. Paul, Minn. Larceny; chain gang. +1914. Whitfield, Rev. Joseph, Rock Island, Ill. Baptist. Assault with + a deadly weapon. Indicted. +1900. Whitlock, Rev. Mr., Lima, O. Methodist. Assault and battery; + arrested. + Whittaker, Rev. Thos., Vilonia, Ark. Methodist. A revivalist, + he was forced to leave Vilonia for kissing a girl against her + will. +1910. Whorley, Rev. A. H., Pensacola, Fla. Wife-beating. + Wiant, Rev. Warren, Urbana, O. Methodist. Slander; held for + grand jury; declared all women unchaste who dance. +1901. Wickham, Rev. C. M., Sioux City, Ia. Christian. Seduction; + justified by scripture. +1912. Wickham, Rev. Noah, Oklahoma City, Okla. Accused of cruel + treatment of orphans and dependent children in home of which he + was superintendent; convicted in former years for similar + offenses. +1899. Widdemer, Rev. H. T., Asbury Park, N. J. Congregational. + Indiscreet familiarity with typewriter girl; out. +1911. Wigginton, Rev. G. W., Pittsburgh, Pa. Named as co-respondent + in divorce suit brought on the ground of adultery. +1905. Wilberforce, Rev. D. F., Missionary to Africa. United Brethren. + Apostasy and bigamy. +1905. Wilbur, Rev. A., Los Gatos, Cal. Horse stealing; confessed. +1899. Wilburn, Rev. W. R., Flat Hollow, Ky. Divorced his wife; fought + with her; fatally injured. +1906. Wilding, Rev. A., Greensburg, Pa. Baptist. Ran away with + another's wife. +1911. Wilhite, Rev. A. L., Topeka, Kan. Sent to jail for + "bootlegging" whisky, thus depriving the government of profit + on license. +1903. Wilkins, Rev. Mr., Ladonia, Tex. Presbyterian. Associating with + prostitutes. +1901. William, Rev. M., Charleston, S. C. Baptist. Pension frauds; + convicted; one year. +1913. Williams, Rev. Elmer L., Chicago, Ill. Methodist. Defamation of + character. +1905. Williams, Rev. E. E., Shawnee, Okla. Baptist. Prostituting his + daughters. +1908. Williams, Rev. G. F., Washington, D. C. Episcopal. Immoral + conduct with seamstress; unfrocked; old offender. +1908. Williams, Rev. I. D., Denver, Colo. Violating postal laws. +1914. Williams, Rev. James T. W., Newcastle, Pa. Congregational. + Elopement and adultery. +1909. Williams, Rev. J., Bellecenter, O. Methodist. Charged with + false arrest and imprisonment. +1909. Williams, Rev. J. D., New York, N. Y. Baptist. Larceny. +1902. Williams, Rev. J. W., New Castle, Pa. Baptist. Picking pockets; + ordered out of town. +1900. Williams, Rev. R. B., Paxton, Ill. Evangelist. Insulting young + lady; pummeled by her father. +1906. Williams, Rev. S. V., Laporte, Ind. Campbellite. Leading a dual + life. +1914. Williams, Rev. W. L., Los Angeles, Cal. Cumberland + Presbyterian. Malicious destruction of property. +1900. Willis, Rev. Elijah, Chillicothe, O. Baptist. Deserted wife and + eloped with married woman. +1902. Wills, Rev. Joshua, West Chester, N. Y. Baptist. Convicted of + fraud; compelled to refund. +1900. Willy, Rev. E. E., Minneapolis, Minn. Congregational. + Negotiating a forged draft; arrested. +1909. Wilmer, Rev. H., Rome, Ga. Embezzlement; three years. +1908. Wilson, Rev. Aubrey, Brooklyn, N. Y. Presbyterian. Theft. +1913. Wilson, Rev. Cecil P., Brookland, Pa. Episcopal. Drunkenness. +1900. Wilson, Rev. C. H., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. False arrest; prosecuted. +1901. Wilson, Rev. Emanuel S., Grand Rapids, Mich. Baptist. Adultery; + arrested. +1914. Wilson, Rev. Isaac, Milan, Mich. Methodist. Invented a story of + assault and robbery to account for inability to pay his bills. +1901. Wilson, Rev. Jas., Guthrie, Okla. Evangelist. Arrested for + double murder in Missouri, in 1869. +1910. Wilson, Rev. J. H., Savannah, Ga. Church of Ascension. Wronged + girl; cowhided by mother. +1902. Wilson, Rev. Morris Genoa, W. Va. Baptist. Read Bible and then + cut his wife's throat with a razor. +1905. Wilson, Rev. W. S., Altoona, Pa. Methodist. Dissipation; died + in police cell. +1906. Wilson, Rev. Yancey, Tustin, Cal. Adventist. Desertion. +1912. Winchester, Rev. Sirl J., Winchester, Ind. Failure to provide + for young daughter. +1907. Wingert, Rev. A. E., Tillamook, Ore. Presbyterian. Forgery and + swindling. +1900. Winkfield, Rev. Z., Ensley, Ala. Murder of a man attentive to + his wife. +1910. Winn, Rev. W. G., Pittsburgh, Pa. Christian. Left it to the + Lord to pay board bill; sued for $80. +1905. Winters, Rev. F. W., Newark, N. J. Catholic. Obtaining money + under false pretenses. + Witt, Rev. W. L., Los Angeles, Cal. Second Advent. Left wife + and lived with widow; pleaded guilty. + Wittlinger, Rev. T., Rome, N. Y. Lutheran. Caught looking in at + window when women were retiring. +1901. Wohl, Rev. John H., W'm'son, W. Va. Presbyterian. Shot D. + Stokes; was killed by return fire. +1902. Wolfe, Rev. John B., Quincy, Ill. Methodist. Put up at hotel + with woman not his wife; condemned by conference. +1914. Wolfendale, Rev. N. S., Seattle, Wash. Circuit rider. Larceny. +1906. Wolfington, Rev. W. W., Freetown, Ind. United Brethren. + Arrested on charge of young girl. +1909. Wolfram, Rev. C. A., Atlanta, Ga. Took a married woman for his + soulmate. +1900. Wollpert, Rev. D. C., Zenia, O. Methodist. "Immoral and + unchristian practices." +1899. Wood, Rev. E. M., Pittsburgh, Pa. Methodist. "Ecclesiastical" + immorality; women complainants. +1911. Wood, Rev. J. B., alias Woodard, Coffeyville, Tex. Bigamist. +1902. Wood, Rev. Wm. A., Glens Falls, N. Y. Baptist. Instigating a + riotous demonstration. +1907. Woodring, Rev. W. H., Ashtabula, O. Methodist. Assault. +1909. Woodruff, Rev. W. L., Lorain, O. Lutheran. Raised money under + false pretenses; 30 days and $10. +1903. Woods, Rev. J. S., Evanston, Ill. Cruelty to his son; summoned. +1904. Woodson, Rev. A. R., Indianapolis, Ind. Presbyterian. Improper + liberties with young women. +1900. Woodward, Rev. J. D., Commerce, Ga. Baptist. Found guilty of + bigamy; four years. +1899. Woodward, Rev. W. L., Oak Harbor, O. Disciples. Suicide by + shooting. +1901. Wooton, Rev. J. A., Philadelphia, Pa. Unlawfully mailing + letters containing threats. +1902. Workman, Rev. S. N., Bluefield, W. Va. Pleaded guilty to charge + of bigamy; one year. +1908. Wormser, Rev. Andrew, Cincinnati, O. Dutch Reformed. Swindling. + Wright, Rev. G. H., Chillicothe, O. Evangelist. Triple murder + in Provo Co., Utah. +1910. Wright, Rev. W. R., Wood, N. M. Baptist. Murder. +1900. Wye, Rev. L., Croswell, Mich. Episcopal. Paid unwelcome + attentions to young woman and beat father who objected. +1906. Wylie, Rev. J. R., Los Angeles, Cal. Methodist. Bigamy. +1902. Xavier, Rev. H. F., Yonkers, N. Y. Catholic. False arrest; sued + by a young woman for $20,000. +1900. York, Rev. S. P., Brownsville, Ky. Giving and furnishing liquor + to a young woman; indicted. +1900. Youberg, Rev. W., Chicago, Ill. Missionary. Stealing scrap iron + to repair mission. +1901. Young, Rev. Clarence, Newark, N. J. Evangelist. Bigamy; tried + and found guilty. +1911. Young, Rev. J. Henry, Mattoon, Ill. Bigamist. Young disappeared + when he learned a warrant was out for his arrest for having two + wives. +1911. Young, Rev. J. H., Leechburg, Pa. Lutheran. "Too familiar with + young girls." This charge was to have been heard at a church + trial. +1909. Young, Rev. P., Oakland, Cal. Episcopal. Embezzled $15,000. + Courted young woman; wife in Boston. +1908. Young, Rev. Wm. C., Paterson, N. J. Seduction; six months. +1906. Zakelsky, Rev. G. A., Chicago, Ill. Catholic. Issuing worthless + checks in gambling game; sued. +1906. Zechel, Rev. A. H., Appleton, Wis. Violating Sunday law. +1900. Zeperian, Rev. E., New York, N. Y. Missionary. Stealing a + watch; arrested. +1901. Zeutgraff, Rev. J. R., Brooklyn, N. Y. Catholic. Slander; sued + for $5,000 damages. +1908. Ziegler, Rev. Mr., Hutchinson, Kan. United Brethren. Eloping, + leaving his wife and six children. +1910. Zimmerman, Rev. A. H., Utica, N. Y. Methodist. + Over-flirtatious, and disappeared mysteriously. +1908. Zimmerman, Rev. E. H., Omaha, Neb. Lutheran. Obscenity; pleaded + guilty; six months and $100. +1914. Zook, Rev. Isaac, Fresno, Cal. Methodist. Adultery. +1909. Zuccarelli, Rev. Jas., Newark, N. J. Catholic. Broke up home; + embezzled $400. +1912. Zwickert, Rev. John D., Altoona, Pa. Roman Catholic. Alienation + of affections. +1900. Zwinger, Rev. E., Hempstead, N. Y. Lutheran. Slander and + assault; arrested. + + + + + + + + + + THE DEVIL FISHING. + + + The Devil sat by the river's side-- + The stream of time, where you'll always find him-- + Casting his line in the rushing tide, + And landing the fish on the bank behind him. + + He sat at ease in a cozy nook, + And was filling his basket very fast; + While you might have seen that his deadly hook + Was differently baited for every cast. + + He caught 'em as fast as a man could count; + Little or big, it was all the same. + One bait was a cheque for a round amount; + An assemblyman nabbed it, and out he came. + + He took a gem that as Saturn shone; + It sank in the water without a sound, + And caught a woman who long was known + As the best and purest for miles around. + + Sometimes he would laugh and sometimes sing, + For better luck no one could wish, + And he seemed to know to a dead sure thing, + The bait best suited to every fish. + + Quoth Satan: "The fishing is rare and fine." + And he took a drink, somewhat enthused: + And yet a parson swam round the line, + That e'en the most tempting bait refused. + + He tried with his gold and his flashing gems, + Hung fame and fortune upon the line, + Dressing gowns with embroidered hems, + But still the dominie made no sign. + + A woman's garter went on the hook; + "I have him at last," quoth the devil, brightening; + Then Satan's sides with laughter shook,-- + And he landed the preacher as quick as lightning! + + --Sam Davis. + + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Crimes of Preachers, by M. E. Billings + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 57764 *** |