The - Truth.seeker Crimes - Of.the - Preachers.in - The.united - States.and - Canada 10th - Edition 1915

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Crimes of
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United States and Canada

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TENTH EDITION.
Transcribed out of the Original Newspapers, and with Previous Transcriptions Diligently Compared and Revised.
THESE BE THY GODS,
ISRAEL.*
"By
their fruits shall ye
know them. Do men
gather ^rapc:
of thorns, or figs of thistles?'*
New York
THE TRUTH SEEKER COMPANY

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CEIMES OF PKEACHEKS.
In the year 1906 the
Young Men's
Christian Asso-
ciation of Pittsburgh, in
Pennsylvania, rejected the
application of an actor for
membership on the ground
that one of his profession could not be a moral per-
Viewing the action as a slur cast on the whole Mr. Henry E. Dixey, the wellknown 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
son.
theatrical profession,
minister in jail for every state in the Union. This sec-
ond challenge was likewise ignored by the clergy and 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
the association which
19 actors in
isters
jail.
The
investigation, so far as the min-
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
CRIMES OF PREACHERS.
country for these cases.

convicts in 1906
Judged by 1914, the clerical 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;
the civilized world enjoys today

sion
and that whatever of morality it owes to the profes-
and practice of
it is
Christianity.
Now,
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 ChrisAnd tian Science became at once a proper inquiry. 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 naof Christianity claim
ture of a civic duty when, on the strength of these

clerical pretensions, the preachers
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 halffares, 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
is
dollars escapes taxation
on the plea that
it
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
The plea is strength of the same unproved theory. 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,

to ask
it
is
almost useless
religion has
how much restraining influence that on the laity who only listen once a week.
It is
fessed Christian
admitted that just as the upright life of a prois 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 arffected 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 Free-
thought and mental

is
liberty.
The
reply,
couched in the
language of an editorial article in "The Truth Seeker,"

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 has not creed may not conflict with his conduct. 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
Who
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 tlie fact that they are obhged 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 beHef It shows that the very apostles of in Christianity. that rehgion 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 How, then, can his own sins count of depravity. against him, when he cannot be depraved beyond 'toHis concern is to escape the consequences of tally'? the fall, which is accomphshed 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
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to
do
that which
is
wrong.
Were he
capable of analyz-
manner he might doubt men in the same environment, But he is like other it. and, like them, when inclination prompts, he falls.
ing the plan of salvation in that
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.
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
In our
suspicion
less
and observation than the

fall.
laity.
Neverthe-
we
are not averse to hearing other explanations of
their tendency to
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, constiThe rest of the days he is tutes his week's work. Even the weekly kill time. often loafing, trying to
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
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
of the choicest products of the earth; they visit only the homes of the wealthy, where they are sumptuously
entertained
;
jection to the spirit

cation,
they do not try to keep the body in subby any kind of restraint or mortifitheir carnal passion
and so
becomes the mas-
ter of their being,
and they
fall
away from
grace.
CRIMES OF PREACHERS..
If
shocking the community and scandaHzing the church of God.

I
would make
all
work
for their money.'*
doubt the indolent habits of the stall-fed clergy contribute to their incontinence, which is recognized as
their
No
predominant weakness.
While
their
offenses
otherwise, as these pages show, range

petty larceny to murder,
all
the
way from
yet the
great majority are
such as are committed with

girls.
The
larger figures in the
adultery, bigamy, desertion,
women and number cases of elopement, and seduction.

or against
list
That the immorality of the clergy is recognized as a matter that needs explanation is shown by an article
entitled
"Why
it
Ministers
Go Wrong,"
extracted from
the "Baptist Standard" (Chicago), in which orthodox
appeared in the latter part of the year 1913. whose author is a minister, is surprising mainly because of its frankness and not because it The tells anything not previously known or surmised.
weekly
The
article,
writer says:
ministers of the churches, that is clergymen, 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 Hght 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
priests
"Do
hard to
time in
man or a woman who has not at some become personally acquainted with a professed exponent of religious truth and high moral
find a
life
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 jour-
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nalistic 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. 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 commerHe went on to give cial honor of the man of affairs.' 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 letNor was ters had been written, the bill was unpaid. 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 as-
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sured 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

facts
indefinitely.
The
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, foursquare 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.
this is nowhere better illustrated than 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 employes. "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
"Perhaps
when a
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brethren like to think they are. Because they are men they have human fraihies. 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.
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
"Mere preaching
13
not reach and do. It is the expression of the phrases of character, not necessarily accompanied with their expression in Hving 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 He. "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.
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"Take the matter of ministers (and others, too) have lying in the stories and illustrations they tell. 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
We
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 ?
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
"When
the
man
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 sec how he has been tempted to fawn on liim, 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 hit-
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ting 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 thdr 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

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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 dis-
carding of the cloak of sanctimoniousness, will react on clerical morality and thus raise the preachers in the
world's esteem.
best behaved.
That view
is
borne out by the figures

liberal sects are the
showing that the ministers of the
commenting which we have on the article which he prints and 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 com-
The
editor of the "Baptist Standard,"
plains 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 Because out of tens light upon the question at issue. 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
CRIMES OF PREACHERS,
least relatively speaking,
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-i
given an inside page. This is an unconscious tribute of the sensational press to the high estimate in v^hich the clerical profession is in general held."
it is
and
The theory of
the
notoriety
the religious editor might account for
given
a delinquent minister, but no
amount of
quency.
publicity
publicity could create the fact of his delin-
He
is
has to run off with his organist before
the yellow journal chronicles the event.
And
if
more
given him than
is
received by the lawyer,
physician and bank president

the notoriety in
known
cases
is
when the facts come out, 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.
breaks
But the defense based on extraordinary notoriety 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 be come personally acquainted with a professed exponent of religious truth and high moral ideals who has demonstrated the depths of
human
depravity."
it
This
may
or
may
not be an exaggeration;
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

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yet reasonably conclude that they practice the the incidents of their lives
may
customary male reserve, and therefore are no more

given to relating
only
all
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 profes-
the
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 The more fervent the preacher is religion and lust. godward, the more ardent is he womanward and Our piety works the same way with the sisters. 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 minHe improves ister is as often a tempter as a victim. the opportunities the pastoral visit affords, and makes
sion.
his share of the advances.
It
without mental honesty

fess to believe
men who are willing

what they
may
be that only
men
to pro-
and
to teach
feel is false
is
are entering the ministry.
In that case the worst
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
The
for
of his virtue in phrasing and uttering moral preis
cepts that he has no strength left for applyi'ng them.
proposition
if
worth the notice of the churches;

that the vocation of a preacher
true
it
means
devitalizes a
man
of his moral stamina.
The
religious editor
and
his contributor disagree
on
an important point.
The
editor
holds that the fuss
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ganist
minister who goes wrong with his ora tribute to the high estimate in which the profession is held. On the other hand, the contributor
made over one

is
represents that
most ministers are moral
skates,
is
and
due few decent exceptions. The distinction is vital. The orthodox religious standards to which a minister is supposed to measure up are admittedly responBesides the sincerely sible for much moral laxity. orthodox preacher (whose religious austerity never prevents him from erring sexually), there are thouthat any high estimate the profession enjoys
to the
sands of ministers
lie
who
live a
by remaining
in the
church
mental or intellectual and preaching the

the church does not
creeds they
do not
believe.
And
What
trouble itself about the minister's doubts so long as
he keeps them to himself.

pect, then,
can the church exit?
from the
religious hypocrite in the pulpit

Is
except that he will be a moral hypocrite out of
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 ask-
ing of the question proves that an affirmative reply was
not unexpected.
it
Had
he included editors
in his list
could have been given.
The
literary
and
editorial
professions are very poorly represented in our prisons,
and even printers are exceedingly

has been before the public in
tions since 1881, as
is
scarce.
This compilation, periodically revised and enlarged,

its
nine successive ediits
stated in one of
prefaces;
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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.

the style of the clerical gentleman,
We
follow
who
writes
"BLUFFTON O. 5-12/1905.
"The Truth Seeker
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, ACimmediately for TION will be taken against The above name used by you is the blackmailing.
Co.,
No. 28 Lafayette Place,
New
YOU
untruth,
"Trusting to heare from you early.
Yours.
"J. Shelter.''
from the publishers early, but keep up the correspondence, but apparently abandoned altogether his contemplated acThe charge against the Rev. John Shelter, of tion. the United Brethren church, is that in 1890, at McClure, Ohio, he sold liquor without a license. All we
Mr.
J.
Shelter heard
fail to
not only did he
can gather from his apparent denial
is
that the
name
used by us
is
not the true one.

it.
However, he does not
take the trouble to correct
Another correction was personally solicited. In the ninth edition appeared an entry condensed from the following newspaper clipping, dated at a Connecticut town:
"
"If
,
21
, the minister who eloped with Mrs. and who is being of sued for divorce by his wife on the ground of intoh erable cruelty, had been publicly drummed out, his expulsion from the Methodist church could not have been more emphatic and humiHating. 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.'
the
Rev.
Our
entry,
above
mentioned,
concerning
this
preacher, recorded:
try should
"Eloped with a married woman;
cruelty to wife; expelled
from the ministry."
The
en-
now
be
"Personally appeared before us the
reverend gentleman whose
name
is
suppressed and re-
quested 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 The left out the book does not quite justify its title. 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
hurt.
editor,
which could have been used
to their
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 Phila-
delphia for
some unremembered
purpose, and was
22
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
it
crimes of preachers."
ors
We
cannot see that
dishon-
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
and was shortly found
uses have been
bill
in view,
living with her in
Albany.
Some amusing
made
of this volume.
In 1909 the opponents of a of California cited, to

its
before the legislature
prejudice, the fact that

its
mem-
bers of the clerical profession were against
passage.
The gentleman who appeared before

in behalf
bill
the legislative
list of revof the committee delinquents and inquired whether these were inerend cluded 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
offered this
who have
allied themselves with organizations to pro-
mote Sunday observance by the saloon-keepers. The following list of them gathered in a single state is
23
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.

in
The Rev. Ralph Baldwin, League
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. HoHday, 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.
24
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
vantage.
his bond.
clerical
reformers in
the East whose records cannot be cited to their ad-
One went
against the Sabbath breakers in
Brooklyn, was arrested for blackmail and forfeited
One in West Virginia fought the theaters Sunday trains, but he turned out a gallows bird, and 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.
not conflict with their other vices.
The "phrasing of
morality," thus becoming a habit with the clergy, does
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
fared at the hands of
sion.
show how
the
home had
men
of his opponent's profes-
Incidentals to the downfall
of the
preachers are
sometimes dramatic.
to confession
25
One exhorted
his congregation
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

It is
without a bishop or other superior's consent.
survival of the ^'benefit of clergy" law under which
the church claimed the right to try the cases of clerical

offenders, instead of letting
courts.
them go before the
civil
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,
re-
ported the case to the police, and caused the lecherous

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 CathWhen in 1913 olic clergy will escape public notice. 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 com-
clergyman's arrest, but
26
this, and was known Cathohc acquaintances to be a man of immoral He enjoyed, however, the benefit of clergy, and life. 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 While this edition of "Crimes of Preachers" light. 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
mitted other crimes previous to

his
by
heart.
The published
ofifenses of the priests are such,
usually, as in the nature of things cannot be covered
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,"
up.
"immoralities," "lascivious conduct," "lechery," "scan-
dalous conduct," "unministerial conduct," and the Hke
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

is
total
number of
offenses
charged
considerably greater than the total
number
of ministers involved.
This results from the compli-
cated character of some of the delinquencies of the
reverends.
27
a young
adultery.
married minister
hetrays
woman, thereby committing seduction and
There may be a child and a charge of bastardy. He may run away with her, adding elopement and deserElopetion of wife and family, and often divorce. ments are numerous, and they are mentioned here
only
when complicated with
adultery
or
desertion,
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
since the
matrimonial alliance at present existing.

teries, seductions, etc.,
So the adul-
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
the
news sense
is
but imperfectly de-
veloped.
instances in which the
communion
is
supplied give the Methodists
first place.
Baptists sec-
ond, and Catholics third.
disproportionate to the total
given denominations.
there
is
The number of each is not number of clergy of the Nothing appears to show that
sects or
any great disparity between
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 Cath-
olics,
or about
priest to 10 non-Catholic clergymen.
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 commuCatholics
28
Yâti^
nicants they claim), while the Baptists, with less

six million communicants,
have
nearly
forty-thêe
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

offered for the
comment on an excuse
two delegates
caught
to the Methodist conference of 1912,
who were
with the broken fragments of the seventh command-
ment 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 arc told, is the woman (nothing The religious said about her being also 'human').
woman who
has missed her
man
finds
him
in Jesus
29
and takes the parson as his deputy. The women tempt the preacher also by the cut of their clothes, says the
Rev. Mr. Dinsmore.
ters
They wear and

in the
wear gowns so low
let their daughneck 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 clergy-
men
in
many
instances having been alluded to,

It
we may
occurred at the time when a nation-wide attempt was being made to fasten the
allege a concrete case.
men who had
crime of white slavery, with its penalties, on two laytaken 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
:
it is at least ten years, and here is a man 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 Tress,' 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
case
show
of
God
30
a week, and the minister *was desirous of pleading guilty and beginning his term in prison as soon as posThe judge carried his consideration for the sible/ clerical rapist so far as to grant the latter's request All this 'for a day to clear up his personal affairs/ favoritism, as the reporter innocently puts it, because the Rev. Mr. Gregory is 'highly respected as the pasThat is benefit of the tor of the Baptist church.* Now we would like to inclergy with the Hd off! quire 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.
marry or
were old enough to 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
girls in the California case
The
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 call-
ing' 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 anytliin.c^ but a priest and the court anything but a bonehcaded truckler to hypocritical piety, he would have got a determinate sentence cf at least ten years."
In one year, recently, seventeen Chicago ministers
31
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 aver-
age of all Chicago citizens. In six months of the same year (1912) Kokomo, Indiana, had four clerical scandals.
We
again quote:
sinister element in the atmosphere 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."
"Is there
some
of
Kokomo,
Four delinquents in community of 12,000

isters.
six
months
souls, the
is eight a year in a church-going portion
of which could be adequately served by a dozen minIt
would be
iifwresting, if practicable, to
the morality of the
compare American clergy with that of other
countries, but the data are meager.

is
Here, however, an informing paragraph retained from a previous edition of thia book:
32
"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 Tall Mall Gazette,' who " were in one year in trouble with the law.'
Since the revision of this
nish fresh material for
tional
work was undertaken,

have not ceased
late
in the fall of 1914, the clergy

its
to fur-
pages, but as each addi-
name must cause a revision of totals, the later cases, which perhaps number two dozen, must await The following table condenses the next round-up.
the crimes, offenses,
etc.,
with which the ministers
have been charged:
Abduction Abortion and attempts to procure Abusive language Adultery

Alienation of affections
22
19
22 676
17
Arson
Assault Assault Assault Assault
62
with intent to murder with intent to rape with intent to do great harm
61 50
and battery Attempted suicide Bastardy Bigamy, attempted and accomplished Breach of promise to marry Burglary
26 66
15
71 144 27
17 Cheating, swindling, grafting, malversation, mis288 appropriation, etc 44 "Conduct unbecoming a minister of the gospel".
Conspiracy
11
Contempt of court
Counterfeiting Cruelty to wife or children
13 16 130
33
52
. .
Debauchery
Desertion or non-support of wife or children. Disorderly conduct Divorced or sued
Drunkenness
Elopement, attempted or accomphshed Embezzlement, fraud, defalcation, etc Enticing women and young girls
False impersonation Fighting
207 44 56 202
163 162 15 13 51 123 14 19
1
Forgery
''Fornication"
Gambling Grave robbery

Gross immorality
40
19 12 15
girls,
Horse
Illicit
stealing
distilling
Illicit
liquor selling
Immoralities with women and and variously described
miscellaneous
223
181
Larceny
Libel
Lying and deceit

Malicious destruction of property and malicious mischief
50 138
22
14 119 12
Manslaughter
Murder Murder Murder
generally of child of wife
27
16 14
false pre-
Obscene language Obscene print, circulation of

Obtaining money or property under
tenses
65
12 14
Perjury or subornation of Plagiarism or literary piracy Praying for death of neighbor, Profanity Quarreling
who
died
11
Rape
in general
19 43
34
Rape of
76 girls under age of consent or puberty. ... 273 Seduction in general 28 Seduction of girls under fifteen 109 Slander 67 Sodomy or unnatural crime 23 Stealing religious funds or property 117 Suicide 16 Threatening life 17 Violation of postal laws 15 White slavery and pandering 57 Wife or woman beating
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
ing, trespass,
dueling, administering poison,

;
and
fraudulent divorce, 5 each
bribery, nuisance, shoplift;
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
receiving
to,
prize-fighting,
profanity, quackery,
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 dis-
orderly house, lottery running, malicious prosecution,

mutilating public records, praying for death of neigh-
bor (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, vio-
lation of
35
influence,
Sunday law, jury
fixing,
undue
"corrupting morals of young girl," and obstructing juseach. The whole number is approximately five thousand, from actual count, 4,987.
tice, 1
Denomination of ministers so far as known

Methodist
Baptist Catholic .^ Presbyterian Episcopalian
728 492 325

187 164 136 120
101
Evangehst
Congregational Christian (or Campbellite)
Lutheran United Brethren Jewish

Adventist
Reformed
Holiness
100 38 18 17 16 12
Church of God
Disciples
Missionary
8 9 8
7 7 7 6
5 5
Dunkard
Greek Catholic
Universalist Church of Christ
Sanctificationist
Unitarian
Mennonite Friend (Quaker)
4
3 3
Mormon
Armenian
Independent
Moravian
Pentecost
Millennialist
2 2 2 2 2
36
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 arrange-
ment of
it
dates,
names,
etc.,
and of
faults of pagination,
may
be said that the older portions of the book,
covering cases occurring prior to 1899, have been left
comments and recapitulations accompanying fresh editions have been eliminated, and the available matter thrown Cases into the general introduction to the volume. that have occurred since the close of the list in the former style of composition have been rearranged and
as they formerly stood, except that the periodical
reset in one alphabetical tains six alphabetical
lists,
list.
The book,
then, con-'
first part,
;
beginning, in the
;
on page 10 (circa 1875-81) 102 (to 1893); page 125

;
page 50 (to 1883) page (to 1895); page 140 (to
1898) page 139, Part II. (to 1914). The rearrange-' ment condenses, without omitting anything of permanent value, a volume which was becoming too large to
be economically produced ano distributed.
37
PREFACE TO EARLIER EDITIONS.

So long
tinies of
as imagination creates a
;
god
to rule the des-
men
so long as ignorance can be
made
to be-
lieve that the preacher or priest is in
between, or agent,
clouds
some way a gobetween men and the powers in the

God's affairs on earth, and that
that he
is
a "sky-pilot," directly commissioned
by deity
to attend to
the priest's person and office are sacred

will there be possible
just so
long
such a profession as that of the
modern
priesthood.
if
And
these preachers as a whole are just as crimiif
nal as any other class;
they are immoral without the
excuse of want or ignorance

portunities afforded
without
reason other
their call-
than because of their often indolent lives and the op-
them by the nature of
ing
then
their followers cannot learn that fact too
soon.
first edition of this book was printed in 1881, 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
The
since
pages.
Its substantial
accuracy
is
therefore assured.
it
The only charge

its
that can be maintained against
is
The publishers do not claim to have discovered more than a small percentage of The churches endeavor to and do clerical villainy.
incompleteness.
hide a great deal of the immorality of their ministers.
The
preachers,
who govern
the ecclesiastical tribunals,
38
have a fellow feeling for one another.

thing,
it
As
a general
is
only
when
the clergy are brought before
the secular courts that the public can learn the full
facts.
this record, for the reason that that
Comparatively few Catholic priests figure in church is a close

its
corporation which by political influence and by control
of
its
members' tongues can conceal the crimes of

In
all
leaders.
olic
large cities of the country the Cath-
fluence,
church has a large and dangerous political inand its priests have every chance to go free of retribution for their vices and crimes. The judges
are Catholics, or
olics. They names from
owe
their positions to Catholic

;
the court officers are Catholics

all shield
power; pohcemen are Caththe "fathers" and withhold their

the
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
facts, dates,
may come
and,
to
if
their
notice, giving
and
localities,
clippings
from news-
papers are sent, name, date, and place of pubHcation

of paper.
It
religion in
has been objected by apologists for the system of vogue in this country that clerical delinthe
if
quencies prove nothing against
system.
In this
they are mistaken.
Of
course,
Christianity
had a
foundation of
fact, these
records would not prove that
the fact
is
39
is
not there.
What
For
they do prove, however,

it
that the claim
made
its
for Christianity, that

if
makes
suffi-
men
moral,
is
not true.
the system
is
not
cient to restrain
very teachers,
how
can
we
expect
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 A large portion of the guilty of crimes and vices. crimes are against women or with women. This, perhaps, is not strange when one considers the institution
their pupils to profit
of pastoral
visits.
While men are away from home

life,
attending to their duties in
the minister
is
roving
about, pretendedly looking after the

flock,
welfare of his
to the
but really making

attract him.
calls
upon the women who

confessional
is
most
What
the
is
Roman
Catholic church, such
the ''pastoral visit" to
the Protestant church.
Women
should not attend the
one or receive the other except in the presence of their Another institution of the fathers or husbands. church could also be done away with to the gain of
morality
to wit, the lone studies for the minister an-
nexed
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
40
of a Romish church in
minister
New York
city.
In
was found
in the pastor's
room
of his
church asphyxiated in close embrace with

missionary.
not to
Omaha a own a woman
These side doors, secluded "studies," and
secret confessional boxes are dangerous to virtue if

life.
Many
woman and
girl
passes through
them
to her downfall.
In this short history of ministerial conduct, lack of
complete identity
is
reports of these trials in the secular journals
sometimes unavoidable, for in the it has
first names of the defendand many a pious villain is recorded as "Rev. Mr. Smith," or "Rev. Mr. Jones." In some cases the place was committed. is not fully given where the crime
been customary to drop the

ant,
Again, in certain instances, the offense

laconic name, applied
tried
receives the
by the ecclesiastical court which the criminal, as "immoral conduct," "lascivious and so screen the reverend culprit in the church and the cloth. In many reports
ecclesiastical gatherings the
conduct," etc.; definitions that hide the grossness of

the offense,
interest of the
of
trials
by
is
name
of the
accused
entirely suppressed, as is supposed, out of
respect for his "sacred calling."
The denomination
longed,
will
is
to
which the "pious soul" be-
not always given, consequently this record
not do to rely upon to enable the reader to ascer-
tain
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:
W., P.E., and Bayliss, Rev. E. L., ;ind other addenda purchased of colleges and theological seminaries have not
Carhart, Rev.
J.
Ev.
The D.D., PhD., LLD.,
41
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 PAESONS.

(The following adaptation of a familiar rhyme has appeared in all editions of this book and might be missed if omitted.)
Ten One
Nine
little
preachers, preaching love divine. kissed the servant girl, then there were nine.
little
One
took too
preachers, preaching sinners' fate. much drink, then there were eight.
Eight little preachers, showing path to heaven. One betrayed a brother's wife, then there were seven.
Seven
One
Six
little preachers, barring Satan's tricks. of them beat his wife, then there were
six.
little
One
preachers, preaching Christ alive, enticed a little girl, then there were five.
Five httle preachers, preaching "Sin no more," One committed an assault, then there were four.
Four
One
little preachers, pure as they could be. deflowered an eight-year-old, then there were
three.
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One
killed his
little
paramour, then there were two.
pity they're so
few
Two
He
One whipped his child One little preacher, in
preachers, to glorify the Son, to death, then there
was one.
the fold alone. committed suicide, then there was none.
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(Each paragraph below gives
offense, the
in their
II.
order the date of the
name
of the preacher, his residence and denomi-
nation,
1906. 1901.
1906. 1899.
and the character of the crime charged.)

Abbott, Rev. E. J., Stony Point, N. Y. Presbyterian. Though married, made love to postmistress. Abbott, Rev. John F., Henryville, Ky. Methodist. Adultery. Abel, Rev. A. C, Chicago. Methodist. Bigamy. Abernethy, Rev. Wm., Circleville, O. Assignation; adultery; arrested; fined. Adams, Rev. C. G., Berkeley, Cal. Episcopal. Murder.
1901.
1909. 1907.
Adams, Rev. C. Adams, Rev. H.

to elope with
copal.
G., St. Louis,
Mo. Episcopal. Bigamy.

Episcopal.
A.,
Nev^ York.
Left wife
1911.
1913.
young girl. Adams, Rev. Henry T., Areata,
Adams,
Cal. Protestant EpisArrested for larceny, and confessed. Rev. N. Q., Starkville, Miss. Baptist. In-
1912.
1902. 1907.
1914. 1907.
dicted as bank director for receiving deposits after the bank was declared insolvent. Adkins, Rev. G. W., Poteau, Okla. Baptist. Convicted of grave robbery. Alden, Rev. Chas. A., New York. Grand larceny. Indicted.
1913.
Rev. Mr., Chicago, 111. Murderous assault. Rev. D. R., Bluefield, W. Va. Stabbed saloonkeeper. 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 Catnolic. Assaulting 9-year-old girl. Allan, Rev. A., Cleveland.
fined.
Alexander, shooting Alexander, Alexander,
Rev. Mr., Indianapolis, Ind.

craps.
/vrrested for
1909.
DrunKcnness; arrested and
1905.
Allen,
1903.
Rev. Frank, Guthrie, Okla. Revivalist. Disturbing the peace. Fined $5. which he refused to pay, and went to jail. Allen, F. T., exhorter, Santa Paula, Cal. Metnouisi. Assaulting little girls.
140
1903.
Rev. George, Morrisville, Pa. Stealing. Ten years at hard labor. Allen, Rev. George, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Presbyterian. Engaged to two women ; tried suicide. Allen, Rev. G. E., Breckinridge, Ky. Found in compromising position with wife of host. Allen, Rev. Henry E., West Derry, N. H. Methodist. Betrayal of 16-year-old girl. Allen, Rev. Jesse, Nowata, Okla. Co-respondent in
Allen,
divorce. Allen, Rev. Willard S., Boston, Mass. Methodist. Stealing $80,000 from preachers' fund. Allen, Rev. W. A., Asbury Park, N. J. Methodist. Deserting wife; cruelty; divorced. Allen, Rev. Mr., Uniontown. Hanged for outrage and
1899. 1906.
1900.
1910.
1899. 1901.
murder.
1912.
1908.
Rev. G. W., Royal Center, Ind. Methodist. Adultery; pleaded guilty and paid fine. Presbyterian. Allison, Rev. Charles E., Yonkers, N. Y.
Alley,
Suicide.
1901.
1907.
1907.
Anient, Rev. Mr., Missionary in China. Blackmailing Chinese. Arrested. Amhyrst, Rev. H. G., Lafayette, Ind. Dishonesty;
1901.
1900. 1912. 1901.
embezzlement; falsifying. Suspended. Amis, Rev. W. T., Hot Springs, Ark. Baptist. Contempt of court. Ammons, Rev. W. J., Georgia. Breaking into postoffice.
Convicted.
1912.
1911. 1906. 1911. 1907.
Anderson, Rev. G. W., Frederick Co., Va. Deserting bride; mobbed out of town. Anderson, Rev. James, Paterson, N. J. Baptist. Defaulted on note given to a widow to secure loan. Anderson, Rev. Jos. (alias Geo. Hayford), Phoenix, Arizona, and California. Evangelist. Bank swindles. Anderson, Rev. J. S., Houston, Tex. Baptist. Suspected of complicity in the wholesale murder of Negroes. Anderson, Ralph D., Lincoln City, Del. Divinity student.
Stole horses.
Anderson, Rev. T. C, Tarentum, Pa. Presbyterian. Beating and choking his wife. Andrews, Charles, Portland, Ore. Street preacher. Arrested for disorderly conduct, not specified. 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. 1914.
141
Andrews,
Rev. M. C, Oshkosh, Wis. Episcopal. Consorting with immoral women. Whitewashed. Anthony, Rev. George W., New York, N. Y. Episcopal.
1900.
Conspiracy. Rev. E. D., Mount Carmel, Pa. Catholic. Arrested in New York for speeding. Archer, Rev. J. W., Norfolk, Va. Baptist. Illegal
Aquila,
1902.
Ardman,
voting; arrested. Rev. John, Scranton, Pa. Catholic. proved assassination of President McKinley; joined by bishop.
Apen-
1904.
Armer, Rev. Norman, Sacramento, Ky.
Presbyteriaa
1907.
1904.
21 years' imprisonment. Arnold, Rev. J. H., Ga. Evangelist. Cruelty to son. Six months in chain gang. Arthur, Rev. A. A., Hiawatha, Kan. Evangelist. All-round fraud; forged check for $10,000 in Texas;
;
Murder of son
1898.
1907.
1908.
confessed; many aliases. Arthur, Rev. Chas. M., Weston, Conn. Congregational. Found guilty by conference of obscenity, violent actions, cruelty to wife; divorced. Arthur, Rev. C. W., Syracuse, N. Y. Congregational.
Grand
larceny.
1899.
1908.
1901.
Arthur, Rev. Mark, Spalding, Idaho. Presbyterian. Criminal Ubel. Ashton, Rev. Mr., Union City, Mich. Baptist. Criminal neglect of wife in child-bed. Assenicio, Rev. Mr., New York. Catholic. Attempted
suicide.
Astwood, Rev. H. C. C, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Unministerial pended. Atherton, Rev.
Faithful."
conduct;
Albert,
arrested
St.
for
Methodist. fraud; sus-
1908.
1909. 1909.
Louis,
Mo.
"Household
Taking indecent
liberties.
Atherton, Rev. D. F., Haverhill, Mass. Co-respondent in divorce case. Atkins, Rev. P. J., Ogdensburg, N. Y. Methodist.
Suicide.
1913.
1908.
Edward J., Lima, O. Baptist. Abandonment and non-support of 5-year-old daughter. Atkinson, Rev. J. C, Atlanta, Ga. Methodist. Sued
Atkinson, Rev.
for slander.
1900.
Attaway, Rev. A. M., Columbus, S. C. Attacked his wife and died of heart disease while attempting to
throttle
her.
1913.
1906.
Atwood, Rev.
Assault. Rev. Austin,
W. C,
J.
Brookfield,
Mo.
Presbyterian.
W.,
Gainc3ville,
Ga.
Methodist.
142
Eloped with married
at a revival.
woman whom
he had "saved"
1899.
1905.
Prize fighting; J., Royal Oak, Mich. non-support of wife; divorce. Ayres, Rev. Early, Lee Co., Tex. Cattle stealing; arrested in Berwyn, I. T., while preaching. Axtel, Rev. P. D., Pittsburgh, Pa. Presbyterian. SuiAxtell, Rev. J.
cide.
1912.
Ayres, Rev. William

tional.
B.,
Wollaston, Mass.
Congrega-
Sued
husband
1907.
1901.
1913.
for alienation of affections by an irate **^ in his parish.
Babcock, Rev. C. A. C, Frankfort, Ind- Campbellite. Illegal marriage; immoral conduct. Babcock, Rev. Maltbie D., New York, N. Y. Presbyterian.
Suicide.
Backtell, gelist"
Noted "boy evanS., Pittsburgh, Pa. and highly accredited "soul-saver." Swindling by means of worthless checks.
Harry
1909. 1905. 1906. 1913.
1912. 1900.
1904.
Bailey, Rev. Geo., Cincinnati. Abused his family. Bailey, Rev. J. J., Fletcher, Okla. Fighting. Bain, Rev. E. S., Waterloo, N. Y. Baptist. Arson. Baird, Rev. E. J., Woodland, Cal. Episcopal. Inhuman and abusive treatment of wife. Baird, Rev. L. W., Winsted, Conn. Lay preacher.
1914. 1899.
1904.
1914. 1904.
Discovered in a girl's a compromising position. Wilmington, Del. Methodist. Baker, Rev. S., Gambling; suspended. Baker, Rev. Francis C, New York. Congregational.
Arrested for embezzlement. Baker, Rev. Mr., Cleveland, O.
room
in
Grand
larceny.
1903.
1907. 1907.
1906.
Evangelist. S., Minneapolis, Minn. beating; convicted; ten days. Baker, Rev. Seward, Geneseo, 111. Unitarian. Drunkenness; long spree; dismissed. Baker, Rev. William L., New York, N. Y. Violation of the medical law. Baldwin, Rev. Mr., Warsaw, Ind. Dunker. Assault and battery; arrested. Baldwin, Rev. Ralph H., New York, N. Y. Marrying two wives and deserting both. Balea, Rev. Moise, Cleveland. Greek. Criminal libel. Ballard, Rev. M., Tcxarkana, Ark. Murdered neigh-
Baker, Rev. Jos.
Wife
1900.
Shot by officers whom he resisted. bor. Banbury, Rev. James, Brooklyn, N. Y. CongregaLeft wife to elope with choir singer. tional. Bandy, Rev. S. S., Arkansas City, Ark. Baptist. Assault on 14-year-old girl.
1905. 1902.
1907.
1902.
143
Baptist. Unlicensed liquor selling; prosecuted. Barbee, Rev. Wm., Cookville, Tenn. Evangelist. Bigamy; five years' imprisonment. Bard, Rev. Paul, Detroit, Mich. Methodist. Took saloonkeeper's wife. Barfell, Rev. Othias, Columbus, O. United Brethren.
Bane, Rev. A. H., Hollow Rock, Tenn.
1914.
1900. 1899.
Suicide by hanging. Barker, Rev. C. A., Benhams, Va. Methodist Episcopal. Lewdness convicted and fined. Barnard, Rev. E. H., Sylmar, Pa. Incest and child
;
murder; arrested.
Barnett,
Rev.
Mr.,
Cambria,
O.
Methodist.
Famil-
1902.
1907.
iarity with female member of flock; attacked marshal with knife ; arrested. Barnhart, Rev. C. W., Tylers Switch, N. Y. Evangelist. Horse stealing; fled from warrant. Barnwell, Rev. G. L., Atlanta, Ga. Baptist. Kissed
married woman.
1914.
1900.
1911.
1911.
1909.
1902.
1910.
1909.
1899.
1907.
1900.
1899. 1901.
1911. 1911.
Barr, Rev. Earl, Macedonia, O. Christian. Immoral conduct. Barr, Rev. L. W., Fairmont, W. Va. Presbyterian. Forgeries and embezzlements; absconded. Barrakman, Rev. Mr., Waterloo, 111. Divinity student. Arrested for robbery. Barranger, Rev. N. H., North Yakima, Wash. Christian. Sued for $25,000 damages for stealing affections of another man's wife. Barret, Rev. J. W., Cleveland, O. Obtaining a signature under false pretenses; 18 months. Barrett, Rev. Mr., Brazil, Ind. Evangelist. Slandering women fled from tar and feathers. Barrett, Rev. Wm. I., Blairville, Pa. Presbyterian. Arrested for criminal libel. Bartemes, Rev. Mr., Amherst, O. Before grand jury for slander. Barth, Rev. Benj., Paterson, N. J. Christian. Absconding debtor; household goods attached. Methodist. Bartle, Rev. S. D., Mechanicsville, la. Suspended for intimacy with telephone girl. Baptist. Fraudulent Bass,^ Rev. L. D., Saltsburg, Pa. mail business. Bateman, Rev. C. C. Army chaplain. Insubordination and violation of articles of war; dismissed. Baum, Rev. H. M., New York. Bankrupt, he concealed assets with intent to deceive. Baxter, Rev. C. L., Council Bluffs, la. Methodist. Sued for breach of contract. Baxter, Rev. John F., Brooklyn, N. Y. Catholic.
;
144
Charged with using questionable methods
ing
in
collect-
1911.
1907.
1900. 1912. 1905. 1899.
1902.
for benefit of a church in Ireland. Sentenced Baylis, Rev. Edgar E., Somerville, Mass. to three months in jail for libel. Baynes, Rev. H. L., Englewood, 111. Left wife to elope with girl. Beahm, Rev. J. C, Brentsville, S. C. Betraying 18year-old girl; penitentiary for five years. Beall, Rev. J. W. H., Hampden, Md. Assault and contempt of court. Beavers, Rev. Geo. S., Gainesville, Tex. Incest with daughter; arrested. Beceljak, Rev. John, Cleveland, O. Catholic. Vagrancy; arrested. Beebe, Rev. Mr., Delaware, O. Horse stealing; arrested.
money
1913. 1912.
1913. 1899.
Beeler, Beers,
Rev. Orville, Plainsville, Ind. Larceny. Rev. W. L., Wakarusa, Kans. Methodist.
Wife-murder.
Bigamy. Beesley, Rev. Jesse, St. Louis, Mo. Baptist. Belding, Rev. J. M., Lapeer, Mich. Presbyterian. Indecent advances to boys. Admitted his guilt. Suspended. Rev. Basil, Huntington, Pa. Murderous assault. Baptist. SlanBell, Rev, Edwin, New Canaan, Conn. der. Arrested. Fighting. Bell, Rev. E. A., Chicago. Campbellite. AdulBell, Rev. J. M., McKinney, Tex. tery and wife desertion. Bennett, Rev. C. O., Millwood, Ga. Baptist. Killed in duel with his cousin. Bennett, Rev. Fred E., Evanston, 111. Attempting to bribe a witness to commit perjury. Bennett, Rev. Jos., Lansford, Pa. Owed church $200; disappeared, leaving letter for girl with whom he was accused of intimacy, saying he had committed
Bell,
1902. 1902.
1907. 1913.
1912.
1913.
1902.
suicide.
1909. 1907. 1912.
1902.
Bennett, Rev. Jos., Owensboro, Ky. Suicide. Bentz, Rev. John, Covington, Ky. Sued for slander. Bergen, Rev. John, New York, N. Y. Roman CathoIndecent attempt on young girl; convicted; later lic. gave name as Rev. John P. Devaney. Berkemeier, Rev. H. J., Poughkcepsie, N. Y. LuthSummoned to court for detaining immigrant eran.
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.
145
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Bertrand,
Rev.
August, Windsor, Mich.
1911. 1905.
to entice 12-year-old girls. Besse, Rev. Henry T., San Jose, Cal.
r t. Sued for breach
1900. 1905.
1911.
1911.
of promise. _ ,^ ^ ,,^ Bettes, Rev. Sam'l G., Parkersburg, W. Va. EvanBastardy; arrested as he was about to sail gelist. for Panama as chaplain appointed by President Roosevelt. _ ,. Evangelist. PoisBettles, Rev. Albert, Lincoln, Neb. himself and girl he had betrayed. oning Methodist. Slander Betts, Rev. S. E., Topeka, Kan.
.
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of another minister's wife. Rev. Albert A., Baltimore,
Md.
Methodist.
Deserted family.
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Carl,
Kansas
City.
Divinity
student.
,
Held
1910.
1908.
for murder. , ,, t Bigam, Rev. R. J., Milledgeville, Ga. Methodist. Imdrunkenness. morality and Biggs, Rev. George W., Cincinnati, O. Former chapArrested as a common lain of Texas Legislature. thief; confessed. ^ ^ ^ Baptist.^ IntiBillings, Rev. C. M., Blackville, S. C. Negro girl, servant of family. Resigned; mate with
.
1910.
1901.
1901. 1901.
left town. T 1 Bivans, Rev. J. T., Salina, Kan. Methodist. Immoral suspended. conduct; ,. ^ ,, , Bivens, Rev. R. D., Nicholasville, Ky. Methodist pleaded guilty; fined. Assault; Bixby, Rev. Jos. P., Boston, Mass. Contempt of
,
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1901.
1902. 1904. 1912.
court. _ , , o^ Black, Rev. Henry, chaplain British cruiser at bt. Suicide. Johns, N. F. Left a trail Blackiston, Rev. W. E., Windsor, N. J. of scandal behind him," says his wife. ,^ , ^. Blake, Rev. John H., Montclair, N. J. Methodist. "Serious charge" by a woman; arrested. Blakemore, Rev. F. P., Tecumseh, Neb. Methodist. Immorality and profanity. Blanchet, Rev. John B., Philadelphia, Pa. Episcopal. Charged with stealing church and contents by means to of a fraudulent deed. Also arrested for cruelty animals. ^ , ,. t -n i
.
.
.
1910.
1899.
Catholic. Living in illegal Bliesz, Rev. A., Dayton, O. state with woman. Mass. ConBliss, Rev. Leon D., Great Barnngton, gregational. Defendant in $5,000 damage suit for
. ^
1906.
Bloom, Rev. A. W., San Jose, Cal. Christian. Eighteen months for horse stealing on plea of guilty.
slandering
women.
^,
-r-
i,^
146
1909.
1904.
Bockman,
Rev.
H.,
Beaver
Dam,
Wis.
Lutheran.
Ousted. Bolton, Rev. Floyd, Six Mile, Ind.
"Peeping Tom."
fled.
Deceiving young
Stealing
women;
1899.
1910. 1911. 1905.
Boone, Rev. Daniel, Washington, Md.
from
woman;
disorderly; fined.
1905. 1901.
1906.
1908. 1912.
Boord, Rev. Thomas G., Pittsburgh, Pa. Baptist. Tried to sell his children at auction. Booth, Rev. A. L., Elizabeth City, N. C. Methodist. Misappropriated missionary and conference funds. Booze, Rev. Coleman, Buchanan, Va. Baptist. Set fire to his church and smashed doors of residence with an ax arrested. Bope, Rev. F. W., Zanesville, O. Episcopal. Debauchery and licentiousness. Born, Rev. Peter, Detroit, Mich. Lutheran. Abusing wife and adultery. Borrough, Rev, Geo. T., Brooklyn, N. Y. Episcopal. Passing forged check; grafter. Boscher, Rev. Henry, New York. Lutheran. Vagrancy and fraud. Bostwick, Rev. Mr., Wyaconda, Mo. Methodist. Criminal assault. Rev. Alexander P., Cambridge, Mass. ConBourne,
;
structive larceny.
1911.
Guilty of disJ. orderly conduct. Rev. E. T., Kansas City, Mo. Presbyterian. Bowers, Criminal intimacy and gross immoralities found
;
Bowen, Rev. Franklin, Paterson, N.
guilty.
1909.
1899.
Boyd, Rev.
six years.
P.,
Logan, O.
United Brethren.
Assault;
Boyer, Rev. C. PL, D. D., Kansas City, Kan. Evangelist. Horse stealing; five years in Missouri penitentiary.
1903.
1910.
1908.
1914.
Boyer, Rev. Henry K., Robcrtsville, Conn. Deserting blind wife after squandering her money. Bradburn, Rev. A. K., Charlotte, Mich. Methodist. Arrested for larceny. Brady, Rev. James, Fort Smith, Ark. Catholic. Bastardy. Brales, S. Virum, San Antonio, Tex. Catholic. Shot by a parishioner and his son, when caught by them in criminal conduct in their home. Branham, Rev. Clifton II., Blucficld, W. Va. Murder of wife. Brannock, Rev. J. A., Cherryvalc, Mo. Baptist. Inducing married woman to leave home for him.
1903.
1900.
1911. 1901.
147
and
jewels
Bray,
Rev.,
Suffolk,
Va.
Took
money
from a woman.
Bredlinger, Rev. Wm., Cumberland, Md. Evangelist. Criminal intimacy with daughters, 16 and 12; justified his conduct with Bible quotation. Breen, Rev. S. Edmund, Danbury, Conn. Congregational. Alleged to be thief and liar. Brenton, Rev. Cranston, Hartford, Conn. Episcopal. Sued for divorce on the ground of intolerable
cruelty.
1904.
1912.
1910. 1911. 1906.
1911. 1902.
1902.
Bresner, Rev. P., New York. Catholic. Intoxication. Brewer, Rev. Charles, Olustee, Okla. Baptist. Held for dynamiting Fort Riley. Bridewell, Rev. C. P., Atlanta, Ga._ Presbyterian. Suspended by Presbytery for gross immorality. George W., Cincinnati. Methodist. Briggs, Rev. Larceny. Briggs, Rev. G. W., Paducah, Ky. Local. "Cutting with intent to kill." Bright, Rev. T., Charlotte, N. C. Baptist. Fraudulently obtaining money by "endless chain;" con^
1901. 1903.
1913.
victed. Brinsfield, Rev. G. W., Cambridge, inal assault on sister-in-law. Brobst, Rev. F. J., Chicago, 111.
Md.
Local.
Crimlife
Attempting
of
1901.
1914.
1910.
wife, which he had insured. Brodt, Rev. John G., St. Louis, Mo. Presbyterian. Taking young boys to disorderly resorts. Brooker, Rev. L. C, Kearney, Neb. Evangelist. Bastardy; suicide.
Brooks, ment. Brooks,

Brooks,
Rev. Rev.
Frank,
Warsaw, Mo.
Rochester,
Child
abandonCollected
Lawson,
N.
Y.
money under
1913. 1905.
1908.
false pretenses.
Had two
families.
Rev. Walter, Passaic, N. J. Charged with assaulting his wife and threatening to shoot her. Brooks, Rev. W. H., Princeton, Ind. Attempted train
wrecking; jailed. Brophy, Rev. J. F.,

Suicide.
Coney
Island,
N. Y.
Catholic.
Catholic.
1900.
1904. 1899. 1900.
Brothemer, Rev.
J.
C, Frank, O.
Assault
and
battery.
Broughton, Rev. Len G., Atlanta, Ga. Baptist. Fighting with chief of police at Albany, Ga. Brown, Rev. Mr., Kansas City, Mo. Neglect of children; arrested. Brown, Rev. C. O., Chicago, 111. Conduct entitling wife to divorce.
148
1905.
1901.
Brown, Rev. Chas. S., Brooklyn, N. Y, Episcopal. Sued for separation by wife; reason unprinted. 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.
1910.
Brown, Rev. Chas.

bling.
S.
S.,
Lee's
Summit, Mo.
Gam-
1908.
1908.
Brown, Rev. C. S., Kansas City, Mo. Christian. Murder and suicide. Brown, Rev. F. C, Rowayton, 111. Baptist. Seducexpelled from ministry. tion Brown, Rev. G. A., Bloomington, 111. Mismanaged children's home; used children to solicit funds. Brown, Rev. Herbert, Paterson, N. J. Presbyterian.
;
Resistance to law.
1899. 1900.
1906. 1906.
1913.
1912.
Baptist. Attempt at larceny; pleaded guilty. Brown, Rev. Lyman S., Liberty, Del. Methodist. Forgery; indicted; suicide. Brown, Rev. O. M., Kentucky. Forgery. Brown, Rev. Wm., Burlington, Wis. Baptist. Arrested for seduction and embezzlement. Brown, Rev. Will, Sterling, 111. Caught with a woman in a disorderly house. Pleaded guilty and was fined. Brown, Rev. W. A., Hyde Park, Mass. Presbyterian. Sued for divorce on account of cruel and inhuman
Brown, Rev. John W., Brooklyn, N. Y.
treatment.
1902. 1907.
1912. 1901. 1913.
Brownback, Rev. G. W., Reading, Pa. Congregational. Conduct compromising woman. Browning, Rev. W. T., Cleveland, Miss. Giving fraudulent mortgage; arrested.
Brownlee, Rev. J. M., Joplin, Mo. Baptist. Immoral conduct with young girls. Bruce, Rev. J. G., alias J. B. Goddard, Selma, Cal. United Brethren. Improper conduct toward women. Brueggeman, Rev. E. A., Zanesville, O. Disorderly conduct; pleaded guilty and was fined. Brumbaugh, I. Harvey, Huntington, Pa. Dunkard (called Church of the Brethren). Breach of promise. Convicted. Assessed $9,250 damajges. Bruner, Rev. Otto, Long Island. Methodist. Adultery and elopement. Bryan, Rev. S., Millcn, Ga. Methodist. Intimacy with young woman; wife beating; suspended from
ministry.
1900.
1899.
1907.
1903.
Bryant, Rev. C. A., Jessup, deserting wife.
la.
Baptist.
Swindling;
1900.
1899.
149
1911.
Bryant, Rev. Gay, Shoal Creek, N. C. Methodist. Inciting mob to burn a Sanctificationist church. Bryant, Rev. H. A., Fayetteville, Tenn. Christian. Arrested for arson; committed suicide. Bryant, Rev. W. M., Moultrie, Ga. Operated a "blind
tiger."
Buchanan,
1911.
Rev.
S.
H.,
Clarksville,
Ark.
Embezzle-
ment of state asylum funds. Buchanan, Rev. Dr. W. D., New York.
speeding.
Convicted of
1912. 1911.
1906. 1908.
Free Methodist traveling evanSued for divorce on the ground of adultery. Buckner, Rev. Henry, Fairgeld, 111. Methodist. Attacked young girl. Budanauro, Rev. E. E., Monmouth, 111. Baptist. Disappeared, leaving vîfe and debts. Buddington, Rev. A. L., Adrian, Mich. Free Methogelist.
Buck, Rev. Mr., Ind.
1905.
1901.
1913.
1908. 1907. 1902.
1904.
1899. 1913. 1903. 1907. 1900.
1903.
Eloping. Rev. C. J., Rhode Island. Campbellite. Illegal use of mails; assault on 12-year-old girl; one year in jail; long criminal record. Budzikowiski, Rev. F. J., Minneapolis, Minn. CathoSuicide by shooting. lic. Buell, Rev. Henry A., Washington, N. J. Baptist. Improper conduct with daughter of a fellowpreacher. Bulgin, Rev. E. J., Hanford, Cal. Evangelist. Swindling; ordered by court to make good. Bull, Rev. D. W., Syracuse, N. Y. Congregational. Practicing ophthalmology without license; arrested. Bullard, Rev. Frederick, Circleville, O. Presbyterian. Inviting girl to assignation; suspended. Bullock, Rev. C. S., Stratford, Conn. Independent. Bastardy. Bumkala, Rev, Jos., Chicago, 111. Catholic. Absconding with church funds. Bunn, Rev. W. G., Geneva, N. Y. Reckless speeding while drunk. Fined on his plea of guilty. Bunnell, Rev. Noah, Up. Sandusky, O. Attempting
dist.
Budlong,
suicide.
Burbridge, Rev. A., Wichita, Kan. Murdered wife; attempted suicide; executed. Rev. C. Burgess, C, Wolfville, N. S. Baptist. Though married, seduced single woman ; deposed. Burgess, Rev. Dawson, alias Bert Dawson, WessingChristian. Left wife in Iowa; married ton, S. D. again in S. D. and decamped with mortgaged property, leaving creditors.
150
1911.
1900.
Burgess, Rev. Dr. Frederick, Brooklyn. Episcopal. Arrested for speeding auto. Burrows, Rev. Edward, Camden, N. J. CongregaBigamy; arrested; three wives. tional. Burt, Rev. O. C, Quarryville, Pa. Methodist. Eloping with a parishioner; whipped by girl's father and deposed; wife and two children; bigamist. Bush, Rev. J. W., Cincinnati, O. Methodist. Theft
1899.
1906.
and grafting.
Butcher, Rev. A. criminal assault
C,
on
Clinton, Ind. Arrested 14-year-old girl. Held

Baptist.
for for
1900.
$1 500. Butler, Rev. J. B. K., Norfolk, Va.

isterial
Unmin-
1912.
1911.
1914.
conduct. Butler, Rev. George H., Sherwood Park, N. Y. Episcopal. Sued for assault on a woman. Butler, Rev. G. H. H., Yonkers, N. Y. Episcopal. Slander.
1907. 1903,
1914.
Butterworth, Rev. Robert R, Seattle, Wash. Reorganized Church Latter Day Saints. Murderous asThe clergyman refused to quit a shack consault. demned by the city, and shot the health inspector, who tried to eject him. Buttington, Rev. J. H., Hamilton, O. Jailed with his companion, a married woman. Byars, J. P., Chattanooga, Tenn. Methodist. Eloping with married woman. Congregational. Byles, Rev. Charles H., Lockport, 111. In trouble with his church for divers alleged improprieties.
1907.
Byrnes, Rev.
Wm., Luverne, Minn. Methodist. Suspended from clergy for immoral conduct with two
girls.
young
1903.
1913. 1911.
Calaway, Rev. J. L., Adair, Mo. Methodist. Stealing horse and buggy; woman in the case. Caldwell, Rev. J. M., Chicago. Methodist. Arrested on a serious charge attempted suicide. Grafting on Call, Chaplain W. J., San Quentin, Cal. Confessed and was removed. prisoners. Callahan, Father Michael F., Denver. Catholic. Mis;
appropriated funds. Calvin, Rev. John, Green Co., Ala.
one man and

1914.
1909.
fatally
wounded
Methodist. Killed another in light;

Baptist.
intimacy with wife of
man
killed.
Cameron, Rev. Edward C, Palisade, Colo. Larceny and fraud. Cami)bell, Kev. II. R., Stamping Ground, Ky.
bellitc.
Camp-
l.rft
wi
ft-
fo- alVinily; resigned; arrested.
151
1900. 1899.
1912.
1904.
1914. 1911.
1911. 1909.
Campbell, Eish. W. B., Toledo, O. Evangelist. Embezzling church funds; arrested. Campeau, Rev. J. V., Manchaug, Mass. Catholic. Slander; sued for $8,0C0. Canning, Rev. John, Exeter, Mass. Catholic. Seduction; sued by girl's father. Capps, Rev. Marion, Bonanza, Ark. Methodist. Murder; sentenced to death. Carack, Rev. Victor, Snowshoe, Pa. Catholic. Cruelly beating a boy; jailed. Carlin, Rev. Philip C. Methodist. Wife-desertion. Carlson, J. S., Spokane, Wash. "Once a preacher."
Fined for intoxication.

Kurtz, pleaded guilty. Carrnichael, Rev.
Carlson,
suicide.
Chicago,
J.
111.
Lutheran.
Bigamy;
H.,
Battle
Run, Mich.
Murder;
1911.
1912.
1901.
1907. 1907.
Father Joseph A., Pueblo, Colo. Catholic. Arrested for assault. Carpenter, Rev. Arthur H., Cromwell, Conn. Baptist. Resigned pastorate under fire. Accused of "indiscretion" with married woman. Carpenter, Rev. J. C, Eldersville, Pa. Methodist. Conspiracy; indicted; arrested. Dover, Rev., Del. Holiness. Deceived Carpenter, wife; seduced young woman. Carr, Rev. J. H., Baltimore, Md. Arrested for stealCarosini,
ing.
1909.
1909. 1902. 1909. 1907. 1910. 1908.
Rev. Carr, beating.

Carroll,
T.
J,
J.,
Topeka,
Kan.
Baptist.
Wife-
Rev.
H.,
Wallingford,
Conn.
Catholic
Mr., Hackensack, N. J. Methodist. Conspiracy; intimacy with a sister of the church. Carruthers, Rev. Francis, New Waterford, O. Presbyterian. Arrested for drunkenness. Carska, Rev. A., Glassport, Pa. Murder. Carter, Rev. G. T., Paterson, N. J. Baptist. Paying
attentions to 15-year-old girl; divorced. Carter, Rev. Joseph, Columbus, Ind. United Brethren.
Slander. Carrothers, Rev.
1901.
1910.
1901.
1903.
Intoxicated in company of two women. Spr., Neb. Methodist. Rev. H., Rock Cartledge, Attempted rape; fined. Casey, Rev. M. A., Tacoma, Wash. Methodist EpisImmorality; resigned. copal. Cash, Rev. W. B., Pierson, la. Christian. Eloping with parishioner's wife. Cassada, Rev. W. R., Somerset, Ky. Violation of revenue law.
152
1913.
Chadbourne, Rev. James
dist.
P.,
Wife desertion. Sued resigned from the ministry.

1914.
Roxbury, Mass. Methofor divorce, and hastily

S.
Chadwick,
W.
S.,
Greenville,
C.
Local
preacher.
Wife beating and murder.

1905.
1905.
1899.
Chamberlain, Rev. H. W., Priest River, Idaho.

gregational.
Con-
Attempted
suicide.
1913.
1903.
Rev. Mr., Salt Lake City, Utah. Chamberlain, Swindling in real estate transaction. Chapman, Rev. Austin, New York, N. Y. Baptist. Assaulting wife; jailed. Chapman, Rev. John C, New York, N. Y. Presbyterian. Fraud. Chase, Rev. Alfred, St. Johns, Mich. Stealing; arrested
;
fled.
1908.
1906. 1909. 1900.

1903. 1899.
Chase, Rev. E. H., Fairfield. Methodist. Stole another minister's coat and Bible. Chase, Canon William Sheafe, Brooklyn, N. Y. Episcopal. Contempt of court. Chattin, Rev. J. M., Chicago. Catholic. Immoral conduct with inmates of his home for boys. Chavis, Rev. Jordan, 8th Regt., 111. Co-respondent in divorce case. Cheney, Rev. T. B., Washington C. H., O. Methodist. Suicide by cutting throat. Cherry, Rev. B. A., Winchester, Tenn. Subornation of perjury; incendiarism; fraud; expelled. Cheshire, Rev. Chas. B., Newark,. N. J. Obtaining
1908.
1900.
money under Chew, Rev. F.

ties.
false pretenses.
R.,
Missouri.
Methodist.
Irregulari-
1913. 1911.
1911. 1914. 1909.

1913.
1912.
1899.
Childs, Rev. John P., Marysville, O. Church of Christ. Failing to provide for wife; sued for divorce. Illegal liquor-selling. Chiles, Rev. John, Topeka, Kan. Chilton, Rev. Charles H., Birmingham, Ala. Baptist. Arrested for adultery. Chincaloni, Father Felice, Youngstown, Pa. Catholic Arrested for kidnapping. Chip, Rev. E. G., Parsons, W. Va. Deserting wife and child and eloping with a woman. Baptist. EmChristian, Rev. R. W., Ashtabula, O. bezzlement of church funds; forgery. Keeping disChristy, Rev. Robert, Columbus, O. orderly house. MethoCissel, Rev. Cassius C, D. D., Kokomo, Ind. Unfrocked for adultery. dist. Methodist. Civill. Rev. Acton T., Mt. Kisco, N. Y. Voluntarily resigned as "unfit."
1909.
Claflin,
163
1899.
1908.
Rev. M. C, Garden City, Minn. Methodist. Disappeared with money and girl not his own. Clare, Rev. E. H., Brooklyn, N. Y. Lutheran. Slander; summoned to police court. Clark, Rev. Geo., Roseburg, Ore. Methodist. Money under false pretenses. Eloped with 17-year-old
girl.
1900.
1905.
1905.
1901.
1898.
1901. 1913.
1909.
Clark, Rev. Thos., Wood Co., W. Va. Shot his neighbor, Dempsey, dead. Clark, Rev. Warren E., New York. Episcopal. Raising and not accounting for Japanese orphan fund. Clarkson, Rev. Nestor, Chicago, 111. Evangelist. Non-payment of alimony to wife who divorced him. Cleary, Rev. B. F., Chattanooga, Tenn. Methodist. Eloped with 16-year-old girl. Clear, Rev. M. J., Grafton, O. Catholic. Assault on girl; fined and transferred.
Clemmons, Rev. H. E., Memphis, Tenn. Selling mortgaged property; arrested.

Click,
Baptist.
1906.
1912.
1904.
1905.
1908.
1899.
Rev. William, McAlester, Okla. Apostolic. Manslaughter. Clifton, Rev. J. J., Sioux City, la. Campbellite. Criminal assault on 4-year-old girl. Cline, Rev. E. C, Eden Valley, Kan. Methodist. "Led about a sister" not his own wife. Coad, Rev. J. E., Butte, Mont. Methodist. Charged with immorality. Cockran, Rev. W. F., So. Bethlehem, Pa. Methodist. Gambling; suspended. Codman, Rt. Rev. Bishop, Diocese of Maine. EpisCriminal libel; indicted by grand jury. copal. Cofif, Abis, Tahlihina, Okla. Choctaw Indian Mis-
Murder. sionary. Coffey, Rev. Wm. N., Des Moines, la. Christian. Robbed an old lady of her life savings, $600.
Coffman, Rev. S. C, Marion Co., W. Va. Methodist. Wife murder. Cohron, Rev. J. L., St Louis, Mo. Baptist. Embezzlement.
1908.
1913. 1907.
1902.
1911.
1902. 1909.
Rev. J. H., Wenatchee, Wash. Catholic. Betrayed 17-year-old girl held for trial. Collins, Rev. Jas., Chittenango, N. Y. Catholic. Burglary in third degree; convicted of assault in 1900. Collins, Rev. John M., Sacramento, Cal. Contributing to dependence of 17-year-old girl. Coltharp, Rev. Ham, Knoxville, Tenn. Baptist. DiColin,
;
vorced by wife. Colton, Rev. C. H., Buffalo, N. Y. zlement.
Catholic.
Embez-
154
1899.
1903. 1911. 1906.
Combiis, Rev. B. C, Perry, Okla.
tion
;
Attempting extor-
jailed.
Rev. J. L., Russiaville, Ind. Intoxicated; arrested; fined. Condit, Rev. Henry J., Newark, N. J. CongregationArrested for slander. alist. Connell, Rev. W. J., Lamar, Col. Presbyterian. Assault on 16-year-old girl; eighteen years in penitentiary.
Comer,
1901.
1913.
1911.
Conniff, Rev. Jas., Louisville, Ky. Catholic. nity of child born out of wedlock.
Pater-
1900.
1907.
1902.
1907.
1906.
Conroy, Coadjutor Bishop Joseph; Ogdensburg, N. Y. Roman Catholic. Conspiracy. Consolazio, Father Bernardin, Trenton, N. J. Catholic. Held for trial for fraud; elopement. Cook, Rev. Elisha, Richmond, Va. Teaching boys to steal; six months. Cook, Rev. F. J., Peoria, 111. Methodist. Fined for assault on 13-year-old girl. Cook, Rev. L. O., Kenton, O. Methodist. Arrested in hotel with grass widow. Cooke, Rev. J. K., Hempstead, L. I. Episcopal. Left wife to elope with his "spiritual" ward. Coombs, Rev. C. T., Pittsburgh, Pa. Living with
affinity instead of wife.
1909.
1912.
Coons, Rev.
W.
F.,
Hoosick, N. Y.
Baptist.
Visiting
disorderly houses; divorced. Cooper, Rev. R. T., Springfield,
Mass.
Methodist.
Immoral conduct; caught during the Methodist conference at Minneapolis, Minn., and sentenced to the
'1899.
workhouse. Copeland, Rev. John A., N. Tonawanda, N. Y.
1904.
1912. 1904. 1901.
Slander; fled from tar and feathers. Copeland, Rev. Levi B. H., Palmyra, N. J. Baptist. Improper suggestions to lady, who brought charges. Cordcll, Rev. Harold, Beulah, Ind. Christian. Obtaining money under false pretenses. Cordova, Rev. J. F.,_ South River, N. J. Methodist.
1905.
Eloping; abusing v/ife; four years. Corey, Rev. Geo., New York. Methodist. land transactions; sued. Cormack, Rev. Jos., W. McHenry, 111.
Fraudulent
Methodist.
1910.
1901.
Kidnapping; indicted by grand jury. Corn forth, Rev. Athelstane, New York.
1914.
Episcopal. Left wife to elope; suicide. Cory-Thomas, Rev. T., Ishpcming, Mich. Episcopal. Improper conduct; guilty; debarred. Coiuiin, Rev. J. A., Dearborn, Mich. Methodist EpisArson. copal.
1908.
155
Baptist.
Coultman, Rev. D. M.,

Ministerial
St.
Catharines, Ont.
Zanesville,
conduct.
1910.
1902.
Courtenay,
Rev.
I.
A.
D.,
M.,
O.
Methodist.
Fighting. Couzins, Rev.
Elm
Grove,
W.
Va.
Church of
God.
1909. 1902.
1913.
Covell, wife.
Drunkenness; arrested. Rev. H. E., Long Island.
Non-support of
1902.
1905. 1907.
Cowherd, Rev. Alex., Indianapolis, Ind. Giving bogus mortgage; arrested. Cox, Rev. A. T., Elm Grove, W. Va. Christian. Elopement with 14-year-old girl. Cox, Rev. Charles, Morehead, Ky. Leaving wife and
eloping with
girl.
Cox, Rev. James

Cox, Rev.
J.
B.,
Saltville,
jail.
Va.
Baptist.
Baptist.
Chicken
stealing; 30 days in
R.,
Jonesboro, Tenn.
Chicken
trial
theft; thirty days.

1911. 1911. 1904.
Coyle, Rev. E. T., Indianapohs, Ind. for larceny. Crabtreeman, Rev. Mr., Wayne Co.,
terian.
IlHcit
Awaiting
Tenn. Presbywhisky selling. Crafts, Rev. Wilbur F., Washington, D. C Misuse
1908.
1903.
1911.
W., Newark, N. J. Episcopal. Swindling. Craig, Rev. Robert Lee, Omaha, Neb. Episcopal. Slaughtering song birds; fined. Crane, Rev. William, Redke, Ind. Christian. Celebrated successful ending of revivals by getting
of U. S. mails. Craig, Rev. John
drunk and disorderly.

1899.
1902. 1911. 1901.
1908.
1900.
Rev. J. B., Texas. Baptist. Slandering Rev. Dr. Hayden; tried; $60,000 damages. Crawford, Rev. C. H., Amherst, Va. Contempt of court; cowhided by judge. Crawford, Rev. E. D., Chicago. Methodist. Found guilty of slander; fined $4,000. 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. Crociata, Rev. F., No. Adams, Mass. Catholic. Complicity in assault causing death; three years. Crockett, Rev. J. Ad., New York. Left wife, who sued for divorce. Crooks, Rev. James D., Troy, Ida. Methodist EpisCranfill,
;
copal.
Murder.
156
1912.
1913.
Cross, Rev. Holmes, Louisville, Ky. Methodist. Disorderly conduct. Cross, Rev. Sydney, Westfield, N. J. Episcopal. Criminal conduct with boys. Owensboro, Ky. Methodist. Crow, Rev. T. P., Drunkenness; withdrew from church. Crowther, Rev. J. C, Vernon, N. Y. Consorting with sued for divorce. disreputable characters
_ ;
1900.
1902.
1904.
Crudup, Rev. Essex

;
J.,
1900.
1906.
with four women Cuff, Rev. John, New York.
Plainfield, arrested.
N.
J.
Misbehaving
Obtaining money under

Campbellite.
false pretenses; jailed. Culley, Rev. G. H., Philadelphia, Pa.
Em-
1900. 1906.
1908.
bezzlement. Culver, Rev. R.

stolen goods;
M.,
Bowling
Green,
O.
Receiving
fined $50.
Cummings,
bellite.
1899.
1899.
Rev. M. G., Murphysboro, 111. CampArson. Cummings, Rev. Wm., Elk Rapids, Mich. Eloped with wife's sister. Cunningham, Rev. H., Franklin, W. Va. Robbery;
stealing $1,500; five years.
1913.
1908.
Curran, Rev. Michael, Gloucester, N. J. Catholic. Assault and threat to shoot. Cusack, Rev. John, Cincinnati, O. Catholic. Drunkenness; resisting officer; jailed. Cuthriell, Rev. John F., Baltimore, Md. Dismissed from ministry for running after strange women. Cutler, Rev. Frederick, Yonkers, N. Y. Reformer. Fraud.
Rev. Herbert W., East African Missionary. Methodist. Forgery. Dagenais, Rev. Father, Bryson, Can. Catholic. Sued
1908. 1911. 1899. 1914.
Dack,
1907.
for defamation of character. Dahlke, Rev. G. J., Colfax, Wash. Running away with married woman; jailed. Dahlstrom, Rev. Albert, Tacoma, Wash. Founder of Heliga sect. Convicted of white slavery. Dahlstrom, Rev. A., Chicago. Abduction of 17-year-
1913. 1911.
1913. 1899.
old girl. Daily, Rev. Elmer, Topeka. Kan. Wife desertion. Damstatcr, Louis, Cleveland. O. Jewish rabbi. Sentenced to six months in jail ftir larcenv. Darby, Rev. William L., New York, N. Y. City misNon-sui)port of wife. sionarv. Daughcrty. Rev. H. C, Scott Co., Tcnn. Killing Wm.
Ross with shotgun.
1911.
1909.
157
I.
David, Rev. Israel, Providence, R.

bery.
Baptist.
RobChrist.
1912.
1913.
Davidson, Rev. E. E., Piqua, Eluded officer with warrant common law marriage. Davis, Rev. Ben., Louisville, by police for murder. Davis, Rev. Cader Russell.
Adultery. Davis, Rev. John,
O.
for
Church of
desertion.
Denied
Ky.
Baptist
Wanted
preacher.
Ex-Christian
1902. 1900.
1910. 1902.
Pedricktown, N. J. Baptist. Deserting affianced bride at altar; fled. Davis, Rev. Edwards, Oakland, Cal. Deserting wife. Sued for divorce.
Davis, Rev.
copal.
Methodist EpisJ. A., Woodstock, Can. Adultery with 16-year-old girl. Davis, Rev. J. P., Coshocton, O. Sanctificationist. Beating wife; intimacy with other women; sued for
divorce.
1901.
1900. 1902. 1901.
1901.
1911. 1906. 1899.
1901.
1900.
1914.
1912. 1905. 1907. 1906.
1904.
1908.
Davis, Rev. King, Earleboro, Okla. Assault on 12year-old girl; kilHng her father. Davis, Rev. Wesley R., Washington, D. C. Passing worthless check; arrested. Davis, Rev. L., Dublin, O. Deserting family; divorced; failed to pay alimony; arrested. Davis, Rev. Mr., Easton, Md. Stealing; jailed; escaped. Dawkins, Rev, Eliphas, Cherokee Co., S. C. Murdering his wife. Day, Rev. John, Muskogee, Ok. Christian. Bigamist. Day, Rev. J. A., Revelstock, B. C. Financial fraud. Day, Rev. Mr. Fairbank, la. Intimacy with another man's wife; fled to escape tar and feathers. Deal, Rev. Mr., Rutherford, N. C. Assaulting 15year-old girl; jailed. Dean, Rev. George, Findlay, O. Adventist. Eloping with school girl; arrested. Decker, Rev. Nathaniel, Bolivar, Pa. Saint's church (faith healing). Assault and battery. DeGroth, Rev. Frank, Chicago, 111. Arrested for "improper conduct." DeLarme, Rev. A. A., Paterson, N. J. Baptist. Accused of breach of promise; resigned. Deller, Rev. W. N., Altoona, Pa. United Brethren. Found in hotel with 19-year-old girl; resigned. Dempsey, Rev. J. M.. Lineville, la. Attempted to wed a second time while first wife lived. Denham, Rev. Benj. Q., New York. Disciples. Indecent exposure. Denham, Rev. B. Q., New York. Disciples. Adultery.'
158
1913.
DePue, Rev. James H., Arlington, Va. Receiving money on false pretenses.
Derrick,
Presbyterian.
1905.
Rev.
B.,
bishop,
New
Libel, conspiracy, maladministration,
York. Methodist. and other mis-
1907.
1906. 1914. 1900. 1905. 1902.
1907. 1903.
demeanors. DeVries, Rev.
Grand Rapids, Mich. Christian E., Improper conduct; expelled. DeWoody, Rev. Chas., Utica, N. Y. Baptist. Conduct unbecoming a Christian; resigned. Diamond, Rev. George I., D, D., Beaumont, Tex.
Reformed.
1903. 1908. 1900.

1911.
Larceny. Diana, Rev. Fr., Alpha, N. J. Catholic. Drunkenness; debauchery; forgery; arrested. Territory. Evangelist. Indian Rev. Dick, Jacob, Fraudulent real estate transactions. Dickerson, Rev. Charles H., Newark, N. J. CongreStealing altar furniture; broke jail. gational. Dickson, Rev. T. J., San Antonio, Tex. Chaplain. Shot a soldier. Dillard, Rev. H. C, Spring Hope, N. C. Writing obscene letters to a girl. Dillon, Rev. J. P., Rolla, Mo. Evangelist. Dual life; woman confessed; sued, he fled. Dimmit, Rev. J. H., Valley Junction, la. CongregaDismissed from ministry for misconduct. tional. Dixon, Rev. Jos. K., Boston, Mass. Baptist. Adultery;
divorced.
Doak, Rev.
a
J. A.,
Quinton, Kan.
Criminally assaulted
little girl.
1900.
Dobson,
Sunday
Rev. Robert, New York, N. Y. Deceived school teacher; borrowed her money and
broke promise to marry; jailed. Dodd, Rev. Richard, Clinton, Ky. Bastardy and complicity in
infanticide.
1905.
1905.
1902.
John, Lebanon, Ind. Holiness. Stabbing parishioner; arrested. Doherty, Rev. Richard, Marcus Rock, Pa. Episcopal. False report; horsewhipped.
Dodge,
Rev.
1912.
1902.
1902. 1911.
Catholic. ConP. J., Philippi, Md. tempt of court as executor of will; summoned. Donaldson, Rev. Aaron B., St. Louis, Mo. Methodist. Sentenced to three years' imprisonment for swindling an aged parishioner. Donaldson, Aug. M., Rossville, N. Y. Manslaughter.
Donahoe, Bish.
"Straight Edge" society leader. Rev. M. V., Vacavillc, Cal. Nocturnal exploits with women; drunkenness. Donatella, Francis, Pittsburgh, Pa. Catholic. Wanted for abducting a 15-ycar-old girl.
Donaldson,
1910.
159
1899. 1909. 1908.
1904.
1909. 1909.
Rev. Ed., Bingham, Utah. Catholic. Dismissed from church for drunkenness. Donnelly, Rev. Robert, Denver, Col. Evangelist. Burglary; jailed. Donnelly, Rev. Mr., New York. Theft. Doolittle, Rev. Chas., Anderson, Ind. Evangelist. Non-support. Dorr, Rev. Henry, Brooklyn, N. Y. Thrice arrested for wife beating. Dorsey, Rev. Wm., St. Louis, Mo. Campbellite. StealDonnelly,
ing; jailed.
Dougherty, Rev. R. T., Fargo, N. D. Congregational. Suicide pact with college student; latter killed himself.
1899.
1914.
1901.
1911.
1912. 1903.
1911. 1911.
1894.
1899. 1913. 1907.
1900.
M., Whitley, 111. Improper conduct with girl; resigned. Douglass, Rev. Archie, Sayre, Pa. Itinerant preacher. Arrested on charge of serious offense against a 15-year-old girl. Douglass, Rev. Jas., Atlanta, Ga. United Brethren. Bigamy and forgery in various states. Douthitt, Rev. S. W., Arkansas City, Kans. United Presbyterian. Arrested for drunkenness and spent night in jail. Dow, Rev. T. J., Minneapolis, Minn. Christian. Sued for alienation of affections. Dowie, John A., Chicago, 111. Christian Catholic. Libel; mulcted $2,000. Dowie, William, Cleveland, Ohio. Evangelist. Fined $10 for assault and battery. Doyle, Rev. Clyde, Amite, La. Arrested and sent to jail in Texas for four years for bigamy, embezzlement and wife desertion. Doyle, Rev. Gregory, Hart Co., Ky. Baptist. Seduction abortion girl died sentenced for life. Drake, Rev. Edward, Chillicothe, O. Co-respondent in divorce suit. Drake, Rev. Paul H., Beverly, Mass. Universalist. Disorderly conduct and obstructing the sidewalk. Driver, Rev. S. M., Los Angeles, Cal. Methodist.
;
Doughty, Elder L.
1908.
Unbalanced by drink. Dryden, Rev. M. F., Wheeling, W. Va. Methodist. Choked wife; killed by her father. Dryer, Rev. Geo. H., New York. Methodist. Defalcation.
1901.
1899.
United Brethren. J. V., Goshen, O. Attempted suicide by shooting. Duchon, Rev. Fr., St. Louis, Mo. Catholic. Fled with parish funds and his housekeeper.
Duceman, Rev.
160
1900. 1900.
1909. 1909.
Dudley, Rev. Lewis, St. Louis, Mo. Church of God. Assault and battery; arrested. Duffy, Rev. Fr., Port Jervis, N. Y. Catholic. Suicide in New York, found dead in hotel. Du Lubicz, Rev. Antonio, Winnipeg, Man. Catholic. Obtaining money under false pretenses. Dumouline, Rev. W. G., San Francisco, Cal. Cruelty
1909.
and desertion divorced. Dunbar, Rev. Edward, Cal., Ark., N. Y. Methodist. Desertion of wife, and adultery. Duncan, Rev. D. B., Crawfordsville, Ind. PresbyCruel and inhuman treatment of terian. wife;
;
divorced.
1900.
1913. 1904. 1912.
Rev. Kenneth, San Francisco, Cal. EvanPetty larceny; stole clothes; jailed. Duncan, Matthew and Luke, Knoxville, Tenn. Bap-
Duncan,
gelist.
tist.
Assault.
Jas.,
Dundonough, Rev.
with
girl,
Eau
Claire,
Wis.
Ran away
forsaking flock.
;
1909.
1908.
Dunn, Rev. William F., Evansville, Ind. Methodist. Immoral conduct three months in jail. Dunnigan, Rev. A. P., Hempstead, L. I. Catholic.
Alienated a wife's affections.
Dunworth, Rev. Wm.,

Suicide.
New
London, Conn.
Catholic
1900.
1911.
1901.
1905.
1902.
Duperon, Rev. Fr., Worcester, Mass. Catholic. Deceiver and swindler. Dwello, Rev. P. N., Marshalltown, la. Methodist. Slander and libel. Dwindle, Dr. O. T., Peoria, III. Methodist Misappropriated funds of the church. Dye, Rev. Geo. E., Willows, Cal. Baptist. Intimacy with widow; resigned. Dyer, Rev. W. T., Reedbrake, Ala. Deserting wife and eloping with her sister. Dynia, Rev. M. A., New Bedford, Mass. Catholic. Co-respondent in divorce suit threatened accusing husband with a pistol, and was jailed.
;
1903.
1905. 1907.
Rev. Daniel, B. A., Bedford, Que. Methodist. great familiarity with a young woman. Early, Rev. Fred, Maury Co., Tenn. Sanctificationist
Earl,
Too
Murder and
suicide.
1899.
Easterday, Rev. G. H., Stewartsville, N. J. Congregational. Entanglement with his "spiritual ward"; left town on 48 hours' notice from deacons. Eastman, Rev. F. W., Nashville, Tenn. Presbyterian.
Rape;
mistrial.
Eastman, Rev.
tion of
J.
IGl
1900.
1906.
1912.
1911.
1911.
Methodist. Seducpaid $2,600 to settle deposed. Easton, Rev. Dr., Washington, D. C. Slandering Olga Nethersole, the actress; sued; apologized. Eby, Rev. S. C, Clayton, Mo. Sued for divorce on ground of intimacy with another woman. Eddings, Rev. John, Columbia, S. C. Holiness. Criminal assault on 12-year-old girl; sentenced to thirty days' hard labor. Edson, Rev. G. Clement. Brooklyn, N. Y. Presbyterian. Eloped with soloist of his church, Edwards, Rev. Alexander, Denver. Baptist. Killed by husband of woman with whom he was criminally
M.,
Mohawk, O.
young
girl
intimate.
1908. 1901.
1912.
W. H., Cadillac, Mich. Methodist. Adultery. Eicher, Deacon J., Decatur, Ind. Amish. Forgery; 1 to 14 years. Eills, Rev. John, Springfield, Mass. Unitarian. Accused by wife of neglecting her for other women; defended Richeson, the murderer, in the pulpit
Edyvean,
Ekeland, Rev. Emanuel, Madison, Minn. Lutheran. Arson. Elliott, Rev. Edward, Newark, N. J. Evangelist. Sued for breach of promise. Elliott, Rev. M. C, Genesee, 111. Giving out worthless checks; jailed; he has a record as a juggler of
funds.
1913.
1912.
1904.
1909.
1900.
1914.
1904.
Rev. R. Pittsburgh. Pentecost. CoW., respondent in divorce suit. Ellis, Rev. John, Foxboro, Mass. Unitarian. Cruelty to wife; clandestine correspondence with another woman; sued for divorce. Ellis, Rev. John, Bloomington, Ind. Presbyterian.
Elliott,
Ellis,
Immoral conduct. Rev. Elwood O., Richmond, Ind. Friend. Went on a week's vacation with young woman 'pronounced
;
moral degenerate.
1901.
Ellison,
Rev. John, Chattanooga, Sophia Johnson arrested.

;
Tenn.
Shooting
1911. 1903.
1908.
1913.
1905.
Ellsworth, Rev. Philip B., Jefferstown, Ind. Lutheran. Forgery. Ellwood, Rev. Robert A., Wilmington, Del. Presbyterian. Inciting to lynching. Ellwood, Rev. R. A., Leavenworth, Kan. Presbyterian. Seduction; resigned. Elmore, Rev. C. E., New Albany, Ky. Christian. Assault. Elsworth, Rev. J. S., Paterson, N. J. Reformed. Injudicious conduct with widow; resigned.
162
1912.
1901.
1905.
1913.
Emelius, Rev. Charles, New Sweden, Me. Lutheran. Accused of murder. Emerson, Rev. F. W., Topeka, Kan. Disturbance of the peace; assaulting an officer; arrested. Erhard, Rev. Lawrence A., Chicago, 111. Scandalous living; paid $2,000 hush money. Erler, Rev. John, Seven Valleys, Pa. Lutheran. Disfrocked for gross immorality. Eubank, Rev. Henry, Triplett, Mo. Christian. Mutilating public records. Euster, Rev. W. T., Helena, Mont. Methodist. Common liar; exposed by presiding elder at conference. Evans, Rev. Emerson G., Monroeton, Pa. Methodist.
to withdraw from church conference under threat of exposure for immoral conduct. Evans, Rev. E. T., Port Huron, Mich. Episcopal. Seduced 16-year-old girl; married her; spent her money on drink. Had wife in Wales.
1913. 1900. 1912.
Allowed
1909.
1899.
Evans, Rev. W. R., Mandalin, N. Y. Methodist. Intimacy with a girl he attempted to reform; lost
pulpit.
Everett,
divorce.
1908. 1908. 1912.
1899.
Charged
Ewert,
Rev. M. L., Des Moines, la. with statutory offense; wife
sued
Christian. for
Rev. Arthur, Morrisonville, 111. Methodist. Slander. Ewing, Rev. Emmett, Athens, O. Forgery. Ewing, Rev. U. P., Newton, Kan. Baptist. Wanted
for embezzlement. Eyton, Rev. Robert, London. charges; fled.
Episcopal.
Scandalous
1899.
N
1912. 1908. 1907. 1901.
Missouri. Evangelist. Train Fagley, Rev. Joseph, robber; 12 years in penitentiary. Methodist. AtFairall, Rev. H. H., Iowa City, la. tempted suicide on account of ill health. Fairfield, Rev. F. W., Sag Harbor, L. I. Baptist. Taking indecent liberties with women. Falkner, Rev. John, Chicago, 111. Lutheran. Desertion.
1913.
1909. 1913.
Farber, Rabbi R., Denver, Col. Hebrew. Improper proposals to women, who horsewhipped him. Farraday. Rev. Henry W., Broadway, N. J. MethoSeduction. dist. Brooklyn, Y. Catholic. N. Thos.. Rev. Farrell. Caur;bt in raid on disorderly house; fined. Baptist. Farroll, Rev. William, Jersey City, N. J. Abduction of 20-year-old girl. The clerical rival of Don Juan is 70 years of age.
Fee,
1902.
163
Cheating
Methodist.
Rev.
Mr.,
Toledo,
O.
Methodist.
widow
Fellows,
1910.
1909. 1912. 1902.
in land deal; Rev. C. A.,
found guilty. Portsmouth,
O.
Promiscuous attention to females; guilty. Fennell, Rev. John, New York, N. Y. Swedish Lutheran. Larceny. Fenton, Rev. J., San Jon, N. M. Holiness. Murder. Fenyes, Rev. Louis F., Johnstown, Pa. Roman Catholic. Wanted for embezzlement of church funds. Ferdinand, Rev. Mr., Omaha, Neb. Took up with another man's wife; sued. Ferdon, Rev. Arthur L, Palisades Park, N. J. Evangelist. Wife-beating. Ferguson, Rev. Geo., Kansas City, Kan. Congregational. Wrecked by drink. Ferguson, Rev. W. P., Lincoln, Neb. Methodist. Adultery with his landlady, confessed to by the latter under influence of one of his sermons. Ferrant, Rev. Victor, Syracuse, N. Y. Baptist. Counterfeiter.
1913.
1899.
1907.
1911.
1911.
Ferrell,
Rev.
W.
A.,
Gaffney,
girl
S.
C.
Was
about to
marry an Atlanta
1903. 1907.
when discovery was made
that he already had a wife. Ferris, Rev. A. Frank, Grand Rapids, Mich. Deserted wife and took another. Fischer, Rev. O. W., Bridgeton, N. J. Lutheran. Paid attention to young woman. Left family and
town.
1907. 1910.
Fish, Rev. G., Denver, Colo. Fisher, Rev. F. B., Neoga, for slander.
Fitts,
Fraud.
111.
Presbyterian.
Sued
1908.
1901.
1900.
Rev. Joseph W., Independence, Kan. Baptist. Rape. Fitzgerald, Rev. Robert, Nash, Va. Evangelist. Stealing stamps as postmaster. Fitzgerald, Rev. S. F., Newark, N. J. Catholic. Assault
and battery on woman.
1908. 1904.
1902.
1914.
1909.
Rev. Wm., Millville, N. J. Catholic. Slander and defamation. Fitzmaurice, Rev. M. O., Chicago, 111. Episcopal Used fraudulent credentials dismissed. Flaherty, Rev. Chas., Mt. Morris, N. Y. Catholic. Poisoning; indicted for manslaughter; criminal relations with girl. Flannery, Rev. Lawrence S., West Plains, Mo. MethoManslaughter convicted. dist. Fleenor, Rev. L., Evansville, Ind. Alienating a wife's
Fitzgerald,
;
affections.
164
1901.
Fleming, Rev. E. T., Chicago, 111. Presbyterian. Indeconvicted of lying. cently approaching women Fleming, Rev. Solomon, Etty, Va. Baptist. Shot Robert Mullins, another preacher, in preachers*
;
1905.
1911. 1908.
1912.
feud. Fliedner, Rev. Augustus, Irvington, N. Y. Episcopal. Fined $5 for disorderly conduct. Flower, Rev. J. H., St. Louis, Mo. Methodist. Im-
Flynn,
moral conduct 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
1902.
1911.
1909.
1911.
1901.
Adolph, Cincinnati, O. Lutheran. Debauching little girls; suicided. Folta, Father Joseph, and Father Rzadkowolski, Detroit, Mich, Catholics. Arrested for autoing "in a dangerous manner." Force, Rev. W. H., Nevada, Mo. Bigamy; four wives; three years in jail. Ford, Rev. E. E., New York. Accused of fraud in organizing the World's Bible League corporation. Ford, Rev. Geo. E., Bridgeton, N. J. Methodist. Enticing young girls into his church at night; discovered; fled. Forest, Rev. Fr., Jackman, of game laws.
Forsell,
church. Foith, Rev.
1902.
1913. 1908.
1912.
Me.
Catholic.
Violation
Rev. K. E., Minneapolis, Minn. Lutheran. Violating game law. Forses, Rev. W. H., Nevada, Mo. Bigamy; three
1910. 1899.
1913. 1905.
1899.
1899.
1911.
years. Foster, Rev. Edward S., Richmond, Va. Criminal assault on a little girl. Foster, Rev. Frank L., Sioux Falls, S. D. Free BapAdultery. tist. Foster, Rev. Jas. H., Plainfield, N. J. Church of Disappeared with another man's wife. Christ. Foster, Rev. J. W., Atlanta, Ga. Baptist. Adultery. Foster, Rev. Thomas, Athens, Ark. Methodist. Rape of an 8-year-old girl; second offense. Fowler, Rev. A. R., South Carolina. Presbyterian. Forgery; sentenced to penitentiary. Fox, Rev. Geo. J., Easton, Pa. Baptist. Confessed to
sin
and departure from

Rev. Rev. A.
M.,
rectitude.
1913.
Francis, fraud. Francis,
Omaha,
Neb.
Charged
with
David,
for
Forced to resign married woman.
Richmond, Va. Christian. unbecoming conduct with a
1909.
165
Campbellite.
1908.
1902. 1902. 1906.
Francis, tardy. Francis,
Rev. D.
B.,
Ironton, O.
A.,
Bas-
Rev.
Geo.
Elizabeth,
N.
J.
Baptist.
Fraud.
Francis, Rev. H. C, New Londonderry, N. H. Statutory offense named in wife's successful divorce suit. Frederick, Rev. Jas., Wolf Creek, Ky. Baptist. Disturbing school; stole bench warrants; fined. Frederickson, Rev. A., Milwaukee, Wis. Lutheran. Suicide while depressed by drink. Freelander, Rabbi, Evansville, Ind. Orthodox Jew
1906. 1911. 1908.
Freeman,
Living with wife's sister. Rev. James, Murphysboro, 111. Murdered his wife; sentenced to imprisonment for life. Frees, Rev. R. W., Port Huron, Mich. Baptist. Wife
beating. Freis, Rev. Phil., St. Louis, Mo. Arrested as pickpocket. Fritch, Rev. W. S., Attleboro, Mass. Congregational. Alienating affections of another man's wife; sued; $1,334 damages awarded. Froelich, Rev. Father John von, Muncle, Ind. Catholic.
1908.
1904.
1911.
woman
Frost,
1900. 1905.
1913.
of unnamed crime by of his church. Rev. T. B., Chattanooga, Tenn.
Accused
married
Evangelist.
Eloped with a prostitute. Congregational. ConFrost, Rev. W. J., Harvey, 111. fessed intimacy with servant; ousted. Frye, Rev. James, Keokuk, la. Deserting family and eloping with girl; arrested. Frye, Rev. M. H., Kiester, Minn. United Brethren. Arson. Fulkerson, Rev. B. H., Eureka Springs, Ark._ MethoImmoral conduct and attempted suicide. dist. Methodist. TransFullers, Rev. Mr., Salem, W. Va.
gression of 7th
commandment.
1909.
Furbush, Rev. A. C, Georgetown, Conn. CongregaIntimacy with young woman, though martional. resigned and left town. ried
;
1902.
1910.
1914.
ShopliftGablet, Rev. S., Toledo, O. Presbyterian. ing; arrested. Bishop, W. G., Camden, N. J. African Gaines, Methodist Episcopal. Embezzlement. Gardiner, Rev. Vernon A. Bird of passage. Evan-
1911.
Fraud. gelist. Gardner, Rev. T. H. H., Kittitas, Wash. Beat his wife to death with a club.
Methodist.
166
1904. 1912.
Garner,
Rev.
Harrison,
jailed.
Goshen,
N.
Y.
Evangelist.
Abduction;
1906.
1906.
1911.
Garretson, Rev. John, Geddes, S. D. Congregational. Accused of immoral conduct and financial dishonesty; forced to resign pastorate. Garstka, Rev. A., Pittsburgh, Pa. Catholic. Refused to give up church records; shoots parishioner. Gay, Rev. T. B., Utica, O. Presbyterian. "Peeping Tom"; resigned and left town. Geis, Rev. Mr., Brooklyn. Arrested for beating his
1912.
1899.
Rev. Theodore H., Bernardsville, N. J. Pleaded guilty to charge of sending defamatory postcards through the mail; sent to the workhouse for two months. Geoghegan, Rev. Thos., Hamilton, Ont. Catholic.
Illicit sexual intercourse. 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
wife. Geisel,
1911.
man.
1901.
1907.
1906. 1911. 1912.
Rev. Theodore, Sioux Falls, S. D. Gave fraudulent deed to property; jailed. Gettman, Rev. Peter, Kossuth Co., la. Methodist. Murdered wife; suicide. Gibbons, Rev. B. J., Norfolk, Va. Methodist. Bigamy;
Gerrish,
suicide.
Gibbs,
thief.
Rev. John, Tampa, Fla.
Presbyterian.
Horse
1904.
1908.
Gibson, Rev. Lewis, Bristol, Va. Methodist. Election fraud; pleaded guilty and sentenced to a month's imprisonment. Gibson, Rev. Smith, Mt. Holly, N. J. Attempted corruption of 11-year-old girl. Gibson, Rev. W., Hoxie, Ark. Kidnapping. Gidding, Rev. Mr., Alton, 111. Stabbed step-son to
death.
1899.
1899.
1899.
1901. 1902. 1906.
Ginner, Rev. S. G., St. Paul, Minn. Episcopal. Grand larceny; three years in penitentiary. Giraud, Rev. Philip, Montreal, Can. Catholic. Fraudulently obtaining money. Givens, Rev. Mr., West Virginia. Methodist. Counterfeiting; indicted by grand jury. Gladden, Rev. Wm. E., Liverpool, O. Methodist. Conspiracy; indicted; arrested. Glass, Rev. O., Ft. Worth, Tex. Evangelist. Indecent exposure; fined. Glenn, Rev. H. L., Raleigh, N. C. Holiness. Destruction of virtue of half a dozen girls from 13 to
17
1899. 1908.
167
assault
years of age; indicted

14.
for criminal
on
Be-
girl of
Gloria,
Rev. Fr. G., Oakland, Gal. trayed girl; deposed; married her,
Catholic.
Gneilinski, Rev. Mr., St. Louis,
Mo. Catholic. Kidnap-
1900.
1911.
ping girls; immoral life. Goad, Rev. Geo., Pine Bluff, Ark. Sanctificationist. Embezzling charity fund; arrested. Goddard, Rev. J. B., Portland, Ore. Methodist. Charged with "statutory offense" against two young
girls; held for trial.
1908.
1911.
1909. 1909. 1910.
1900.
1911. 1912.
1907.
1908.
Preacher of the end of the world. Incendiarism; Catahoula Parish, La. lynched. Godrycz, Rev. John A., Philadelphia, Pa. Catholic. Arrested for slander. Godssen, Priest. Henrietta, Tex. Catholic. Gambling. Goetchell, Rev. E., Kansas City, Mo. Swindling. Coins, Rev. E. R., Sandusky, O. Methodist. Boy's charge disorderly conduct. Golden, Rev. R. R, Boston, Mo. Evangelist. Stealing horse and cart; arrested. Samuel, SenGoldstein, Montreal. Jewish rabbi. tenced to federal penitentiary for smuggling. 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. Gooden, Rev. R., Seabright, N. J. Assault on married
GodHn, Rev. Albert.
woman.
111.
Goodin,
Rev. H. H., Pontiac, tion; one to ten years.

Rev.
G.
E.,
Baptist.
AbducIm-
1910. 1904.
Goodrich,
morality.
Jackson,
Mich.
Baptist.
1911.
1900.
1905. 1911. 1910.

1914.
Gordan, Rev. Jas. A., Cabin Hill, N. Y. Presbyterian. Breach of promise; convicted. Gordon, E. G., Richmond, Va. Former Methodist minister. Accused of drunkenness and "misconduct" with a married woman. Gordon, Rev. Jas. H., Nicetown, Pa. Baptist. Alienating affections of choir singer from her husband. Gordon, Rev. M. D., Hudson, Mich. Episcopal. Paternity of housekeeper's child; decamped. Gormley, Father; Wichita, Kan. Catholic. Seduced
15-year-old
girl.
Gosgan,
Rev.
Richard,
J.,
Hartford,
Conn.
Catholic.
Suicide. Gossett, Rev. W. ment of wife.
Vancouver, Wash.
Brutal treat-
168
Gould, Rev. R. A., Cent. City, Neb. Free Methodist Left wife, eloping with girl of 15; penitentiary six
years.
1913.
1909.
1907.
Gouthy, Rev. Mr., Indianapolis, Ind. Free Methodist. Fined for illegal hunting. Gow, Rev. Clyde, Mexico, Mo. Manslaughter; four
111. Baptist. Jailed for running confidence game. Grafton, Rev. T. W., Anderson, Ind. Campbellite. Contempt of court; fined. Graham, Rev. David, Nashville, Tenn. Found guilty of running a "blind tiger"; sentenced to jail for 60 days and fined $45 and costs. Graham, Rev. J. H., Moundsville, W. Va. Horse
years. Graff, Rev. B., Joliet,
1911.
1908.
stealing;
1908. 1901.
1899.
1899.
life
sentence.
Graham, Rev. J. S., Albany, N. Y. Catholic. Suicide. Graham, Rev. R. H., Topeka, Kan. Baptist. Rape on girl of his flock; five years. Gram, Rev. W. O., Montrose, S. D. "A case of crim. con., no doubt;" fled from Montrose.
Grandison, Rev. Chas.,
turer.
New York, N. Y. Methodist. Drunkenness; deUrium tremens; a temperance lec-
1908. 1907.
Grant, Rev. H. R., Halifax, N. S. Perjury; arrested. Little Grant, Rev. John, Rock, Ark. Methodist.
1914. 1911.
Murder. Grantham, Rev. Daniel, Purvis, Miss.
Baptist.
Mur-
der; sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. Grass, Rev. Z. B., Moncton, N. B. Reformed Baptist.
1912.
1909.
Charged with setting fire to his home. Graves, Rev. L. W., Adrian, Mich. Methodist.
Sued
1912.
1912. 1900. 1901.

1901.
1912.
for divorce, and committed suicide. Gray, Rev. I. N., St. Louis. Congregational. Passing bogus checks. Gray, Rev. James H., Charleston, W. Va. Evangelist. Convicted three times of horse stealing, and sentenced to life imprisonment as a habitual criminal. Green, Rev. D. Hudson, Indianapolis, Ind. Evangelist. Charged with theft of jewelry and clothing. Green, Rev. D. T., Rome, Ga. Methodist. Larceny of church funds; guilty. Green, Rev. Rufus S., New York, N. Y. Presbyterian. Swindling. Greenberg, Rev. Moses, Philadelphia, Pa. Evangelist. Non-support of aged father; held in $500 bail. Greene, Rev. Thomas E.. St. Louis, Mo. Methodist. Accused of improper conduct with womea
ISPS'.
169
Insulting
Greer, Rev.
J.
young woman
1905.
1913.
R., Millville, Pa. Methodist. in his congregation.
1899.
1913. 1911. 1908. 1913.
111. Do Right. Eloped with Mrs. Carr; killed by Carr. 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. Grey, Rev. Henry, Washington, D. C. Grand larceny;
Greer, Rev. Mr., Cairo,
1912.
1899. 1908.
1912. 1899.
stealing jewelry. Griegg, Rev. David B., Berwyn, 111. Presbyterian. Bastardy. Grieves, Rev. Thomas, Greenwich, N. Y. Methodist. Arrested for manslaughter. Episcopal. CorGriffin, Rev. Alfred, Chicago, 111. rupting boys. Grigg, Rev. Samuel, Winnipeg, Can. Bigamy; sentenced to a year's imprisonment. 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. Griggs, Rev. R. E., Binghamton, N. Y. Episcopal.
Deserting wife; arrested. Rev. E. Cullum, Troy, Theft. Grobusch, Rev. Edward, La Salle,
Grimshaw,
N.
111.
Y.
Baptist.
Shirked his
1903.
debts to gamble at the races. Groenendyke, Rev. M., Hartford City, Ind. United and kissing young woman Brethren. Hugging without her compliance. Groenveld, Rev. Mr., So. Holland, 111. Nameless
1914. 1905.
crime chased from town. Grogg, Rev. Philip N., St. Mary's, Mo. Baptist. Murderous assault. Grove, Rev. M. F., Visalia, Cal. Methodist. Collusion to obtain divorce; previous charges of immorality
;
^
sustained.
1901.
1913.
1912.
1901. 1913.
Grumbine, Rev. J. G. R, Syracuse, N. Y. Luring girl away; defamation of her mother; held in $1,000. Gryszar, Rev. Thomas, Toronto, Ont. Roman CathoDrunkenness and assault. lic. Guernsey, Rev. R. T., Long Prairie, Minn. Baptist. Sent to jail for bad conduct with children, and committed suicide. Guirey, Rev. Geo., New York and Illinois. Baptist.
Relations with
Gullins,
woman
Rev. William
R.,
not his wife; divorced. Trenton, N. J. Methodist.
Fraud.
170
1899.
Gumba, Rev. Mr., Fishkill, N. Y. intimacy with young woman.
Gunn, Rev.
J.
Methodist.
Revivahst.
Undue
Arrested
1911.
1913. 1904.
G.,
Gilmar, Kan.
for bigamy.
Gunter, Rev. D. R., Greeneville, Tenn. Disciple. Accused of attempted rape on own daughter. Huntsville, Ga. Christian. Elder R. A., Gurley, Carrying concealed weapons; jailed.
1906. 1913.
1905.
1908. 1900.
Haath, Rev. L. A., Rochester, N. Y. Suicide. Haff, W. P. W., Jr., Lynbrook, L. I. Lay preacher. Seduction and bastardy. Baptist. Hagaman, Rev. J. A., Anderson, Ind. Church of God. Caused divorce suit by kissing wife of H. Morehead; called it treatment for nervous trouble. Hagar. Rev. Washington, Hadley, W. Va. Baptist. Raising bills from $1 to $10. Hagen, Rev. Emil, New York, N. Y. Dutch Reformed.
Theft.
1901. 1900.
1900.
Rushing, Ark. Selling whisky without a license; arrested. Haigler, Rev. J. A., Chattanooga, Tenn. Criminal malpractice arrested. Haist, Rev. F. H., Chicago, 111. Assault and battery;
Hagen, Rev. Henry,
arrested.
1910.
1899.
1907.
1901.
1900. 1909.
Hale, Rev. Wm., Middleboro, Mass. Episcopal. Cruel and abusive treatment of wife, who sued for divorce. Illegitimate Baptist. Hall, Rev. E., Bloomington, 111. Settled with mother. parentage. Drunk, abused Hall, Rev. Henry, Peter Creek, Ky. his wife, shot by son. Episcopal. DrunkHall, Rev. J. C, Kaukauna, Wis. enness deposed. Episcopal. Hall, Lay Pr. J. T., E. Orange, N. J.
;
Grand larceny. his Rev. Wesley, Hindman, Ky. Murdered Hall, brother's widow, who had refused to marry him. Hallan, Rev. A., Akron, O. Church of Christ. Drunkenness; jailed; fined.
Halloway, Rev. John, Linn, Mo. Cold-blooded murder; hanged. Halpern, Rev. Rabbi S. M., Newark, N. J. Selling liquor without license, Hamilton, Rev. E., Muncie, Ind. Evangelist. Passed bogus check; two wives. Hamilton, Rev. E. A., Newman, 111. Methodist. PanSubmitted wife and (laughter to wealthy dering.
libertine for
1900. 1909.
1909.
1908.
money
consideration.
Hamilton, Rev. Jas.
Ga.
1911. 1914.
B., alias J.
171
L. Douglass, Lithonia,
Evangelist.
Bigamy, larceny and other crimes.
1902.
1907.
1901. 1912.
1905.
1899.
1913.
1908.
Rev. Wm. J., Chicago. Congregational. Adulterer. Hamrick, Rev. L. M., Pittsburgh, Kan. Methodist. Obtaining property under false pretenses. Hance, Rev. Oscar T., Newburgh, N. Y. Stealing, passing bad checks. Hancock, Rev. W. S., Chicago, 111. Episcopal. Deposed for debauchery. Held in London for poisoning his wife. Hand, Rev. A. L., Tuscumbia, La. Bigamy; arrested at the altar. 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. Hand, Rev. J. Howard, Rye, N. Y. Methodist. Hugging and kissing girl. Hanks, Rev. R. T., Abilene, Tex. Baptist. Rifling mails; indicted. Hanmer, Rev. W. G., St. Charles, 111. Free Methodist. Unfrocked for adultery with the wife of another preacher. Hanna, Rev. J. C, Philadelphia, Pa. Methodist. Slan-
Hamilton,
der.
1899.
1913.
Hanna, Rev. T. Carson, Union City, Ct. Baptist. Undue familiarity; promiscuous kissing. Hanon, Rev. O. M., Jetmore, Kan. Methodist. Irregular conduct with a married woman. Hansman, Rev. Joseph E., Topeka, Kan. Convicted of bigamy on his own confession. Hanson, Rev. M. O., LaCrosse, Wis. Lutheran. Wife
1912.
1901.
1909.
desertion; tried and expelled. Hard, Rev. E. R, New P9rt, N. Y. Baptist. Alienation of a wife's affections. Failure to pay judg-
ment.
1914.
Harder, Rev. John W., Vibbard, Mo.
1911.
1911.
1907.
1910.
1908.
Christian Union. Violating liquor law. Hardin, Rev. John, Beecher, 111. Congregationalist. Bigamist. Hardy, Elder E. H., Reidsville, N. C. Primitive BapContempt of court. tist. Hardy, Rev. E. N., Cleveland, O. Congregational. Found in disorderly house. Arrested. Hare, Rev. Louis T., Brooklyn, N. Y. Catholic. Clandestine marriage. Hargrave, Rev. James T., Richmond, Va. Fraud by use of the mails; eight months and $100.
172
1906.
1914.
Hark, Rev. N. S., Greenville, Pa. Evangelist. Conduct unbecoming a minister towards young woman. Harness, Rev. Murray, Kokomo, Ind. Christian.
Adultery.
1910. 1908.
1900. 1912. 1901. 1909. 1900.
1914.
Harper, Rev. E. J., Los Angeles. Presbyterian. Forced to resign by unprintable charges. Harper, Rev. John, Chickasha, Ark. Methodist.
Horse
stealing.
Harper, Rev. W. H., Shelbyyille, Tenn. Methodist. Living with young woman in absence of his wife. Harrall, Rev. Fleet, Greensburg, La. Fought duels with two men; killed one, and wounded the. other. Harrington, Rev. Geo. B., Oxford, N. J. Methodist.
Suicide.
Helena, Rev. Mr., Mont. Catholic. Drinking and misconduct with boys. Harriott, Rev. Wm. C, Fostoria, O. Consorting with immoral women; sued for divorce. Harris, Rev. A. M., Metropolitan, 111. Baptist. DuelHarrington,
ling.
1903. 1901.
1910.
Bishop C. R., Asheville, N. C. African Methodist Episcopal. Arson. Harris, Rev. J. Barr, Bozeman, Mont. Methodist. Seduction; one year in penitentiary. Harris, Rev. Sheldon A., Milburn, III. Congregational. Running get-rich-quick game on his flock; expelled. Harris, Rev. Sundy H., Cartersville, Ga. Methodist.
Harris,
Suicide.
1901. 1907. 1899.
Thos., Spartanburg, Baptist. S. C. for murder. Harrison, Rev. G. W., Waco, Tex. Bigamy by direction of heaven, he said two years in penitentiary. Harsha, Rev. Wm., Denver, Colo. Had an affinity; horsewhipped by whitecaps. Harsha, Rev. Mr., New York. Collegiate Reformed.
Harris,
Rev.
Hanged
Left his pulpit under charges reflecting on his moral

character.
1904.
1908.
1910.
1900.
1913.
Hart, Rev. C. A. B., Brooklyn, N. Y. Episcopal. Arrested as ticket of leave man, convicted of revolting crime against morals and deported. Hart, Rev. W. G., Groesbeck, Texas. Rape and bastardy. Life sentence. Hastings, Rev. H. L., Chicago. Methodist. Immoral conduct toward boy. Hastings, Rev. Mr., South Orange, N. J. PresbyShooting game in violation of law. terian. Hatcher, Rev. James W.. Wellston, Mo. Methodist Wife-lDeating and non-support.
'1909.
173
Mo.
N.
O.
Episcopal.
Hathaway,
Suicide.
Rev.,
J.
D.,
Maryville,
1900.
I
Hatton,
Rev.
Edward,
Brooklyn,
Y.
Baptist.
11910.
I
of wife; arrested. Hauberch, Rev. A. A., Miltonsburg, Stealing jewelry.
Abandonment
Lutheran.
Methodist.
In-
1911.
'
Hausman, Rev. Eugene, Kansas
City,
la.
Mo.
1913.
I
1905.
I
Bigamist. Hawkes, Rev. Roy A., Spencer, dieted for murder. Hawkins, Rev. J. S., Arkansas.
ality.
Methodist.
Methodist.
Immor-
1901.
!
Hawkins, Rev. Wm., Philadelphia.
;1907.
'
1912.
1905.
Baptist. Incendiarism; arrested. Hawley, Rev. F. M., Fulton, Ky. Presbyterian. Wrecked a home; horsewhipped by husband. Hawley, Rev. Richard, New York, N. Y. Roman
Catholic. Drunkenness. Haynes, Rev. Myron W. Methodist. Obtaining railroad transportation by fraud intimacy with a female
;
school teacher.
1910.
Hays, Rev. Wm., Nowata, Okla.

for affinity.
Baptist.
Left wife
1901. 1902.
1901.
1907.
Heafy, Rev. Jer. J., Brooklyn, N. Y. Catholic. Getting insane man's property l3y fraud. Heath, Rev.^ Henry R., Essex Co., N. Y. Baptist. Larceny; jailed. Heath, Rev. Jas. T., Kansas City, Mo., and Castile, wife getting Y. Baptist. Abandoning and N. divorce without notice and by misrepresentation, to marry another woman. Wadena, Minn. Episcopal. Rev. A., Heathcote,
Jailed for wife-beating.
1905.
1911.
Rev. Andley J., Wahoo, Neb. CongregaObtaining money under false pretenses. Hedeberg, Rev. John R., Bozeman, Mont. Swedish.
Heather,
tional.
Grand
1912.
larceny.
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. Heilman, Rev. Edgar J., Wyndmoor, Pa. Lutheran. Breach of promise; convicted. Hellenus, John, theological student, New York, N. Y. Baptist, Intimacy with married woman; she confessed.
1904.
1899.
1910.
Helwig,
Rev. H. D., Evansville, Forged check; arrested.
Ind.
Episcopal.
174
1904. 1903. 1899.
1900. 1899. 1903. 1901.
Henderson, Rev. C. E., Butte, Mont. Methodist. Acknowledged gambler. Henderson, Rev. Henry, Williamsburg, O. Criminal assault on 12-year-old girl. Henderson, Rev. John, Brooklyn, N. Y. Methodist. Traducing woman member; sued. Henderson, Rev. John M., Brooklyn, N. Y. Slander. Henderson, Rev. W. C, St. Louis, Mo. Using mails to defraud; jailed. Hendrick, Rev. Fr., Rochester, N. Y. Catholic. False
arrest; sued.
1908.
Hendricks, Rev. A.^ M., LaPorte, Ind., and elsewhere. Swindling; pleaded guilty, Catholic. Henneman, Rev. J. W., Chippewa Falls, Wis. Methodist Episcopal.
Suicide.
1908.
1909. 1900.
Henning, Rev. V., Winnipeg, Man. Lutheran. Seduced girl; violated consent law; two years. Hensge, Rev. Paul, Portsmouth, O. Made, false oath. Hensley, Rev. A. J., Yorkville, S. C. Baptist. Slandering Dr. Scoggins, who drubbed him in a street
fight.
1901.
Herald,
law.
Rev. Mr., Brooklyn, N. Y. Congregational. "Coarse and brutal" slander of a woman; sued at
1908.
1908. 1901.
1913. 1912.
1909. 1907. 1912.
1910.
Herberg, Rev. Marcellus, St. Louis, Mo. Impersonating an officer. Herbert, Rev. D., Richmond, Ind. Drunkard and wife beater. Herborn, Rev. John, New York. Methodist. Interfering with officer; fined $5. Herr, Rev. William J., Rose Point, Pa. Pentecostal. Obtaining money under false pretenses. Hervey, Rev. Joseph L., D.D., New York, N. Y. Presbyterian. Accused by parishioners of circulating scurrilous stories about members of his flock. Herzog, Rev. United. Assault. A., Anthrax. O. Hetland, Rev. John, Clarion, la. Criminal assault. Hewitt, Rev. Jesse R., Bomarton, Tex. Baptist. Abduction and white slavery; sentenced to fifty years* imprisonment. Hewson, Rev. Earl, St. Louis. Congregational.
Desertion.
1906. 1909.
1902.
Hibner, Rev. A. A., Hennessey, Okla. Running away with another's wife. Hickey, Rev. E. D., Springfield, Mass. Catholic. Convicted of assault on girl. Hickman, Rev. R. L., McKeesport, Pa. Methodist. Forged notes, discounted them and skipped.
1913. 1910.
1910. 1899.
1908. 1905. 1899. 1906.
175
City,
Hickman, Rev. Thomas

dist.
A.,
Webb
Mo.
Metho-
Wife-desertion; divorce granted his wife. Hicks, Rev. R. O., Columbus, O. Smashed windows;
stole jewelry.
Rev. William, Spokane, Wash. Methodist. Sued for "get-rich-quick" swindling. Hicks, Rev. W. H., Hawesville, Ky. Baptist. Betrayal of two young women; fled. Hicks, Rev. W. M., Paducah, Ky. Baptist. Swindling;
Hicks,
forgery. Hicks, Rev. W. W., Chilhowie, Va. Methodist. Immoral conduct; suspended by conference. Higgins, Rev. Geo. W., Levant, Me. Holiness. Breaking up homes; tarred and feathered. Higgs, Rev. J. J., Cherry Valley, 111. Methodist. Found in hotel room with young woman resigned. Hilbish, Rev. J. M., Turlock, Cal. Methodist. Horsewhipped by women whom he slandered. Hiles, Rev. Henry, Laurel, Md. Evangelist. Cruelty and wife beating; arrested. Hill, Rev. F. W., Duluth, Minn. Methodist. Burglary; ninety days or $100. Hill, Rev. H. J., Huntington, W. Va. Jailed for carousing. Hill, Rev. J. W;esley, Butler, 111. Methodist. Taking unwelcomed liberties with young woman. Hill, Rev. Murry, with a half-dozen aliases, Brooklyn. Methodist. Attempted grand larceny. 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. Hillis, Rev. Dwight, Brooklyn. Fraud. Hills, Rt. Rev. R. P., Omaha, Neb. Episcopal. Bigamy; left wife in England. Hilson, Rev. H. D., Kansas City, Kan. Killed wife, who had sued him for divorce. Hilton, Rev. Thomas J., Plattsburg, Mo. Mennonite.
;
1908. 1901. 1909.
1909.
1899.
1911. 1912.
1911. 1900.
1900.
1913.
1908. 1908.
Bigamy.
Hines, Rev. David, New York. Theft. Hines, Rev. W. P.. Lexington, Ky. Baptist. Lechery. Hinshaw, Rev. W. E., Belleville, Ind. Methodist. Murdered wife; life sentence. Paroled, he seduced
a married
1908.
1907
woman
in 1908.
Hinton, Rev. D. C, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Episcopal.
Drunk
1902.
and disorderly. Hintz, Rev. A. B., Odessa, Mo. serted two wives.
Baptist.
Bigamy; de-
176
1900. 1906.
Hobes, Rev. John, Belleville, 111. Evangelist. Seducing married woman and mother. Hobson, Rev. Lemuel, Mitchel, Ind. United Brethren. Found in compromising position with married woman. Shot by husband. Hofer, Rev. Fr., LaCrosse, Wis. Catholic. Criminal assault on orphan girl; fled; arrested; convicted. Hoffman, Rev. Henry C, Owensboro, Ky. Methodist. Criminal assault. Hoffman, Rev. Richard, Lynchburg, Va. Baptist. Two or more wives sued for divorce. Hoffman, Rev. R. T., Lexington, Ky. Fighting another preacher; fined $100 and jailed. Hage, Rev. Chas. M., California. Episcopal. Suicide by shooting in head. Hogg, Rev. A. J., Norwood, O. Bigamy.
;
1905. 1913.
1899.
1900.
1904.
1907. 1908.
Holcomb, Rev. Walt., Cartersville, Ga. Evangelist. Obscene language in the presence of a female; $200.
Holden, Rev. Albert, Toledo, O.
Itinerant evangelist.
1912.
1900.
Bigamy and obtaining money under false pretenses. Holden, Rev. John, Matewan, W. Va. Methodist. Found in bed with Mrs. Bostock; shot at by Mr. B.
and wounded.
Holgate,
1906.
Rev.
beating. Rev. C.
LeGrand,
Ashland,
Ore.
Nazarene.
Wife
1901.
Hollis,
1904.
1911.
1906.
1901. 1914.
1903.
W., Davis,^ W. Va. Presbyterian. certificate; other fraudulent marriage Issuing charges. Holly, Rev. J. B., Jacksonville, Fla. Baptist. Assault and battery on Rev. W. Hobson fined $250. Holly, C, Wilmington, Del. Former Quaker J. preacher. Murder and arson. 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." Philip, Holp, Rev. Angelo, Ind. Congregational. Leading a dual life; expelled. Holper, Rev. Father, Minnesota Lake, Minn. Catholic.
;
Kidnapping.
Holt, Rev. W. J., Elkins, W. Va. Methodist. Lying, in that he expressed himself as penitent for gambling, although he won $5,000. Holtgreve, Rev. J. J., Plaqucminc, La. Catholic. Criminal libel immoral conduct with boys. Homburger, Rev. Oscar, Chillicothe, Mo. Methodist
;
1909. 1912.
Wanted by
is
177
1912.
the police for abducting a 17-ycar-old a married man with several children. Honeycutt, Rev. M. H., Jackson, Miss. Murderous assault on a neighbor on account of a trifling dispute over a children's quarrel.
girl;
1903.
1912.
Hook, Rev.
criminally.
J.
W., Dickens,
la.
Assaulting
little
girl
1907.
1909.
Hooker, Rev. Conrad, Westfield, Mass. Sneak and shoplifter. Hopkins, Rev. A., Camden, N. J. Convicted of
ing whisky. Hopkins, Rev.
F.
E.,
thief
steal-
Chicago,
111.
Congregational.
1914.
1913.
Unpaid bills; sued. Hopp, Rev. J. H., Portland, Ore.

tional.
German Congrega-
1911. 1906. 1908.

1899. 1899.
1914.
1902.
1911.
1909.
1902.
1911. 1910. 1909. 1902.
Larceny. Horn, Rev. Frank, Richmond, Cal. Baptist. Adultery and bigamy. Horton, Rev. John H., Joliet, 111. Bigamy. Horton, Rev. J. B., Commerce, Ga. Baptist. Forgery. Hoshauer, Rev. A. H., Norristown, Pa. Reformed. Deserted wife to live with affinity. Hotema, Rev. Solomon E., Indian Territory. Presbyterian. Murder of three neighbors; hanged. Houldsworth, Rev. H., New York, N. Y. Evangelist. Forgery in various places. Housemann, Rev. Eugene, Kansas City, Mo. MethoBigamy; pleaded guilty and received dist Episcopal. a three-year sentence. Howard, Rev. Geo. N., Batavia, N. Y. Baptist. Marital unfaithfulness with several women. Howard, Rev. Herbert W., Le Roy, N. Y. Methodist. Immorality. Howard, Rev. I. J., Hartford City, Ind. Drunkard. Seduction. Howard, Rev. L. F. B., alias Harper, Detroit, Mich., and elsewhere. Swindling; six years in penitentiary escaped retaken bad record. Howard, Rev. Samuel E., Macon, Mo. Baptist evan; ; ;
gelist.
Bigamy.
Co.,
Howard, Rev. W. M., Crook

Fraud.
Wyom.
Baptist.
Howaweeney,
1900.
Bishop R., Brooklyn, N. Y. Greek. Slander and libel. Howe, Rev. G. F., Summitville^ Ind. Prison evanBurglary killed in the act. gelist. Howe, Rev. O. Raymond, New Haven, Conn. Accomplishing ruin of his domestic; ordered to sup;
port the child.

1S99
Howell, Rev. David
L.,
New
York.
Prison chaplain.
178
Alienating affections of Mrs. Greene; husband brought divorce suit; Mrs. Howell secured divorce. Howell, ex-Rev. David T., Newark, N. J. Episcopal.
Suicide.
1908.
1912.
1912.
1912.
1912.
1903.
Rev. W. J., Charleston, W. Va. Baptist. Criminal assault. Hucless, Rev. Marcellus, New York, N. Y. Baptist. Sued for slander, and defaulted at trial. Hudson, Rev. Joseph H., Chicago, 111. Baptist. Assaulting two young girls in an orphan asylum of which he was head; convicted and sentenced to 25 years in the penitentiary. Hudson, Rev. Madison M., Terre Haute, Ind. EvanSued for divorce on the ground of cruelty. gelist. Hudson, Rev. Roger J., New York. Evangelist. Corrupting girls; jailed. Hudson, Rev. Roy. Itinerant evangelist. Child deser-
Hubbard,
tion.
1913.
1907.
Huggins, Rev. George D., Jacobstown, N. J. MethoConvicted of rape. dist. Hughes, Rev. E. C, Chicago, 111. Swindler; one to ten
years in prison.
Hughes, Rev. Jasper

1910.
1905.
Mich. Methodist. S., Holland, Malicious destruction of property. Hughes, Rev. P., Milwaukee. Assault on two tele-
1908.
1909. 1902.
1907. 1906. 1910.
phone girls. Hulme, Rev. George, Kecksburg, Pa. Church of God. Assault on a female member of his congregation. Humble, Rev. G. T., Leetonia, Ohio. Methodist. Liberties with women. Humes, Rev. John, Brooklyn, N. Y. Accused by two
little
girls.
_
Hungate, Rev. Frank, Painesville, O.

tion
; ;
Baptist.
Seduc-
1909.
1909. 1908. 1910. 1909. 1913. 1908.
criminal operation 15 years in penitentiary. Hunt, Rev. E. I. Adultery and bastardy. Deposed. Hunt, Rev. Lawrence, Greenpoint, L. I. Presbyterian. Co-respondent in divorce proceeding. Hunt, Rev. R., Atlanta, Ga. Congregational MethoFighting. dist. Hunt, Rev. W. F., Columbus, Ind. Presbyterian.
Criminal Hunt. Rev.
assault.
W.
S.,
EHzal)Cthtown, Ind.
Presbyterian.
Unbecoming conduct with young woman.

Hunter, Rev. A. D., Raleigh. N. C. Baptist. Suicide. Hunter, Rev. H., Lebanon, O. Conducting harem. Hunter, Rev. T. W., Houlton, Me. Methodist. Arson. Hurley, Rev. C. P., Stoutsville, Mo. Roman Catholic. Drunkenness. Hutchcson, Rev. Joseph, Warren, R. I. Defamation.
1908.
1910. 1908.
179
1900.
1900.
Hutchins, Rev. Ed., Topeka, Kan. Whipped by boy whose mother he insulted. Hutchinson, Rev. A. P., Butler, Pa. Libel; indicted. Hutchinson, Rev. John, St. Louis, Mo. Evangelist. Bastardy. Hutson, Rev. I. S., Jacksonville, Fla. Receiving stolen goods; two vears' hard labor. 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. Hyler, Rev. John, Asheville, N. C. Bigamy; three wives; all living. Hylock, Rev. John, Mitchell Co., bigamy; six living wives.
1899.
1903.
Free Will Baptist.
N. C.
Jailed
for
1913. 1905.
1901.
Rev. W. A., Visalia, Cal. Fraudulent sales. Sent to penitentiary for five years. Iliff, Rev. T. C, presiding elder and superintendent Utah missions. Methodist. Plagiarism. Stole a sermon, which he delivered as his own. Iliff, Rev. W. H., Hamilton, 111. Methodist. Malicious
Iden,
mischief.
Inman, Rev. Mr., Goldfield, Nev. Methodist. Contempt

1900.
of court. Irvine, Rev.
1901.
N. W., Huntingdon, Pa. Episcopal. I. Gross immorality; unfrocked. Israel, Rev. Wm. F., Savannah, Ga. Running moonshine
still.
1900.
1913.
Jacamowics, Rev. T., Mt. Carmel, Pa. Catholic. Embezzlement; jailed. Jackson, Rev. Crawford, Atlanta, Ga. Methodist. Drunkenness and making improper advances to
young
1899.
girl.
Jackson, Rt. Rev. H. M., D.D., Alabama.
Episcopal.
Drunkenness;
get up.
1911. 1899. 1909.
fell
down
at
Eufala and could not

Baptist.
Jackson, Rev. John H., Cincinnati, O. bezzlement. Jackson, Rev. K., Creve Coeur, Mo.
fled.
Em-
Wife-beating;
1906.
1907.
Jackson, Rev. L. F., Caruthersville, Mo. Methodist. Left wife for young woman, Jackson. R. S., Boston. Bested in boxing match before Sharkey A. C, New York. Jackson, Rev. S. T., No. Yakima, Wash. Baptist. Embezzlement of church funds.
180
1907.
Jackson, Rev. T. N., Waynesboro, Ga.
larceny.
Forgery and
1908.
1900. 1902.
1906.
1912.
Rev. Marvin V., Poughkeepsie, N. Y. BapQerical conduct. Jacobs, Rev. M. V., N. Colebrook, Conn. Baptist. Undue intimacy with woman fled. Jacobwitz, Rev. Jacobs, New York. Jewish. Brutally beating a boy; arrested. James, Rev. E. L., Decatur, 111. Baptist. Left town consequences of his assault on child. to escape Expelled from church; license revoked. Jamison, Rev. Guy, Altoona, Pa. Evangelist. ArJacobs,
tist.
;
1908.
1911. 1910. 1900.
rested for burglary. Jaques, Rev. Wm., St. Louis, Mo. saulted 11 -year-old girl. Jarman, Elder, Hub City, Idaho. Adultery.
Jasiak,
Jedlika,
Mormon.
Aselder.
Mormon
Can.
Rev.
Bartholemue,
girl of 10 years.
Toronto,
Catholic.
Rape on a
1914.
1912.
1913.
Rev. John F., Yonkers, N. Y. Catholic. Cruelty to animals; arrested. Jenkins, Elmer E., St. Louis, Mo. Gospel missioner. Accused of abusing two little girls. N. C. Baptist. Jenkins, Rev. John T., Lexington, Expelled from his pulpit for undue familiarity with one of the sisters. Jenkins, Rev. Rufus, Knoxville, Tenn. Deserted wife for another woman; deposed. Va. Baptist. White Jeffrey, Rev. B. H., Bluefield,
slavery. Rev. Jerrett,
1910.
1906.
1900.
Howard W., Grand Rapids, Mich. ran away on exposure. Methodist. Seduction Jesaheke, Rev. Henry, Stockholm, N. J. Unitarian. Found in hotel with married woman; co-respondent in divorce case. Murder of a man Jester, Rev. Alex., London, Mo.
;
named
Jewell,
1907. 1907. 1907.
Gates.
Rev. F. W., Wolverine, Mich. Methodist. Intimacy with married woman; ousted from church. Jewett, Rev. E. H., New York. Suicide. John, Rev. J., Chicago. Congregational. Immorality. John, Rev. W. B., New Rochelle, N. Y. Baptist. Fired for grafting. Oskaloosa, la. Methodist. Johnson, Rev. A. A.,
Wronging
pulpit.
girl,
who
shot and
wounded him
in the
1901. 1907. 1905.
Johnson, Rev. A. L., Bartow, Ga. Forgery; bigamy. Johnson, Rev. A. S., Knox Co., Tenn. Sued for libel. Johnson, Rev. Edward A., Newport, R. I. Baptist.
Hugging, kissing and taking other improper
1911. 1900.
1903. 1911. 1910.
181
liber-
with girls; expelled. Johnson, Rev. George A., Baltimore, Md.

ties
Methodist
Murder.
Evangelist. Misuse of girl of 11. Johnson, Rev. H. A., Clayton, N. Y. Congregational. Eloping with married woman. Johnson. Rev. H. H., Clarence, Mo. Methodist. Im111.
Johnson, Rev. G. W., Chicago,
morality.
Johnson,
ness.
Rev. H.
J.,
Independence,
Kan.
Drunken-
1911.
1900.
Johnson, Rev. John, Oswego, N. Y.

morality.
Methodist.
Im-
Johnson, Rev. J. LeB., New York, N. Y. Episcopal. Eloped with a nurse; wife got divorce; Johnson was
fire chaplain.
1913. 1911.
1909.
Johnson, Rev, J. M., Fargo, Okla. Johnson, Rev. M. C, Huntington,
Baptist.
W.
Va.
Adultery. Methodist.
Murderous
assault.
Johnson, Rev. M. D., Lebanon, Mo. Baptist. Shot and killed another minister in quarrel. Johnson, Rev. O. A., Oskaloosa, la. Fought pistol
duel in street; wounded.
1900.
1899.
1900. 1902.
1910.
Johnson, T. J., Carmel, Ind. Evangelist. Assaulted an attendant at one of his meetings; arrested; shot constable mortally; constable returned fire, killing Johnson. Johnson, Rev. Wm., Maryville, Mo. Baptist. Indecent proposals to woman nine months. Johnson, Rev. Wm. E., Bamberg, S. C. Baptist. Murdering W. T. Bellinger. Johnson, Rev. Wm. F., Brooklyn, N. Y. Corrupting
;
young
girls.
Jones, Rev. B. Canfield, Paterson, N. J. Presbyterian. Two young women named as co-respondents by wife
in divorce. Jones, Rev. C. S., Detroit, Mich. Left home. Jones, Rev. D. B., Lagrange, N. C. Attempted rape. Jones, Rev. E. Mona, Long Island. Baptist. "Ministerial" conduct and other improper behavior. Jones, Chaplain H. W., U. S. S. Minnesota. Deadbeat and too fond of women. Jones, Rev. J. W., Newport, Tenn. Abduction for
1909. 1901. 1899.

1907.
1908.
Jones,
purposes of prostitution. Oliver, Brenham, Rev.
Texas.
Evangelist.
Murderous
1907.
assault.
Jones, Rev. Ralph,
Selma, Ind.
Kidnapping.
182
1906.
1900.
Rev. W. H., Hendersonville, N. Baptist. Criminal relations with a woman. Rev. W. H., Meriden, Conn. Methodist. Jones, Fraudulently obtaining money. Jones, Rev. W. H. H., June. City, Kan. General misconduct; expelled. Seduction. Jones, Rev. X., Greenville, S. Murdered Jones, Preacher, Garners, N. C. Local.
Jones,
1904. 1910. 1900. 1900.

1908.
his
paramour and
five children.
Jordan, Rev. Graham, Arlington, O. Fraudulent sale of timber land. Jordan, Rev. John O., Jackson Hill, Ind. Baptist
Suicide.
1908.
1912.
1902.
1913.
1910.
1910.
Jordan, Rev. W. F., Marshalltown, la. Methodist. Lying, slander, perjury; expelled from church. Jorganson, Rev. Kent, Callender, la. Immoral conduct; fined in police court. Jungblud, Rev. Chas., Niellsville, Wis. Assaulting his 8-year-old ward; eight years in penitentiary. Jurco, Rev. John, Jessup, Pa. Lutheran. Suicide.
Kain, Rev. Maurice
J.
L.,
Newark, N.
N.
N.
J.
Episcopal.
Catholic.
Catholic.
Unnatural relations with boys. Kaminski, Rev. Father, Buffalo,

Slander.
Y.
J.
1903.
1902.
Kammer, Rev. A.
M.,
Guttenburg,
girl.
Horse-whipping small
1909. 1908. 1905.

1910.
1911. 1901.
Kantor, Rev. J. M., Alta, la. Methodist. Defrauding insurance companies. Kasel, Rev. Ed, New Hradec, N. D. Catholic. Tampering with mails. Kaye, Rev. J. A., Oak Park. 111. Presbyterian. Counterfeiting;
two
years.
Kaylor, Rev. A. H., Pittsburgh, Pa. Evangelist. Outrageous abuse of wife; divorced. Kazinsky, Rev. Father, Pittsburgh, Pa. Catholic. Perjury. Kearns. Father, Vincland, N. T. Catholic. Assault. Keep, Rev. R. H.. Middleport, W. Va. New Jerusalem. Making love to all the marriageable women
in his congre,:(ation, and some outside. Cruelty. Evangelist. Keffer, Rev. Mr., Seattle. Wash. Episcopal. RavKeller. Rev. John. Arlington. N. J. ishing Mrs. Barker; shot by Barker; recovered; not
tried.
1911. 1901.
1901.
1905.
Rev. C. R., Midland, Mich. Methodist. "Indiscretion^;" fifd. Methodist. Int-Kcllcy. Rev. Ad. A.. Sa1>'m. W. Vn. macy with d<.ni''-i!'^ "onfc-.sed by him.sclf and girl.
Kellcrman,
1911.
183
1907. 1913. 1902.
Rev. E., Trenton, N. J. Presbyterian. "Conduct unbecoming a minister." Kelly, Rev. A. M., Nashville, Tenn. Swindling. Kelly, Rev. Claude, San Jose, Cal. Baptist. Im-
Kellmayer,
proper conduct with
girls.
19ia
Kelly, Francis J., Jersey City, N. J. Evangelist. Deserting family. Kelly, Rev. M., Nowata, Okla. Evangelist. J.
Adultery.
Kelly, Rev. Fr., Elk Point, S. D.
1899. 1908.
1911. 1900.
Catholic.
Running
away with young woman. Kemp, Rev. K. L., Mechanicsburg, O.
Drunkenness;
arrested and fined. Kemp, Rev. Morris, Chicago. Episcopal. Corrupting morals of boys. Kemp, Rev. R. M., Chicago. Episcopalian. Drunkenness and immorality.
Kempton, Rev. Arthur C, Janesville, Wis. Slander; sued by young woman for $10,000.
Baptist.
1910. 1903.
1906.
1905.
1912.
1911. 1899.
1899.
1907. 1909. 1914. 1909. 1899.
Keniston, Rev. George, Danville, 111. Congregational. Criminal assault. Kennedy, Rev. R. H., Hillsboro, Ore. Congregational. Burglary; arrested. Kenyon, Rev. J. B., Bradford, Pa. Methodist EpisResigned under complaint of immoral concopal. duct with young woman. Kent, Rev. Alex, Buffalo, N. Y. Baptist. Conduct unbecoming a minister; expelled. Kepler, Rev. Robert W., Boston, Mass. Evangelist. Corrupting the morals of a boy and abducting a young girl; now serving time in the penitentiary, Kerr, J. W., Portland, Ind. Methodist. Immorality, Kerr, Rev. Milton R., New Haven, Conn. CongregaAssignation with woman of his flock. tional. Kerr, Rev. Dr., New York. Presbyterian. Lodging at a hotel with a young woman, with whoin he afterwards fled, leaving wife. Kessenger, Rev. Nat., Evansville, Ind. Drunkenness. KeuUng, Rev. E. J., Woodhaven, L. I. Lutheran. Disappeared, leaving wife. Kidder, Rev. Dr. Scott, Bayonne, N. J. Episcopal. Accused of indecent assault on a 16-year-old girl. Kiekhoefer, Rev. H. J., Naperville, 111. Made love to
girls in his college.
Killingbeck,
Rev.
Wm.,^
New
York.
Evangelist.
Drunkenness; died intoxicated.

1911.
1910.
Kimmons, Rev. James, Rev. Bunyan and Rev. Judson,

Murder. Baptists. Ellijay, Ga. King, Rev. D, D., Ithaca, N. Y. Methodist Episcopal.
184
Though married, made
signed.
love to another
woman;
re-
1902.
King, Rev.
J.
V. M., Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Episcopal.

;
1902. 1905. 1908. 1908. 1900.

1902.
Drunkenness Kinnunen, Rev.
suicide.
John,
Murder of wife and

Kipartawy, Rev. H.,
kill;
child,
Houghton, Mich. and suicide.
Lutheran.
New York. Catholic. Threat to assault; arrested. Kirreh, Rev. Justin, Port Chester, N. Y. Baptist. Obtaining money under false pretenses. Kister, Rev. Frank, Providence, R. I. Theft. Kline, Robert and May, Kansas City, Mo. Evangelist.
Theft. Kling, Rev. Walter, Canton, O. Presbyterian. Deceiving numerous women of his flock; deposed. Knapp, Rev. D. E., Guthrie Center, la. Methodist. Abduction prosecuted. Knight, Rev. E. J., Philadelphia, Pa. Episcopal. Fighting.
;
1902.
1907.
1912.
Knox, Rev. Maurice E., Parkersburg, W. Va. MethoSued for divorce for cruel and inhuman dist.
^
treatment.
1908.
Knox, Rev.
1914.
Robert, Toronto, Ont. Episcopal. Attempted suicide. Kolodzejczik, Rev. John, Chicago, 111. Polish Cathdependency of 8-year-old Contributing to olic.
girl
;
convicted.
Catholic.
1911. 1911.
Korb, Rev. A. B., St. Louis, Mo. Assault. Korona, Father Antona, Bayonne, N. J.
Slander.
1901.
Koslowski, Bishop, Chicago, III. Catholic. Charged with borrowing money from patients in his hospital, and then causing their death by injecting strychnine
in their veins.
1901.
1910.
1910. 1903.
Conn. Catholic. Bridgeport, Mr., Rev. Kossalko, Malicious prosecution sued for $5,000. Kovach, Rev. A., Dayton, O. Reformed. Mistreated
;
little
girl.
Kowalski, Rev. Mr., Winnipeg, Man. Catholic. Felony. Rev. Fred, Josephville, Mo. Catholic. Krainhardt,
Suicide. Greek. Adultery. Kraisicki, Rev. E., Detroit, Mich. Methodist. Suicide. Krell, Rev. Samuel, Lacon, la.
1912. 1902. 1900. 1910. 1913.
Kreutzer, Rev. Frederick, Syracuse, N. Y. MethoCriminal assault on woman. dist. Kruzinaki. Rev. Ignacius, Stamford, Conn. Catholic.
Embezzlement.
Kuhlman, Rev. H. W.. Tillamook,

Accosting
Ore.
Methodist.
women on
the
street;
convicted, but let
off in
1913.
185
favoritism to a
accordance with
A.,
the
usual
Miss.
preacher.
Kuhn, Rev.
Mississippi,
Roman
Catholic.
Child-beating.
1908.
1912. 1911.
Kurtz, Rev. J. S., Lancaster, Pa. Mennonite. Violating fishing laws; fined; pleaded guilty. Kuryllo, Rev. Constantine, Pittsburgh, Pa. Greek. Criminal assault on a girl. Kvantkovsky, Father Bolishlav, Jersey City, N. J.
Catholic. Seduced and abducted young girl. Kwiatowski, Rev. Barslow, Jersey City, N. J.
1913.
Roman
Catholic. Embezzlement; for assault and battery.

1899. 1907. 1913. 1899.
1905.
arrested ten years before
Labour, Rev. John, Chicago,

conduct.
111.
Catholic.
Disorderly
Lagan, Rev. V. J., Chicago. 111. Catholic. Absconded with $6,000. Laguzzi, Rev. Joseph, Batavia, N. Y. Roman Catholic.
Assault. Laird, Rev. A. M., Laporte, Ind. Christian. Adultery with member of his flock at Elkhart. Lampkin, Rev. L. D., Duncan, Mo. Evangelist. Attempting assault on woman during revival. Lander, Rev. A. J., Chicago, 111. Baptist. Suicide. Landis, Rev. B. J., Prince's Fork, Va. Lutheran.
1909. 1914.
1900. 1913. 1907. 1907.
1906.
White
slavery.
Lane, Rev. C. M., San Francisco, Cal. Desertion of wife, who sued for divorce. Lane, Rev. John, Tulsa, Okla. Methodist and evanDrunkenness. gelist. Langan, Rev. J. J., New York, N. Y. Catholic. SteaUng. Lange, Rev. A., Evansville, Ind. Lutheran. Divorced; decamped with hairdresser. Lange, Rev. F. X., Chicago, 111. Catholic. Sued by head of family as father of 5-year-old member of
that family.
1905. 1901. 1913.
Lanning, Rev. J. C, Doniphan Co., Kan. Evangelist. Forgery; jailed. Fighting Baptist. Latimer, Rev. J. H., Rome, Ga. with school superintendent. Laudrais, Rev. Mr., La Rochelle, N. J. Roman Catholic. Arson; sentenced to sixteen years at hard
labor.
1900.
1900.
Laurence, Rev. Thos., Montreal, Can. Jesuit. Swindling; three years in state prison. Lawrence, Rev. John S., Cincinnati, O. Campbellite. Unlawful cohabitation; proved.
186
1913. 1902.
Lawrence, Bishop
copal.
William, Cambridge,
Mass.
Epis-
Sued for defamation of character. Ledbrook, Rev. Dr., Moscow, Ida. Methodist. Seduction, murder and suicide; chloroformed himself
and
girl
with
whom
H.,
he eloped.
Ossining,
1914.
Lee,
Rev.
Burton
N.
Y.
Episcopal.
Suicide.
1914. 1903. 1911.

1900. 1900.
Sued for separation by his wife. Lee, Rev. Frank L., Cory, Ind. Methodist.
Lee,
Rev.
Robert
H.,
Middleburg, Ky.
life.
Murder of
la.
two; penitentiary for

Assault.
Lenihan, Rev. Father D. C, Waterloo,
Catholic.
1903.
1912.
Lenk, Rev. Otto P., Cullman, Ala. Lutheran. Suicide by shooting. Leonard, Rev. John, Horton, Kan. Baptist. Intimacy with choir girl dismissed. Lepore, Rev. Felix M., Denver, Col. Catholic. Gambling and shooting. Lewis, Rev. Clay, Kansas City, Mo. Evangelist. Selling borrowed horse and wagon. 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. Lewis, Rev. Harry, Richfield, Minn. Baptist. Theft of jewelry; jailed. Lewis, Rev. James, Columbus, O. Beating wife, Lewis, Rev. James H., Brighton, la. Methodist. Adultery. Lewis, Rev. J. D., Alexis, 111. Lutheran. White
slavery, larceny.
1905.
1903. 1910.
1913. 1901. 1913. 1903.

1902. 1899.
1906. 1911.
Lewis, Rev. J. P., Petersburg, Va. Assault with deadly weapon. Lewis, Rev. W. A., Lansdowne, Pa. Methodist. Fined
for cruelty to chickens.
Lewis, Rev. W. A., Texarkana, Ark. Baptist. Assisting prisoner to escape; jailed. Lewis, Rev. Z. D., Richmond, Va. Baptist. Adultery; divorce proceedings. Life, Rev. J. M., Hebron, O. Methodist. Attempting
improper relations; dismissed. Rev. J. M., Canton, O. Methodist. Blacked wife's eye; sued for divorce. Light1)Ourne, Rev. A. W., Wilmington, Del. Methodist.
Life,
"Irregularity."
1908.
Limbeck, Rev. H. a boy.
G., Cincinnati,
O. Episcopal. Beating
CRIMES OF TREACIIERS.
Rev. G. J., Nashville, Tenn. Swindling banks fled. Lindsey, Rev. Carbondale, 111. Jos.,
Lindner,
;
187
Campbellite.
Evangelist.
1902. 1911. 1902.

1910.
1900.
Stealing clothes. Line, Rev. Hood, lola, Kan, Free morality. Ling, Rev. F. D., Port Huron, Mich.
Methodist.
Methodist.
ImAt-
tempted intimacy with married woman. Little, Rev. Arthur W., Evanston, 111.
Suicide.
Little,
Episcopal.
1901.
1900.
Rev. J. C, Rossville, Ind. Expelled for improper relations; threatens editor with gun. Little, Rev. J. W., Beecher City, 111. Baptist. Running away with married woman. Littleton, Rev. C. B., Edna, Kan. Methodist. Under suspicion of causing wife's death; unfrocked. Lloyd, Rev. Williams C, Southod, L. I. Presbyterian. Mixed in scandal involving the pregnancy of a
worker
1909
1909. 1910, 1901.
1913.
in his church.
Logan, Rev. A. W., Sterling, 111. Baptist. Larceny. Logan, Rev. B., Tacoma, Wash. Criminal assault on
11-year-old
girl.
Logan, Rev. P. B., Butler, Pa. Libel; indicted. Long, John, McKinney, Tex. Cut wife's throat with
pocketknife.
Long, Rev.
1909.
Episcopal. J. Franklin, Canon City, Colo. Unlawful cohabitation. Long, Rev. W. M., Plainfield, la. Methodist Episcopal.
Defaulter.
1910. 1900.
1914.
Long,
days.
Rev.
Wm.,
Monticello,
N.
Y.
J.
Theft;
thirty
Lonier, Rev. A. V., Mt. Holly, N. timacy with another's wife.
Methodist.
In-
1909.
1910.
1910.
1911.
1910. 1910. 1901.
Loomis, Rev. Chester E., Owosso, Mich. Methodist. Improper conduct with married woman. Lorton, Rev. J. E., Edinburg, 111. Campbellite. Unfaithfulness and cruelty to wife. Methodist. Annoying Lott, Rev. G. W., Chicago, 111. women on elevated trains; fined $100. Lovejoy, Rev. M. T., Chamber sburg, Pa. Church of God. Swapped wives with the baker. Lowe, Rev. Gilbert, Willimantic, Conn. Methodist. Forgery. Lowe, Rev. Robert B., Bellefontaine, O. Baptist.
Adultery.
Lowery, Rev. M. C, Greenville, Ala. Shot his wife. Lowther, Rev. Frank, Winfield, Kan. Methodist. Assault and destruction of property.
188
1909.
Lubach, Rev. Sam., Staten Island, N. Y.
fined $10. Lucas, Rev. J. H., Hancock Co., Conspiracy; indicted, arrested.
Assaulted
Methodist.
Baptist.
old
man;
1901. 1899.
W.
Va.
Lewis, Rev. Lumpkins, Torturing by burning
Scottsboro,
Ala.
his young died; ten years in the penitentiary.
grandson,
who
1911.
1899.
1910.
Lupton, Levi, founder of the Gift of Thomas cult, Akron, O. Adultery. Luther, Rev. L. O., Garrison, la. Swindling merchants
of Garrison. Lutz, Rev. Mr., Ashland, Wis. Lutheran. Arrested for assault. Lyford, Rev. G. D., Port Huron, Mich. Congrega"Indiscreet" with married woman; resigned; tional. disappeared, leaving wife behind. Methodist. Suspended Lyles, Rev. C. S., Logan, la. by the church conference for what is euphemistically described as "high imprudence and unministerial conduct." Lynos, Rev. Ernest E., Suffolk, Va. Sanctificationist.
1908.
1912.
1908. 1904.
1914.
Murder. Lyons, Rev. Chas. A., Sioux City, S. D. Bigamy; five living wives or more. Lyons, Rev. David P., Newton, 111. Holiness. Assault
and battery; convicted.

Mabry, Rev.
Discovered
1904.
1913.
W.
in
D., Salt
Lake City, Utah. Methodist. compromising position with well-
known woman.
MacGrail, Rev. Jos. T., Navy chaplain. Catholic. Gross immorality; resignation required. Machlachlan, Rev. H. D. C, Richmond, Va. ChrisMaintaining common nuisance. tian. Mackay, Rev. T. J., Newport News. Baptist. Taking "unusual" liberties with a woman. Mackelcan, Rev. George F. A,. Detroit, Mich. Episcommitted to insane Habitual drunkard copal. asylum on complaint of his wife. MacKinney, Rev. Jas., Philadelphia, Pa. Enticing
;
1899.
1912.
1900.
1913.
1913.
1914.
Manilla, la. PresbyJ., Adultery; divorce granted his wife. MacRorie, Rev. Willis S., Mount Hope, N. J. MethoAdultery; convicted and sentenced to three dist. months in county jail. MacWeodsen, Rev. Robert, Willow Grove, Pa. BapDisorderly conduct and carrying concealed tist. weapons.
terian.
young girl fined $500. MacMurtry, Rev. Andrew

;
1914. 1899.
1913.
1903.
189
Cal. Baptist.
Maddox, Rev. Carroll S., Santa Monica, Sued for slander by woman.
1913. 1910. 1906. 1912.
Maguire, Rev. H. W., Bayonne, N. J. Baptist. Assault and battery. Main, Rev. Silas S., Britton, Mich. Christian. Equivocal conduct with women. Malone, Rev. D. M., Wardell, Mo. Evangelist. Deserted his wife and traveled with another woman; killed by a mob while under arrest. Mann, Rev. Allen D., Marion, Ind. Larceny. Mann, Rev. A. M., Logan, Mich. Methodist. Immoral conduct. Marable, Rev. J. L., Haverhill, Mass. Baptist. Unlawful cohabitation. Marcavitz, Rev. Jos.,
Wilkes-Barre,
Pa.
Collecting
1913. 1901. 1906.
money under false pretenses. Marsh, Rev. Waldo B., D.D., Tacoma, Wash.
dist.
Metho-
Unfrocked for
clerical
impropriety.
Marsh, Rev. W. H., Remington, Eloping with young girl.
Va.
Methodist
1899.
1909.
1905. 1904.
1908. 1910. 1905.
Marshall, Rev. C. C, Sault Ste. Marie, Can. Baptist. Disciplined by church for striking a member of congregation. Marston, Rev. J. F., St. Louis, Mo. Baptist. Obtaining money under false pretenses. Martin, Pittsburgh. Presbyterian. Rev. D. C, Larceny. Martin, Rev. G. W., Barron, Wis. Baptist. Seduction;
ousted.
Evangelist. Martin, Rev. L. P., Philadelphia, Pa. "Raising" postal money orders; confessed. Martoogessian, Rev. L. M., New York, N. Y. ArmeBlackmail and extortion two years. nian. Maslowske, Rev. S., Chicago, 111. Catholic. Attacked and mistreated a girl. Mason, Rev. John T., Albany, Mo. Baptist. Criminal
;
libel.
1913.
1910.
Mason, Rev. O. H. L., Long Beach, Cal. PresbyImproper conduct with girl parishioners. terian. Mason, Rev. W. A., San Bernardino, Cal. Menacing
wife's
life.
1905.
1913.
1900.
Masterson, Rev. Chas. S., Garrett, 111. Abandonment and non-support of wife, who sued for divorce; name connected with different women's. Mata, Rev. Domingo A., Los Angeles, Cal. PresbyImpropriety with his organist. terian. Matschat, Rev. G. L., Hicksville, L. I. Lutheran.
Drunk
in the pulpit.
190
1901.
CRIMES OF TREACHERS.
Matthews, Rev. Chas. H., Cumberland, Md. Methodist. Shooting a boy. Matthews, Rev. E. E, Brooklyn, N. Y. Larceny. Matthews, Rev. Frederick R., Pasadena, Cal. Methodist.
1907. 1914.
1913. 1909. 1900.
1913.
Cruelty to boy.
Matthews, Rev. John, Omaha, Neb. Baptist. Immoral conduct; unfrocked on his own confession. Matthews, Rev. R. M., Connellsville, Pa. Bigamy. Matthewson, Rev. A. C., Brockport, N. Y. Consorting with a strange woman in Buffalo. Maxey, Rev. I. W., Decatur, 111. Financial crookedness.
1913.
1901.
Maxson, Rev. C. W., Los Angeles, Vagrancy and drunkenness. Maxwell, Rev. M. C, Clayton, Ala.
ing in church.
Cal.
Christian.
Baptist.
Shoot-
1905.
Maybery, Rev. Mr., Salt Lake City, Utah. Methodist. Adultery committed in his church. Jailed, jumped
bail.
1899. 1905.
1901.
1911.
Maynard, Rev. R. A., Denver, Colo. Independent. Improperly obtaining a divorce and remarrying. McAccen, Rev. Jos. E., Gethsemane, Ky. Catholic. Theft of $110 from another priest with whom he went on a spree in New York. McAllister, Rev. J. W., Lowells, Mich. Methodist. Attempted seduction; disappeared. McAlwain, Rev. R. C. Council Bluffs, la. Episcopal. Defendant in scandalous breach of promise suit for $30,000, plaintiff being mother of his illegitimate
_
child.
1901. 1899. 1906.

1(X)9.
McAmmond,
Rcv._ F.,
Perth, Ont.
Methodist.
Drunk
and disorderly in Syracuse. McArdle, Rev. George, Troy, N. Y. Presbyterian. Cut his throat in the presence of his wife. McAtee, Rev. J. Q., Philadelphia, Pa. Lutheran. Brutally attacked his wife; shot by daughter. McBrian, Rev. J. D., Leavenworth, Kan. Grafting as
McCall,
chaplain of penitentiary. Rev. D. H., Sharon into and robbing a store.
1902.
Grove,
Ky.
Breaking
1901.
McCammish, Rev.
1899.
1909. 1910.
Second Advent. J., Carbondale, 111. Relations with Mrs. Brown; shot Brown in fight. McCampbcll, Rev. J. H., Bolckow, Mo. Methodist Episcopal. Suicide. McCauley, Rev. Clarence, Louisville, Ky. Evangelist.
Attempted assault on woman. McClasky. Rev. W. P., Alameda, Left wife for affinity.
McClellan. Rev. H., F.loomington,
111.
Cal.
Methodist.
Cruelty to wife.
1900. 1900.
191
McClelland, Rev. G., Brooklyn, N. Y. Presbyterian. Falsehood and attentions to woman. 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.
1909.
1912. 1913.
McCool, Rev. H. W., West

Suicide.
Point,
Neb.
Lutheran.
1912. 1902.
1902.
McCrossan, Rev. C. W., Los Angeles, Cal. Baptist Exaggerated mine prospects. McCutcheon, Rev. T. M., Pittsburgh, Pa. Evangelist. Adultery; caught by detectives in flagrante delicto. McDaniel, Rev. George W., Richmond, Va. Baptist. Maintaining common nuisance. McDaniel, Rev. J. G. Rogers, Ark. Embezzlement;
1910. 1900.
1903. 1903.
1912.
Long Island City, N. Y. Drinking too much; resigned. McDonald, Rev. W. H., Spring Valley, N. Y. Baptist. Absconding with church funds. McFall, Rev. Arthur, Orange, Tex. Baptist. Suicide. McFarland, Rev. E. G., Coshocton, N. Y. Episcopal. Adultery; confessed and quit. McFarland, Rev. J. T., Topeka, Kan. Contempt of
MacDonald, Rev. Geo.
Baptist.
sent to the penitentiary. A.,
court
$25
fine.
111.
McFarland, Rev. Wm., Peoria,

immorality. McFarland, Rev.
byterian.
Methodist.
Gross
1912.
1901.
1902.
W. D., D.D., Greenville, Tenn. PresCausing girl's death by criminal operation. Convicted and sentenced to a year's imprisonment. McGann, Rev. William T., Elgin, 111. Deserted his wife, who thereupon sued for divorce. McGowan, Rev. John, South Brooklyn, N. Y. Catholic. Undue intimacy with Sunday school teacher. McGuinness, Rev. Jas., Truxton, N. Y. Catholic. Drunkenness died of alcoholism.
;
1909.
1907.
McHenry, Rev. A. C, Cleveland, O. Congregational. Performed illegal marriage; assaulted his accuser. McHenry, Rev. John, Benton Harbor, Mich. Campbellite. Made date with married woman,
Mclntyre, Rev. Lee A., Louisville, Ky._ African BapMalicious shooting and wounding; convicted. tist. Mclntroff, Rev. David N.. Spokane, Wash. Methodist. Defrauding a widow of $700; convicted. McKay, Rev. C .B., Mapleton, la. Methodist. Seduction and rape of girls. McKay, Rev. Thos., New Haven, Conn. Congregational.
1901. 1904.
1907.
Plagiarism.
192
1904. 1902.
McKinney, Rev. H. L., Pittsburgh, Pa. Evangelist. Posed as girl correspondent and swindled men. McKnight, Rev. Mr., Pittsburgh, Pa. Methodist.
Selling liquor on Sunday.
1912.
McKoy, Rev. Charles R, Bar Harbor, Me.

a 10-year-old
girl.
Baptist.
Driven from town on account of his conduct with

1913. 1905.
McLain, Rev. E.
B., Little
Rock, Ark.
Forgery.
De-
clared insane, and sent to asylum.
McLaurin, Rev. Archibald, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Baptist.
1910.
1909. 1910.
1913.
1900. 1902. 1914.
1902.
1907.
great familiarity with women, intemperance, and other offenses. McLeod, Rev. W. H., Woodstock, Can. Baptist. Intimacy with young women resigned. McMasters, Rev. Jose, Galveston, Tex. Methodist. Criminally assaulting 15-year-old girl. McMurry, Rev. W. F., Cape Girardeau, Mo. MethoAccused of murder. dist. McMurty, Rev. A. J., Oakland, Neb. Presbyterian. Immoral conduct. McNamee, Rev. B., Urbana, O. Evangelist. Wife beating; $50 and three, months. McNeills, Rev. Ch., Titusville, Pa. Catholic. Eloping with married woman; arrested as a vagrant. 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. McWilliams, Rev. Robt., Vineland, N. J. Cruelty to
;
Too
young
wife.
;
1899.
1908.
1900.
Episcopal. Mears, Rev. W. H., New York, N. Y. Consorting with public woman. Arrested deposed. Melbourne, Rev. J. D., Briscoe Co., Tex. Baptist. Counterfeiting; admitted guilt. Meloy, Rev. J. B., La Porte, la. United Evangelist.
Slander.
Merchant,
1913.
Rev. E. threatening wife's Merington, Rev. R.

copal.
W.,
life.
St.
Louis,
Mo.
Adultery;
J.
1900.
1909.
1914.
W. E., Essex Falls, N. Attempted suicide. Meriwether, Rev. P. M., Clarksville, Tenn.
ing for purposes of prostitution. Metcalf, Rev. E. F., Alexandria, S. D. Seduction of 14-year-old girl. Metcalf, Rev. Milton Y., St. Louis,
Epis-
Abduct-
Campbellite.
Mo.
Baptist.
Embezzlement.
1913.
Michael, Rev. George, Pittsburgh, Pa. Criminal assault.
Greek Catholic.
1902.
1910.
1898.
193
1910.
1913.
Rev. Chas. B., Griffin, Ga. Methodist. Forging and swindling. Miller, Rev. C. E., Marion, O. Campbellite. Charged by wife with immorality; resigned. Miller, Rev. Jas. N., New Haven, Conn. Congregational. Stealing $500 worth of books. Miller, Rev. J. M., Butler, Pa. Lutheran. Libel; inMiller,
dicted.
1901.
Milligan, Rev. Robert F. T., Chicago, 111. Evangelist. Attempted criminal assault; sentenced to from one to fourteen years in the penitentiary. Milliken, Rev. Lee B., Cincinnati, O. Presbyterian.
Swindling; borrowed Washington, Ind.

1913. 1914.
1910.
ful intercourse.
money
and
skipped
from
Milton, Rev. Mr., Hastings, Neb.
Methodist.
Unlaw-
1901.
1896.
Minehart, Rev. James T., Chicago, 111. Using mails to defraud. Miraglia, Rev. Paolo. Catholic. Excluded as undesirable person because of crimes in Italy. Mitchell. Rev. H. M., Sugartown, Ga. Methodist. Fighting with a knife. Mitchell, Rev. T. E., Knoxville, Tenn. Perjury; two
years' sentence.
1914. 1914.
Mlynarezyk, Rev. Father, Cleveland, O. Polish Catholic. Rape. Mohammed, Rev. C, Bristol, Va. Syrian. Obtaining money under false pretenses; convicted and sentenced.
1909.
1901.
1912.
Mollineaux, Rev. E. H., Hempstead, L. I. Baptist. Eloped with another's wife. Moment, Rev. Alfred, Brooklyn, N. Y. Presbyterian. Misconduct with young married woman. Monda, Rev. L. A., Connellsville, Pa. Catholic. Seduction; arrested; jumped bail. Monteuffel, Rev. Julius, Passaic, N. J. Roman Catholic. Assault; charged with striking a woman in
the face.
1902. 1908.
Montgomery, Rev. Mr., Woodbridge, N. J. Presbyterian. Conduct meriting imprisonment. Moore, Allie, Rev. Bellefontaine, O. Episcopal.
Forgery.
1913.
19(X).
Moore, Bishop David H., Indianapolis, Ind.

dist.
Metho-
Libel.
Moore, Rev. Green, Louisa, Ky. Baptist. Convicted on paternity charge. Moore, Rev. Dr. H. H., Corry, Pa. Methodist. Indicted on "serious charge."
194
1901.
1907. 1899.
Rev. Philip, Indianapolis, Ind. Evangelist. Assault and battery on wife and child. Moore, Rev. R. L., Garrett's Ford, Pa. Evangelist. Larceny. Moore, Rev. W., Benton, Ky. Methodist. Immorality with young girl. Moran, Rev. S. Wilson, Minneapolis. Episcopal.
Moore,
1899. 1899. 1903. 1900.

1910. 1908.
Nameless crime.
Rev. Daniel, Wilmington, Ga. Suicide in York. Morgan, Rev. F. A., Oklahoma City, I. T. Holiness.
Morelle,
New
1914. 1905.
1905.
1899.
1902.
1912.
Fornication. Morris, Rev. John W., Indianapolis, Ind. Evangelist. Adultery; eloped with married woman. Morris, Rev. Wm., Los Angeles. Episcopal. Craving for coin and beer arrested. Morris, Rev. Mr., Milford, Ga. Methodist. Attempted assault on woman shot by husband. Morrison, Rev. Arthur M,, Newburyport, Mass. Evangelist. Forgery. Morrison, Rev. A. B., Texarkana, Ark. Baptist Eloped with girl of 13; prosecuted under age of consent law; ten years. Morrison, Rev. D. H., Emporia, Kan. Methodist. Improper conduct with girl 8 years old. Morrison, Rev. G. E., Vernon, Tex. Methodist. Wife murder; hanged. Morrison, Rev. W. F., Chelsea, Mass. Navy chaplain.
;
Suicide.
1911.
1898. 1908.
1914.
Rev. Alfred G., D.D., Immorality. Moss, Rev. Richard H., Akron, O.
Episcopal.
victed of robbery.
Mortimer,
Philadelphia,
Pa.
Methodist.
Con-
1909.
1912.
1913. 1913.
Mott, Rev. Charles A., Stockton, N. J. Baptist. Attempted rape of married woman confessed. Mott, Rev. Henry Elliott, D.D., Elizabeth, N. J. Presbyterian. Immorality. Moulton, Rev. R. C, Des Moines, la. Methodist. Brutal assault on child. Moyer, Rev. H., Chicago, 111. Methodist Episcopal. Confessed to embezzlement of $1,700. Muehlfeldt, Francis W.. New York, N. Y. Lay evanRobbery and murder. gelist. Mueller, Rev. Kurt, Chicago, 111. Lutheran. Bigamy. Mueller, Rev. Philip, D.D., Stillwater, Wis. Man;
slaughter.
1901. 1914.
Muldoon, Rev. Mr., Chicago,

conduct, drunkenness, etc. Mullin, Rev. J. J., Chicago,
111.
Catholic.
Catholic.
Scandalous
111.
Murder.
Murphy, Rev.
1901. 1905.
195
1899.
Evangelist. ForS. E.. Eufala, Ark. gery; deserting his wife. TransMurray, Rev. Abr., Chicago, 111. Methodist. gressions of the most serious sort. ^ ^ Sued by H. Murray, Rev. O. E., Bijou Hills, S. D. A Schmidt for seduction of minor daughter Methodist. Murray, Rev. William, Dyersburg, Tenn.
' .
1899.
MuTg"rove,'Rev. C.
tant.
1908
1910".
Lewiston, O. Methodist ProtesJ., Burglary and larceny. ^ Debauchery, etc. Myers, Rev. Clement, Portland, Ind^ Sued for Myers, Rev. C, Boston, Mass. Baptist.
, ,
1912
1906.
Myl'narczyk, Rev. A.,
Polish Catholic. Utica. N. Y. _, Mailing obscene literature, ^^ ^ ^ ,, CathMynarczyk, Rev. W. A., New Kensmgton, Pa. Rape. olic.
.
1913
1906. 1911. 1911. 1899.
Nawrocki,
Polish Rev. Adelbert, Brooklyn, N. Y. Criminal libel; pleaded g"i Jy. AbducNazarian, Rev. Saliag, Fresno, Cal. Cathohc. tion of 14-year-old girl. ^, e j a Seduced a Neal. Rev. B., Springfield, I^j- Christian gave birth to a child. Httle girl, who at the age of 13 Baptist preacher. Neece, T. Clay, Dallas, Tex. Former
Catholic.
. .
1913
^ ir .t, jInMethodist. Tr, Neeley, Rev. H. D., Higgmsport, O. dulgence in immoralities. Seduction of young Neil Rev B. M., Modesta, 111. years. girl; sent to penitentiary for 25 Catholic. ElopeNeUis, Rev. Charles, TitusviUe, Pa.
Horse
thief.
,
1904 1902
1903
913:
1912 1912.
ment with married woman. û v . Left Evangehst. i Nelson, Rev. H. P., Seattle, Wash. wife to live with another woman. Pa Robbing paNelson, Rev. Ludwig, Pittsburgh, merchants. tients in hospital and swindling divorce ahmony. Nesbit Rev. N. Hill. Desertion; MethoRev. Stephen A., Spartansburg, S. C. Nettle woman, Improper conduct toward a young dist. offenses. assault and miscellaneous minor Evangelist Newell Rev. William R., Chicago 111. "usconduct -^g5^Jl'^^^^-^,^,d by Moody Church for
; ,
narcotic with women, habitual use of

unreliability of statements.
1914.
drugs,
and
Newill, Rev. E. P., Los
Angeles,
.
Cal.
r^nt.mnt nf Contempt of
1899.
Newman,
Evangehst. Rev. Newman, Waco, Tex penitentiary. Counterfeiting; one year in the
196
1909.
Newman,
tle
I., Vandalia, 111. Crime against litone to twenty years' sentence. Newsom, Rev. Mr., Elizabethtown, Ky. Methodist. Fighting on the street. Nichols, Rev. C. E. O., Burlington, N. J. Episcopal. Maltreating a boy pupil fled. Nichols, Rev. C. W. DeL., New York. Episcopal. Gross immorality deposed by Bishop Potter.
Rev. P.
girl;
1900.
1900.
>
1899.
1900. 1904. 1903.
1913.
1904.
1909.
1908. 1913.
Nichols, Rev. J. E., Riverhead, L. I. Methodist. Living with another man's wife. Nichols, Rev. R. A., Worcester, Mass. Church of Mishandling funds entrusted to him. Christ. Nickelsen, Rev. C. D., Colfax, Wash. Methodist. Enticing a woman; withdrew from the ministry. Westfield, 111. United Nickerson, Rev. Wm. H., Brethren. Murderous assault. Nickerson, Rev. Mr., Columbus, O. Baptist. Bigamy; penitentiary for one year. Nieman, Rev. John, Pittsburgh, Pa. Abused 15-yearold girl; struck wife. Nimmo, Rev. J. H., Barriefield, Ont. Anglican. Eloped; deposed.
1912.
1913.
1912. 1899.
Rev. A., Youngstown, O. Independent Forgery. Nix, Rev. J. W., Clarkson, Miss. Methodist. Convicted of attempted assault on a 9-year-old girl; sentenced to one year in prison. Noon, Rev. Samuel H., Cambridge, Mass. MethoNiskowici,
Catholic.
dist.
Suicide.
Norris, Norris,
Rev. Rev.
J.
Frank,
Fort
Worth, Tex.
Minn.
Baptist.
Accused of arson.
Reginald,
Bigamy; four or
1900. 1900.
1906. 1911.
St. Paul, five wives.
Evangelist.
Northrup, Rev. C. V., Owosso, Mich.

tion
;
Baptist.
Seduc-
1898.
1900.
deposed. Norton, Rev. A. Q., Amityville, N. Y. Methodist. "Indiscreet conduct;" fined $25. Norton, Rev. J. G., Valdosta, Ga. Baptist. Suicide. Novak, Rev. Matthew, Milwaukee, Wis. Catholic. Viciously assaulted a boy. Nye, Rev. D. C, North Coshocton, N. Y. Methodist Left wife and eloped with young woman. Nye, Rev. Moses, Newark, O. Evangelist. Assaulted brother preacher,
1912. 1899.
Oakes, Rev. John A., Belford, N. J. Methodist. "Indiscretion" with young girls. Oakes, Rev. J. A., Sharpestown, N. J. Methodist. Indecent assault on girl.
1910.
197
Catholic.
111.
O'Brien, Rev.
D., Sandy Hill, N. Y. moral relations with school teacher.
Im-
1905.
O'Callaghan,
Rev.
P.
J.,
Chicago,
Catholic.
1900. 1904. 1909.

1914. 1900.
Keeping gambling house; arrested. O'Cantey, Rev. Mr., Elliott, S. C. Ravishing 10-yearold
girl.
O'Connell, Rev.
M.
J.,
New
York,
N. Y.
Catholic.
Attempting
suicide.
O'Dell, Rev. Sol, Lebanon, Mo. Presbyterian. knife on a minister who then shot him.
Drew
Odjada, Rev. Macairo, San Bernardino, Cal. Head of Spanish mission. Failure to provide for family. O'Donnell, Rev. John J., New York, N. Y. Catholic.
Suicide.
1900.
Odum, Rev.
Suicide.
1912.
B., Atlanta, Ga. Baptist. "Beating landlady out of his board bill." Offstedahl, Rev. M. E., Grafton, N. D. Lutheran.
1905.
Rev. Mr., Roan Mountain, Tenn. 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
Oggle,
of 12-year-old girl. Olden, Rev. G. D., Topeka, Kan. Baptist. Parentage of illegitimate child. Oliver, Rev. Robt., Atlantic City, N. J. Stealing lumber to fit up camp grounds. Olson, Rev. O. M., Batavia, 111. Methodist. Disorderly conduct. Oplinger, Rev. H. J., Slatington, Pa. Young woman the mistress, wife the domestic in his household. O'Ryan, Father William, Denver, Colo. Catholic.
1899.
1899. 1909.
1907.
1912. 1902. 1909.
1909. 1899.
Attempted to bribe a witness. Orwick, Rev. J. F., Jackson, Mich. Visiting assignation houses; habitual immorality. Osborn, Rev. A. O., Bloomfield, Ind. Campbellite. Embezzlement. Osborn, Rev. Joel, St. Joseph, Mo. Baptist. "Peeping
Tom ;"
fined.
O'Shay, Rev. Charles, Chillicothe, O. Christian. Intimacy with woman not his wife; breaking up home
of Ch. Summers. O'Shea, Rev. Chas., Provo, Utah. Known to be a bigamist; suspected of murder. Methodist. Osterfield, Rev. Dudley, Ozone Park, L. I. Violation of marriage vows; sued for divorce. O'Tool, Rev. M. J., New Sharon, la. Peddling without license; arrested.
1900.
1908.
1904.
198
1909. 1908.
Selling liquor Clarksville, Tenn. without license chain gang. Newton, Mass. Episcopal. Owen, Rev. Thomas, Adultery. Owen, Rev. W. D., Augusta, Ga. Campbellite. Jailed for land frauds. Owens, Rev. C. T., Atlanta, Ga. Methodist. Drunkenness and breach of promise. Owens, Rev. Eben J., New York City. Evangelist.
;
Owen, Rev. Gustave,
1909.
1901. 1912.
Extortion.
1913.
1913.
Owens, Rev. Joe, Rosedale, Va. Baptist. Adultery and embezzlement. Owens, Rev. Joseph, Abingdon, Va. Baptist. White
slavery.
1913. 1912.
Rev. Oscar Lee, Baltimore, Md. Baptist. cruelty to wife; separation granted her. Oxnard, Rev. Henry E. E., New Bedford, Mass. Constructive larceny.
Owens,
1901.
1914. 1910.
Pace, Rev. John P., Russellville, Ala. tery; six months' sentence. Paciarelli, Rev. Joseph, Altoona,
Libel. Paisley,
Baptist.
Adul-
Pa.
Methodist.
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.
1912.
1900.
1899.
1907. 1907.
1912. 1901. 1907. 1901.

1910.
1897.
Papineau, Rev. Arthur B., Wayland, Mass. Episcopal. Sued for defamation of character. Pappilon, Rev. J. J., Willimantic, Conn. Roman CathObstructing justice. olic. Pappon, Rev. Karol, Springfield, Mass. Catholic. Assaulting a woman. Parish, Rev. F. G., Indianapolis, Ind. Baptist. Cruelty to wife; divorced. Park, Rev. W. H., Goshen, Ind. Suicide. Parker, Rev. G. C, Hopkinsville, Ky. Methodist. Used church collection to get drunk. Parker, Rev. J. A., Kempton, Ind. Christian. Adultery. Parker, Rev. J. T., Baltimore, Md. Baptist. Bigamy. Parker, Rev. W. G., Goshen, Ind. Suicide. Parker, Rev. W. H., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Interfering with an officer; jailed. Parkinson, Rev. B. E., Grand Rapids, Mich. MethoEngaged to younij woman; wife in Iowa. dist. Parrish, Rev. Geo., Marshalltown, la. Congregational. Forgery.
1912.
199
N. Y.
Baptist.
Passley,
Rev.
Robert,
New
York,
Grand
1912,
1901.
larceny.
1907. 1910.
1913.
1899.
Patten, Rev. Samuel, Cincinnati, O. Disorderly conduct and attempted suicide. Patterson, Rev. C. T., Minneola, Fla. Methodist. Threatening life of wife; arrested. Patterson, Rev. E., Enid, Okla. Jailed for stealing. Patterson, Rev. V. M., Brooklyn, N. Y. Congregational. Left wife to court former sweetheart. Pawlikowski, Rev. Roman, St. Louis, Mo. Alienation of affections; verdict against him of $750. Payne, Rev. Thos. J., Benton, Tenn. Baptist. Making
1902. 1907.
1909.
1912.
1912.
1910. 1910.
1909.
moonshine whisky. Payseur, Rev. J. J., Charlotte, N. C. Baptist. Shot farmer on whose lands he was hunting. Peabody, Rev. D. C, Decatur, 111. Episcopal. Suicide. Peabody, Rev. P. B., Utica, N. Y. Episcopal. Petty larceny; six months. Pembroke, Rev. D., St. Joseph, Mo. Catholic. Blackmailing; six months. Perinchef, Rev. Percy, D.D. Methodist. Accused of slandering and intimidating a woman. Perkins, Rev. G., Marshalltown, la. Baptist. Cheating by false pretenses. Perkins, Rev. Reece W., New Orleans, La. Baptist. Frequented houses of ill fame. Perry, Rev. Harry M., Lincoln, Neb. Methodist. Violation of liquor law. Perry, Rev. Isaac, Williamsburg, Ky. Murder. Perry, Rev. M. W., Gadsden, Ala. Adultery and embezzlement of $165. Person, Rev. R. T., Philadelphia, Pa. Made love to
workingman's wife. Peterson, Rev. Carl, Northampton, Mass. Using mails to defraud. Peterson, Rev. Jacob B., New York, N. Y. Armenian. Drunk and disorderly; demolished furniture. Peterson, Rev. W. A., Oshkosh, Wis. Methodist. "Indiscretion" with lambs of the female persuasion. Petty, Rev. W. O., Gainesville, Ga. Shooting at a divekeeper and hitting another man. Phalen, Rev. J. R., Clement City, Mich. Baptist. worthless checks. Received passing for Jailed compromising letters from women of congregation. Pheley, Rev. Dr. W. H., Providence, R. L Presbyterian.
1913.
1900. 1912.
1903.
1906.
1910.
1908.
Drinking
Suicide.
habits.
Phelps,
dist.
Rev. James Duane, Syracuse, N. Y.
Metho-
200
1899.
1901.
Phelps,
Rev. J. D., Buffalo, N. Y. Methodist. moral character, according to rumor.
Im-
Phillips, Rev. E. S., Hazleton, Pa. Catholic. Came to York on a spree, and died in a disorderly
New
house.
1903. 1900.
1909.
1906.
1905.
Rev. Harry L., Randolph, Co., W. Va. Methodist. Forgery. Phillips, Rev. J. H., Huntsville, Ala. Left wife and disappeared with another. Pick, Elder E., Mount Lebanon, N. Y. Shaker. Unbecoming conduct with eldress; unfrocked. Pickle, Rev. John, Colfax, Wash. Jailed for wifePhillips,
beating. Pierce, Rev. David, Southbury, Conn. Congregational. Attempting to shoot wife and daughter; placed in an
1909. 1900. 1910. 1913.
1900.
1910.
1903. 1905.
asylum. Rev. G. R., Eau Claire, Wis. Congregational. Detraction ; prosecuted. Piner, Rev. W. F., Hopkinsville, Ky. Methodist. Called on wife; whipped husband who objected. Pippen, Rev. W. E., Shreveport, La. Baptist. Obtaining money by false pretenses. Pippin, Rev. William E., Prescott, Ark. Baptist. Forgery; sentenced to three years in penitentiary. Pirstle, Rev. B. J., Jasper, Tenn. Presbyterian. SuiPike,
cide.
Pittman, Rev. A.
.
J.,
Brandenburg, Ky.
Baptist.
Wife-
beating. Plannette, Rev. E. E.,
Los Angeles, Cal. Presbyterian. Petty larceny; confessed; jailed. Plant, Rev. Robert, Rockland, Me. Episcopal. Libel;
1913.
1911. 1904. 1908.
1909. 1913.
1905.
Howard J., Sycamore, 111. Free MethoCorrupting morals of child; confessed guilt. Protestant. Sold Plass, Rev. Norman, Boston, Mass. bogus mining stock. Christian. DesertPiatt, Rev. A. L., Santa Cruz, Cal. ing wife and eloping. Pledger, Rev. Evangelist. P., Warrensburg, 111. Defamation. Pniak, Rev. Simon, Utica, N. Y. Catholic. Criminal
dist,
sued. Plantz, Rev.
assault
on
girl.
Podin,
Rev.
Carl,
New
York,
III.
N.
Y.
Presbyterian.
Non-support of wife.
Pohl, Rev. resigned.
Polcet,
Titus,
Chicago,
Lutheran.
Bastardy;
C.
1903.
Rev. John, Springfield, III. Isaksson; confessed; life sentence.
Murder of
CRIMES OF TREACIIERS.
1907.
201
1900. 1902. 1900.
1912.
1904.
1900.
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. Popke, Rev. A., Baltimore, Md. Catholic. Adultery; woman's husband got divorce. Porter, Rev. C. H., Newport, R. I. Unitarian. Cruelty to wife, who secured a divorce. Porter, Rev. Farley, Batavia, N. Y. Presbyterian. Slander; sued for $5,000. Porter, Rev. Robert B., Downieville, Pa. Sued for divorce on grounds of cruelty and neglect. Porter, Rev. Wm., Huntsville, Ala. Embezzling funds; arrested. Porterfield, Rev. C. L., Franklin, Pa. Baptist. Assaulting 15-year-old girl; sent to Western Penitentiary.
1903. 1899. 1904. 1900.
1912.
1899. 1900. 1909.
Porubsky, Rev. John, Binghampton, N. Y. Catholic. Misappropriation of church funds. Posey, Rev. O. K., Pottawatomie Co., Kan. Christian. Deserting wife; eloping with young girl. Potter, Rev. Daniel, New York, N. Y. Baptist. Improper conduct with his housekeeper. Powell, Rev. George, Utica, N. Y. Attempted suicide. Powell, Rev. James, Elfort, O. Evangelist. The murder of Frank Reed. Powell, Rev. J. W., Van Buren, Ark. Baptist. Convicted of criminal assault on a young girl. Powell, Rev. Thos., Madison, Ind. Drunkenness; lost pulpit through drink. Power, Rev. J. W., New York, N. Y. Catholic. Procuring will in his favor through fraud. Powers, Rev. P., Chicago. Methodist Episcopal
field responsible by bishop.
for suicide of
woman.
Pa.
Removed
Methodist.
1901.
1912.
Powers,
Rev.
Samuel,
S.
Philadelphia,
Suicide. Prentess, Rev.

gelist.
Henry, Charlottesville, Va.
Evan-
1907.
Burglary. 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
202
member
1908.
of
his
church as her
husband.
Expelled
from ministry, wife securing divorce. Preston, Rev. E. J., Glens Falls and Enterprise,
Va.
W.
1914.
1911.
1907.
1914. 1907.
Methodist. Swindling. Methodist Price, Rev. Jacob E., D.D., New York. Episcopal. Improper conduct with women; admonished by church court. Price, Rev. Dr. Walter, McKeesport, Pa. PresbyImproper conduct with girls. terian. Methodist Episcopal. Pritchett, Rev. A., Clayton, Mo. Chased out of town by women he slandered. Protisch, Rev. G. D., Philadelphia, Pa. Lutheran. Deserted wife for another woman; deserted her. Baptist. Drunkenness; Pruitt, Rev. L. B., Colena, la.
fined in police court. Puffer, Rev. C. H., Salem, Mass. Universalist. love to another's wife while on "trial divorce" his own.
Made
from
1900.
1904. 1901. 1906.
Queen, Rev. Z. T., Mystic, la. Campbellite. Two wives found guilty by his church. Quick, Rev. S., Sigourney, la. Evangelist. Alienating the affections of married woman. Quimby, Rev. David B., Brooklyn, N. Y. Passing
;
worthless check.
Quinn, Rev. Mr., Atlantic Highlands, N. J. Catholic. Found dead in New York lodging house with rectory housekeeper. Married man.
Rabe, Rev. Wm. G., Omaha, Neb. Baptist. Asphyxiated in close embrace with a lady missionary, in
pastor's
1902.
room
of church.
1904.
1900.
1899.
1907.
1914. 1910. 1904.
1909.
1901.
Raczaszeek, Rev. I. Paul, New York. Catholic. Slander; arrested. Radford, Rev. Walter, Waubay, S. D. Congregational. Ruining his own daughter; confessed. Catholic. DrunkRafferty, Rev. C. P., Columbus, O. enness; death due to alcoholism. Rafter, Rev. W. S., Oxford, Conn. Episcopal. Deposed for low morals. Ragdale, Rev. C. B., Atlanta, Ga. Perjury. Rakowski, Rev. W., St. Joseph, Mo. Catholic. Took $300 to save a soul stayed away. Ramsey, Rev. Alex., New Castle, Pa. Evangelist. Horse stealing; convicted; jailed. Ramsey, Rev. J. J., Fruita, Col. Seduction; girl at;
tempted suicide. Raub, Rev. F. E., Frankford, Pa. of promise; convicted.
Moravian.
Breach
1905.
1900.
203
Ravens, Rev. D. F., Farmington, Wash. Campbellite. Abusing wife who sued for divorce. Ravidon, Rev. M., Evans, W. Va. Baptist. Ravishing
11-year-old
girl.
1905.
1908. 1909.
1913.
1910. 1906.
Rawlins, Rev. G. W., Valdosta, Ga. Murdering the two children of the Rev. W. L. Carter hanged. Ray, Rev. J. M., Peoria. 111. Swindling. Raycroft, Rev. J. R., Chicago, 111. Evangelist. Home insanitary; child died for lack of medical attention. Raymond, Rev. Charles E., Peoria, 111. Lutheran. Deposed and expelled from the synod for immoral conduct. Raymond, Rev. R. D., Boston, Mass. Baptist. Forgery. Rea, Rev. J. L., Mangum, Okla. CampbeUite. Murder; suicide. Reams, Rev. A. R., Merced, Cal. Baptist. Seduction;
;
arrested; escaped.
1912.
Reardon, Rev. Mr., Peoria,

Catholic priest, of beastly intoxication.
III.
Name
given
by
Roman
who was
arrested in a state
1913.
1913.
1913.
1909.
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. Reed, Rev. Draper, Newburg, Ind. Free Methodist. Assault and battery of wife; fined for offense. "The devil was in me," his excuse. Reed, Rev. Robert H., McCleary, Wash. Methodist. Sending obscene letters through the mail; sentenced on his own confession. Reese, Rev. D. L., Anderson, Ind. Lutheran. Drunk-
Redecker,
enness.
1913. 1899. 1900.
Reinhardt, Rev.
Max,
Soldier, Ida.
Baptist.
Stealing
1909.
church building. Renear, Rev. B., Millville. N. J. Attempting suicide. Rexroad, Rev. J. T., Weston, W. Va. Evangelist. Fomented bloody feud; was asked to leave and did. Reynolds, Rev. E. V., Los Angeles, Cal. Catholic.
Murder; arrested
1906.
in
Salt
Lake City for immoral
1902.
conduct with boys. Reynolds, Rev. G. L., Columbus, O. Baptist. Arrested for bigamy. Reynolds, Rev. J. M., Bedford City, Pa. Presbyterian. Juggling funds; untruthfulness; expelled from the
ministry.
1901.
Reynolds, Rev. J. S., Riverton, bezzlement and bigamy.
111.
Campbellite.
Em-
204
1899.
1912. 1905. 1909. 1908.
Rhianhart, Rev. J., Steinauer, Neb. Catholic. with a married woman. Rhodes, Rev. Walter R., Onancock, Va.
Eloped
1913.
Baptist. Suicide. Rice, Rev. John Bell, Louisville, Ky. Suicide by shooting. Rice, Rev. J. R., Toledo, O. Implicated in hold-up. Rice, Rev. T. M., Columbus, Kan. Baptist. Bigamy; pleaded guilty; five years at hard labor. Rice, Rev. U. T. S., Mattoon, 111. Baptist. Embezzlement; pleaded guilty and sent to penitentiary for from one to ten years.
1900. 1900.
1901.
1909.
Rev. Alonzo, Kansas City, Mo. Evangelist. Convicted of perjury; a bigamist. Rich, Rev. E. L., Watsonville, Cal. Presbyterian. Selling pork that had died of itself. Rich, Rev. John M., Hackensack, N. J. Slander; apologized to avert consequences. Richards, Rev. E. A., Chattanooga, Tenn. Campbellite. Swindling. Richardson, Rev. John, Missouri. Abducting girl for
Rich,
1911. 1909.
immoral purposes. Richeson, Rev. C. V. T., Boston. Baptist. Murder. Richey, Rev. J. W., Carmel, Ind. Methodist. Sold mortgaged property. Left wife for young woman.
Two
1907.
1905.
years.
Baptist.
Richmond, Rev. W. C, Cambridge, Mass. Divorced by wife. Larceny; jailed.
1909. 1902. 1900.

1902.
Richtartsik, Rev. E. F., Bayonne, N. J. Catholic. Assault and battery; arraigned. Richter, Rev. W. J., Grand Rapids, Mich. Divorced
for cruelty. Rickey, Rev. Albert, Scottsburg, Ind. Baptist. Theft of a cow; arrested; escaped. Riddick, Rev. J. E., White Plains, Va. Methodist.
Manslaughter; convicted.
Ridge, Rev. Thomas, Hart, Mich. Murder of W. L. Shafer. Riedl, Rev. John, Milwaukee, Wis. Roman Catholic. Offering bribe to chief truancy officer to secure his brother's appointment as an officer. Riegel, Rev. C. P., Cheltenham. Pa. Catholic. Came to New York on a spree; got into bad company; found dead in hallway. Rightmeyer, Rev. G., Dayton, O. Lutheran. Drunkenness; arrested. Ringland, Rev. Thos., Weldon, 111. Methodist. Disorderly conduct; arrested with girl.
1912.
1901.
1900. 1910.
1911.
205
preacher.
Ringle,
Otto,
Duluth,
Minn.
Former
Drunkard and vagrant.

Rev. A. M., Bedford, Va. Baptist. Expelled from church on charges by wife. Ritchie, Rev. Wm., Charlottesville, Ind. Methodist.
Ritanour,
1908.
Defaulted; embezzled church funds; disappeared with servant girl, leaving family dependent on con1906.
1913. 1914. 1907.
gregation. Rittgers, Rev. J. B., Glendola, N. J. Methodist. Implicated in church scandal; resigned. Rivera, Rev. J. M., Brooklyn, N. Y. Roman Catholic.
1907.
1909.
1907.
Seduction ran away. Robbins, Rev. E. E., Salinas, Cal. Methodist. Mailing improper letters three years in the Federal prison. Robbins, Rev. J. W., Maurice, Ind. Campbellite. Immoral conduct with children. Roberts, Rev. John, Cocke Co., Tenn. Ten years for
;
;
murder.
1904. 1900. 1910. 1910. 1900. 1910.

1907. 1900.
United Brethren. J. T., Noblesville, Ind. Criminal libel. Roberts, Rev. N. J., Shreveport, La. Methodist Episcopal. Expelled from conference for immorality. Roberts, Elder Sam, Stuart, la. Church of God. Eloping with the wife of Elder Sharp. Robinette, Rev. M. D., Richmond, Va. Baptist. Making moonshine whisky. Robinson, Rev. B., New York, N. Y. Baptist. Forgery. Robinson, Rev. C. W., Philadelphia, Pa. Episcopalian.
Robinson,
Seduction. Rev.
Roberts, Rev.
G.
J.,
Dayton,
O.
Methodist.
Re-
moved under a
cloud.
1911.
1910. 1901.
1910. 1910. 1902.
Robinson, Rev. Lewis, Camden, N. J. Evangelist. Attempting the life of his wife. Robinson, Rev. S. D., Herkimer, N. Y. Methodist. Betrayed 19-year-old girl; left town. Robinson, Rev. Wm., Helena, Ark. Swindling. Robottom, Rev. P. J., Lancaster, Pa. Episcopal. Intimacy with woman; husband sought divorce. Rockwell, Rev. C. W., Waynesburg, Pa. Baptist
wife-beater. Roclcwell, Rev. R. Libel; indicted.
H.,
Butler,
Pa.
Presbyterian.
Rodgers, Rev. J. E., Bloomington, Ind. Baptist. Arrested on paternity charge of 16-year-old girl. Roehl, Rev. William E., St. Louis, Mo. Traveling Drunkenness. evangelist. Rogers, Rev. J. A., Chicago, III. Theft. Rogers, Rev. J. L., Santa Cruz, Cal. Baptist. Arson;
arrested; confessed.
20G
1900.
CRIMES OF TREACHERS.
Roney, Rev. M. F., Philadelphia, Pa. Catholic. Delirium tremens in Cincinnati. Rooks, Rev. T. S., Bridgewater, la.; Col., Cal, Okla. Adultery; seduction; jail; tar and feathers. Rorsos, Rev. Steven, Delray, Mich. Assault and battery committed on 10-year-old boy.
Rose, Rev. B. L., Pittsburgh, Pa. Baptist. Charged with felony. 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. Rose, Rev. Owen W., Sabula, la. Leading lynching
1903.
1913.
1911.
1912.
1900,
1908. 1909. 1902. 1908.
mob.
Roseberry,
Rev.
H.
E.,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Abduc-
tion; three years. Rosell, Rev. W. H.,
Ross, Rev.
trust.
I.
S.,
Oxford, O. Evangelist. Fraud. El Reno, Ark. Betrayal of financial
Rowe, Rev.
1911.
1901. 1907. 1899.
Adventist. Jailed for F., Carthage, Mo. wife abandonment. Rowe, Rev. Gilbert J., Willimantic, Conn. Passed bogus check. Rowland, Rev. J. M., Grand Rapids, Mich. Christian.
Suicide.
1912. 1899.
1908. 1901.
1900.
Royer, Rev. John, Columbus, Ind. Methodist. Kissing member of congregation; suspended. Ruby, Rev. H. W., Ponca City, Ok. Free Methodist. Killing a deputy sheriff. Rucker, Rev. Thomas, Benton, Mo. Methodist. Forgery.
Rumpf, Rev. Charles, Union Hill, N. J. Lutheran. Drunkenness and wife-beating; 90 days. Runyan, Rev. P. D., West Derry, Pa. Baptist. Beat
a little girl; fined $10. Extortions as Russell, Rev. F. B., New York, N. Y. head of a law and order league. Methodist. WritRussell, Rev. L. M., Eddyvillc, Ky. ing love letters to a married woman; withdrew from
church.
1911.
1900. 1908.
Leroy, Sultan, Wash. Methodist. Crim10 years old. Rutlcdge, Rev. Wm., Paducah, Ky. Baptist. Making and selling moonshine whisky. Rutlcdge, Rev. W. E., St. Louis, Mo. Baptist. Used mails to defraud.
Ruth, Rev.
inally assaulted a girl
1905.
207
Ryan, Rev.
named
1909.
1910.
Ryan,
with
tion.
Catholic. Adultery; J. A., Chicago, 111. as co-respondent in divorce suit. Rev. J. A., Denver, Colo. Catholic. Eloped
girl.
Ryan, Rev., Benton Harbor, Mich.
Catholic.
Seduc-
1899.
Rymarfski, Rev. L., Cleveland, O. German evangelist Suicide by poison.

Rev. William P., St. Louis, Mo. Lutheran. Arrested for deserting his wife. Samson, Rev. Maurice, Spring City, Pa. Reformed. Marital unfaithfulness. Sanders, Rev. L. L., Spokane, Wash. United PresbyUsing mails to defraud; pleaded guilty. terian. Sanderson, Rev. D. C, Almonte, Ont. Methodist. Drunkenness and debauchery at Syracuse. Sandford, Rev. Frank, Portland, Me. Head of Holy Ghost and Us Society. Caused death of six of his followers on voyage of yacht. Saphore, Rev. E. Warren, Syracuse, N. Y. Episcopal. Enticing young woman. Savery, Rev. H. S., St. Martin's, Can. Congregational. Attempted to marry young woman, though having a wife in Boston. Sayre, O. L., Byesville, O. Methodist. Attempted rape; lynching threatened. Schade, Rev. Augustus E. F., Panama. German Reformed. Suicide. Methodist. AcSchell, Rev. L. C, Indianapolis, Ind. cused of improper conduct toward fair parishioner. Catholic. Obtaining Schell, Rev. Jos., Tony, Wis.
Sachs,
1912.
1908.
1913. 1901. 1911.
1908. 1906.
1905. 1913.
1912.
1907. 1909.
money under
1913.
false pretenses.
1899. 1900.
1907.
1913.
Schenk, Rev. G. F., St. Louis, Mo. Evangelist. Seduced girl of his household. Schenck, Rev. Hallack F., Manasquan, N. J. MethoConvicted in church trial of indiscretions with dist. female members, and forced to resign. Schermerhorn, Rev. L. B., N. Ottawa, Kan. Bigamy. Schermerhorn, Rev. L. M., Dubuque, la. Baptist. Desertion and non-support of wife. Schmidill, Rev. Chas., Chicago. Ministerial masher.
Arrested. Schmidt, Rev. Hans,
olic.
New
York, N. Y.
Roman
Cath-
Murder;
convicted.
1911.
1911.
Schmidt, Rev. Lawrence, Rochester, N. Y. Robbed his wife of watch and money after their separation. Schock, Rev. J. T., Plainfield, N. J. Reformed
208
church. Under arrest for complicity in fraudulent get-rich-quick scheme. 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. Schultz, Rev. Wm., Freelandsville, Ind. Evangelist. deposed. Fraud, swindhng, lying, etc.
;
1912.
1905.
1908. 1907. 1911.
Schwartz, Rev. Robert E., Des Moines,

ness; divorced.
la.
Drunken-
Schwerzmann, Rev. S., Cortez, Colo. Methodist. Theft and forgery. Scotford, Rev. H. C, Chicago, 111. Congregationalist, In same predicament as his colleague Schock, and
for similar offense. Scott, Rev. G. E., Waterloo, la.
old girl.
1906.
1903.
Eloped with 16-year-
1900.
Methodist. ViolaScott, Rev. Mark, Seattle, Wash. tion of colored girl, aged 14, who gave birth to a child and died; jailed. Became a Scott, Rev. W. D., San Francisco, Cal.
Scoville,
1909.
1913.
physical wreck through drunkenness and debauchery. Rev. V. P., Climax, Ga. Married couple against wishes of girl's parents. Rev. William, Joliet, 111. United Brethren. Scull,
1908. 1914.
Carrying concealed weapons. Seachery, Rev. J. W. Moore, Mont. Rape. Sears, Dr. F. W., New York, N. Y. New Thought. Adultery; wife obtained divorce. Secombe, Rev. S. H., Goshen, Mass. Congregational.
1911.
1904.
1903.
Gained sympathy and money by fake. See, E. A., Chicago, founder of "Absolute Life" cult. Abducted 17-year-old girl, whom he "took for a wife" on the European plan. Selby, Rev. Isaac, San Francisco, Cal. Evangelist. Attempt to kill Judge Hebbard on the bench; a noted "Infidel smasher." Senesac, Rev. Jos. E., Waterbury, Conn. Catholic. Alienating the affections of a wife; sued by husband.
1914. 1911.
1902.
Rev. Edward W., Los Angeles, Cal. Larceny. Severcnce, Rev. C. M., Bangor, Me. Under suspended sentence, after pleading guilty to charge of using mails to defraud. Seytonc, Rev. W. R., Dunkirk, N. Y. Disciples. Forging signatures to a note.
Settles,
1907.
Sezeigell, Rev. killed one.
209
Pa.
Ludwig,
Pittsburgh,
Shot
two;
1901. 1908.
1902.
1901. 1910.
1908.
Shaffer, Rev. George, Bellevue, Pa. Methodist. Conspiracy; indicted; arrested. Shaffer, Rev. H., Morganstown, Pa. Methodist. Ministerial conduct. Shannon, Rev. T. H., Glen Easton, W. Va. Methodist. Bastardy; expelled. Sharp, Rev. W. D., Alvin, W. Va. Methodist. Using mails to defraud; confessed to series of forgeries. Sharpe, Rev. C. D., Schenectady, N. Y. Abduction of 14-year-old girl. Shaw, Rev. C. F., Clare, Mich. Congregational.
Wm.
Swindling.
1909.
1901.
Shaw, Rev. W.
signed.
S.,
Onaway, Mich.
E.,
Drunkenness;
re-
1908.
Shepherd, Slander Dunbar, Shepherd,
Rev. Geo. C.
Pa.
;
Liverpool, O.
Methodist.
and conspiracy; indicted by grand jury at

arrested.
J.
Rev.
E.,
Webb
City,
Mo.
Presbyterian.
1906.
1911.
1899.
H., Geneva, III. Congregational. of girl if she refused to marry him; resigned, left town. Sherm.an, William, New York, N. Y. Former Catholic Attempted to extort money from saloonpriest. keeper while posing as an officer; held for trial. Shields, Rev. D. H., Navy chaplain. Methodist. Drunkenness; scandalous immorality; courtmar-
Assault. Shepley, Rev.
E.
Threatened
life
tialed.
1908.
Shinn, Rev. C, Riverton, N.

herself to raise money.
J.
Urged wife
to debase
1908.
1909. 1913.
Hurlock, Md. Methodist. Immarried woman's bedroom. Siana, Rev. N., Newark, N. J. Catholic. Abduction. Silke, Rev. Cornelius A., Moravia, 111. Roman Cath-
Shipman, Rev. S. morality; found
P.,
in
olic.
Assault.
1906.
Simmons, Rev. G. H., Peoria, 111. Expelled from town on charges of immoral conduct preferred by boys; mismanaged bank of which he was president;
suicide.
1899.
1907. 1899.
1908.
England. Baptist. Thierand murder. Sims, Rev. W. P., Utica, N. Y. Found an affinity. Sinclair, Rev. F. X., Rochester, N. Y. Catholic. Slander; accusation made by another priest. Skaggs, Rev. Elijah, Prophet of the Millennium, Fort Smith, Ark. Assault and rape.
Simpson, Rev.
J. A., ery, incendiarism, bigamy
New
210
1913.
1912.
Skeley, Rev. Alexander, Brownsville, Presbyterian. Larceny.
Pa.
Reformed
1913.
1910.
Skovgard. Rev. Thale P., Council Bluffs, la. LuthSued by wife for separate maintenance. eran. Polish Skulik, Rev. Bernard L., Rock Island, 111. Fraudulent use of mails; skipped bail. Catholic. Catholic. Arrested in Skulik, Rev. B., Chicago, 111.
hotel in company of 15-year-old girl. Skyles, Rev. John, Port Gibson, Miss. Bigamy; seven wives. Slater, Rev. Virgil B., Youngstown, O. Wife desertion.
1903.
1913.
1909. 1906. 1911.
1900.
1902.
1899.
1910.
1914.
1911.
1900. 1908. 1909.

1905.
1900.
1903. 1914.
Slaughter, Rev. A. J., Tulsa, Okla. Baptist. Fighting. Slayton, Rev. J. R., U. S. Navy. Deserted. "Cruelty and misSlick, Rev. Joseph, Lincoln, Neb. conduct with other women," is the charge in his wife's suit for divorce. Small, Rev. Sam, Havana, Cuba. Evangelist. Swindling operations; jailed. Small, Rev. Sam, Georgia. Evangelist. Too drunk to lecture at Brattleboro, Vt. Conn. CongreSmalley, Rev. M. J., Waterbury, Offensive attentions to young women; gational. biffed by a worker left. Smith, Rev. A. F., Nowata, Okla. Methodist. Eloped with wife's money and another woman. Smith, Rev. A. N., Paterson, N. J. Methodist Episcopal. Sued for slander. Smith, Rev. Ben., Swainsboro, Ga. Wounded officer sent to arrest him for a petty offense, and was hanged by a mob. Smith, Rev. Chas. F., Michigan. Deserted wife; eloped with unmarried woman. Smith, Rev. Charles W., Wyoming, Pa. Methodist. "Ministerial conduct." Smith, Bishop C. S., Atlanta, Ga. African Methodist Episcopal. Grafting and tyranny. Smith, Rev. W., Binghamton, N. Y. Methodist. Attempted seduction of 16-year-old girl guilty. Smith, Rev. Y., Louisville, Ky. Methodist. C. Skipped, leaving unpaid bills. Smith, Rev. E. A., McMinnville, Ore. Took prize won on a stolen oration. Smith, Rev. Francis F., Newark, N. J. African Methodist. The statutory offense; pleaded guilty;
;
1899.
six months. Smith, Rev. F. M., Houston, Tex. Murder of Mrs. Varoters sentenced to death; had killed wife and mother-in-law in Alabama.
;
1900.
211
1914.
1909.
1908.
1899.
1911. 1911.
1913.
1904.
Smith, Rev. Guy, Oakland, Cal. Campbelllte. Indiscreet conduct with woman; divorced his wife by misrepresentation, 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. Smith, Rev. H. ]., Columbus, O. Methodist. Alienated wife's affection; abused husband for not receiving her back. Smith, Rev. John A., West Suffield, Conn. Congregational. Perversion. Smith, Rev. John F., New York, N. Y. Evangelist. Stealing from his employer. Smith, Rev. Joseph R., Sewanee, Tenn. Pleaded guilty of making moonshine whisky. Smith, Rev. J. A., Omaha, Neb. Suspended for slander and because of a bad financial record. Smith, Rev. Milford H., Saranac Lake, N. Y. Sued
for libel. Smith, Rev. Oscar, Seattle, Wash.
Methodist.
Rifling
1913.
1911. 1904.
1914.
1902.
Jordan, Chicago, 111. CongregaCruelty to wife and children ; wife granted divorce with custody of children. Smith, Rev. Samuel G., St. Paul, Minn. Arrested for tampering with a jury. Smith, Rev. Sidney, New York, N. Y. Using threats and a pistol to extort money; two years in Sing Sing. Smith, Rev. Simon, Purvis, Miss. Eloping and wifedesertion. The preacher possesses a wife and five children. The oldest child is twelve and the youngafter the elopement, est was born this summer, which was with his wife's sister. Smith, Rev. Victor C, New York, N. Y. Episcopal.
tionalist.
U. S. mails. Smith, Rev. Paul
Suicide.
1914.
1907. 1914.
Smith, Rev. William R., Marshall Co., Ga. Methodist. Using mails to defraud; convicted. Smith, Rev. W. N., Middleburg, Fla. Murderer of step-daughter. Smith, Rev. W. P., Wolf Creek, Ore. Presbyterian. Run out of town by citizens for vile slanders against
women.
1901.
1905.
Smith, Rev. Mr., Waco, Tex. Rev. Mr. Cranfill. Smouse, Rev. J. W., Dallas Seduction; arrested.
Baptist.
Fighting with
la.
Centre,
Methodist.
212
1900.
1911.
S my the,
Rev.
Thomas, Sing Sing, N. Y.

suicide.
-
Catholic.
Attempting
1911.
Snyder, Rev. Charles, Attica, Ind. Catholic. Stripped of priestly authority and secretly removed from town after a drunken debauch. Snyder, Rev. Frank, Topeka, Kan. Christian. Sued for divorce by invaUd wife on grounds of cruelty
and
1908.
1911.
neglect.
Snyder, Rev. Leonard W., Richmond, Va.

practices.
Immoral
1910.
1913. 1914.
1911.
Snyder, Rev. R., Goldfield, Ney. Presbyterian. Dismissed because of criminal intimacy with married woman, and left town after being beaten by the injured husband. Solomon, Rabbi I., Logansport, Ind. Jewish. Obtaining money under false pretenses. Solomon, Rev. Jacob, Rockaway Beach, L. I. Baptist. Violating prison parole, after sentence for larceny. Soper, Rev. Ben W., Cresco, la. Adultery. Arrested, and skipped his bail. Sorenson, Rev. A., Battle Creek, Mich. Arrested for threatening to kill man with whom he was associated
in business.
1908.
1907.
1912.
1901. 1911.
1899.
1899.
Oak Harbor, Ohio. Methodist. Lechery. Spates, Rev. D. D., Nacogdoches, Tex. Embezzlement. Spencer, Rev. E. J., Columbia, Mo. Methodist. Adultery; convicted on two counts. Spray, Rev. Walter, Kokomo, Ind. Holiness. Caught in compromising position with a woman. Springfield, Rev. \V. H., Woodbridge, Cal. Leaving his wife and eloping with his niece. 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. Stamm, Rev. Robert, Anderson, Ind. Evangelist. Assault with revolver and slung shot; arrested. Stampers, Rev. A., Dawson, Ga. Assassination of
Sower, Rev. D. W.,
George Dennard.
Stanford,
copal.
1909.
1906.
Rev. John, Utica, N. Y.

Suicide.
Methodist Epis-
1905.
Rev. A. B., Flat Rock, Mich. Baptist. Eloped with stenographer. Stanley. Rev. H. D., Seattle. Wash. Church of Christ. Fraud; misappropriating funds. Stanley, Rev. Robert Lee, Hamburg, Tenn. PresbyStanley,
Drunk and created public Waco, Tex. fined in city court.
terian.
;
213
disturbance
in
1900.
1905.
Rev. Frank, Clinton, Ind. Catholic. Made co-respondent in divorce suit of John L. Horney. Stark, Rev. J. B., Lakeview, Ore. Methodist. Appropriating funds belonging to congregation dishonesty and lying; deprived of his standing by conStanton,
;
1900.
ference. Starr, Rev. S. A., Portland, Ore. ality; expelled from ministry.
Methodist,
Catholic.
ImmorEmbez-
1909. 1901.
Staskiewicz,
Rev.
J.,
Chicago,
III.
zlement
Stauffer,
raffling.
1907. 1912.
Rev. Byron H., Buffalo, N. Y. Methodist. Slander; sued for $10,000 damages; assault. Steed, Rev. G., Cal. Methodist. Immoral conduct to-
ward
woman.
1908. 1910.
Murder. Steele, Rev. William, Gray, Ind. Stephan, Rev. T., Sioux City, la. Lutheran. Abused his wife. Stettler, Rev. Martin H., Reading, Pa. Slander.
Rev. Oscar F., Sutton, Mass. CongregaAdultery. Steumpeges, Rev. J. J., Mitchell, S. D. Methodist. Fraudulent sale of mortgaged property; arrested. Stevens, Rev. Edward, New York, N. Y. Methodist. Attempted suicide; locked up. Stevens, George H., Easton, Pa. Incendiarism; nine years' imprisonment. Stevens, Rev. O. C, East Liverpool, O. Abusive language; five days and $15. Stevenson, Rev. Alten Z., New York, N. Y. MethoMailing scurrilous postcard. dist. Stewart, Rev. Clifford, Laporte, Ind. Campbellite. Confessed to leading a double life. Stewart, Rev. C. A., D.D., Clinton, la. Inciting riot; fifteen days in jail. Stewart, Rev. P., Oakland, Cal. United Presbyterian. Charged by wife with having six affinities. Stickney, Rev. Alfred, Howell county, circuit, Mo. Methodist. Abandonment. Stiles, Rev. Samuel, Cuero, Tex. Baptist. Murder of
Stetson,
tional.
1899.
1905. 1899.
1908.
1900.
1914. 1909. 1908. 1903.
1903.
Henderson Edwards.
1912. 1903.
New London, Conn. Baptist. and eloped with daughter of the house, whom he deserted in New York. Still, Rev. Roy, Seymour, Ind. Holiness. Assault and attempted murder. Evangelist. AsSt. John, Rev. Jos., Pontiac, Mich. saulting colored girl; 18 months in pen.
Stiles,
Rev.
Fred,
Jumped board
bill
214
1901.
Stofilet,
Rev. Jas.
in
P.,
Having girl mate child.

1912.
1913.
woods
Jersey City, N. J. Presbyterian. after sunset; girl had illegiti-
Stokley, Rev. C. L., Turner, Kan. Baptist. Sued for divorce for undue intimacy with the wrong woman. Stockwell, Rev. George W., D.D., Fort Plain, N. Y.
Methodist.
1907. 1914.
Assault and battery.
Stokes, Rev. R. W., Clarksville, Tenn. Drunkenness. Stough, Rev. Henry W. Evangelist. Sued for slander.
1899.
1903.
1906.
1908.
1899.
Methodist. Crimwith young girl. Stout, Rev. Chas. L., Lawrenceburg, Ind. Baptist. Abusing wife and eloping with another woman. Stovall, Rev. J. M., South Bend, Ind. ViolaBaptist. tion of court order; eloped with woman whose intimacy with him caused her husband's death. Strauss, Rev. V., Herrman, Mo. Evangelist. HomiStout, Rev. A. W., Hartford, Ind.
inal intimacy
1907. 1910.
cidal mania; shot several persons. Streeter, Rev. Lewis R., So. Brooklyn, N. Y. Methodist. Concerned in Kootenai water swindle. Strouse, Rev. C. B., Bowling Green, Ky. Immoral. Strunk, Rev. Thomas, Frankfort, Ky. Criminal assault.
1909.
1900.
1909.
Rev. A. K., year-old girl. Stuart, Rev. D. E.,

Stuart,
his
Don
Luis, Ariz.
Assaulting 11Baptist.
Wyoming,
Pa.
Killing
young wife by a criminal operation. Stuckey, Rev. Wallace M., Waukegan, 111.
bellite.
CampCongre-
Abduction
in 1914.
1908.
1910.
1901.
One
Rev.
convicted fled and recaptured to five years' imprisonment.

; ;
Studeven,
gational.
James
G.,
Newark, N.
J.
Bigamy,
Assault; three
Presbyterian.
Sturdevant, Rev. Sam., Baltimore, Md.

years. Stutchell, Rev.
W.
T.,
Jersey City, N.
J.
1908.
Having girl in his room at night; girl had illegitimate child. Summers, Rev. G., Gardiner, Ore. Abduction; bastardy. Sutherlin, Rev. U. G., Albany, Ind. Christian. Ar. rested on warrant charging wife murder. Sutton, Rev. E. B.. Seattle, Wash. Found guilty of fraudulently entering names upon registration books. Swallow, Rev. Silas C., Harrisburg, Pa. Methodist.
1905.
1911.
1901.
1911.
Lying; suspended by conference committee. Swartz, Rev. C. E., Woodsfield, O. Presbyterian.
Murderous
assault.
1910. 1902. 1911.
215
Swartz, Rev. W. P., Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Accused of fraud in will case. Sweeney, Rev. M. M., Pittsburgh, Pa. Methodist.
Suicide.
1911.
Zack, Indianapolis, Ind. Embezzled $7,000 while fish and game commissioner. Sweet, Rev. Chester H., Middletown, Conn. Congregational. Misappropriated church funds and pleaded
Sweeney,
Rev.
more than
guilty.
1899.
Sweet, Rev. John, Owosso, Mich.

$1,000.
Slander; assessed
1907. 1901. 1907.

1909. 1908. 1909. 1911.
Sweeten, Rev. H. V/., St. Louis. Evangelist. Cruelty to wife; non-support. Swift, Rev. Charles L., E. Liverpool, O. Methodist. Conspiracy; indicted; arrested. Swift, Rev. J. H., Winterset, la. Campbellite. Black^
mail.
Switzer,
Rev. G. W., Lafayette, Ind. Methodist. Evading taxes. Sydow, Rev. Mr., Big Run, Pa. Rape; jumped bail. Sykes, Rev. John, Trenton, N. J. Embezzlement and
forgery.
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 Szcygiel, Rev.
jail.
1907.
1909.
Ludwig, Pittsburgh, Pa. Catholic. MurJ.,
dered two. Szepessy, Rev. promise.
Cleveland, O.
Sued for breach of
1910.
1902. 1907. 1911.

1902. 1907. 1903.
1904.
Talbot, Bishop E., Central Penn. Episcopal. Violawoman in the case. tion of ordination vows Rev. O. S., Atlanta, Ga. Congregational Tallent, Methodist. Fighting. Tart, Rev. E., Richmond, Va. Baptist. Appropriating funds of church. Tartt, Rev. Eli, Petersburg, Va. Baptist. Assault
;
with pistol
thirty days
and
$25.
Tate, D. P., Danville, Va. Former Methodist minister. Swindler. Taylor, Rev. Chas., Richmond, Ind. Convicted of assault
on young
girl.
Taylor, Rev. C. F., Brooklyn, N. Y. Swindling. Taylor, Rev. I. B., Wilmington, Del. Bigamy; four
years.
Taylor, Rev. J. B., Sigourney, la. Evangelist. Bigamy; four years.
216
1907.
Rev. J. M., Saginaw, Mich. Made love to married woman. Wm., Innisfail, Can. Presbyterian. Rev. Taylor, Drunkenness, profanity, lying, consorting with lewd women; deadbeat and liar, says an acquaintance. Taylor, Rev. Wm. L., Cincinnati, O. True Reformer.
Taylor,
1908.
1910.
1900.
Swindling.
Temple, Rev.
wife.
J.
C, Harrisburg, Pa.
Assault on his
1910. 1902. 1913.
Tenney, Rev. Chas., Lynn, Mass. Baptist. Assaulting a girl of 4 years. Baptist. CrimT., Des Moines, la. Tenney, Rev. inal assault on 8-year-old girl. Tesnon, Rev. H. M., Denver, Col. Visiting houses of prostitution; wife sued for divorce. Rev. Frederic, Drummondville, Quebec. Tetreault,
Roman
1913.
Catholic.
Libel.
;
1907.
1905.
Rome, Ga. Congregational Rev. James, convicted and senMethodist. Immoral relations tenced to six months onthe chain-gang. Thoburn, Bishop J. M., Syracuse, N. Y. Methodist Episcopal. Fined $500 for slander. Thomas, Rev. A. C, Sidney, O. Methodist. Intimacy with two girls; ducked in the Miami river by conThacker,
gregation.
1907.
1901. 1908.
1910.
Thomas, Rev.
forgery.
C.
H.,
Rockford,
111.
Accomplice
in
Thomas, Rev. George, Urbana, O. Baptist. Obtaining money under false pretenses. Thomas, Rev. Jas., Malvern, Ark. Methodist. Cattle
thief.
Thomas, Rev.
Jas., Piqua, O. year-old girl; jailed.

tices.
Criminal assault on 7J.
1913.
1910. 1905.
1902. 1908. 1910.
Thomas, Rev. John, Camden, N.
Unnatural prac-
Thomas, Rev. Thomas, Rev.
J.,
Nowata, Okla.
Selling
whisky
in
prohibition state.
Baptist. J. C, Palmyra, N. Y. wife of one of his parishioners. Thomas, Rev. J. M., Pittsburgh, Pa. Baptist. Breach of promise; judgment, $2,500. Thomas, Rev. J. P., colored, Kokomo, Ind. Breaking up a home. Thomas, Rev. Wm., Corona, L. I. Evangelist. Con-
Enticing
fessed bigamist.
Thomas,
1903.
Rev. William J., Evanston, 111. Evangelist. Disorderly conduct; convicted and fined. Thompson, Rev. Ab'm S., Patcrson. N. J. Alienating affections of married woman; sued for $50,000.
2913.
217
Thompson,
Rev. C. C, Waco, Tex. Presbyterian. Cruelty to wife, for which divorce was granted her;
la.
1907.
assault and contempt of court. Thompson, Rev. D. W., Des Moines,
Used mails
Sued
to defraud.
Thompson, Rev. G.
1911. 1911. 1907.
T., Philadelphia, Pa. Baptist. for slander by stock market men.
Thompson, Rev. H. M.
Embezzler.
D.,
Montrose,
Cal.
Baptist.
Thompson, Rev. J. E., Cleveland, Ohio. Baptist. Charged with criminal slander. Thompson, Rev. Wm., Chicago, 111. Caused girl's Thompson, Rev. Wm.,
downfall; procured criminal operation. Cartersville, Ga. Local. Marrying three wives; divorcing none. Thornton, Rev. Jesse B., New York, N. Y. Obtaining
1910.
1912. 1908. 1909.
money under
Thurman, Rev. J. M. Murderous assault.

Thurston, Rev. L.
dist Episcopal.
false pretenses. D., Hagerstown,

L.,
Md.
Christian.
Oklahoma
City,
Okla.
Metho-
Immorality; suspended.
1910.
1900.
1913. 1908.
1899.
1899.
1900. 1907.
1900.
Tilburn, Rev. O., Linton, Ind. Campbellite. Embezzled church funds; seduced girl. Tillmans, Rev. Theo., Chicago, 111. Lutheran. Abandoned wife; friendly with shop girl. Toal, Rev. Wm. H., Newburgh, N. Y. Catholic. Raising a disturbance in New York; sent to Bellevue Hospital. Todd, Rev. Thos., Cedar Falls, la. Expelled from church and normal school for illicit relations with woman of faculty. Tompkins, Rev. George, Brookline, Mass. Larceny. Toms, Rev. F. E., Kan. Baptist. Bigamy. Tomson, Rev. G. W., Woodbury, N. J. Presbyterian. Love entanglement with three women. Suicide. Torrey, Rev. R. A., Chicago, 111. Evangelist. Permitted three of his children to die from lack of medical attendance. Totheroh, Rev. Dr., Chicago, 111. Presbyterian. Dalliance with lady member. Townes, Rev. C. H. W., Cincinnati, O. Presbyterian. Stealing gifts intended for the poor. Towns, Rev. C. Hill, Columbus, Ind. Methodist. Drunk and disorderly; fined. Townsend, Rev. T. J., Nashville, Tenn. Baptist. Carrying concealed weapons.
^
1910.
Tracey, Deacon E., Somerset, Me. Baptist. Eloping with girl 17 years old, leaving wife. Tranter, Rev. W. W., Covington, Ky. Forgery.
218
1908.
Trick,
Rev. Albert,
New
H.,
York, N. Y.
Presbyterian.
Suicide.
1910. 1914.
Trimble,
Slander.
Rev.
D.
Eugene,
Ore.
Methodist.
Triplett, Rev. J. byterian. Sued

Triplett,
Edwin, Jr., Woodbury, Conn. Presby wife for separation for cruel and
Presbyterian.
J.
inhuman treatment.
1907.
1899.
1910.
1910.
Rev. J. E., New York, N. Y. Criminal libel. Trompen, Rev. J. N., Hackensack, N. Criminal abuse of adopted girl. Troy, Rev. John H., New York, N. Y.
Reformed.
At-
Baptist.
tempted seduction. Tucker, Rev. S. W., Scuffletown, Va.
Nine wives;
jumped
1909.
1907. 1910. 1912. 1909.
sertion.
his bail.
P.,
Tucker, Rev. T.
Wilson, N. C.
Arrested for de-
Tupper, Rev. K. B., Philadelphia, Pa. note; many overdue debts.
Sued for unpaid
1911. 1899.
1900.
Turley, Rev. F., Cincinnati, O. Methodist. Disorderly conduct; arrested and fined. Turner, Rev. David, Jersey City, N. J. Baptist. Procuring women for immoral purposes. Turner, Rev. S. D., Huntington, Ark. Jailed for arson. Turner, Rev. William, Jackson, Ga. Colored. Incited race riot. Turney, Rev. Wm., Muncie, Ind. United Brethren. Attacking sick woman in bed. Tyron, Rev. Wm., Chillicothe, O. Forgery, bigamy,
murder.
1911.
1913.
Ulitsky, Rev. Alexander, Jersey City, N. J. Catholic. Charged with malicious mischief.
Greek
to
Upsher,
larceny.
Rev.
John,
Baltimore,
Md.
Accessory
1912. 1909.
Upton, Rev. T. A., Okla.
Rape.
City,
Vahey, Rev. F. V. G. H., Jersey

dist.
N.
J.
Metho-
1909.
1905.
Suicide pact with wife; both dead. Van Auken, Rev. H. R., Ashland, Neb. CongregaDeserted wife and children; eloped with tional. nurse. Van Buren, Rev. Otto, Utica, N. Y. Lutheran. Unwelcome attentions to married woman, whom he
1899.
sought to entice. Vance, Rev. Frank

tion."
E., Piqua,
O. Methodist. "Indiscre-
1901.
219
1902. 1899.
Vance, Rev. Thos., Irvington, Ind. Christian. Shooting at his daughter's young man. Van de Water, Rev. Geo. R., New York, N. Y. Episcopal. Adultery; co-respondent in Watt divorce suit. Van Herlich, Rev. J., Wichita, Kan. Episcopal. Denying his wife; "graver charges;" escapade in the Tenderloin.
1910. 1900.
1904.
Vanover, Rev. Robert, Williamsburg, Ky. Fighting. Van Winkle, Rev. Jas., Indianapolis, Ind. Petty theft; ducked by students at Butler University. Vaughan, Rev. E. W., Denver, Colo. Confessed to
killing a child.
1912.
Vaughn, Rev. Thurston,
U., Greenville, S. C.
Baptist.
1909.
1900.
Criminal assault; convicted on his own confession; sentenced to death. Venerable, Rev. W. D., Keokuk, la. Baptist. Embezzlement.
1908.
1904.
1901.
1906.
Vernon, Rev. Jas., Salt Lake City, Utah. Missionary. The attempted violation of unmarried woman. Villiers, Rev. W. H., Chicago, 111. Divorced; ordered to pay alimony. Vincent, Rev. Mr., Winnipeg, Man. Seduction of
member
Vines,
feiting.
of his choir. Chas. N., Bremen,
Ga.
Methodist.
CounterLutheran.
Von Buren, Rev. Otto, New York, N. Y. Made love to organist; expelled.
1907. 1906.
Waddel, Rev. C. W., New Albany, Miss. Evangelist. Murder. Wade, Rev. Goodone, Waukegan, 111. Congregational. Sending obscene literature through mails to boys;
1910. 1899.
1904. 1905.
Wade, Rev.
byterian.
attempted suicide. J. W., Chicago,
111.
Universalist.
Forgery
and fraud.
Wade, Rev. N. E, W.
1904.
1909.
1906.
1901.
Kortright, N. Y. United PresStealing; expelled by church.^ Wade, Rev. W. H., Velpin, Ind. Campbellite. Passing counterfeit money; indicted. Wadsworth, Rev. W. W., Hartwell, Ga. Methodist. Immorality; suspended. Wagner, Rev. Samuel, Croton, O. United Brethren. Criminally assaulting girl of 14. Wagner, Rev. Mr., Wyalusing, Wis. Threatened by women for breaking up a home. Wainscot, Rev. John, Elkinsville, Ind. Evangelist. Assault. Wainwright, Rev. H., Roanoke, Va,. Sanctificationist. Housebreaking and robbery.
220
1902. 1907.
Waldrop, Rev.
Emmet
L.,
Cleveland, O.
Lying, steal-
1903.
1912.
family. Walenta, Rev. M. J. H., New York, N. Y. Found his platonic affinity in parishioner's wife. Wales, Rev. J. W., Charlottesville, Va. Baptist. Co-
ing, neglect 'of
respondent in divorce
'suit.
1913.
1910. 1906.
Walker, Rev. J. Franklin, Cincinnati, O. Corrupting morals of young girls. Walker, Rev. Raymond B., Providence, R. I.
Baptist. Baptist.
1909. 1899.
Wife-beating. Walker, Rev. Raymond D., Boston, Mass. Episcopal. Forgery. Walker, Rev. R. D., Windham, Vt. Baptist. Dropped by church for moral and commercial irregularity. Walker, Rev. R. E., Providence, R. I. Forgery; arrested.
Wall, Rev. Rufus, Memphis, Tenn. Wife murder. Wallace, Rev. Foy. Traveling evangelist; Campbellite. Run out of town for attempt to seduce married
woman.
1903. 1903. 1911.
Walling, Rev.
up.
W.
A.,
New
York, N. Y.
Fraud; locked
1913.
1914.
1900. 1910.
1906.
Wallis, Rev. E. H., Evening Shade, Ark. Methodist. Lying; convicted on four counts. Walstrom, Rev. W. H., Versailles, 111. Pastor Christian church. Stole collection of rare old coins, and confessed after; found with aid of bloodhounds. Walt, Rev. J. W., Springfield, Mo. Methodist. Abduction. [Walters, Rev. Alex., Hackensack, N. J. Methodist. Assault and battery on girl. Walton, Rev. M. R., Glendale, Cal. Methodist. Im-
proper advances to women. Walton, Rev. T. J.. Burton, Ky. Shooting John Gray. Wand, Rev. John B., Meppen, 111. Catholic. Criminal
assault.
1905.
1912.
Congregational. S., Elyria, O. love to organist; divorced by wife; dropped by church. Ward, Rev. D. F., Claremont, Va. Episcopal. Fighting; thrashed outgoing pastor Ridout.
Wannamaker, Rev. H.
Made
Ward, Rev.
ment.
Embezzlement. L. T., Collierville, Tenn. Confessed and sentenced to three years' imprison-
1909. 1900.
Ward,
Bigamy; Rev. S., Freewater, Ore. Baptist four wives; five years. Ward, Rev. Wm., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Catholic. Drunk
and disorderly; arrested Ware, Rev. G. G., Deadwood,
S.
1906.
D.
Episcopal.
Con-
221
1905.
spiracy to defraud the government with false homestead entries. Ware, Rt. Rev. Archdeacon T. C, Black Hills District, S. D. Episcopal. Hilarious drunk in Lead
City.
1906.
1902.
Warlick, Rev. Mr., Elorado,

18-year-old
girl.
Okla.
Violation of
an
1905. 1899.
1906. 1909. 1913.
Warner, Rev. A. J., Clinton, N. C. Misappropriation of money; indicted. Warner, Rev. H. H., Denver, Col. Bigamy; living with one wife and supporting another. Warren, Rev. B. E., Helena, Mont. Methodist. Charged with immorality; resigned. Warren, Rev. F. J., Portland, Ore. Episcopal. Despoiled a brother minister's home. Warren, Rev. L. W., Los Angeles, Cal. Presbyterian.
Unprintable crime.
Warren, Rev. W. tempted suicide.
D.,
Columbus, O.
Methodist.
At-
1911.
1906. 1910. 1910.
Watkins, Rev. R. B., Buffalo, N. Y. Presbyterian. Arrested on "a serious charge" preferred by a young woman of Richmond, Va. Watson, Rev. J. A., No. Plainfield, N. J. Murder. Watson, Rev. W. E., Urbana, O. Methodist. Embezzlement.
Way, Rev.
Wear, Rev.
H.,
Hoboken, N.
girl.
J.
Evangelist.
Accused
by 17-year-old
1909. 1904.
1899. 1905.
W. M., Birmingham, Ala. Baptist. Seduction of another's wife. Resigned. Weaver, Rev. T. E., Tazewell, Va. Methodist. Failing to account for money placed in his hands. Webb, Rev. James, Atlantic City, N. J. Baptist. Stealing lumber; arrested. Weeks, Rev. Mr., Toronto, Ont. Baptist. Caught in park with female member of his own church; resigned.
1905. 1906.
Welch, Rev. Clarence M., Grand Rapids, Mich.

gelist.
Evan-
1899.
1909. 1911.
1899. 1905.
Bastardy; jailed for non-support of child. Welch, Rev. C. E., Nashville, Mich. Methodist. Immoral relations with two girls, resulting in the death of one of them. Macksburg, Welch. Rev. D. O. Methodist. S., Fraudulently procuring a divorce from his wife. Welch, Rev. V. P., Fostoria, O. Slander. Wells, Rev. H. H., St. Louis, Mo. Methodist. Held for trial for passing a check which he forged. Wells, Rev. J. H., Selma, N. C. Baptist. Making moonshine whisky; jailed. Welsh, Rev. Fr., Pittsburgh, Pa. Catholic. Drunk;
^
222
assaulted President Dreyfus of the Pittsburgh Base-
1899.
1914.
1898. 1909. 1911.
Club suspended. Rev. Mr., Harrisonburg, Va. Mennonite. "Transgression" with hired girl. Werlein, Rev. Halsey, San Jose, Cal. Episcopal. Sued for divorce on the ground of extreme cruelty. Wesley, Rev. G. W., Louisa, Ky. Baptist. Convicted of having three wives. West, Rev. J. W., Richmond, Va. Accused by little girls of being too intimate. Westenberg, Rev. C. A., San Francisco, Cal. Swindled public in selling stock in an alleged California placer
ball
;
Wenger,
mine.
1901. 1908.
1905.
1900.
1901.
1910. 1908.
M., Providence, R. I. Deserted his Westlake, Rev. wife; divorced. Weston, Rev. W. W., Los Angeles, Cal. Methodist. Swindling. Whalen, Rev. C. D., Los Angeles, Cal. Methodist. Deserting family and eloping with Mrs. Jennie Clark from Plattsburg, N. Y. jailed. Wharton, Rev. H. M., Ocean City, N. J._ Baptist. Obtaining property under false pretenses; jailed. Wharton, Rev. Geo., Jackson, Miss. Baptist. Attempting to hug the female pupils of Hillman Female College, of which he was president fled. Wheaton, Rev. J. M., Chicago, 111. Methodist. Abusive
trespasser.
Wheeler, Rev. A.
Suicide.
J.,
New
York,
N. Y.
Adventist.
1901.
Wheeler, Rev. G.
Baptist. KissF., Greendale, Mass. ing and hug^ging young ladieji to the neglect of his
1910.
1900.
1913.
wife; disciplined. Wheeler, Rev. James M., Akron, O. Methodist. Malicious destruction of property. Wheeler, Rev. J. B., Bridgeport, Conn. Missionary. Leading women astray. Whitaker, Rev. T. A., Waltham, Mass. Baptist. Nonsupport of wife.
1908.
1914.
Whitaker, Rev. Wm. G., Exeter, Kan. Episcopal. Fraud. White, Rev. Dennis, Windsor, Conn. Arson; convicted and given a prison sentence of two to five
years.
1899. 1901.
1909.
White, Rev. D. R., Palmyra, Mo. Baptist. Shoplifting; caught with goods on. White, Rev. Geo. W., Orion, 111. Baptist. Incontinence and dishonesty deposed. White, Rev. H., Marion, Ind. Bigamy; six wives.
;
CRIMES OF 1REACHERS/
1900. 1903.
23
1901.
1905.
1910.
White, Rev. John W., Chillicothe, Mo. Methodist Beating children with iron poker; arrested. White, Rev. j. L., Washington, D. Obtaining money under false pretenses. White, Rev. Minor, Elkinsville, Ind. Ministerial misconduct; locked out by congregation. White, Rev. M. J., Carthage, Mo. Catholic. Threatening life of A. L. Franks; arrested. White, Rev. R. G., Portland, Ore. Presbyterian. Fell in love with student under him; expelled from acad-
emy and
1908. 1914.
1900.
1910.
1901.
1912.
1899.
Larceny; chain gang. Whitfield, Rev. Joseph, Rock Island, 111. Baptist. Assault with a deadly weapon. Indicted. Whitlock, Rev. Mr., Lima, O. Methodist. Assault and battery; arrested. Whittaker, Rev. Thos., Vilonia, Ark. Methodist. revivalist, he was forced to leave Vilonia for kissing a girl against her will. 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. Wickham, Rev. C. M., Sioux City, la. Christian. Seduction ; justified by scripture. 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. Widdemer, Rev. H. T., Asbury Park, N. J. Congregational. Indiscreet familiarity with typewriter girl;
White, Rev. Samuel,
ministry; divorced. St. Paul, Minn.
out.
1911.
Wigginton, Rev. G. W., Pittsburgh, Pa. Named as corespondent in divorce suit brought on the ground of
adultery.
Wilberforce, Rev. D. F., Missionary to Africa. United Brethren. Apostasy and bigamy. Wilbur, Rev. A., Los Gatos, Cal. Horse stealing;
confessed.
Wilburn, Rev. W. R., Flat Hollow, Ky. Divorced his wife; fought with her; fatally injured. Wilding, Rev. A., Greensburg, Pa. Baptist. Ran away with another's wife. Wilhite, Rev. A. L., Topeka, Kan. Sent to jail for "bootlegging" whisky, thus depriving the government of profit on license. Wilkins, Rev. Mr., Ladonia, Tex. Presbyterian. Associating with prostitutes.
224
1901.
CRIMES OF PREACHERS,
Baptist. Pension William, Rev. M, Charleston, S. frauds; convicted; one year. Williams, Rev. Elmer L., Chicago, 111. Methodist. Defamation of character. Williams, Rev. E. E., Shawnee, Okla. Baptist. Prostituting his daughters. Williams, Rev. G. F., Washington, D. C. Episcopal. Immoral conduct with seamstress; unfrocked; old
1913.
1905.
1908.
offender.
1908.
1914.
Williams, Rev.
laws.
I.
D.,
Denver, Colo.
Violating postal
Williams, Rev. James T. W., Newcastle, Pa.

gational.
Congre-
Elopement and adultery.
1909.
1909.
1902.
1900.
1906.
1914.
1900.
1902.
1900.
1909. 1908. 1913. 1900.
Williams, Rev. J., Bellecenter, O. Methodist. Charged with false arrest and imprisonment. Williams, Rev. J. D., New York, N. Y. Baptist. Larceny. Williams, Rev. J. W., New Castle, Pa. Baptist. Picking pockets; ordered out of town. Williams, Rev. R. B., Paxton, 111. Evangelist. Insulting young lady; pummeled by her father. Williams, Rev. S. V., Laporte, Ind. Campbellite. Leading a dual life. Williams, Rev. W. L., Los Angeles, Cal. Cumberland Presbyterian. Malicious destruction of property. Baptist. Deserted Willis, Rev. Elijah, Chillicothe, O. wife and eloped with married woman. Wills, Rev. Joshua, West Chester, N. Y. Baptist. Convicted of fraud; compelled to refund. Willy, Rev. E. E., Minneapolis, Minn. Congregational. Negotiating a forged draft; arrested. Wilmer, Rev. H., Rome, Ga. Embezzlement; three
years.
Wilson, Rev. Aubrey, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Theft.
Presbyterian.
Wilson, Rev. Cecil P., Brookland, Pa. Episcopal. Drunkenness. Wilson, Rev. C. H., Mt. Vernon. N. Y. False arrest;
prosecuted.
1901. 1914.
1901. 1910.
Wilson, Rev. Emanuel S., Grand Rapids, Mich. BapAdultery; arrested. tist. Wilson, Rev. Isaac, Milan, Mich. Methodist. Invented a story of assault and robbery to account for inability to pay his bills. Wilson, Rev. Jas., Guthrie, Okla. Evangelist. Arrested for double murder in Missouri, in 1869. Wilson, Rev. J. H., Savannah, Ga. Church of Ascension. Wronged girl; cowhided by mother.
1902. 1905.
1906.
225
Wilson, Rev. Morris Genoa, W. Va. Baptist. Read Bible and then cut his wife's throat with a razor. Wilson, Rev. W. S., Altoona, Pa. Methodist. Dissipation; died in police
tion.
cell.
Wilson, Rev. Yancey, Tustin, Cal.
Adventist.
Deser-
1912.
1907.
Winchester, Rev. Sirl J., Winchester, Ind. Failure to provide for young daughter. Wingert, Rev. A. E., Tillamook, Ore. Presbyterian.
Forgery and swindling.

1900.
Z., Ensley, Ala. Murder of a man attentive to his wife. Winn, Rev. W. G., Pittsburgh, Pa. Christian. Left it to the Lord to pay board bill; sued for $80. 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
Winklield, Rev.
1910.
1905.
looking in at
1901.
1902.
window when women were

H., W'm'son,
retiring.
Wohl, Rev. John
W.
Va.
Presbyterian.
Shot D. Stokes; was killed by return fire. Wolfe, Rev. John B., Quincy, III. Methodist. Put up at hotel with woman not his wife; condemned by
conference.
1914.
1906. 1909.
1900.
Wolfendale, Rev. N. S., Seattle, Wash. Circuit rider. Larceny. Wolfington, Rev. W. W., Freetown, Ind. United Brethren. Arrested on charge of young girl. Wolfram, Rev. C. A., Atlanta, Ga. Took a married
1899.
1911. 1902.
1907.
1909.
woman for his soulmate. Wollpert, Rev. D. C, Zenia, O. Methodist. "Immoral and unchristian practices." Wood, Rev. E. M., Pittsburgh, Pa. Methodist. "Ecclesiastical" immorality; women complainants. Wood, Rev. J. B., alias Woodard, Coffeyville, Tex. Bigamist. Wood, Rev. Wm. A., Glens Falls. N. Y. Baptist. Instigating a riotous demonstration. Woodring, Rev. W. H., Ashtabula, O. Methodist.
Assault.
1903.
1904.
1900.
Woodruff, Rev. W. L., Lorain, O. Lutheran. Raised money under false pretenses 30 days and $10. Woods, Rev. J. S., Evanston, 111. Cruelty to his son;
;
summoned. Woodson, Rev.

terian.
A.
Improper
R., Indianapolis, Ind. Presbyliberties with young women.
Woodward, Rev. J. D., Commerce, Found guilty of bigamy; four years.
Ga.
Baptist.
226
1899. 1901. 1902.
1908.
Woodward, Rev. W.
Suicide by shooting.
L.,
Oak Harbor, O.
Disciples.
1910. 1900.
Rev. J. A., Philadelphia, Pa. Unlawfully mailing letters containing threats. Workman, Rev. S. N., Bluefield, W. Va. Pleaded guilty to charge of bigamy; one year. Wormser, Rev. Andrew, Cincinnati, O. Dutch Reformed. Swindling. Wright, Rev. G. H., Chillicothe, O. Evangelist. Triple murder in Prove Co., Utah. Wright, Rev. W. R., Wood, N. M. Baptist. Murder. Wye, Rev. L., Croswell, Mich. Episcopal. Paid unwelcome attentions to young woman and beat father
Wooton,
who
1906.
objected.
Wylie,
Rev.
J.
R.,
Los
Angeles,
Cal.
Methodist.
Bigamy.
1902.
Xavier, Rev. H. F., Yonkers, N. Y. Catholic. arrest; sued by a young woman for $20,000.
False
1900.
1900.
1901.
P., Brownsville, Ky. Giving and furnishing liquor to a young woman; indicted. Youberg, Rev. W., Chicago, 111. Missionary. Stealing scrap iron to repair mission. Young, Rev. Clarence, Newark, N. J. Evangelist.
York, Rev. S.
1911.
1911.
1909.
1908.
111. Bigamist, learned a warrant was out for his arrest for having two wives. Young, Rev. J. H., Leechburg, Pa. Lutheran. "Too familiar with young girls." This charge was to have been heard at a church trial. Young, Rev. P., Oakland, Cal. Episcopal. Embezzled Courted young woman wife in Boston. $15,(XX). Young, Rev. Wm. C, Paterson, N. J. Seduction; six
Bigamy; tried and found Young, Rev. J. Henry,
guilty.
Mattoon,
Young
disappeared
when he
months.
1906. 1906. 1900.
1901.
Zakelsky, Rev. G. A., Chicago, 111. Catholic. Issuing worthless checks in gambling game; sued. Zechel, Rev. A. H., Appleton, Wis. Violating Sunday
law. Zeperian, Rev. E., New York, N. Y. Missionary. Stealing a watch; arrested. Zeutgraff, Rev. J. R., Brooklyn, N. Y. Catholic. Slander; sued for $5,000 damages. Ziegler, Rev. Mr., Hutchinson, Kan. United Brethren. Eloping, leaving his wife and six children. Zimmerman, Rev. A. H., Utica, N. Y. Methodist. Over-flirtatious, and disappeared mysteriously.
1908. 1910.
1908.
227
Zimmerman, Rev. E.
1914. 1909.
H., Omaha, Neb. Lutheran. Obscenity; pleaded guilty; six months and $100. Zook, Rev. Isaac, Fresno, Cal. Methodist. Adultery. Zuccarelli, Rev. Jas., Newark, N. J. Catholic. Broke up home ; embezzled $400.
1912.
1900.
Zwickert, Rev. John D., Altoona, Pa. Alienation of affections. Zwinger, Rev. E., Hempstead, N. Y. der and assault; arrested.
Roman
CathoHc.
Lutheran.
Slan-

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THESE BE THY GODS,

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minister in jail for every state in the Union. This sec-

investigation, so far as the min-

country for these cases.

the preachers in behalf of the unbelievers in their religion.

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the civilized world enjoys today

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wholly legitimate that systems should be

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not keep the ministers straight,

thought and mental

language of an editorial article in "The Truth Seeker,"

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great majority are

such as are committed with

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adultery, bigamy, desertion,

women and number cases of elopement, and seduction.

the "Baptist Standard" (Chicago), in which orthodox

"Such evidence could be extended

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editor of the "Baptist Standard,"

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a delinquent minister, but no

publicity could create the fact of his delin-

has to run off with his organist before

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given him than

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physician and bank president

when the facts come out, more than offset by the

secrecy preserved by the minister's congregation and

with the testimony of purchasers of the previous editions of this pamphlet,

fail to find in its

to anyone but himself.

ministers as worse than other