A REV. SCOUNDREL.

Evening Star, Issue 3011, 12 October 1872, Page 3

A REV. SCOUNDREL.

Emilius Morod, who used to be styled the “ Rev, Mr Morod,” and who claims to be a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church of Geneva, appeared before the Police Court recently in answer to a charge of petty larceny. Our recollection of Mr Morod extends over about eight years, but his appearances on the stage of newspapers and the courts of justice are so many and so varied as to puzzle the memory. Under the pretence of being a clergyman, he gained admittance to the cell of M‘Lean, who was haiv.cd for shooting his wife at Pokeno, and his conduct at that time was so despicable (IS to rouse the anger of the Chief Justice to a pitch quite unusual with him. Then he was imprisoned for sending a threatening letter to a servant in Sir George Arney’a employ, with whoso charms he had been stricken, and who had contemned the pro tier of his affections, We think it was on the occasion of his being brought up at the Supreme Court on this charge that Sir George gave him as severe a lecture as ever man got, saying he hoped he would be hunted out of the country. Mr Morod then attempted to make his livelihood by baptising children, and one time "when Robinson had made his escape from the Stockade he created a sensation by saying that be liad been mat on the Remucra road by the redoubted burglar stuck ;ip,” and robbed. Of course, Kobinson, on being captured, denied having seen IV’orod, and expressed a proper contempt for the rev. gentleman. We cannot recall the manifold offences with which Morod has been charged since then, but wo know that shortly after the opening of this field he came down here. What he did then for a livelihood we cannot say, hut every Sunday he was to he seen in one of our churches, well got up, scrupulously kid-gloved, and patiently polite to the ladies. He was also attentive at the Sunday school, and not being known to the teachers, he was actually placed in charge of a class for some tire. In 18G9, however, he was convicted of forgery, and sentenced to four . years’ imprisonment. However, by getting the advantage of the shortening of the term on good behaviour in prison he was discharged some short time since, and lately has been rusticating at the Tararu Creek. Remorse or growing years had, however, tinged his whiskers with grey hairs, and to have them dyed he had recourse to Mr Sandes, and also to Professor Evans, whose own dye, as ho took caro to state in the witness-box, was effectual. Our Police Court report shows what subsequently occurred, but the affair has teiminatcd by M> Morod getting (according to his Worship) the “full benefit” of the Act, namely, six months’ imprisonment. —Thames paper.

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