RELIGIOUS HYPOCRITE
A “ JEKYLL AND HYDE " CLERGYMAN SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, February 21. (Received February 22, at 8.25 a.m.) A seventy-year-old Church of England clergyman, the Rev. Francis Bacon, was sentenced to fifteen months’ imprisonment for supplying noxious drugs to women. He carried on a mail order business, known as Dr Hannah Nerown, Ltd., for which he assumed the name of Howard Barron, while vicar of All Saints’, Spitalfiolds. The recorder, in sentencing him, denounced his as a “ Jekyll and Hyde ” character, concealing a pernicious secret traffic under a cloak of religious hypocrisy.
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Evening Star, Issue 19797, 22 February 1928, Page 4
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96RELIGIOUS HYPOCRITE Evening Star, Issue 19797, 22 February 1928, Page 4
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