VIGAR & TITLED WARDEN
QUARREL IN CHURCH. The dismissal of a- summons for assau't, brought by Sir Thomas Len- ! nard, of Kingswear Court. S. Devon, : against the Rev. Frank Michael RowI land-Ryan, M.C., the vicar of KingsI wear, was- applauded b\ a numhei of 1 parishioners in Brixham Police Court, y The assault was alleged to have, taken place in Kingswear Church on a Sunday afternoon. S : r Tliomns, who is parish warden, ; said that a notice he posted at the ' request of the Archdeacon of Totucs j was taken down. The vicar, when he went to see him. called him a fool, and Sir Thomas rcI plied, “You are a cad.” The r ear : struck him forcibly on the chest, and j the blow glanced to his chin, sending him staggering backwards. The vicar’s introduction of the Mass, confessional, arid incense in Che church had. eauml the trouble. , Mr. De.wla.nd-Ryrn said he did not call Sir Thomas a fro!, but after Sir Thomas had called him a. cad in a verv irate manner he might have • pushed him against the cloor. The air at Kingswear was electric through certain parishioners trying to deprive him of his living.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9853, 4 November 1924, Page 2
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