UNFROCKED PRIEST.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1922, Page 3

UNFROCKED PRIEST.

PARTS, Feb. 20. A professor of philosophy and morals in a high school for girls in Wiirttemburg, Eugeni Jung, has hoeli tried at iStrassburg in his absence on a charge of attempted murder and condemned to death. Formerly a Strassburg Parish priest. Jung was placed under interdict by his ecclesiastical superiors on account of his scandalous mode of life.

Tho prosecution’s ease was that he attempted to murder the village schoolmaster, who, he suspected, hail been responsible for the adverse report on his conduct to his bishop. When .Tung escaped to Germany the French authorities asked for his. extradition. The unfrocked priest was then holding, tlie post of moral instructor in a girls’ school and the Germans refused to disturb him while lie holds this post

BRIDE CHANGES HER MINI). LONDON, Feb. 20,

A last-minute change of mi nil by a bride stopped a marriage ceremony just before the binding vow was made in a London register office yesterday. Miss Wilkinson, a pretty, smartly dressed woman of 21, entered the office where her fiance was waiting. She seemed agitated and exclaimed, “1 don’t think 1 can go through with it.” The bridegroom tried to soothe her, but without avail.

“Leave me alone, Frederick,” she hogged. “If you are a gentleman von will stop these farcical proceedings.”

Eventually, however, s-he was persuaded to enter the room where the marriage was to take place and the ceremony began. The preliminaries had boon completed wiles the bride interrupted the proceedings. "It’s no good going on,” she exclaimed. “1 am not going to marry you, Frederick. 1 am sorry for you, hut please let this he final.” She then hade the wedding party good-bye and left the office. Last night a Daily Mail reporter found Miss Wilkinson in her hotel in the West. End. “Naturally 1 am upset at having to do such a tiling, she said. “‘1 have known my late fiance only a few months, but as he was much older than myself and complained of his loneliness, I felt sorry for him. “I would have married him had if not been for a chance remark 1 overboard just before tho ceremony.” •> CFor continuation or news, see L.uu'tn Page)