CLERGYMAN CHARGED
DEFENCE TO CONSORTING
LONDON, February 12. Charged with consorting with women of ill-repute, the Rev. Harold Davidson, rector of Stiff’key, Norfolk, says he will “fling the cruel charges of his accusers back in their teeth.”
He will appeal' before a Consistory Court in March, Mr Davidson was formerly an actor, and became a chaplain in the Navy. He states that the rescue of fallen women iis part of his life’s work. .Eighty thousand women in London are living in degrading slavery and haunting the streets like vampires. A thousand people rushed to fstiifkey Church, anticipating that Mr Davidson would deal with the charges against him. Hundreds could not get in, and waited in the icy cold.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1932, Page 6
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