SACRILEGE.
TWO NEW PLYMOUTH CHURCHES DESECRATED. New Plymouth, Yesterday. Yesterday morning some evillydisposed or mentally deficient person entered St. Mary’s Anglican Church, evidently some time between nine and ten o’clock, threw Communion linen on the floor, and filled the chalice with wine from flagons. The vicar and churchwardens are making a strong effort to discover the culprit, in order to bring him to book. Inquiry on this matter shows that Whitely Church has been troubled in a similar manner on two or three Sundays lately. In one instance, when the act must have been committed at some time between four o’clock and the evening ;service, the perpetrator took Sai-r ental bread from the listributed it over the r minor sacrilegious <= so been committed, sm .ig cushions off seats, sea .nthems, and so on.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 861, 5 July 1910, Page 3
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133SACRILEGE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 861, 5 July 1910, Page 3
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