UNUSUAL CASE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 337, 26 September 1932, Page 7

UNUSUAL CASE

DUBBED A HYP6CR1TE ; ' ■ « * SEASIDE PREACHER FAILS TO MAINTAIN HIS WIFE. MAGISTRATE'S . . COMMENT "Hypocrite" and "humbug" . were thi tei'iris 1'ately applied by-Dr. >G. H. Russell) chairman of the- Manchester 'magistrates-, in sentepcing a man who claimed to be a seaside preacher ;of the Gospel, but who had "contributed only 2s 6d toward his vfife's support in the last four years. Ac'cused, Benj'amih Fr'ahkl'and, aged 48, was chargcd . with' f ailing to pay maiht'enance arrears amounting to £80 18s 6d.. Frankland at first WAs seiitenced to three months' imprisopmeht . and removed to ihe. cells. Later, howeyer , he was : brought back to the doclc and the sontence reduced to- on'e month's imprisonment. Th'3 chairman explained that he had taken this course at the request of a oolleague on the bench, Mr, Barrow, and not out of respect for Frankland. , ■ s : ' Mr. , Barrow then addressed Frank- | land personally. "We look upon you," l Ive said, "as a somewhat intelligent j man,. afid, as you have never been ih prison before We think a month. is sufI ficient. But I cannpt see where your j religious teaching fits in th i picture i when you leavo your wife dependent upon others, For goodness sake pay the money in futurc." , Mrs. Frankland, in evidence, stated that ii>r husband had oncp been in the legal profession, but she understood | .he was, now a preacher .an tlie san^s ' at Southport, where a collection had | been made on his own behalf. He had ! written a let'tsr saying, "I never was, ! hor would be compelled to do any- ♦ thing, and that is why I talce after I my father.