CLERIC MURDERED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 723, 26 December 1933, Page 5

CLERIC MURDERED

(Press Assn.-

SCHISM IN CHURCH i 1

archbishop killed by communicant with knife SLAYER ARRESTED

— By Telegraph — Copyright).

Rec, Dec. 25, 7.5 p.m. New York, Dec. 24. One of the liiost shockltig * niurders of recent years Occurred today as the result of a schism in the local Greek Catholic Ghurch which has been smouldering for many months and which hroke into opeii violenee. Archbishop Touraine, said to be fhe Primate of the American Church in America, was slaughtered, by a } communieant xyith a butcher's lcnife 1 while walking in solemn pijocessipn I in front of the altar pf the Hoiy ' Cross Church. . , , | Tho cierics' bodyguard, which "was i in the rear of the church spring for- | Ward with a revolver, but did not 1 fire. A pqliceman, ,who was stapding | oufside the church, was pallpd and j he arrested the slayer and an alleged aeqomplice (hoth grocers) and summoned the poliee reserve, who arrived amidst a scene of hystericql yomen and excited men. An ambulance and a surgeon arrived simultaneously, but the medical man pfo- } nounced the clei'ie dead, Archbishop Touraine, who had been Bishop of Smyrna, and is sqid to have headed the Armenian Church in England, was opposed by a con- ' servative faction of the church, who objected to his economic radicalism. The church was crowded to-day as he had promised to make an explanation.