THE GRESBY TRIAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 79, 7 August 1913, Page 5

THE GRESBY TRIAL.

' SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE. , [By Electric Telegraph--Copyright] [United Press Association.] Paris, August 6. The Cresby trial engrosses atten tion. The abbe was tall and hand some. Cresby told how she met th( abbe at confessional after her divorce He impressed on her the Church'; views on the subject and adjured he: to abandon her young poet lover. Shi told how confidences at confessiona ripened into intimacy and the abbe be came her lover. The intimacy con tinued for three years and then th abbe, desperate at the thought of re moval to another parish, shot himsel after a farewell interview. She de nied having told the dressmaker tha she longed to be the heroine of r love drama in order to advertise he' poems.

Medical evidence showed that i was impossible that the priest could have shot himself, though one docto considered that it was not impracti cable.

The Bishop gave evidence that th reason of the transfer was not dis grace, but promotion.

The woman Cresby was arrested a' Agen for shooting with a revolver a priest named Chassaing, whom she mot in a confessional. The bishop, t< prevent a scandal, had transferred the priest, but later the woman reported that he had committed suicide at her house, owing to grief at their separa tion.