PASTOR FINED
OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR tarred and bound himself By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 10.40 a.m. MELBOURNE, To-day Pastor Evan Thomas was fined £2 lor offensive behaviour. The magistrate said he was convinced that Thomas’s statement, handed to the police, gave the correct account of the occurrence, and that defendant tarred himself. A further sensation had been rreated when he said his confession was not true. He asserted that three men actually had abducted him, and he had made the false confession to save the name of the Pentecostal Church.—A. and N.Z.
Pastor Evan Thomas, who had been ■■. ducting a mission at Warragul, was found stripped, tarred, and bound in a paddock. He told a strange story of being abducted by three men, but later aid, in a statement to the police, that to tarred ami bound himself!
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 203, 16 November 1927, Page 13
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138PASTOR FINED Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 203, 16 November 1927, Page 13
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