CURATE’S LAPSE.

Taihape Daily Times, 18 September 1919, Page 2

CURATE’S LAPSE.

The Rev_ Frederick William Baron ‘Jobson, curate in charge of St. Marks’ Mission Church, Chadderton, Oldbam, was recently bound over under the First Offenders Act after pleading guilty to two charges of theft from Oldham Cooperative Society. The articles stolen were a photo-‘gr:-'.phic lens and a pair of letter scales. Mi‘ ~Shimel_d pleaded for clemency. Mr Jobson, he said, had been in holy orders for twenty years. He was married and had four children, and he had not been troubled with a too triglstipend. He had had financial troubles and domestic worries, :1 brother having died. '

In binding over Mr Jobson for. six months the chairman remarked that the punishment of his own mind would be greater than they could inflict_