A PASTOR'S ACQUITTAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 301, 21 December 1907, Page 3

A PASTOR'S ACQUITTAL.

1 HIS COXtIRKCATIOX PRAY FOR HIM' FOR V/.. HOUHN. j The Rev. Aruthur Robinson, pastor of the George street Baptist Chapel at Plymouth, who was arrested in his vestry on a recent Sunday on a rMrge of misconduct, was acquitted. siuvessful defence was a plea of mistaken identity. Mr Robinson gave an account of his actions on the afternoon to which the charge related which convinced the magistrates of his innocence in spite of the evidence nf three women and a sergeant of police. The hearing of the ease occupied nearly all the day, and in announcing the decision of the "Bench the Mayor expressed the deepest sympathy with Mr Robinson in the terrible ordeal through which he had passed, and add- | ed: "'Arthur Robinson, you leave the I Court without- a stain on your charac-

During the hearing of the case the members of Mr Robinson's congregation licit! ii continuous prayer uniting fvoni 11 ii.m. till fi.3o p.m. When the Mayor announced ilic decision of the -magistral os, there was vociferous cheering, which could not be suppressed. Several of Mr "Robinson's male friends kissed him. Thousand* of people gathered outside the court and cheered loudly when the acquittal became known. Thev waited for Mr Robinson to come out. but lie left by a side door with his wife, i Some of the principal witnesses for the i prosecution were subjected to hostile treatment, and had to be protected by the police.