IMPERSONATION AND FORGERY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 91, 6 April 1908, Page 4

IMPERSONATION AND FORGERY.

nit; wui unit. ci.r;i;i;\ .man. Hie Archbishop of Caiileiburv and tile Bishop ~| Jjuid,,,, were among Ihe intended victims of the evconvict Joln-v William Tyler, who, olliciating a., a ilergyiiian, and atteuipling in' obtain ordination by forgeries, wa-, Saturdays cables stated, sentenced to live years' at the l.lld Bailey.

In Juno. Hurt, Tyler made an attempt t» pro.ttiv ordination at 11 ■•- hand-, .jf ill'' ArchbMmp of Uinlcrbun. I!.' «.i-. 1 1n n occupying thrco room> at Bridgemad, Hammersmith, and carrying tin .1 printing Im.,incss there, lie' urotc 11 letter in tin: name of l\ev. \V. (I. White, acting commissary to the JUsliop of Moosonec and Qu'A]i|iL'lk', recommending -Mr. Tyler as a person suitable for urdinatioD.

Trior to that date an appeal had been issued liy tie bishop of that diocese for aid in missionary work, and in reply two jiersons, or, rather, as the prosecution alleged, one persons—viz., the accused, using the two nmiics of Tyler and Kodstone—had applied to go out as missionaries. At that time the accused was helping as a layman at St. Mark'; .Mission Church, Hammersmith.

The colonial hishop considered I hat the age of the applicant licdsloiie ins a liar to his usefulness iit the mission lield, but he favored the application m Tyler. The latter thereupon, willi th." aid of the forged toiler purporting in conic from Mr. White, applied In Hie Archbishop ) or ordination. The Archbishop's chapliiin inlinialeil that the Arehbishoji rcipiiroil lo be satisfied of Mr. Tyler's litness for ordination. Thereupon another forged letter bearing Air. White's name was sent, lo the Archbishop, ill which Mr While wam.i.lo to say that the colonial bishop was ipiiln salisliod of Mr. Tyler's til-

11l a letter which Tvler himself v. role 1,, the Archbishop he'enclosed a letter purporting to have been wriiien by the Itcv. -I. Parry, vicar of Hammersmith, in which the writer expressed his. desire that he ('Tyler would receive ordination. That, letter was another forgery.

The Archbishop lim.lly appi-ireil sati'slii'd. and steps were taken for the n.- ;■'•- ary legal formalities to be observed in the case of ordination, I!ul lhe-e could not be complied villi in proper time, and the ordination was postponed. ■ •

At the same time the prisoner was endeavoring to be ordained bv the Bishop of Southwark, letters Mniihir to those received by the Archbishop being sent, and the name of the Itev. Air. White being used in the same way. Mr White's letter, however, came under H \c of J'rcboiuliirv l'o\. „f |.|„, Church .Mission Sociol i. and he. knowing Mr. While's haiidwrilin.. named the liishop'., chaplain. 11l September, 1I)U5. accii-ed applied t" the Iti-hop of l/uidon to I rdnine.l. -"■ I afier some cor,v,pon.|ci|e,. was admilled to reheat ai I'lilhaiu I'ahi,-.-prior to ordination. I hie dav the Kcv. W. C. WooNey. i,1,0 knew something „f •';"' I- aul lent-, icogniscl hi,,, i n !'• lii" I'.i-hop. ' The JSisl.op Iberenpun v.i"l'' I" the liear of llanimer-milli. and de-patched a.vii-od himself • will,' I he letter.

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