Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1924, Page 11

BISHOP PREVENTS TRIAL OF PASTOR Refuses tc Let Alleged Heresy Charge Against Rev. Heaton Be Heard. By the Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex., January 4.-—Decision | of Bishop Coadjutor Harry T. Moore of the Dallas diocese of the Episcopal Church not to permit the case of Rev. Heaton, rector of Trinity ., Fort Wi charged with . to come to trial, has closed the in this diocese for the present, at “The bishop coadjutor has declined to permit this case to come to trial,” seld an annouucement Issued after a meeting here yesterday of the standing committes of the diocese, The statement of Bishop Moore that “in view of the fact that similar inter- ations of the doctrine in question ave held, taught and preached by those in this church belonging to a higher order of the ministry than the party charged, I am therefore unwilling to consent to a trial of one \f the presbyters of this diocese upon such a' charge: and the liocese of Dallas rests this matter until spportunity may be given to those in | Luthority to proceed and to point out | ¢ wisdom and justice in " vemained as the final from him today. i Denied Virgin Birth. The case of Heaton came to the at-} cntion of Bishop Moore in March. when charges were referred to The rector was alleged to have sdimitted that he did not feel that be- lief in the virgin birth of Christ was cesential and to have denied that the virgin birth was & fact. The charges vare referred by Bishop Moore to the standing committee of the dlocese for investigation. The committes last November held that Mr. Heaton was Lubject to trial and referred their decision to the bishop for final ap- Proval. As to Bishop Moore’s decision not ’s trial, the an- 10 permit Mr. Heaton's anding commit- siouncement of . the ‘es said: “The diocese has no com-| anent to make on this decision other | than to state their bellef that the| decislon Is the only one possible to reach at the time. The question in v has reached the | of any one|Z is one which et and must be settled, one way or the other, by the mind of the whole church” RAP BISHOP'S ACTION. Modernists Say Principle of Fai~ Play Violated. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 4—Failure 10 try the Rev. Lee W. Heaton of Fort Worth, Tex., for heresy, or else to re- move “the ‘stigma upon his name,” would be a “violatlon of the Ameri- «can principle of fair play,” it was as- wserted by the Modern Churchmen's Unlon in a statement {ssued after reading yesterday's reports from Dal- las that Bishop Moore of the Protest- ant Episcopal dlocese there had de- ided not to try Rev. Teaton. This step, taken by the modern- ists after long conference, was the ia versy ihat has raged within the Protes Protestant «<hurches for several weeks, und that has Involved clergymen and bishops, s well as laymen, throughout the ountry. The Modern Churchmen’s | inion, headed by Dr. Stuart L. Ty- .o, ihroughout has been one of Rev. Heaton's staunchest supporters. Refusal to try Rev. Heaton If the! charges were not lifted, - deolared the statement, would render Bishop Moore himself open hi ! being an * 3] the sta S o a zuilty, but in the face of the over- whelming verdict of public opinion, I dare not bring him to trial. I will leave a stigma upon his name.’” In the language of the street, de- clared the modernists, Bishop Moore has decided to “pass the buck.” Pointing out that the American people presume an accused man in-| noeent until he has been found == MEN’S | a bottle occasionall CLAIMS HOTEL GUEST ACCIDENTALLY SLAIN One of Three, Held in Death, Said to Have Confessed He Fired Fatal Bullet, By the Amociated Press. CENTRAL CITY, Ky, January 4.— Winnle Nelson, thirty-one, one ot four men arrested yegterday in connection with the mysterious slajng of Luther Brown In a hotel room here, confessed to County Attorney W. O. Smith that he accidentally fired the shot which caused Brown's death, according to a statement by the officlal. Brown was killed by a bullet fired from an ad- joining room, which plerced a wall and struck the victim in the head. Nelson, Ernest Litzey and Claud Emery, were arrested today in Mart- wick, this coun The fourth man arrested was Edward Smith, clerk of the hotel in which Brown was slain. The clerk was released after ques- tioning by police. In his alleged confession, Nelson ex- Pplained he had gone to a room oc- cupied by Litzey and Emery and which adjoined Brown's room, early Tuesday to call ‘the occupants. While there he picked up an automatic pistol and the weapon was discharged accidentally. course of the bullet, he said, and the trio left the room without'learning Brown was fatally wounded. Nelson's statement failed to clear up the circumstances of a powder-burned | piliow found in the room from which the fatal bullet was fired and which investigators had held was used as an improvised “silencer” to deaden the pistol report. Litzey, Nelson and Emory, the latter fifteen vears old, were sent to Green- ville, county seat of Muhlenberg county, where they were placed in Jull to’await & preliminary arraign- ment Friday. Charges of murder were contained in the warrants under which they were arrested. gullty, the statement asserted that it Bishop Moore was unwilling to pursue this course *he must obvi- ously withdraw the ocharges." “Obviously there 1{s no middle ground.” they sald. “Mr. Heaton s either gullty or not gullty. Let us have done with ambiguity and Latin evagion. As the matter now stands, Mr. Heaton will be b <rave injustice.” T T | Our Standard g% | 5;]& 762 843 D.;'.,— 2.5 =] =('= a sEE 0o 3= sSrta i | N N bert Tinning. 1 “ Colbertized ” I sort—save their cost i N maintenance and re- pairs. & Guttering, B ing ond all Bheet Metal Work. Heating—Plumbing —Tinning Phone Ma! 621 F Street “3oic T [T Remember Tonsiline TONSILINE is the National Sore ‘Throat Remedy—it is sold in every State in the Union. 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