The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-08
FIRST EDITION
The Celebrated Cheney Case.
Casualty i'm Syracuse.
Two Men Burned to Death.
Penna. Freedmen's Relief Schools.
The Putnam-FosteT Case.
Statement Of the Murderer.
An Army Of CaterpiIIars.
Two Men Burned to Death.
Penna. Freedmen's Relief Schools.
The Putnam-Foster Case.
Statement of the Murderer,
An Army of caterpIIIars.
THE CHENEY TRIAL ENDED.

Verdict OF the "Court Organized to Com
vict'-Sentence OF Degradation from the
Ministry Recommended.
The Ecclesiastical Court of the Episcopal
diocese of Illinois met yesterday morning at 10
C'cleck, pursuant to adjournment, to take final
action regarding the charges pending against
the Rev. Charles E. Cheney. The chain of evil
dence for the prosecution having been con-
cluded on the preceding day. and as there was
no defense to listen to, both testimony and
proctors for the same having been ruled out,
there was little else for the Court to do but act
upon the evidence received. After the opening
of the Court with prayer, the Secretary read the
following, which recommends that the sentence
of degradation from the ministry be pronounced
against Mr.. Cheney
To the Right Reverend the Bishop OF Illinois,
The undersigned, constituting the Ecclesiastical
Court for the trial OF the Rev Charles Edward Che
ney, pres6yter OF the diocese of Illinois, upon the
charges and specifications preferred against him in
q presentmenJ dated March 27, A. d. 1871, having
heard the evidence produced before us, in accord
ance with the provisions OF canen Xxx OF this
diocese, and having deliberately considered the
same, do hereby declare In writing verdict upon
the several charges and specifications in said pre-
That the said Rev. Charles Edward Cheney is
guilty on all the charges and specifications con-
tanned in said presentment ana while presbyters
sitting in judgment the conduct OF brother pres
byter, we 1nd our duty an exceedingly painful one,
we feel Obliged to state that in our optnion the
canoDica and ecclesiastical sentence Of degra istOn
from the ministry of the Church of God should be
pronounced upon him.
hands, this 4th day of May A. d. 1871 in the city OF
Chicago, at the chapel OF the Cathedral of IS Peter
and Paul. (Signed) Clinton Locke +. NJ. Gregg,
William W. Estabrook, w. H. Williams, J. L.
Townsend.
Judge Otis was of opinion that the promulga-
tion of the sentence by the Bishop would not
occur for several weeks, no time as yet having
been fixed upon. The same gentlemen thought
that wien the right of ownership to Christ's
Church was taken into the civil courts for deci-
sion, as it undoubtedly would be, it would be
found that among the pew-holders of the church
there were many anti Cheneyites.
This concludes the WhitehouSe- Cheney affair,
which has occupied the attention of the public
for the past two years. so far as the action of an
ecclesiastical court can 60 The superlative de-
gree of punishment which has been recon-
mended bv the court will undoubtedly be pro-
nOunced by Bishop Whitehouse, thus removing
Mr.. Cheney beyond the pale of the Episcopal
Church, and outside of the Jurisdiction of the
Bishop or any ecclesiastical court which he
might see fit to call together Upon the pro-
mitigation of the sentence recommended by the
court, Mr.. Cheney will stand upon an indepen-
dent platform, as he, iD effect, has done since
the former trial. Chicago Republican, May s.