Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-08
BISHOP M'COSKRY.
The Michigan Standing Committee Hil
Make No Compromise With HIM; and He
Finally Steps D0tCn and Out.

The Michigan Standing Committee Wil
Make No Compromise With HIM; and He
Finally Steps Dotcn and Out.
DETROIT, Mich, June 3.-The hopes en-
tertained by the intimate friends of Bishop
McCoskry, that his sudden departure for
New York last week was only ruse to defeat
the opportunities of interviewers, were rude
" dissipated this afternoon by the receipt of
letter which announces that the Bishop
has left Detroit forever; and, moreover, that
the House of Bishops will not be called upon
to investigate the case to any alarming ex-
tent. The real truth of the matter only
leaked out to-day, and it is sorry story in
every respect. Those who have, up to the
present, been the boldest in their defense of
the fallen prelate, now regretfully acknowl-
edge that they can no longer entertain any
belief in his innocence; and they feel this
the more as they now learn that they have
been made the victims of pretentious
sham.
When the Bishop left Detroit for New
York first, it was with the intention of sail
ing for Europe. The scandal exploded lust
before he had time to sail; and the Bishop
announced, in statement communicated to
the Associated Press, that he was guiltless of
the charges, and, subsequently, that he would
return and undergo an Investigation. Mem
bers of the standing committee were inter
viewed by your correspondent, but they re-
solutely refused to give any information.
An important civic officer, one of the law
| advisers of the corporation, who was the
| first to see the incrimnatory letters, took
strong ground against the Bishop from the
first. He was spiritual child" Of the
Bishop, and knew his handwriting to dot
This gentleman now says that no other
course could have been adopted by Nc
Coskry than to run away.
| The evidence accumulated by the stand
ing committee, once the scandal had got
wind, was something startling; and, when
the Bishop came back, and announced him.
self, through Mr.. Romeyn, ready for ex
animation, the committee declared that moth
| ing but the regular course of trial coulC
be contemplated. Mr.. Romeyn was showr
some of the proof, and he was startled. He
went to the Bishop with his newly-acquirec
knowledge, and told him that the case wa.
not one that could be defended. The terms
of the committee were simple. They hac
no desire, as the Bishop supposed, to de
fend him. They were not as he supposed
though intimate friends, with whom he hac
grown up since childhood (some of them, a
least ,-sympathizer who would go any
length to cover up his sins, after tn,
Plymouth church style; but rather stern men
who had courage to make the church itsel
more of cause than the man. They hae
proofs before them which fully convinced
them that the charges were we'll supported
Ion how no hot 1,:s
wholly with the church.
Mr.. Romeyn was informed that the com
mittee would appear before any investigating
committee in the character of corporal,
prosecutor. The Bishop then asked con
cessions; but these were refused. All tina
the committee would accept was an uncondi
tional resignation, not only of the Bishopri
of Detroit, but of every clerical Junction.
in short, the stepping down and out of tn
ministerial Office, in its every degree, by tn
Bishop. This, after one days delay, tn
Bishop decided upon. His resignation
placed in the hands of Bishop Smith, o
Kentucky, is absolute. It is an absolute con
fession, in the form it takes, of all tn
charges which have been made: and it i
startling enough to take the breath ava
from all who have up to the present tim
been the defenders of the Bishop.
This is the last we shall see or heard Q
McCoskry. It is probable that he will sal
for Europe shortly, and there end his day
in obscurity. He has; unhappily, wrough
much harm to religion in Michigan, -harr
which would have been a Thousand fol
magnifed had the standing committee no
had the courage and energy to take til
scandal up in all its hideous magnitude, an
, dispose of it at once and forever.