Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-01-08
Father Perault Replies.

Father Perrault has the following
communication in the Fargo Argus in
reply to a Dickinson dispatch:
Editor Argus: l read in your valuable pa
per. a dispatch dated at Dickinson, n. ID.
Dec. g, 1891, to the effect that a warrant
had been sworn ouL charging he with
grand larceny.
or course, this is a mistake. In the
name of truth and justice, | deny in toto
the alleged charge. Now. as to the naked
facts in the case. allow me to Inform the
fair minded public, that during the month
of March, last, certain ChaS. c. Caravan
presented Rev. NJ. c. Brennan, for the
parish, with one second hand Gold Coin
magazine coal stove. This | am able to
prove by several reliable and unimpearh-
able witnesses. Five months later, Rt.
Rev. Bishop Stanley removed Rev. NJ. G.
Brennan from that parish and appointed
me as his successor with full authority in
all the spiritual and temporal affairs OF
the parish.
Hence, l always did and do yet regard
myself in duty bound to keep, preserve
and protect whatever property was Ell
trusted to my charge as pastor and trustee,
as the Rt. Rev. Bishop himself holds in fee
simple all the Dickinson parish property
in his own name, as can be seen by the
Stark county records. Hence to the Rt.
Rev. Bishop and to him alone, should
Chas. q. Canavan have appealed for what
ever property he claimed as his own.
To enable the public to better understand
the motives which prompted that man
vised him what to do, viz, that in case
he had any right whatever to the property
in dispute, he should first of all write to
the Rt. Bev. Bishop, establish his claim
and bring me a written permit; or else, il
the Rt. Rev. Bishop saw fit to refuse to sur.
render said property, that the only lawful
way to proceed then was to 90 to the judge
self asked and followed in this case the ad-
vice of some of the ablest legal lights of
the state. This ever good Catholic
and law-abiding citizen would have DONE.
On the contrary. prompted by bad advis-
ors, Chas. c. Caravan preferred to attempt
to scandalize his lawful pastor by malici-
ously circulating false charges against him
and swearing out, not a warrant for grand
larceny, but a search warrant, charging me
personally with having embezeled and
cOncealing the above mentioned stove,
stating falsely in his affidavit that said
stove is worth $50. Now, Mr.. Editor, it is
a well known fact among the Dickinson
public, first, that said Charles c.. Caravan
repeatedly stated to several Dickinson peo-
pie that he knew positively that the stove
was in my room and had been seen IN my
room by several different parties; second,
tnaL a great many DICKINSON Witnesses
came with my full permission to examine
that stove, and priced it; third, that
Charles q. Caravan repeatedly offered the
same identical stove for sale at the price of
even SIS, and failed to sell it at that; fourth.
that on or about the 18th inst, Charles C.
Canayan was seen to enter my house and
take said stove therefrom. Since that time
the same stove has been identified and
found in the possession of Caravan. After
wards when | went to Dickinson 1 found,
as | can prove by good witnesses, that not
only my stove had beer taken, but that
Charles c. Caravan had then and has
yet in his possession a du-
plicate key to my house door: that ke1O
sene oil has been spilled all over my car
pet, that my lamp, cuspidore ~ other ar
ticle9 have been broken into atoms and
piled up on the zinc board, etc., etc. Hor-
rible to say, the last but not the least, a
splendid gold chalice, that sacred vessel
used by the priest at holy mass, had been
s~acriligiously carried away. So, Mr.. Edi-
tor, if your numerous readers will be kind
enough to suspend their judgment until
the truth, the whole truth. and nothing but
the truth is made manifest, they will find
out that j. G. Perrault has truth and JUS
tice upon his side in this matter, while pos
sibly others may be found whose skirts
are not so clear. :.
REV. j. G. PERRAULr.