The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-04-26
DR. FABRIS AHEAD
Said to Have Secured a Vic
tory Over Father Hen
messy of This City.
AN APPEAL WILL BE TAKEN
Hoboken Catholics Tired Of the
Notoriety Given Their Parish
DIR. Fabris Talks.

Despite the fact that all concerned in the
ecclesiastical trial before Bishop Wigger, In
which Father Hennessy of this city and Rev.
DR.. Fabris of Hoboken were involved, We're
pledged to secrecy, news was given out IN
Hoboken yesterday that DR.. Fabrls had won
his case and had been indicated. 1t is not
alleged who gave out the news, but as the
first information came TO a newspaper That
DIR. Fabris has used as a mouthpiece on otner
occasions, it is limited he gave out the news.
The parishioners of the Church of Our Lady
of Grace, Hoboken, to which DR.. Fabris is
attached, are sick and tired of the notoriety
occasioned by DR.. Fabris' actions. They
sympathize with Father Kelly, whom they
are anxious to see relieved of all anxiety in
his work.
The case, as far as can be learned, IS as
follows:-Father Hennessy wrote to Bishop
Wigger, calling his attention to something
that DR.. Fabris had said and done. Dr.
Fabris denied it, and thereupon Father Hen
messy, although he had written his letter in
good faith and on information that he con-
sidered absolutely reliable, withdrew the
letter. Bishop Wigger decided, however,
that he must sustain his charges, and sum-
moned DR.. Fabris to appear for trial. Iesti-
mony as to the truth of his statements was
produced by Father Hennessy. Several wit
nesses were sworn.
DIR. Fabris put in no defence except his
own statement. Nevertheless he was &C
quilted, and Father Hennessy was convicted
of having made wanton charges. DIR. Fabr1S
said yesterday afternoon that he had
written a letter to the Bishop requesting
him not to impose n severe punishment on
Father Hennessy. He simply wanted a vim
( dication, he said, and would expect only
that Father Hennessy be required to pay the
costs of the trial.
THE FIGHT.
The present trouble is an outcome OF the
/. difficulty between DR.. Fabris and the late
8 Father Corrigan. DR.. Fabris was one Of
Father Corrigan's assistants. Some time be-
fore his death Father Corrigan became con-
WINGED that DIR. Fabris was reporting things
, about him and applied to the Bishop to have
him removed. The Bishop refused and
Father Corrigan appealed to Mgr. Satolh.
The Delegate wrote to Dr.. Fabris, advising
him to leave the parish for the sake of peace
Inc harmony, but after communicating with
Bishop Wigger DR.. Fabris did not follow the
advice.
After that the relations between Father
Corrigan and his assistant became greatly
strained. Father Corrigan refused to sit at
: 1.-THE same table with DR.. Fabris, and on one
occasion Father Corrigan called In the police
because he feared violence at the hands of his
assistant. Father HenneSsy was always a
warm friend of Father Corrigan, and after
the latter died he Is said to have remarked
that death was FASTENED by the excitement
and worry to which Father Corrigan has
been subjected.
One of the specific matters about which
Father Hennessy wrote to Bishop Wigger
was that DR.. Fabris had openly accused him
of having given for publication a letter writ
ten by Father Corrigan to the Pope, appeal
ing from a decision OF. Bishop Wigger in a
another paper said that Father Fabris told
him that Father Hennessy was the only mar
who could have given out the letter.
1t was of this that Father Hennessy COM
planned to the Bishop. The Bishop wrote to
DIR. Fabris and he denied that he had made
any such statement. Thereupon Father Hem
messy withdrew his complaint. but the Bishop
decided that he must sustain the charge.
DIR. FabriS was placed on trial, and after
several hearings the Bishop decided, as told
above, that the charge had not been sustain
ed, and that Father Hennessy, although he
had been forced into the position of formal
complainant against his will, was guilty of
making wanton and malicious charges.
to Archbishop Corrigan. When a NEWS re-
porter he refused to be interviewed.
DR.. FABRIS ak
Rev. DR.. Fabris was, however, more talk
alive. He said:-ssThe result is no surprise
to me. It is no more than l expected. 1t is
merely a vindication of the position | held
all along. ! have no desire to injure Father
Hennessy by saying anything about him,
now that the trial is over. He is an old man
and / would not say anything detrimental to
him. forgive Father Hennessy."