Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-02-22
a DEAN UNDER 4 CLOUD.

y DEAN UNDER X CLOUD.
The Very Rev. Dean Norman, OF the
Anglican Diocese ot Quebec and rector
of the English Episcopal Cathedral
there, has resigned all bis offices and
emouments and left the city under
such D cloud that it recalls the recen
sensational case OF Canon Eyton, o.
Westminster Abbey ana St. MargaIet's,
Wes, ,m'nater.
The declarations that brought the
scandal to light were obtained IN q re-
markable manner. john Dickson, q
youth seventeen yeeIs old, was driving
back 10 town from me country last
Sunday afternoon with Blanche Dore,
when they met group OF young Eien
who knew the girl, One Of them named
Tunguay asked hey for ring be cat
gwen Aer. y quarrel followed, ard,
without further provocation, Dickson
drew s. revolver ard tired 81 TanGusy.
The hall struck George Pepia, youag
nan vino stood beside bin. The bul-
ieg was extracted few days ago, buJ
2 PIN died in tho nc Spital subsequently
Dickson end companion Damed
O'Brien vera arrested an hour after
the shooting. In their possession ~9a
fouud S2,200 Both of them are poor
oyys employed in .hiploading in SUM
,uor aud having lIttle or nothing to do
in winter. The detectives thought a
.cbhery had neen committed and took
Possession OF the money.
Dickson said he aad received it fTocl
Dean Normal and said it was part of
some $4,000 they had receiVed from
dim us "hush money" Taken before
u police magistrate, the boys reatlirmed
their story. They described the cir
cumstsnces under which the dean met
them on some occasions ard gave them
money. They repeated their story be-
fore counsel for the diocese. The chan
celIor saw the dean, VINO admitted civ.
ing sc, 500 to the boys, but denied that
ne aud been guilty of any improprie;y
whatever. As soon as the Bishop heard
OF the matter he sent for Norman, who
is seventy years Old Rnd unmarried,
ard told MN ne wanted TO hear no
more OF the affair, but must Rave his
resignation Immediately. He left On
Friday aud mas either gone 10 westerc
Canada or to England by way OF New
York.
Dr.. Norman was born in England in
1929, mis- father having been Richard
Norman. merchant, Of London, anG
MS mother daughter OF George stone,
Lombard street banker. He was edu-
Gated at Exeter College, Oxford, of
which he is telow. He was ordained
in 1852 by the Bishop Of Oxford, and
before leaving England was principal OF
81. Michsel's college, Tenbury, and
warden of R4dley College. He is a
member of the st. James Club,
Montreal. and the Junior U0iversi.
ty Club, London; vice chancellor
of Bishops College, Leunoxvilie,
the principal Canadian institution
FOR the education of the Church OF
! England clergy, and chairman OF the
Protestant school commissioners q
Quebec. He went 20 Quebec twelve
ears ago from Montreal, where he wss
canon OF the Cathedral, chairman OF
the Protestant school board, president
~ lu6 Skl cOClCSl pbN u iCiiON VI ---S
Gill University. 80 highly did The
Dean stand in the estimation OF the
people of Canada That Lord Strsconn
and Mount Royal. the Canadian High
Com missioner in England, Is on record
| rs stating that ''he was venereted aud
esteemed by people of every race Nnd
religion as divine, scholar, an edu-
cstionelist and gentleman" Dickson
being minor, mis- parents are claiming
the money found in his possession. The
crown will not give it up. The father
of Pepin. the murdered youth, has also
instructed his lawyer to enter civil ac-
ton against Dickson for depriving him
OF his son, and to seize tee money IN the
hands of the court The officers OF the
latter will contest the seizure on the
ground that Dean Norman mas aVerred
that the money was his. The
legal representatives. of Pepin's father
will probably plead that the money DC
longs to the boys, having been volun.
tarly given by the Dean, and thus will
be dragged to light the details OF the
| scandal.