The sun., 1904-12-28
Lying tho Main Accusation
Against the Bishop.
TEXT OF PREsENTMENT.
Conduct Unbecoming a Bishop q
Another Charge.

stu Another Charge. Based on Detec.fvef
Reports, May He aIade-Thc Presout-
ment Based Entirely on Bishop Tai.
bots Letter TO the Rev. DR.. UpJohn
specifications Which Declare seris.
tim That the Accusations in the Letter
Are Wholly Untrue--Ref erence to Other
Bishops Declared to BE Unbecoming
and Untrue-Four Prcsenters Known.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27.-Beieving that
continued surmise regarding the new
presentment against Bishop Talbot would
only inhame the scandal, one OF the fore
most presenters Of that document made
public tonight. from memory and notes.
the text Of the paper. He first made efforts
to secure permission to publish the docu-
ment from Bishop Tuttle. Then he tried
to obtain the document here.
DR.. W. B. Bodine, chairman of the board
Of inquiry, (Which will meet at Reading
in January, asserted to-day that he had
not yet received his copy, that he would
not open it tonight if he did and that he
could not think of making it public with
out consulting the heads of the Church
in this city. The only other copy is sup
posed to be in the hands OF Bishop Tuttle,
but the Philadelphia presenter was able
10 give its contents. In some places the
presenter could not be sure of the exact
wording. but where the verbiage differs
from the original the sense is rigidly the
same.
The presentment says:
THE undersigned in virtue of the canon
ical authority reposed in them. present the
Right Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, d. D.. LID,
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church
in the diocese of Central Pennsylvania,
as being guilty of conduct unbecoming
Bishop of the Protestant EtAiscopal Church
in the United States of America in the
several specifications hereinafter more
particularly set forth. to the end that
he may be tried upon such charge,
which is laid within Ave years last
passed, which trial is hereby demanded
under the provisions of Canon *. Title
2, of the canons Of the General Conveotion
Of the said Church. in such case made and
provided.
ofVShiNdtioi Ttiiti 'Ao
hereby present and allege that Bishop
Talbot is guilty Of immortality in having
written a false, libellous and untruthful
letter regarding the Rev. Ingram N. W.
Irvine, D. D., and mailed or caused the
letter to be mailed to the Rev. DR.. Upjohn,
president of the Philadelphia Catholic
Club. A copy Of the letter follows.l
Specification II.-That Bishop Talbot
is guilty Of lying in having written: May
l therefore say to you that this man was
deposed nearly two years ago for gross
immortality and for lewd and lascivious
conduct with women For reference see the
proceedings OF the ecclesiastical court
before which the Rev. DR.. Irvine was tried,
in which no record will be found Of any
such charges.
Specification III.--That Bishop Talbo
is guilty of lying in having written: That
Irvine for thirty years has been in the
ministry and that for twenty Of those years
he has been under ecclesiastical discipline
IClear papers from three bishops as well as
letters and other documents are given as
references.
Specification Iv.--That Bishop Talbot
Is guilty of lying in having written that no
Qrvine) has been suspended once, adj
monished once in your diocese and In.
hibited and made to leave repeatedly"
The charge of lying is set forth In speci-
fioations covering all but two OF the remain.
ing paragraphs Of the letter following the
paragraph reading that all his Qrvine's)
talk about a divorced woman being ex-
communicated and then restored by ms u
baseless.'
10 IN ~ IN ,bo
of lying sets forth the following letter:
DIOCESE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA,
BISHOPS House. SOUTH BETHLEHEM. Pa,
Feb. Q. 1899.
"Mr DEAR IRVINE: The woman to whom
You refer IL by canon communicated.
cannot believe she will have the presumption
10 present herself at the Holy Communion.
II you think there is any dangerof her doine
so Il would be better for you in some kind
and gentle way to intimate to her her true
condition.
'Of course you have no discretion In the
matter. II she should present herself be.
fore you can speak to her. and II you think
she does 1t IN ignorance. then you can speak
to her afterwards. There Is no reason In
this case to make any row, II the thing is
managed quietly and firmly. with little com.
mon sense. / thank you for what you say
on the matter Of the missions, Affection
ately yours. ETHELBERT TALBOT
The charge about unbecoming conduct
reads:
THAT Bishop Talbot is guilty Of con-
duct unbeooming Bishop and a breach
in his ordination and conservation vows
against and involving other Bishops In
controversy by writing untruthfully az
follows: That eight Bishops have grave
charges against him Urvine>; that the
Bishop OF Quincy wrote me
upon his deathbed that Irvine had out
ragged two girls in his see city and
Bishops Whitaker, Whitehead, Sey-
mour, Scarborough. Potter, Doane, Adams,
Taylor, the Rev. DR.. Defiingwell and host
OF others will bear out all have said as to
his character
Wherefore, the presanters, in view OF the
reasons as set forth in the above specifca-
tions do ask that Bishop Talbot be pre-