The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-12-28
CHARGE OF
LYING IS
DWELT UPON

Philadelphia Dec. 2s.-Believing that
presentment against Bishop Talbot would
only inname the scandal one OF the fore
most presenters OF that document made
public last night from memory and notes
the text OF the paper. The presentment
says:
The undersigned, IN view OF the
canonical authority reposed In them. pre-
sent the Rt. Rev. Ethelbert Talbot. ID.
/ D.. Ill. D., bishop Of the Protestant Epis-
copal church In the diocese OF central
Pennsylvania as being guilty Of conduct
unbecoming a bishop OF the Protestant
/ Episcopal church n the United States OF
America I'm the several specifications
hereinafter more particularly set forth,
TO the end that he may be tried upon
such charge. which is laid within five
years last passed. which trial Is hereby
demanded under the provisions Of canon
.. title 2, OF the canons OF the general
convention Of the said church, In such
case made and provided.
GUILTY or IMMORTALITY
/ Specification THE said presenters do
/ 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, ID. D.. and mailed or caused the
| letter 10 be mailed TO the Rev. DR.. Up
john. president OF the Philadelphia Cath
Ollie club
! Specification 2--T'hat Bishop Talbot Is
guilty OF lying i'm having written May
/ l therefore say to YOU that this man
was deposed nearly two years ago for
gross immortality and for lewd and las
civious condnct with women" For ref
erence see the proceedings OF the ecce-
siastical court before which the Rev. DIR.
Irvine was tried i'm which no record will
be found Of any such chrages.
Specialization 3--That Bishop Talbot Is
| guilty OF lying I'm having written: That
Irvine for 80 years has been I'm the min
I istry and that for 20 OF those years he
has been under ecclesiastical discipline
Cclear papers from three bishops as well
as letters and other documents are given
( as references)
ABOUT MRS. ELLIOTT
Specification 4-That Bishop Talbot is
guilty OF lying in having written that he
I Urvine) has been suspended once ad-
monished once i'm your diocese and in
hibited and made 90 leave repeatedly. The
charge of lying Is set forth I'm specifca-
tions covering all but two OF the remain
| ing paragraphs of the letter following the
paragraph reading: That all Irvine's talk
about n divorced woman being ex-
communicated and then restored by me is
baseless'
Mrs. Elliott, the woman about whom
Z Bishop Talbot and DR.. Irvine first be-
came estranged, has many influential
friends and relatives I'm Philadelphia and
/ New York although since her last mar
/ riage to Elliott she has practically
/ dropped out OF the social world.
''She has had no less than five fortunes
! left to her. the last coming to her only
a few months ago upon the death In Paris
OF her half-sister. Mrs De Forest IT
! is through her half-sister that Mrs Elliott
IL connected with the Belmonts and
/ Vanderbits OF New York.
Mrs. Elliott was a daughter OF Gen.
/ Desha OF Kentucky by a second wife.
She was his favorite child. Phoebe Anne
/ Desha, a daughter by the first wife. mar
ried Col. Smith. and her daughter mar
ried o. II T. Belmont Col Smith and
Commodore Vanderbilt were warm
friends. At the death Of Gen Desha
he left the bulk OF his property to the
daughter of the now Mrs. Elliott. He
also left the property bequeathed TO his
I other children tied up so that III Mrs
Elliott was living at their death the
money would go TO her This will caused
/ a celebrated lawsuit in New York many
years dEbf anu was uttlhth III razor OF
Mrs Elliott.
STATEMENT BY FRIEND
"One of Mrs. Elliott's own sisters be-
| came the wife Of Caleb Cope of this city
and Mrs. Elliott lived for q time with the
/ Copes. She was married when a mere
child 10 James Alexander Of Mobile and
quickly secured divorce. Some years
later she married Mr. Cochran of Pha-
delphia Her next husband Mr. Cool
/ idge, did not move i'm the same society
and circle, and after her marriage most
/ Of her old friends drifted away from her
Again she secured divorce and married
/ Mr. Elliott who had obtained divorce
Z from his wife
-Four of the fortunes tied UP by her
fathers Will have reverted to Mrs. Ell
/ lott She entertained Handsomely I'm
Huntingdon. and as the leading supporter
OF the church there II was natural that
the bishop should make her house his
/ home during his visits.
From what | know Of Mrs Elliott and
/ BBshop Talbot | cannot believe any
Of the many rumors that have been set
afloat while this case has been before
I the public"
The above statement was made by an
intimate friend OF Mrs. Elliott who is
/ "A matron I'm the fashionable set