The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-01-03
COMPLETE COLLAPSE OF
 CASE AGAINST TALBOT
NEW PREsENTMEET MAT, HoW-
 EYER, BE MADE

Attorney for Rev. Dr. Irvine to Ask
 Permission to withdraw the old One
 -vestrymen of Huntingdon, Pa, De-
 mand Withdrawal of Their signa-
 tures-Dr. Irvine VIII Not Speak of
 Letter Sent to Hartford.
 Philadelphia, Jan. 2-The develop ments to-day in the controversy be tween Rev. Dr. Irvine, the deposed priest of the Episcopal church, and Bishop Ethelbert Talbot of the diocese of Central Pennsylvania. indicate that the case of pr. Irvine against the bish-t op has entirely collapsed. J. Frederick Jenkinson of Philadelphia, associate counsel with Herbert Noble of New
 York for the presenters, is said to be on his way to St. Louis with state nerlt for Bishop Futile, presiding bishop of the Episcopal church asking leave
 to withdraw the presentment against Bishop Talbot and requesting permis-
 sion to make a new presentment. The vestrymen of Huntington, Pa., whose names appear on the presentment, to- day announced their intention of for warding formal statement to Dr. W.
 B. Bodine, chairman of the board of ir-
 quiry appointed by Bishop Futile, de- manding the withdrawal of their sig natures from the presentnent on the
 ground that the signatures were pro cured through irregular ethods
 Attorney Nobler eturned here from New York last night, and all of today
 he was closeted with Dr. Irvine, At
 torney Jenkinson, the Rev. Benjamin I.
 Odell the isev. Dr. w. F. Noble, a
 brother of the senior counsel, and other
 presenters. Late this afternoon mes senger was sent to the Pennsylvania railroad station, and he returned with 9 ticket for St. Louis, which was sent
 to the room occupied by the conferees. It was nearly ' o'clock tonight when l the conference came to an end. The { first man to leave the room was Dr. Ir-. vine. He was immediately surrounded < by group of newspaper reporters who
 had been in waiting during the greater
 part of the day but he begged them to refrain from asking any questions.
 Finding it impossible to secnure any or1Ha ton oEIi the deposed priest re
 garding the proceedings at the confer
 ence, the reporters endeavored to pre- vail upon him to make a statement con- cerning the published letter he is said to have written to a clergyman in Hart | ford, Conn, in which he said he was in straitened financial circumstances.
 For Godd's sake, gentlemen, do not ask me any questions, was his reply. It was learned tonight that the
 statement of withdrawal which MT Jenkinson will present to Bishop Futile at St. Louis will revise in detail the
 Irvine Talbot difficulty. It will also allege that the presenters in this pro ceeding have had no desire except to secure simple justice for Dr. Irvine at l the hands of clerical court; that their every act in the preparation of the pre- sentiment has been done In entire good faith; that Dr. Irvine's own connection with the case is above suspicion, and | that the fact that the Huntingdon pre- senters have repudiated their sigma lures is attributable to the overzeal- tousness of one or two of pr. Irvine's
 friends, who. in their desire to serve his.
 cause, did overstep the bounds of fair
 ness in procuring these signatures; that thereby the other presenters were de-
 ceived as to the integrity or the docu-
 ment, and that for these reasons they
 desire to withdraw it from the hands of
 Bishop Futile and to have the board of inquiry dissolved.
 The statement will declare that in withdrawing this presentmentA the ac- 1 tion is taken without prejudice to the cause of the presenters or the interests of pr. Irvine, and that the friends of the latter who have had the affair in hand propose, as soon as possible, to file with Bishop Futile a new present. ment against Bishop Talbot prepared and signed under the requirements of the new canons, which became effective
 January 1 and which .stipulate that each signature shall be acknowledged under oath.
 The new presentme11t will, it is de- .cIared, allege, against Bishop Talbot all of the charges of the collapsed docu- ment.
 Besides these charges others will be included which will, it is stated, be
 based upon another letter equally as denunctatory of Dr. Irvine as the Up john letter.
 This letter, which Is said to bear a
 date as recent as the Fulton copy of the Upjohn letter, which copy was furnish-s ed by Bishop Talbot to Rev. Dr. John
 Fulton in July of last year, Is said to have been written by Bishop Talbot to gentleman in New York and to be.
 now in the possession of friends of pr. Irvine.
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 Miss Elsie Porter, daughter of the American ambassador, is announced to young Dr. Mende, of Zurich, son of the celebrated physician who attended Mrs.