The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-16
SAYS QUINN WAS NO PRIEST,
BUT AN IMP0STOR, EXPELLED
FROM A DUBLIN SEMINARY.


Father McGoIdrick Advises That ANY Mar
riaxes Quinn Performed ne Dsnc Over
Acknowledgment nc Marccilus Thinks
Quinn wss Ordained In ireland
Differing statements were made yesterday
concerning Charles s. Quinn. who oficisted
al a priest at st., Agnes Church, Atlantic
Highlands, last summer and whose dead
body was found with that Of Bridget Kiley,
formerly the h~ousekeeper at the Sc. Agnes
rectory, In a furnished room at 22s East
Eighteenth street last Thursday. Father
McGoldrick, assistant pastor Of 81. Michaei's
Church, Brooklyn, said yesterday that he
had known Quinn for the last twelve years,
and that Quinn had never been a priest.
The Rev. Father J. J. Renehan, pastor OF
St. Francis Xavier Church at Marcellus,
near Syracuse, said that he was of the
strong impression hat the dead maa was
q nephew Of bis and an ordained priest,
although q ~ne'er-do-wel.
Father McGoldrick said that his ~acquaintt-
anoe with Quinn began in 1ses, whsn they
were both students for the priesthood at
All Hallows Seminary In Dublin, Ireland.
Quinn appeared with good credentials from
people In the United States and gave out
that he was born here. He got into DIFF
fculty by paying . good deal OF attention
Il q pretty nrIrse In one Of the hospitals OF
Dublin.
When questioned about this Quinn said
that abe was his sister. ~ the girl had
lived all her nfe in Dublin and Quinn had
passed as an American, Quinn's credentials
were examined according TO Father McGol-
drick, and found 10 be mostly forged. This
led to his expulsion and for several years
thereafter Father McGoidnck lost sight Of
him.
Two years ago Quinn called one day o a
Father McGoldrick. He was In lay clothes,
but said that he had been ordained as a
priest. Asked where, he could not give q
satisfactory answe or and exhibited a certth-
cate scraw led over with names and ilegible.
He struck his old classmate for q loan, but
unsuocessfully.
He fioated around Brooklyn'for a while,
said Father McGoldrick, borrowing from
various clergymen and aymen, and disap-
peared, leaving unpaid debts, worthless
checks and unfounded stories a. to his
service in various places as a priest.
One day last July Father McGoldrick saw
him in the New Jersey Central station in
Jersey City, dressed in cler cal attire. This
was Just about the time Quinn Was on mis-
way to become assistant to Father oFarrell,
the rector Of st. Agnes Church a. Atlantic
Highlands. He went to the Morgue Friday
night. The Quinn OF AL Hallows n the
Quinn Of the furnished room and the Morgue
were the sare.
Father McGoldrick said that any mar
riages performed by Quinn were void II
he was never ordained and that they should
be performed again. II might be q question
in New Jersey whether they were void In
Law as well as in the eye Of the Church
The body was removed last night by an
on a certificate issued by Coroner Acritelli.
SYRACUSE, Dec. 1.-THE Rev. ]. j. Rene
han, pastor Of st. Francis Xavier Church
at Marcellus, in this county, made public
to-day the following statement:
If the man who was found dad with q
woman in New York was the same that /
believe him to be 10 was q relative OF my
own. He was born and ordained TO the
priesthood in Ireland, n about ten years
q wenA to England, where he remained
for three years. Then he came to America,
his first charge having been in Buffalo. He
left there after a short time and inc then
his career had been varied. He had been q
disgrace and a sorrow to his Church and his
family ever since he had been in this country.
Whatever becomes Of his body does not
concern me in the least. I refuse utterly
to nave anything TO do with any disposition
that the authorities may see At to make of
it. / shall give no further information in
regard to the matter. Archbishop Farley
Of New York knows all about the matter,
and | refer all inquiries or the subject to
him.