The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-24
PASTOR DLAMES
WOMEN GOSs|PS
Rev. DR.. Kemp, After Night Spent
in Cell, Says Life of Fashionable
Divine Is Abominable.


AZ the corner OF Jane and Hudson-sts
In old Greenwich village, unkempt. dis
traught and shaking with nervousness
OF medium height, heavily built, the
hair tinged with gray. the face clean
shaven and marked with the signs OIL
dissipation, one would have passed
him anywhere as a type OF the DRIFT
ing class OF those who have seen bet
ter days.
Five years ago the same man was
chief curate Of ST. Pauls chapel, hon
ored and respected among its fashion
able Episcopal parishioners 10 such a
degree that then, having completed
the fifteenth year OF his insumOency'
be was presented with magninceht
set OF eucharistic vestments,
But now he was only Robert Morris
Kemp, locked up In the Charies-sL
police station in the night on charge
OF intoxication and discharged IN the
morning when arraigned in Jefferson
Market police court before Magistrate
Cornell Under Indictment in Chica'
90. adrlft in New York from SAM
tarium at Goshen 10 which his frienus
persuaded him 10 retire some weeks
ago, the Rev. DR.. Kemp looked ana
felt exactly what he described himself
down and out"
Yet there were friends nearby, mem
bers OF a family whom he had taught
In Sunday school at old st. Paul $ NJ
teen years ago. In their humble little
fat at No. 10 Abingdon-sQ. he had
sought a nights lodging on reaching
New York, as has been his wont on
such excursions for twelve months
past. yet on them. the Richmond
boys" as he called them, he blamed
his arrest and incarceration. But AT
their persuasion he was led away 10
a train that would take him back to
Goshen, rest and sobriety.
Celebrated With Old Friend.
Kemp went TO the Richmond home
with only such toilet conveniences ds
he could carry in his pocket. Mrs.
Janet Richmond, who has known him
for twenty years, welcomed him as
usual. though in her cramped quar-
ters there was but little room for him.
She had just moved there last week
from No. II Horatio-st., where the
clergyman had united In matrimony on
June Jessie r. Hutchinson. daugh-
ter of Mrs. Richmond, and William
Hoyt He visited some friends, but
sauntered back to Abingdon-sQ. On
the street he met William, Detschel,
once known as the child tenor" IN
st. Paul's choir, now an elevator
operator. Detschel greeted his for
mer curate warmly and together they
celebrated 10 some purpose the arri-
val last Monday OF Detschefs frst
baby.
An invitation TO see Mrs. Detschel
and the infant was accepted, and the
pair were soon asleep in the Detschei
fat at No. 7S4 Greenwich-st Present.
ly there came Policeman Hughes. who
had been told by Johnny Hutchinson,
4 Mrs. Richmond's grandson. that the
: clergyman was upstairs and had beel
robbed. Hughes woke up the sleep
ers and asked Kemp where his $500
diamond ring had gone Getting no
satisfactory answer from either, he
took them both around TO the station
house. There Lieut.. OConnor asked
the usual questions and obtained from
the clergyman a formal complaint that
Detschel had robbed him of the ring
: O'Connor locked Detschel up on q
charge OF grand larceny and Kemp on
the charge OF intoxication. In Kemps
pockets were a checkbook. some bills
and and gold watch which, the in
scription told. the clergyman's father.
William Kemp, a millionaire iron and
steel manufacturer OF Troy, who died
last August, had presented to the son
In 1881.
tr oIn In hn hos
cell. Kemp withdrew his charge In
court against Detschel. saying that
there had been mistake. Magis-
trate Cornell discharged the clergy
man. saying that even II he were
drunk the police had no right to ar
rest him In Detschel's home.
"The Fashionable Pastor"
What Kemp did till noon when he
returned to the Richmond home Is
not known, but his condition was such
when he reached there that he was
promptly put TO sleep on the lounge.
Later when asked to tell why and
how he came TO be In such condi.
ton, the clergyman summarized IL all
in one sentence:
Have you ever been the pastor Of
a fashionable Episcopal church?
want to tell you II Is -.
II am the victim OF circumstances,
he continued. and | can only blame
the malicious gossip OF women for my
present situation. The women were
parishioners OF mine In Chicago, and
because | knew certain things and for
other reasons they spread a scandal
that resulted In my indictment in Chi
cago. The charges against me there
are absolutely false. as | shall show
when my trial comes up in October,
but | ask you Is II strange that a man
who has been what | have, who has
never hurt a living soul or done any
man harm knowingly. save myself.
should feel the awfulness OF his pre-.
dicament?
What can | do? There is no hope
for the clergyman whose Reputation Is
once blasted. | might as well be dead.
better. in fact. Mind you. am no
saint, but I am not the sinner I am
made out TO be II is monstrous that
people can make such charges and
live"
Sees Mother Grow ,'ounq.
IT would be hard To 1yerltate the
wonderful change In my mother since
she began TO use Electric Bitters -
writes Mrs. w. l. Gilpatrick of Dan.
forth Me Although mast IN che