The Detroit times., 1909-07-24
PASTOR BLAMES
WOMEN G0SS|PS
Rev. DR.. Kemp. After Night Spent
in Cell, Says Life of Fashionable
Divine Is Abominable.

\. NEW YORK. July PA man stood
vt the corner OF Jane and Hudson'sts.
In old Greenwich village. unkempt, dis
traught and shaking with nervousness.
|, or medium height. heavily built. the
n hair tinged with gray, the face clean
! shaven and marked with the signs OF
IL dissipation, one would have passed
|, him anywhere as type OF the DRIFT
Ing class OF those who have seen bet
\. ter days.
i, Five years ago the same man was
. chief curate Of st. Pauls chapel, hon
I, ored and respected among It's fashioh
N able Episcopal parishioners To such
|. degree that then. having completed
The fifteenth year of his insumbency.
|, he was presented with magnificent
( set OF eucharistic vestments.
X But now he was only Robert Morris
/. Kemp, locked up in the Charles-st.
h police station In the night on charge
N OF intoxication and discharged In the
/, morning when arraigned in Jefferson
n Market police court before Magistrate
Il Cornell. Under indictment In Chica-
4 go. adrift In New York from SAM
n tarium at Goshen to which his friends
(, persuaded him to retire some weeks
\ ago, the Rev. DR.. Kemp looked and
4 felt exactly what he described himself
y down and out"
\ Yet there were friends nearby. mem
\ bers OF a family whom he had taught
! in SUNDAY school at old st. Paufs M
4 teen years ago. In their humble little
i Hat at No Is Abingdon-sq. he had
|; sought a nights lodging on reaching
I New York. as has been his wont on
such excursions for twelve months
1 past. yet on them, the Richmond
4 boys" as he called them. he blamed
\ his arrest and incarceration. But al
\ their persuasion he was led away TO
/ a train that would take him back to
!, Goshen. rest and sobriety.
4 Celebrated With Old Friend.
\ Kemp went TO the Richmond home
l with only such toilet conveniences ds
Il he could carry in his pocket Mrs.
Janet Richmond, who has known him
for twenty years welcomed him as
i usual, though in her cramped quar-
|. tiers there was but little room for him.
n She had Just moved there last week
4 from No. II Horatiost.. where the
clergyman had united in matrimony on
h June Jessie r. Hutchinson. daugh-
4 ter Of Mrs. Richmond, and William
\ sauntered back to Abingdon-sq. On
the street he met william, Detschel.
|, once known as the child tenor" In
h st. Pauls choir, now an elevator
/ operator. Detschel greeted his for.
/ mer -curate warmly and together they
\ celebrated to some purpose the arri-
\ val last Monday OF Detscheis FIRST
1 baby.
An invitation to see Mrs. Detschel
/ and the infant was accepted. and the
pair were soon asleep In the Detschel
/ flat at No 7S4 Greenwich-st. Present
K ly there came Policeman Hughes, who
b had been told by Johnny Hutchinson.
Mrs. Richmond's grandson, that the
4 clergyman was upstairs and had been
/ 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.. O'Connor 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
! charge OF grand larceny and Kemp on
the charge OF intoxication. In Kemps
y pockets were a checkbook, some bills
and and a gold watch which. the in
scription told, the clersyman's father,
william Kemp, a millionaire iron and
steel manufacturer OF Troy, who died
last August, had presented TO the son
In 1881.
The pair slept In the bare police
cell. Kemp withdrew his charge In
court against Detschel. saying that
4 there had been mistake. Magis-
| trate Cornell discharged the clergy
I man. saying that even II he were
drunk the police had no right to ar
rest him in Detschers 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 a condi-
ton, the clergyman summarized IL all
in one sentence:
Have you ever been the pastor OF
fashionable Episcopal church!
want to tell you II Is -.
II am the victim OF circumstances"
he continued, land | can only blame
the malicious gossip Of women for my
present situation. The women were
parishioners OF mine In Chicago. and
because I 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.
hut ask you Is It strange that man
who has been what | have, who has
never hurt living soul or done any
man q, 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 | am not the sinner | am
made out TO be. II is monstrous that
people can make such charges and
live