New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-08
FIND REV. DIR. PRICE
WAS **IMPRUDENT''
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the women whose stories have been
made public was instrumental in con-
victing his father. He intmated the
conviction rested on mysterious
woman, whose name will never be
known.
Nonsense, said DR.. F. L. Wilson,
chairman OF the committee that tried
DR.. Price. Any statement that the
conviction was based on a mysterious
witness is incorrect. The stories OF
the women compliments brought
about the verdict"
DR.. Price would not tell which charge
he admitted, or if he admitted any
made by the women against him, but
he was found guilty of one kiss in par
ticular given to a woman who was in
deep distress at the time.
HE kissed her" said Dr. Wilson,
Just as he would kiss a child after
christening There was no passion in
the kiss
Did he kiss a woman whose mother
in-law was DYING was asked. CThe
woman referred TO was Mrs. William
Duke Moore, a pretty blond matron,
whose husband was at his mother 5
death bed in kentucky when DR.. Price
called 10 consol- herD
NO" answered Or. Wilson. 1T was
another woman VINO was in deep
trouble"
DR.. Wilson was asked if the convic-
ton was found on the evidence Of Mrs.
Hilma DOLL a widow who obtained
money from Or. Price, but he refused to
be cornered by process of elimination.
THE verdict" he said, lis the judg-
ment Of every member of the select
committee. They considered the mat
ter not only with reference to DR.. Price
but with reference to the whole Church.
The findings were based on cumu-
lative evidence OF all the witnesses.
Some of the women we did not wholly
believe, but there was enough in their
stories to warrant admonition. DR..
Price was indiscreet.
He admitted kissing one married
woman" continued DR.. Wilson. Il will
not reveal her name. She was one of
those. however, whose stories have been
told in the newspapers. There was no
secret witness"
Eliminating Mrs Moore, Mrs. Doh a
widow, and Mrs. Miller, widow, the
only married women" DR.. Price could
have been found guilty of kissing were
Mrs. Claude b. Dore, wife of the lawyer
who brought the charges against the
minister. and Mrs. Lcger The fact Of
Mrs. Dore being recalled again yesterday
to repeat her testimony for the fourth
time led To the belief It was she whom
Dr. Price admitted kissing.
After hymns and prayer and reading of
the minutes an attempt was made TO take
up a collection Of $500 TO defray the ex-
pense of the conference Thirty-fve min
utes was spent eXhortng ministers TO
contribute, and little By little the sum
was raised. When the last dollar re-
manned 10 be taken up. and an appeal was
made four times for it, reporter on an
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catching an edition were growing less
every minute, contributed the dollar to
great applause. The matter of Or. Price
WIS then in order.
Bishop Wilson arose and read as fol-
lows, making no comment:
THE select committee in the case Of
the Rev. Jacob Embury Price present the
following findings:
rs the charge involving immortality in
conduct in violation Of the moral law sus-
tanned? Ans-Not sustained
is the charge involving the indulgence
OF sinful tempers and words sustained?
Ans.-Not sustained
rs the charge involving imprudent and
unministerial conduct sustained? Ans
Sustained.
1T is the judgment Of the select COM
mittee that Jacob Embury Price should
be, and hereby is. admonished.'
In accordance with the plea of Bishop
Wilson there was no demonstration in the
conference and after an oppressive
silence Of half minute the report on the
ministers of the districts was begun. No
one knew what would happen TO DR.. Price
until his name was read out by Or. Allan
MacRossie, district superintendent for
New York. as pastor of the Washington
Heights church for the coming year.
There was no further reference to him.
Claude b. Dore. who worked UP the
charges against DR.. Price, announced
himself dissatisfied with the verdict last
night.
There Will he a meeting of the women
compliments at my home tomorrow" he
said. "and we Will see what further &C
ton can be taken. / do not believe II is
legal TO restore Dr. Price to the church.
Other women who have not been heard
have come forward to testify, and We
may ask for a new trial.
There are now two irreconciable fac
lions in DR.. Prices church. and this can
not work out to the advantage of the
Methodist Episcopal Church at large"
DR.. Price said last night he would
preach on Sunday.