Show JAILED FOR APING PRIEST heretic sermon sends french soldier swindler to prison for a year paris A soldier named has been sentenced by court martial to a years imprisonment and francs fine for impersonating a catholic priest and swindling catholics Is not a catholic he assumed the name of father henry gained the confidence 0 a number of priests and parishioners of orleans and the surrounding country officiated in several churches and chapels heard confessions administered in many communes all the while receiving money tor masses and for charitable objects ills downfall came from an attempt to preach in a church at st jein ie blanc the cure of the commune found his doctrine akas not altogether catholic and asked for information regarding the wandering priest from monsignor gabler bishop of ersal lles who exposed the swindle |