Salt Lake Herald | 1891-11-29 | Page 2 | Authority for the Salisbury Catholic Priest Spy Story

Authority for the Salisbury Catholic Priest Spy Story tSpcdaltoTKEHzBALD Examiner Dispatch NETS YORK Nov 23The World yesterday yester-day requested the Associated Press to re 1 Tea the authority upon which it had sent out the story of an alleged Catholic priest having foisted himself upon the household of Lord Salisbury under the guise of a majordomo major-domo and for the purpose of spying upon diplomatic matters Pursuant to this re iqueit the Associated Press wired their London I 1 correspondent and made the following fol-lowing statement Our London agent in 4 reply to an inquiry touching his authority tior i the Salisburymajor domo story which he Gent last night wires follows Press Association responsible for major domo The Press Association as you doubtless know i urettv nearly tho same for Eng land that the Associated Press is for this country The Catholic clergy of the city do not look upon the story as worthy of serious thought It IB not believed at all The following fol-lowing is advanced as an explanation of the occurrence i It indeed has any foundation In fact It is quite possible that an unfrocked un-frocked priest may have entered Lord I Salisburys service as a butler and that he may have hoped t conceal his identity But that the Vatican should have employed so clumsy and useless a method of finding out secrets at Hatfield house Is tho veriest nonsense The diplomats of the Vatican were they desirous of setting a watch on the life ot Englands premier would not resort sort to such means