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Show BLOSSOM IS FINED ON SERIOUS CHARGE Former Milwaukee Eector Pleads Guilty to Indictment for Immoral Conduct. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Nov. 24. A fine of $400 and costs was the sentence imposed upon the Rev. Walter G. Blossom, Blos-som, former rector of St. Stephens's episcopal church, by Judge L. W. Halsey in circuit court today, after a plea of guilty had been entered to the charge of adultery. It was charged that Mr. Blossom had had improper relations with Mrs. Ethel M. Alderman, wife of Roland Alderman, a traveling salesman. The trial was brief, lasting only thirty minutes. Mr. Alderman was the only witness called. Ho testified he had known Mr. Blossom for three years, and that when he returned home unexpectedly unexpected-ly in July he found the defendant at his home with his wife. lie said he had been married eleven years and five months, and that both he and his wife were members of St. Stephens's church. |