Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-18 | Page 5 | Priest Arrested Investments at Altar

PIS! ARRESTED IN Church Controversy at Elgin, El-gin, IH'f Comes to Climax Without Bloodshed. ELGIN'. I"- M:'rli IT. After a num. tr oi sh" hR1 1,0011 cl and a door 0 St. J!0'"s Roman Catholic church hnJ : ' m broken down, tho Rev. J. J. Jc- pini for nineteen years pastor of the perflation, Tvas arrested hero this bimWc as 110 stoon 1,1 his vestments at he aliai". Georso JlcCann. a brother of L priest, also was arrested. Both were coSert in the county Jail, but later te- : scenes at ihe ehnrcli were the lini.T v of a controversy of some years' i t-iii'riin-- B'hop r J- Mnl-loon had ip- 1 e-i order lemovlr.s Faiher McCann o incompetent and. the order not b-Mnj,' I foeypd, an mjunction was obtained Fri- ! avfom Master in Chancery Guns. Ser-' Ser-' jje was not obtained and last nisht a .. srcc of consuihlcs and police was thrown ' jdund tho church. . TM3 morning it was found that Father l-Cann was Inside the edifice. About 7 '. 'ilock George McCann appeared, got , ist CnnstajDlc S. Loienz and entered Ve eVr'ri!. Lorcna tried to follow and VvfTi shots were fired. The police say v carae from within. lVTien the Rev. T. Gilbert Flynn. ap-' ap-' jointed bv Bishop Muldoon to take charse & the congregation, appeared a door was -broken in. It is charged that several "Vore shots were fired from within at this time. No one was hit. Deputv Sheriff Sher-iff Claude Poole, bearing a warrant, (owl Father McCann at the altar. Tho priest asked that he ho permitted to finish fin-ish irass and this was granted. He then -as taken to jail on a charce of assault ,1!) battery. Georgo McCann also was parsed with assault and battery. Later in the day the charge against George -as withdrawn and he was freed. Father jfcCann was released on bond of S50i, famished by his sister. Hearing of his case was set for Wednesday next. 1