Show r r DEATH IN ENGLAND JF OF f BOGUS HUGOS BISHOF In Garb of Man of God Ono One Donkin Led Career I of Fraud I i. i SCANDAL FINDS HIM OUT Clunk of Shields Shield Notorious and Impostor ur of or T Three CUll Continent Continent- II 1111 t. t London April 7 j. The following obituary notice which appeared In III the tho Tunes day rings down the It c curtain on the tho lust last scene SCello of ur a It career J i unparalleled In Jn the annuls of oC Impo- Impo 10 I I J. J Donkin On Oll On the ith March h. h at fil 4 1 i n clock at nl Bexley F rut the I light Rev t J Benedict 4 Donkin bishop of lit Santa Santu Croce Cruce foul forti- tUltI 1 tied fled with all nil the rites lile u of Holy Church ri i American II Australian and Italian papers pu- pu pers pel's please cOI copy Donkin In hi his time line played noun mUll many 4 V parts but hUl the only one In n which he I had hud a a. justifiable success as ryas that of ot prophet In the litter latter part purt of February February ary or he wrote I 1 die dh- very Cl shortly probably within a IL month and for once he told loh the truth Under the cloak of religion and lon and he lie changed r his religions as quickly and as ns often does hl hlf hie r fM Eli a n quick change performer pA drew tress tress-he he preyed on two churches and antI t three continents hut Unties Career t V I V His Ills extraordinary career Is in brief as nil fo follows II 8 0 Ills real name was a apparently Id I'd- l' l ll ward Donkin DonlUn Don and he claimer 1 lo to be a grandson of oC General Sir I. I Ru nu- fane Shuw Donkin and Iad ad Donkin tho the dau laughter daughter ht l' l of the till late loll Dr 01 Markham Ilc I 11 m. m dean o of York lie Ho carne came Into noto noto- notoriety In 1891 n as a II man of or three or 01 tour four our anti and twenty In Posing as aM an mum M. M A. A of Oxford he hc gained admission ns Its an nil avowed 1 Roman Neaten Catholic Ci lo tu a n monastery Why h he hc 1 Is not known precisely el ceil but hut h he appeared up- up F in III England lanti III In 1893 as u a priest t of the tho Anglican church hurch and by hr means of oC forged credentials obtained a cu curacy curacy cu cu- rac racy In tho the diocese o of Bath Dath maid anti Wells The character u of hl his credentials w was as discovered and lu- lu vanished In the I character of a Roman Catholic ho he was received b by a n French ml missionary y contracted debts order at Glat In the thc neighborhood and dl disappeared He Hc appeared al at th the Benedictine abbey at Downside as an un Anglican clergyman clergyman clergy clergy- man mall who wished to become a Roman Catholic and anti produced tI letters of oC or ordination or- or 11 from 1010 the bishop bl hop of Bath Dath and am Wells ell letters Were FOI Forged 1 In tit course couise of time line It was discovered lo I that hat the letters letters- were Cie forged and that hat he hut had hOllowed borrowed money on the thc f i tren f-tren th of or his connection with the time I abbey In September 18 1891 1 f. f he lie presented presented pre pre- himself to Father Ignatius at nt Janthony Abbey 1 is as a cousin of oC the time I Karl HAIJ of un Lin Angel Jean priest L He lie professed to have hu been beam ordained r. r HalT Jarry In hi Australia bi n Hd nil Il e priest t b by the Wc bishop of or Bath and nUll Wells ells HP He declared that he w was as a aman aman anine man nine of or means and he wished to place I t tu u Il hou o which ho he owned and his fat tor-i tor tune ut l the Uie t of or Father Igna Igna- truth huth about n came lo to mho Iho Tho rho J 1 Ignatius u whom he hC way was Father t of ur ol M through I Ing- Ing ng- ng u tour lour and 1 rand and he left the father who wh caused canned l ca a warning against him hint to tobe tobe toi be l Il published Jl in ht several newspapers newspapers' I i n etl to tu 1 En Gh h I. I I Donkin ln then hell appeared all In ii Paris a as a 0 nobleman and next uett t In where he lie became engaged 1 to ton tonn toon on nn English girl sir but after aftel obtaining a a. ai I loon loan trout from her father athel 11 ho he i decided not notto the wedding He lie went in to wait for 01 to lu tome Home In the disguise of oC an on English Benedictine but he was wa unfortunate enough to meet sonic some of or the fathers and his career was wa cut cui from Dow Downside of oC im Im- Im m- m sentence h a by lime time k short hurt for ful a England En land 18 G Donkin reappeared In ill as fit the thc Rev Be C. C W. W Montague ue character applied ap up- M A. A A Oxon and amI in this plied for ads admission iS lon to the monastery V Capuchins at nt Pant Pant- of the Franciscan He lie represented himself as an anest asaph formerly fort for for- church t Driest lx est of oC the iho merly attached to tu St. St Alban's Albans Holborn the Roman received Into been who trio had church b by ills relative the that he added bishop of Clifton I If ton He and hud had spent Pent some omo sub deacon was vas a U Rome Home college at English sh En at al the time date In l of or documents Jn He HC H produced lie He be- be at nt its his t were beIng beIng be- be inquiries that departed and arid r VV Ing hog made u about him from Crom the thc monastery I In lit Luxury l x tit lit Donkin found round hi ills his way to Cleveland oland described himself as a afeto O 0 0 where whelo he feto lived In luxury until until un- un and mitered abbot which drove him mm scandal arose til n a from the city for Cor Italy where he posed p lie Santa Croce Croc s t ti tl titular o of a. a a had luul been betI salt eald he he ho which position Ulon Patriarch of Anti Antl- appointed IJ b by the thc unfortunate Ir in uch och lie He was again to In- In for he l nome for COl fraud mole mo pt once be bc caused d it to Dunkin c cu u In lu a 8 London newspaper In Jul July 19 u Benedict Count Donkin Don Don- that nor kin D D. D. D bishop o of Santa anta Croce In boen been appointed Antioch had apostolic of or the thc Independent Roman Catholic Church In Southern St Switz Itz- Itz erland Curiously J y enough h. h he tool took t his ills residence An n the other uther side o 0 I Ithe Ithe up he lie lodged lodged where at ut Geneva Gencva the Alps ed with u it widow and und burrowed borrowed money mono her left lert Geneva Gencva In ht n from front her He lie debt From Front Geneva Gene wont t t t. Oxford where a warning I Issued by a n Induced him to enter friend steed an former action for Cor libel which was die die- missed with costs Io Lost t Money louty nn III in 10 Dogim Draft the old oltI Catholic of oC As A I a bishop n mr ho he started The Oratory Orator a Church ll ft on credit At Ar Oxford and amI furnished uncle who believed In him him at the tho tin for part palt of or tin till gave a guarantee and amt money mone which h ho he had to 10 pa pay I lent nt Donkin mon on on n draft was probably forged ored and was certainly dishonored and disavowed owed b wh Wit signatories s the only one of or the end ot of last Insl s' s the At could he be found committed for Cor trial at car he was laB year false e Bexhill for COl obtaining money b by widow whom he him let Ice pretenses from Crom a n practically penniless but he ho hen n was Vas at ac acquitted sizes and mid retired I- I quitted at nt the ut um went through I Bexley Donkin once the ceremony of oC ordination It wa I at the tho hands o of Archbishop Church to 1 of th the old uld Catholic he said he ho was the son Ion of or the Duki Dul Duko I o of oC D' D Devon on ton and bore the title o of Lore Lort I Archbishop er eyed tl his hh true tr character and d deposed poc find antI degraded glad d him and characterize i him hint as a first clubs swindler I |