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Show MINISTER ACCUSED Ii OF STEALING MONEY COLUMBUS. O., March 17. Th jjj Rev. A. Si. Johnson, Columbus, wai am arrested 9j- the police on complaint jl of Mrs, Elizabeth Metcalfe, wife of an ! attorney, who charges the minister HI with theft of a handbag containing 9I ?7,156 in jewelry and securities, whll6 .Ml paying a sociai call at her home. JMm The Rev Johnson, who claims to be mmm an. ordained Methodist Episcopal min ister, has no pastorate, but has been (SB preaching in missions. ill Mrs. Metcalfe, in her complaint, al- JJI leged that she left Johnson alone in a ill room where tho handbag lay on a flB table. When she returned, according ill to her story, both the handbag and the Jjll minister were gone. UK The minister denied the charge. nM |