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"3,000 ANGLICAN PARSONS WANT TO
Why The 1,000 Guinea K.C. Defended a Boy
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WOMEN wept in the public gallery at Leicester
Assizes as Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C., made moving plea for a 17-year-old boy accused of murdering his father.
"The home of this family-if it can be called a home -was one where misery, long-drawn, reigned day in and day out," he said.
"It is impossible to measure the slow corrosion of the years, and I ask you to think as the head and front of this matter, that the dead man was the author of that misery.
"Here is this boy, not yet elghteen, whose only fault was this overmastering love for his mother whom he believed to be in danger."
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The boy, Owen Arthur Alexander Meakin, of Warsop Vale, Notts, was found not guilty of murder but guilty of "manslaugh- ter under great provocation" of his father, George Arthur Men- kin, a schoolmaster, who was killed with a hatchet while asleep.
After consultation with prosecuting and defending counsel Mr. Justice Finlay sentenced Meakin to 12 months in the second division.
PLEA FROM FRIEND
Passing sentence, the Judge said: "I rejoice, and everyone must re- Jolce, at the tribute to Engish justice that the accused, having no means, had been defended in such an admirable and skilful manner."
Defending counsel and solicitor and rendered a public service, added the judge.
Here Is the story of how this boy, without means, obtained for the defence one of the most eminent legal figures in the country.
He originally made application to the magistrates for legal aid under the Toor Prisoners' Defence Act. A certificate was granted which enabled
him to retain Mr. R. P. Marchant, solicitor, of Mansfield.
Mr. Marchant advised a cecond application for counsel's assistance, and the services of Dr. Tinsley Lindley, of Nottingham, who represented Meakin in the police court proceedings, were obtained.
Dr. Tinaley Lindley exerted himself to the utmost on Menkin's behalf, and made a journey to Lincoln before the Assizes to interview the boy In Lincoln Gool.
However, Mr. Marchant recognised that this was a case in which the services of Mr. Birkett were pre-eminently desirable.
He wrote and asked Mr. Birkett, in old friend of his, to accept the brief,
An application to the magistrates for permission to secure two counsels was granted.
Mr. Birkett replied that he would lend the defence. Thus his eloquence was placed at the service of a colliery telephone operator.
Mr. Birkett has been paid £1,050 for an assize court case. The most he can earn as leading counsel under the Poor Prisoners' Defence Act is 15 guineas.
LINK WITH THE POPE”
NEW MOTIF
Ann Sheridan, film player, wears this stunning swim-sult of black, which is based on a Mexlean motif, at a California recreation spot. The halter neckline is. In white, while beach blanket in the peon style is carried on one arm. Miss Sheridan was enjoying a short vacation after making a plcture.
Sensation Planned For Next Church Assembly
STATEMENTS that 3,000 Church of England
clergymen are offering prayers in their churches
to bring about the unity of the Churches of England and Rome under the domination of the Pope will bo discussed at a meeting of the Church Assembly.
Mr. Walter Poynter Adams, an engineer, who is the lay representative in the Church Assembly for the diocese of Truro, will move a resolution:
"That the Assembly invites the attention of the Archbishops and the Diocesan Bishops to . the following statement and asks their lordships to make, if possible, a public statement as to the information they possess about this matter and what is their policy (if any) upon it."
The statement referred to in the resolution is:
"We are exactly 1,016 clergymen who have these last cight years subscribed to the faith of the Council of Trent and pledged ourselves to preach it in our parishes.
"'Moreover, some 2,000 others are in sympathy with our aims and join us every year with their parishioners in a novena (period of prayer) for the return of the Anglican Church to the Papacy'.
there are so
Churchmen say that the movement is growing rapidly, There are 25,000 Church of "It seems an intolerable state of England clergymen; this means affairs that, in a Protestant church, that an eighth of the Anglican divided allegiance."
many serving with
The Council of Trent, to which the clergy are stated to be sympathette to the movement.
1,016 clergy are said to have sub- scribed, was the answer of the Ro- man Catholle Church to the Re-
"INTOLERABLE”
DOGMA
When asked by the Sunday Dis-formation movement. patch when, and in what circums tances, the statement referred to in the resolution was made, Mr, W. Poynter Adums replied:
"I cannot tell you anything at the moment. What i have to say is for the Assembly. There is a good deal
to reveal,
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The Counell, consisting of 200 of the most learned nuthorities of the Roman Catholic Church, met at Trent in the Italian Tyrol between 1545 and 1503,
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It defined the beliefs of the Ro- man Catholic Church dogmatically so that the Church could show an undivided front
the changes which the Réformers wished to make. Upon the decisions of this Council the Roman Catholic doctrine sill stands,
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THREE MOTIVES
The Rev. H. J. Tynes-Clinton, rec-
of St. Magnus Martyr Church, Billingsgate, London, who is a pro- minent Reunionist, said:
"Three motives inspire our wish to be corporately re-united with Rome. The first is theological,
"The Divine Will and plan of our Lord for the unity of His Church is believed to include the appointment of St. Peter and his successors to be the guides and centres of unity and government.
"The second reason is prac- tical. Look at the indiscipllac In the Anglican Church-and especially the irresponsibility of the Bishops-the chaos in doc trine.
The third reason is loyalty to the Church of England, which is seen to mean loyalty to her true mind. This is found in the first thousand years of her history, when she was living in peace and communion with Rome and knew her own mind in her teaching and practice. This was the period of her great saints and scholars and her hold on the mass of the people."
GROWING
Another clergyman in close touch with the movement said: "This Is the first time that the doings of the society are being brought officially before the Church Assembly,
"The membership is growing БО rapidly that bishops can no longer regard it as a negligible body.
"It is supported by niany monks and nuus in the Anglican Church, but was not represented on the recent commission to in- quire into Church doctrine.
"It has had nothing to do with the scheme for the reunion with the Free Churches."
The Rev. Edgar G. Bowring, secretary of the Church Association (which exists to maintain the Pro- testant principles of the Reformn- lion), sald:
"Clergymen who seek union with the Church of Rome nre denying their ordination vows.
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"Any Anglican clergyman who supports the Council of Trent being immoral. He is also acting illegally."
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Marion Davies, who received hundreds of letters In past years from on admirer, Clark Alvord, but answered none of them, learned to- day that he had bequeathed the bulk of his estate to her.
Alvord, a miner and author of a book of poems, died last week at Nelson, Nevada, and left Miss Davies 510,000 shares in a mining company, but their value is not yet known.
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