A NOVEL CHARGE.
SINGING TOO LOUDLY IN CHURCH
Two sisters were brought before the Weybridge magistrates for singing too loudly in church. These were dressmakers, Maude and Fanny Burke, and were charged with brawling in the Roman Catholic Church at Weybridge. They were poor women, said a solicitor/ who had received many benefits at the hands of the priest and congregation. For a period of two years the defendants at the evening services, when the Litany was being sung, had shouted the responses at the top of their voices, . behind and before the choir, like demented beings. Many people in consequence refused to attend the latter -part of the evening service. Canon Scannell, the priest in charge of the church, said that- owing to the defendants’ conduct lie had to omit a portion of the service. He had remonstrated with them forty or fifty times.
The defendant Maude said they sang according to what they* were taught in their own country. Tlie Chairman: Then go there and sing. Tire women were bound over to be of good! behaviour.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3363, 1 November 1911, Page 7
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178A NOVEL CHARGE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3363, 1 November 1911, Page 7
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