SULLIVAN THE HYPOCRITE.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 361, 8 October 1889, Page 2

SULLIVAN THE HYPOCRITE.

THE IMPOSTOR UNMASKED.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Christchurch, last night.

The sensation in Christchurch for the last few days has been the fall from grace of Sullivan, the Evangelist, otherwise Olampett. He took a farewell benefit on Thursday, and a well-known church lawyer presided, and several ladies handed round the coffee. Sullivan was presented with an address signed by 1,250 persons, and with a purse containing 100 sovs., and a Communion service, Laudatory speeches were made, and an arrangement talked of for reformed pugilist converts. Then he went on the spree, played high jinks in two hotels, and “ shouted ” for a number of cabmen and other boon companions, and was hia unconverted self once more. In one hotel he sang Irish songs, and also attempted to sing some hymns. Many ludicrous incidents in connection with Sullivan’s exploits are mentioned, one among them being that the money he was spending consisted of sixpences and threepences. In In one place where he took out a handful of sixpences someone hit his elbow and scattered the small coins all over the floor. It is stated he paid the cabman with small change also,

A Southern paper states:—“lt may go almost without question all round New Zealand that a more sincere person, and one better able to express an opinion on human character, does not exist than the Rev. Leonard W. Litt, of the Wesleyan Church, formerly of Wellington, and now of Sydenham, Christchurch. He has been listening to G. T. Sullivan, alias Clampett, and this is what he says about him. He commences with the confession: —“ I went feeling disgusted with the credulity of the people but came away profoundly impressed with the ability and cunning of the speaker, and compelled to admit to myself that as I, as an outsider, strolled into the hall knowing but little of the case, the address would have impressed me with the preacher’s genuineness and sincerity. There was a ring about it that, coming from an impostor, manifested very hieffi art.”