A regular feature looking back at what was being printed around 100 years ago in the Bristol Daily Courier. This week’s entry comes from the August 17, 1921 edition of the newspaper.
Woman Enters Suit Charging Clergyman With Circulating Scandalous Stories
A suit has been filed in the Bucks County Court against the Rev. Chas. F. Schilpp, a Catholic priest at South Langhorne. (South Langhorne is now Penndel Borough)
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The clergyman is charged with circulating what are alleged to be false statements about Mrs. Catherine B. Cornwall, of South Langhorne. These are said to be to the effect that the prosecutor’s 16-year-old daughter was a principal in scandalous lovemaking scenes on the front porch of her mother’s home at midnight.
Mrs. Cornwall is asking $10,000 damages from the clergyman on the ground that her good name and reputation in the neighborhood have been damaged.
The case will probably be called for trial at the October term of civil court.
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Mrs. Cornwall, who is a married woman living with her husband in South Langhorne, alleges that Rev. Schilpp, on April 3, stated to Mr. and Mrs. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Marlin and Mr. and Mrs. Burnett, of South Langhorne, among others things, that Mrs. Cornwall was “keeping a disorderly house.”
Mrs. Cornwall also sets forth that Rev. Schilpp told South Langhorne persons that her daughter had made advances to a man “one midnight” while both were on the porch, and that nine different men had been seen entering and leaving the Cornwall house at late hours during the night.
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The case is causing a great deal of discussion and interest in Langhorne and South Langhorne.
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