Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1896 — THE PREACHER APOLOGIZED. [ARTICLE]

THE PREACHER APOLOGIZED.

And the Suit for SBS, 000 Has Been Withdrawn. Some months ago Kev. Dr. Pullman, a prominent Methodist divine, of Bridgeport, Conn., from the pulpit denounced the well known actress, Mile. Jane May, reflecting on her character. She promptly instituted a suit for slander and placed the amount at $25,000. The other day the reverend gentleman publicly apoligized and Mile. May withdrew the suit, severly scoring the preacher, however, as follows: “Your retraction of the reckless and unchristian charges against my moral character has been submitted to me and is accepted. I have been made aware of the fact that since the utterance of those awful words against me (a wife and mother) afflictions have befallen the sacred circle of your home, and, out of a spirit of charity, which you did not see fit to extend to me, I do not desire to add more to your burden by the annoyance which a' continuance of my suit would naturally cause you and yours. Therefore I accept your retraction as sufficient. But I feel that I can, without impropriety, suggest that it is my hope that the course I have pursued in this matter may, at least, he the means of deterring clergymen who think less pulpit of the gospel of Christ than of notoriety and self-ag-grandizement from making unprovoked and malicious attacks upon actresses of whom they know absolutely nothing.”