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mmmmitammmmtimmm. LA$T EDITION LAST EDITON "CAPTAIN ENGLAND' GOUVERNEUR MORRIS' FAMOUS STORY, STARTS TODAY THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper. 4 N. D. Cochran, ,35 . 500 South Peoria St. Editor and Publisher. ISP0 398 Tel. Monroe 353. VOL.2, NO. 231 Chicago, Saturday, June 28, 1913 ONE CENT METHODIST MINISTER ACCUSED BY CHOIR GIRL IS FOUND GUILTY The Rev. MacRorie, Married and Father One Child, Brings Twin Sister of Edith Nelson Into Court to Confuse Jurors, and They Suspect Him. Elizabeth, N. J., June 28. The Rev. Willis S. MacRorie, a Metho dist Episcopal minister of Somerville, N. J., -was found guilty of misconduct with Miss Edith Nelson, 17 years old, formerly a member of his choir, by a jury here. The minister ruined his own chances of acquittal by suddenly pro ducing in court Alice Nelson, twin sister of the girl with whom he was accused of having had immoral rela tions. Alice Nelson is so like her sister that the jurors could not tell the two apart. Instead of confusing the jur ors as the Rev. MacRorie had intend ed, this convinced them that some one had something to conceal They concluded after two hours' debate, that MacRorie was the one with something to conceal and brought in a verdict of guilty. Under the New Jersey law, the Rev. MacRorie may be punished by a $50 fine or six months in jail or both. Besides this, he will have to face a trial before the Methodist Episcopal conference of the Newark district, which probably will mean his expul sion in disgrace from the church. Up to the time he had Alice Nel son brought into the courtroom, Mac Rorie's defense was going well. The prosecution introduced his signed confession. MacRorie took the stand and repudiated it, making a dramatic appeal to the jurors, which visibly affected them. "I signed that paper," he cried. "I admit it! But I did not know what the paper was. I did not know it wa3 confession of anything so diabolical as this, ib2222i;