ine ourselves to the recital of the immorality
of the priestcraft of foreign countries, but we could mention scores
of cases that have happened in this country and which will continue
to happen as long as the Romish Church demands the vows of celibacy
by the priestcraft.
We will give you an instance of the practices of Romanism in this
country which happened no later than November of this year (1903),
and if I had the space, I could fill this volume full of such actions
by the priestcraft.
Priest Geo. D. Sander, of St. Leonard's Catholic Church, Hamburg
avenue and Jefferson street, Brooklyn, New York, was known in that
city as a devout Catholic priest, and he was also known in Far Hills,
New Jersey, as a race horse man, by the name of "Geo. West," who was
interested in a stock farm, on which lived a woman known as "Mrs.
Geo. West," but her right name is Mrs. Mamie Kipp, who formerly
belonged to Priest Sander's church, but disappeared from Brooklyn
very mysteriously, and whose whereabouts had been unknown to her
family and her friends, until it was learned that she was living on
this stock farm at Far Hills, N.J., and bore the fictitious name by
which this priest was known.
The double life of Priest Sander began in 1901. Then Jos. C. Peck,
racer and raiser of trotting horses, met this priest in Albany, who
wore the ordinary garb of a citizen. They met at the race track,
which was not a very good recommendation to say the least of it, for
the Rev. Father Sander. Peck found that this priest was a keen judge
of horses and their love for horses established a bond of friendship
between them.
In Baltimore, a short time afterwards, these two men again met at the
race track. Peck told Priest Sander that he had just sold a stock
farm at Millington, N.J., and contemplated buying another. Sander
told Peck that he was the owner of a fine mare named "Ethel Burns,"
and that he would place her on Peck's farm if he purchased it. He
told Peck that his mare had a track record of 2:20-1/4 and a trial
record of 2:16.
Peck informed this priest that he was a bachelor. Priest Sander
proposed that they should keep house jointly and said that he would
provide a housekeeper and share the expense of the establishment. He
was the guardian, he said, of a Mrs. Mamie Kipp, who had had some
trouble with her husband and who wanted to get away from Brooklyn. He
informed Peck that this lady had a young son, and that he would bring
both the mo
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