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South Branch Intelligencer
Romney, Hampshire County, West Virginia
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Reverend Doctor Charles L. Cook was convicted in Boston for receiving stolen goods from four boys he employed as apprentices in his apothecary shop. He was sentenced to three days' solitary confinement and seven years' hard labor. Background revealed his past as a clergyman dismissed for gross offenses.
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He had kept an apothecary's shop lately, where he took in the goods, which were stolen by four boys, whom he kept as regular apprentices. He was tried for receiving stolen goods only, but in course of the trial testimony was elicited which exhibited him as a wretch addicted to the most infamous practices.
He at one time officiated as a clergyman, in various parts of Maine and New Hampshire, and was once settled in Boothbay (Me.) as pastor of a congregational church there, and was dismissed by an ecclesiastical council, for gross offences.
Previous to receiving his sentence, he addressed the court in a style which exhibited great fluency of language. He assigned as the cause of his trouble, his marrying against his wishes, to gratify his mother and family.
-Newark Advertiser.
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Boston
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sentenced to three days' solitary confinement, and seven years' hard labor in the state prison
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Charles L. Cook was convicted as a receiver of stolen goods stolen by four boys he kept as apprentices in his apothecary shop. Testimony revealed infamous practices. He had previously been a clergyman in Maine and New Hampshire, settled in Boothbay (Me.), and dismissed for gross offences. He addressed the court blaming his marriage.