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Hell-Fire. The overzealous chaplain was Kentucky-born Laurel Garnett Gatlin, 44. In the four Southern pastorates he has held, Preacher Gatlin has pounded out straight hellfire & damnation. After each service he would make a last-minute appeal to any sinner not to leave church without embracing the Lord Jesus and being saved. To Preacher Gatlin the Navy seemed like a field ripe unto the harvest. So he became a Navy chaplain, served nearly eight tumultuous months. By the end of that time, the Navy asked Chaplain Gatlin to resign. He refused, was thereupon relieved from active duty because...
...Alma Petty Gatlin went to the Rev. Thomas F. Pardue, in Reidsville, N. C., to confess her sins. She told him that she had killed her father and was sorry. The Rev. Thomas F. Pardue accepted her confession and told the police. Mrs. Petty was tried for murdering her father; despite Thomas Pardue's testimony, which was admitted, the jury found Mrs. Petty not guilty. That was two weeks ago (TIME, March...
...year ago, Smith T. Petty disappeared; after a decent interval, Mrs. Petty died. Last May, a Baptist revival preacher, the Rev. Thomas F. Pardue, gave a sermon in Reidsville on the subject of repentance. After his sermon, Alma Petty, sweet & pretty, who had married the village fire chief, Eugene Gatlin, went to him and made a confession. She said she had killed her father with an axe and put his body in a trunk in the cellar. The corpse of Smith T. Petty was found where Alma Gatlin said it was; there was a hole through the skull...
...revivalist preacher was fixed with a nice choice of loyalties; he chose to respect the law rather than the sanctity of the confession which he had received and last week Mrs. Alma Petty Gatlin went on trial in the village of Wentworth for having killed her father. The courtroom was filled with reporters from Southern papers (Northern newssheets neglected the story) and with the inhabitants of the countryside who felt a strange unreality in the proceedings, as if they had suddenly stopped being real people and had become instead the actors in a play. The Rev. Thomas F. Pardue told...
...they disliked the idea of convicting the winner of a beauty contest, or whether, and this was the most likely reason, they felt an instinctive reluctance to accept as mundane evidence a secret that had been intended for the ears only of God, they announced that Mrs. Alma Petty Gatlin was not guilty of the murder of her father. The Rev. Pardue said, "I can truthfully say that I have done my duty to God and the State." Mrs. Gatlin embraced her husband, set off to get her curling iron which she had left in the jail, and then went...