Word: norfolkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stiffkey (pronounced "Stewky") is in Norfolk. Beyond officiating at matins and evensong on Sundays, bland, white-haired Dr. Davidson* spent little time there. His avowed mission was in London where he devoted himself to saving errant girls. "We believe," ran the formal charge, "that the Rev. Harold F. Davidson had a right and duty to rescue maidens from a life of sin, but that in the process he should not have: "Systematically misbehaved himself - "Kissed and hugged Barbara Harris in a Chinese restaurant in Bloomsbury "Permitted 17-year-old Barbara Harris to sleep in his bed - "Been guilty of immoral...
...added a few personal remarks: "If improper thought comes to us, there is no harm in that whatsoever, because that is Temptation, but we must not encourage it." At the end of the service he took up a collection "for my work of helping my poor girls." At Walsingham. Norfolk, police court, the trial of Dr. Davidson for riding an unlighted bicycle at Stiffkey was adjourned last week "because the rector is on more important business in London...
...Preacher Dobson-Peacock exploded. "That man Shootskoff, or whatever his name is, has tried to hinder us from the outset. He and his men attempted to prevent us from seeing Col. Lindbergh when we drove to Hopewell and his men trailed us all the way back to Norfolk. Since then we feel that we have been under constant surveillance. In order to carry on negotiations with the kidnappers we have been forced to dodge and double on our trails like common criminals...
...South who used to know the Morrows when he had a church in Mexico City, and Rear Admiral Guy Hamilton Burrage, U. S. N. Retired. It was on Admiral Burrage's Memphis that Col. Lindbergh triumphantly rode home from France after his 1927 flight. The three Norfolkers made a secret journey to Hopewell and it was then that their identity was discovered by the prying Press. Back in Norfolk. Preacher Dobson-Peacock bemoaned the fact that the story had leaked out, feared that it might impede the recovery of the child...
...Norfolk police tactfully kept hands off the case, but Coast Guard patrols and Baltimore police boats combed Chesapeake Bay in the belief that the babe was being held aboard some craft concealed up a bayou. Meantime, Boat-Builder Curtis evaded the police over Easter weekend, reappeared with the news that negotiations with the kidnappers were in their "semifinal stage...