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 ously decided to expell two Orthodox priests who were of the party, in order that all knowledge of the conspiracies and schemes launched at the convention be kept from them. It is remarkable how this band of outcasts succeeded in gaining the confidence of the parishioners and delegates, mulcted them of their money and turned it over to the bishops and their clique.

After the conference, discovering that the two priests who had been expelled, were exposing their murderous misdeeds, they cut out

the photos of the two priests from a large reproduction of the conference delegation taken December 5, 1922, and in their places substtituted two thieves and white slavers, often in the employ of the bishops on 97th Street. This all with the purpose of disclaiming the presence of these priests at the conference.