Runaway Pastor is Found

1914

Writes Home at Cawden, Ill., He Left Wife and Parishioners to Escape Debts

Decatur, Ill., Feb. 20. — Rev. O. M. Eaton, pastor of the Christian church at Cawden, Ill., who has been missing since Feb. 10, has been located at Lebanon, Mo. A letter from him to B. E. Prater, cashier of the Cawden National bank, recites he left home because of debts.

The pastor told his wife he was going to Flora, Ill., on business. When he did not return next day a search was instituted.

Eaton wrote that he was employed and would send money to his aged parents soon. His wife and two daughters are at the home of her parents.