Lost the Charity Funds

New York, 1895

The Rev. William P. Estes, the newly appointed pastor of the M. E. Church at Oyster Bay, met with a severe loss Monday. Mr. Estes is the treasurer and collector of the charitable funds of The New York East Conference. Monday morning he left Oyster Bay on the 7:08 train, intending to turn in to the proper authorities the sum of $90, which he had received for the various church charities. When he reached New York the money was missing.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, April 19, 1895, p. 1.