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A HEBR11D'EAN +CA'THED'RAL
To get the lonely sense oif Radii
you must a,pproac'h it from the sea,
When the great waves are breaking
on the heel 'df Harris, a sudden slack-
ening of speed and a turn of the wheel
bring the boat into the shelter of the
wild rocks. Behind the rocks rises a
square embattled church tower
crowned with a cone-shaped, slated
roof. Bald, austere, and grey, like the
•rooks in :which it 'has stood for cen-
turies, (St. Cientent's 'Rodil :is the fin-
est architectural strtteture in the Heb-
rides, and has for long been known
as. the Cathedral df the Outer Isles,
Most people, h'owe'ver, 'ddine'to R•o-
011.by road .fromITatibent. In that case,
you will leave' .Olb'be with its tragic
scrap heaps and • travel three miles
further on to this ancient church,
which :has stood throughout the ages
looking out upon the waters of the
western seas.
To Inc'there ,;is something sad
about St. Clement's R'odlil. For, next
to the .far-famed shrine at ,Iona, it is
the most' beautiful' of all the :rentain-
ing :mediaeval' churches in the Heb-
rides. Repaired twice in the lath cen-
tury, and once in the 19Th; it is now
kept int perfect condition 'by H:M
Oi flee df Works. ',Brut—it is empty.
A beautiful' sanc'tu'ary, w'ai'ting in
vain for a little oompany Of wor-
shippers to come and prey. Alas, the
world, has receded ,from Rodil. In
summer, you m'ay wander on the
grassy:'knb'wles above the ,shimmer-
ing sea, and 'dream idly of the time
when there were monasteries all 'up
argil down the hales.
The origin 01 Sit. Clemenit'•s is quite
unknown. But it is .generally believed
to have been founded by a miss'io'nary
from bona, then. 'to have been devas-
tated by the Niorsemen. The needs of
the impoverished monastery were
'pro'bably sup'p'lied in the I11Jth :cen-
Itury ,by David, L,. the ICaithednal
Builder, from the :revenues ofthe
n5wlyabtrilt Ablbey df Hol'yro'od. That
would give the monks of IHlolyrood a
right aver 'S't. C:lement's, for we know
that 'efbenwa'ndrs they made :good their
claim. ' Reference was made `'by/ Dean
Munro about I11549 to the present
buildings,' when he wrdte; "Within
the south pa'irt of this i'le! lyes ane
monastery twi!Nh ane stei:pill quhilk
was fougdit and biggi't 'by IM'Cley'd
of IH.arrey, callit Roodill," In 1561
we find "the personlage of Roidcl'l" on
Harris"..'mentioned among 'the par
soliages of the Bhdhoip of '!the Isles,:
But, who this 'Clement of the dedic-
ation was is still uncertain.
'Viewed from without, .St, CIe'ment's
is a erucsform building, with a 'lave,
a western tower, a choir, and trade-
epts, The nave and choir have a leon-
finilous roof, but the transept roofs
are lower. The masonry is of rubble,
w ith here and there rough courses.
The local took, ,trap and gneiss, hes
teen` used .far the building of the
walls. But the !freestone of the'dress-
ings must have'. been imported.' And
as it is'similar s,to the Cars'aig stone
used in.<,iolia, it very probably was
quarried in Mull.
1011 - the outer ' ,walls you 'will 'find
✓ arious 5cubntuiciug wduic'h may 'point
to the precious scraps 'of ,an older
buildimmg hhving been used. On the
wist wall above the n,etrance to the
'+he-" Ia: a ^" ^eleti. niche wail
a,n effigy in it which may ,'teoresent
ct, Clement On the east wall Obert
is a: mach -weathered panel Which
looks like two fishermen in a beat
Iwiith a not hanging o:ve'r the -stern,
and ibelow that a .second figure repre-
seating a horse. The south wall has
on it the figure of a nude woman
.cursing a child; very ;Similar to a pan-
el on' the south wall of the nhlinery
et ikons, Above ,the entrance to the
nave there is a crucifixion panel. The
ro'aE, of course, is modern, and the
total length of the nave and choir is
60 feet, ,with a uniform width of 16
:feet. The ' tower has been built on
the uneven surface df the rook, vrhich.
has not been excavated for the
'founds, with the result that the vir-
gin rock thrusts itself "fehrough . the
floor of the lowest cham'be'r, The
tower roams are 111 'feet square;. bu'
there are nl i reipolaoes in them. These
are lbut a few details' of the outer
walls anal structure df this most
unique church.
B'ut within the cli'urch itself there
are three tombs wish effigies recuunlb-
en't. The most ibeau'ti'fu'I af all is the
Macleod Tomb, built into 'the' south
wall of .lbhe ,Cholir. It is quite im'pds-
slb!te in a small space to describe this
+fiamous ltdmb. It is without doubt one
of the finesit in S+outian'd. The ,follotiv-
ng 'meagre .details May, however, give
the ordinary man who is not an archi-
tect some idea of .the elaborate sculp-
turing on it. Irt also is 'in an ,excellent
state cd preservation.
Ten lest long, the tomb is recessed
n the wall to a depthadf about a foot
and a half, It is covered by .an arch
of freestone, and this .arch is divided
nto sculptured panels, • :which are
eparated from each other by ,bands
of schist. The back of the recess,
vihich 'is also of freestone, is (made
up of ,three horizontal rows of gen-
ets above a plain base. The w'h'ole is
• rained in 'a +triangle of schist. On
he keystone of the arch is the Sav-
our on the Cross, upheld by a seated
figure of the Father in 1pontlficai robes
and a tiara. To right and left are
ichly decorated panels with symbols
and figures which appear to be the
tAlp'ostles. All the figures have long
lair, short beards, and clean-shaven
upper lips, and each wears a mantle
or tippet, with a halo round the head.
The figures carved upon the' three
horizo'n'tal panels at the back of the
oma are many 'and varied—an angel
blowing a trumpet; another" holding a
ighted candle; a castle with a great
ower and ' a sanaller one; a Bishop
with Mitre, giving a blessing; the
Virgin and , 'Ch ild; S't. Clement dress-
ed in episcopal garments, wearing a
nitre, with a p'asto.ral staff in one
hand' and a skull in the other; a gal-
ey under sail; a hunting scene; Mi-
chael and Satan weighing souls; and
I beautifully carved Latin inscription
which, translated, means that the
to'nsb was erected 'by Alexander Mac -
lead, son of 1V lliauo e acleod, or the
famous- +hunch -:bade chief Alastair
Crdtach, who built certain parts of
Dunvegan' Castle, and died in 1641-7.
The recumbent .figure on the -hanib
is clad in armour.
A second tomb lies intntediately
west of 'the south transept, and a third
effigy lies in the nave et the west end
of the south wall.'Cerved grave' slabs
lie on the floor atf, the choir. A roughly
wrought stone basin stands in the
worth -west angle of the nave. 'And on
:he sill of the south-west ,wind'ow of
the nave a s'ma'll tonsbstone has been
set up.
But no enumeration of details can
give any idea of the loneliness and
the surpise whch you experience
whenyou walk into St. Clement's
,Rodd and gaze about you. All the
greys and greens and ochres and
browns 'of the ancient stonework have
been blended by time into one per -
feet tone poem. Here is a temple of
silence -.wherein you •can allow your
soul to loiter lin the past and congure
up many a dream of a chapter in
the 'history of the ages'. The whisper
'o'f the sea comes ini at the open door
like a voice that hushes all regrets,
And 'yet it is hard to .think bleat in
this beautiful slh'rine of. Christ. 'the $17,000 PAID IKI•DNAPERS.
craises of men will no longer raise to
heaven, 1 ""mtuTlgl !Kidnaping of the 10 -year -'old heir
_ � n•" R z I � �I ess, 'M'argar•et "Peggy" Mca:Lath, a'
"Where the'Sablbath toils its peace," her school in Harwich Ceeter, Mass.
• 'bhlro' last week recalled more than a score
The breathless mountain vales, of sensational kidnapings, says the
And the sun'set's evening'hy'inn Detroit Times. Outstanding crines' of
(Hallows the listening ,sea." recent years!`! are:
Abduction' of Jackie Thompson, the
A Hardy Highlander weeks of frantic search for the 5-
IBaut no visitor to 1Rb!d'il should miss year old •boy,'payment of $117,00.0 ,am -
bears an inscription eo good that it kidnapers.
the fqu'aint tombstone- of Macleod of sola by has father and the eventual
Berneray in the dhurehyard which capture and imprisonment of the
"'#"t
must be quoted in full:— ITdie :kidnaping, and 'murder of
"To the memory .of Donald Mac- David Cass, sort 0f a wealthy , real
lend of Bern'eray, son of Jloltn, tutor estate 'operator.
•0f Macleod, who in vigour of body ;The Matthew H. Hbidreith kid
and mind resembled the bran o'f for- fleeing, for which Eclnvardl Wiles and
Her titres, Hie ,grandfather and Frank aeolyfer rare serving 35 to 50
pea nd-uncle .were knighted by King Years each
.Cha•lcs 1:1'. for/ their loyalty and The gambler kidniepinge in which
distieneished valour in the Battle sucQr "hig shots" as T)oc 13rady:
of IKoreeeter, 'where the sla.nrl'ard Tehn cv R'yau, the two Werthchners,
n' the. T -T ,e se of Slttt'art, to ic'h ire Fiah Plnnni an D:anuy 'Sullivan are
"-aa'-attached, was diaolayed.,A:-,ID ••noi te'i to have paid fortunes for:
n;7J lhoon-h risk the Mime of +'+a ,4-'lih^!'h^ 1
Fife, lie, took' arms, had a share in The abductien of 'Fred Bogen-latt,
trine actions :ef that .net -10d, ,and in farmer runt rnvner, and 'a score 0f
''he B'a'ttle Of. Falkirk t,-a'niquishcd les,:rr underworld fie:toes.
-, (lea eaten hand tra hal d,'Teem that -mire rtcelntic a nine to snatch 11
time he lived at his honse of Ser- two children of Clifford` B. Longley,
reray, universally be.lore4 and re hanker end lawyer, .was niuped in the
netted. In his 17511.1 year he max- arrest of Ja'ek. Mileheandt and his
Tied 'his third" wife, by whom he
;had nine children, and died in his
90th year, the ,116th 'of Dec, 11753.
,This 'monument was erected by his
son, Alexander Macleod of Harris,
Esq."
About Alastair Crotaclt; the eighth
(Chief df Dunvegan, evhose tomrb is
the glory of St. !Clemen't's Radii,
might be told countless tales, bt was
he who instigated the massacre of the
Macdotttalds in ,fhe great ,cave al 'Eigg
by lighting 'brush!woed at the en-
trance until 395 were ,suffocated. A
Du'nvegan record .puts it rather grim
ly when ittells us that Alastair Cro
tach was not an irreligious man .for
he prayed for tiix 'hou'rs before the
1nassaore. Before he began his 'pray
er he declared 1-h'at if the wind was
btawing at the end of the six hours
off the mo'u'th alt the cave the people
would be spared. Lf it then blew on
the Imbuth of the cave they, would be
put to death. When he began his
prayer the wind was sideways, neither
off nor on the mouth of the cave But
before he had. finished the wind shaft-
ed and blew strongly on the mbutlr
of the cave. ;So he took this as a
sign from heaven • and the massacre
was !decided. Bat Alastair Crotach the
hunchback mould not bear to do the
drea'difun deed himself, so Inc:sailed
away and 'left his son William to
complete the work, and lWlilliam was
ever after that known a's 'William la
the Cave:
Alastair Crotach was on .one oc-
casion entertained by ;King games at
Holyrood. He , was 'greatly impressed
by the spleud'our Of the ba'nqu'eting
hall, the :magnificent table at which
they sat, and the ' ,giolden sconces
whish held the candles. A Lowland
noble said to him with a siteer,
'You have no such hall, :no such
table, and no such candlesticks in
Skye," •
,Alastair was pricked in his pride,
and replied, "Sir, if the (King and you
come to Dun'vegan I will show you a
nolbler hall, a finer table, and more
precious candleticks than any you
have here."
!James 'overheard are conversation,
and said, "'WVTew ^ill • come, Alastair,
next summer."
And ithey,did. The six ships of the
King's fleet sailed up Loch Dunvegan
one summer day. Alastair went an
board.
."Yonder," he sold. to His 'Majesty,
"is =my , table," pointing to :I-lalleval
Mor, the bigger of 1 -he two flat hills
known ' as Macleod's Tables, "and
horses are waiting to take us to the
tap, where your Majesty's banquet is
spread."
A path -had been made, and the
Royal panty rode up it. They arrived
at the top just when it was growing
dark. Rotmd the summit hundreds of
c'lans'men' were gathered, each hold-
ing a flaming torch of pinewood in
his 'hands,
"Here, sire, is my hall. Its walls
are great mountains; it floor is the
sea; its roof is the canopy of 'heaven.
Here is my table, a great hill two
thousand .feet high...Here are my .can-
dlesticks, your Majesty's faithful ser-
vants. i. ask you to partake of the ban-
quet oluc'h is spread on my table 'by
the light ofmy torches ''which any
sconces 'hold: Say, sire, have I ,made
good my 'boast?"
"Of a surety you have," replied the
King, "I can show. nothing like this
in Hlolyrood,"
Some years before his death Alas-
tair 'Crotach gave up,Dun'vegan and
the ch'iefehip to his son William, and
retired to the monastery of Rodil. He
endowed it Most liberhlly with lands
in Harris, restored .the church, and
prepared his 'tomb.
So as we stand before it' to -day re-
membering •these old tales, both
gruesome and gallant, it is svith a
constant weeder 4thef men df old
could so mix :up their religion with
superstition and then' cruelty with
their pride.
wife, . chauffeur and maid respective- discussed in the underwarid ever came
ly, in the Longley Grosse Pointe officially to the attention of the ,police.
home. They had th're'atened to abduct Leman once was arrested for the
the Longley children, James, 14, and abduction and slaying of David Cass,
Mary, 5, unless 'paid $2,000,. ,11i11- son of Gerson Cass, wealthy realtor,
brandt coaafessed, and is serving two one of the most brutal 'crimes in the
years in •M'a.rq'uetite poison, His wife 'Detroit' police annals, The elder Cass
is on two years' probation, paid $4,000 only to have the bullet -
Mast of the "kingpins" of the kid- riddled body Of his son ,brought home
nap rackets such as Fred "Killer" to him.,
!Burke, Gerald tMurphy, "Legs" La 'The harvest of easy money through
,man, Jimmy Walter, Andrei Ger- 'kidnap'ing has ended for several
nuan'o, Maxey (Hallisey, Henry Ani- others 'behind the walls of 'M,arquebte
draw's, Wile's and Holefer are in pri- .prison. Among them are such notori-
so0 or dead. Otiiy one leader of 'ous criminals os Andrew' Germano,
the old mob, Red 01Rea'rdon, is at slain in the Marquette prison riot,
lunge. land Frank H'ohlfer and William Wiles,
!Recounting the history of the kid- :serving 3'5 years for kidnaping Mat -
nap .racket in Detroit, veteran de- thew Holdreith Jr„ son of (a Detroit
tectives said it started when the restaurant owner.
big time ga'mlblers imported enter Wiles and Hoh'fer were named by
prising gangsters ifrom ,St. Louis in 'police as the 'Cass sbayens, but never
1.901 to halt an. I't'alian mob: that were tried' because the sentences they
was ihijalelding their establis!lnmentts, • were serving were considered su'f-
+The pro'teotors ,tinned' against •ficienit guarantee they would never
their employers and seized many for leave Manquettte.
ransb+m. IIt was easy money and they And now Peggy NDciMatth is at
branched au't to cut roto the dope last a ,poor Retie rich girl: Whisked
and liquor business. away from her aural school'hou'se by a
Bunke, then at the zenith of his kidnaper at IHarlwi'dh, Mass., the .10
career, ;came from 'Chicago he head year -'old child• wino never dressed
the big .kidnalp melb. There was a split any better than the 'Other gal.'s at
in the dope racket ranks. Three in- school, and who mixed with the
sungenits went to their death when ohdld'ren of fi'sderfolk and turkey far -
Burke introduced machine 'gun's in mets as if s'he had lived all cher life on
Detroit in a raid on, the Mal'allores ,windmilied 'Cape Cad, last week was
Aipartmen'ts in 11927. • a victim .af her fathers position. Many
/Legitimate parsons soon became :af her s'eh'adlmaltes did not even know
v'icti'ms of the kidnapers. The "Un- she was rich until they heard she had
holy ,All'ian'ce," Andra (Germano, ,been stolen—th!us, through she was the
Whiles and Rotifer, 'kidnaped Hold only student at ,Harwich Center gram-
reith. The Cass'kidnaping followed. mar school hvahto once had attended
:Police said the Pimple Gang dud private school. ,Mise Esther Fiin :main,
Mae, kidnaping. They drifted into Peggy's teacher, hes not slept since
bootleging and dope rackets, the abduc'ti'on.
IBu't the Jackie Thlonepson kidnap -
hag overshadwlws' all the others and GIL,LE+TTE WAS INTERESTED
has only a parallel. iii the abduction R IN S'OIC'DAL ORDER
of the lLinchbeegh .baby. IKing IC. Gillette, millionaire safety
IB'lue-eyed Jackie was ramping on razor inventor and manufacturer, Who`
the lawn of his tome 114'6155 Dindsay was nationally best known for his in -
avenue, Sept. 30, 1929. His mother, venti'on. However, years •before his
Mrs. Henry S. 'Thompson, Wife of a safety razor had 'been invented he had
wealthy realmtor, was in the house. envisioned a new and ultra -utopian
H'is brother, Haley Jr., 7, Was playing social order. 3m 8894, whl+ie he was a
in the backyard. comparatively 'abscure 'business man,
lA blue sedan drew up to the Mr. Gillette broke into print . with
Thompson hone, A man leaped out, "Human Drift," a volume in Which
seized the boy and thrust 'him into he set forth his plans for his now
the car. The only warning Jackie celeb:ra'ted " \Vfldrld Corporation" a bil-
gave 'rat his plight was • a piercing lion -dollar organization which wouid
scream. obliterate the evils of commercial
Jackie'•s 'bro'ther 'saw the •csr whirl strife, eliminate crime attd create a
away, but Mrs. T'homps'on could not super-ISiacialisit community) These
see the machine. She heard the 'racing ideas, which called, •sauot:'g other met -
motor as she came hurrying in ters, for a model metro'psiis in the
answer to her son's piercing, cry. vicinity of Niagara Fails, were re -
'Then fo'll'owed weeks of agonized peated in two later volumes, "'World
waiting for the mother an'd (ether, Corporation" and "The IPeople's Cor -
weeks in which they asked over and poration."
Over again: Is Jackie safe ? Haw Despite his success" in the menu -
much will the kidnapers ask? \Vhy facturing business, he' never lost in-
dotmtt they communicate with us ? lteres't in his new social order idea. an
The questions were answered by a "Hunan Drift" he suggested a new
telephone call to Thompson saying a type af city et the power .sources of
letter would ,follow. The letter asked ,Niagara F'a'lls. He planned gigantic
'$35,000. It was. more money than 'apartment: houses Of modern hospital
Thompson could gat together. But design. !His world was described as
fearing dos' the safety of the 'child he one where Ito gold teas to be 'hoarded,
held off the p'ol'ice and kept dickering and there was to be no wart for ma -
with the go-between for the kid_ 'terial necessities or even luxuries. It
'tapers. would be a world of united in'tellig-
'Cruel threats, pictures of the boy, ence and material equality, where
letters 'threatening him harm, canoe crime would be unknown: because
to the Thompson family for 24 clays, commercial coan:petition was non -
until a letter tingly came saying existent,
"go outside your own race if you ,dIr. Gillette would :do away with
want to know who yott are dealing the drudgery of :hdusewomk and would
with." have community apartments, theatres,
The elder Thorpson made the long schools an'd comlina ilca!thons: His plan
soirglilt_jcon'nection with ''Janes Gern- of a world corporation with n'om'inal
an'da, a gangster; and paid Fern- 'capital of $1,000,000,000 divided into
Ando $117,000. Jackie was turned, over a billion shares, the cap'i'tal really to
to his father when the money was he unlimited, was to be organized "for
tnanafenred. Detectives William 'De the purpose of producing, m!anu'fac
Lisle and Roy Pendergast of the taring and d'is'tr'vbu'ting the necessities
special investigation squad pounced of life" and was torte managed by 125
upon Fernando. The gangster kid- direatons. Although 'he conceded that
naper n'pw is serving 30 to 60 years in such an undertaking Would disrupt
Marquette Prison. trade ado create unemployment +for a
Three years later the trail of the time, Mr. Gillettedeclared this would
kidnapers swung to Jersey City soon 'be overcome lbecause all surplus
where V'incen't La'nyonna was arrest- .workers 'would he utilized 11 'blind-
ed. The arresit of 'Charles Minchella iitg the vast city with its more than
in Detroit followed. 36,000 'tenements and it's factories and
The next scene in the dramatic, .machines for the nation-wide and the
case came in the court of Judge W. latter ,world=wide trust.
McKay .Sloll'man bn April 2!5-, 19311, The 'World idorparation"' was ac -
Jackie was asked on the witness stand tually incorporated under the laws 01
'.11 he could recognize either Lamonina':Arizona in 191.0. At that time its
or M+in'dhelta. The bey, now 9, walk- otiginato.n predicted "horizonless
ed directly up to Mntrchella, placed' farms,'traiflacless .streets bordered with
his ha'n'd an the defendan't's shoulder grass and tldwers" and =any, other
wind identified him as a leidrnnper. The innovation's." Everything would be
elder Thiomm'sgn identified Lamonna. 'merged, and he offered the presidency
Both were con'victe'd and are 'serving of the trust to 'President Thead'ore
sentences in prison, Lamtonaa 25 to Roosevelt, Who ivies again a private
50 years and M'inehella 30' to 60 years. citizen, for a period of 'four years at
Thompson described his agony slur- a 'stipend of $1,000,000. •
ing the negotiations for the ransom "I 'made the offer to Col. Roose-
of his son at the illainchel'la-iLdmonna.'velt," said Mr. (Gillette at that time,
trial as: "The 24 days Jackie waE "feeling that the position :will carry
away were 24, yearsfoe me." with it greater 'honor than to be
'The gangster kidnaping ''era also :president, lcing,`ellen:roe of any na-
sent an:other'D'etroit tie toris't; Joseph tion in the world," Col, 'Ronsevebt
"Legs" Leman, to 51-arquette prison declined.
Nu 40 years. He wes convicted of As late as irn '1934: 21r, Gillette
'the kidnaping 01 .Fred B•ee:elmm�, re- 'wrote another, vaheme along the
"used wcn'1!thv \Vyandotte hrnctlegrrer ,same subject, "The l eople'e
mends of 'Recre'eeei hcmught his re- pang, in which he pro'p'osed a lee-ge
''oar for $55.'000 niter a ran; m„ of corporation (holding end adniini5ter-
,t:?4090 had been demanded. Harry ing'the entire economic activity of
Edwards, a •Lamam gangster, atcn the country for the benefit of the
went to. M'ar'nuette for 35 'year:a 'for people
ele'.B'egem'an kidnaping,
:'L'aman'had he'en a suspect in the ;First Sophomore -•"Are you writing
'kidnaping •of gambleta, .1-aeke toots borne for ,Holley?"
anti bdotleggers, many of whom are (Second Sophomore -- "Isn't it sof-
said to have paid raneam, Noneo ficient to say that i aft writing'
this type of 'kidnaping so firequeu'tly hone?" '