WANT PASTOR IN THEIR JAIL. ~ Fitt's Congregation Ask That He Be Incarcerated at Home.

April 23, 1908
WANT PASTOR IN THEIR JAIL.

Fitt's Congregation Ask That He Be
Incarcerated at Home.

Now that Judge W. H. Wallace has commuted the sentence of the Rev. Joseph Fitts from two years in the penitentiary to one year in jail, members of his church, the Macedonian Baptist of Independence, are asking that he be incarcerated in the Independence jail, rather than the county jail at Kansas City. They want to have him near so that they can call with dainty food and sympathy.

Fits, despite his conviction on the charge of attempting to assault a 14-year-old girl who belonged to his congregation, is still a favorite with his negro flock, and probably will resume his duties as pastor when he leaves the jail.