Hannin, Father Edward Administrator, Cleveland, Ohio, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1872 March 2

Hannin does not see why Father E.M. O'Callaghan objects to the decision of the ecclesiastical court and refuses to sign the for of retraction decreed by it. He has been asking for a trial ever since his suspension and writing to the priests of the diocese and the bishops of the province asking for a trial. If he does not sign now the retraction, it is because he is of such a contumacious disposition. He wants to quibble and knew before publishing that form of retraction that it would not be accepted because Bishop Augustus Tubbe, Father Francis Pabisch and Father E. Hecht told him so. This form of retraction is necessary to destroy the effect of the affidavits now on file in the County Court and can be used in any similiar affair at St. Bridget's. Hannin knows that this is a time for forgiveness but he has never been prompted by personal feeling. They have tried to injure his reputation but he was too well known to clergy and laymen a like in the diocese. O'Callaghan and his associates have all they can expect, and by their trial Purcell also knows them. Hannin does not intend to pay more attention to them. A document containing the decision of the ecclesiastical trial will be presented to Purcell by Father Hecht. It will be good for Hannin to have it. He asks Purcell to sign it. Hannin is pleased to hear of the appointment of Father Richard Gilmour :: II-5-e A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.