MISSING PRIEST'S FRIEND DIES

Canon Martynellis and Fr. Borynski
cCANON BOLESLAW MARTYNELLIS, a prominent figure during the investigations into the disappearance two years ago of another Polish priest, Fr. Henryk Borynski, died last week in St. Luke's Hospital, Bradford, after a heart attack. He was 641.
Bishop Heenan, preaching at the Requiem Mass on Saturday in St. Joseph's Church, said :
Towards the end of his life Canon Martynellis was a very bewildered man.
" In two or three papers there have been some dark hints that this great priest may have been in sonic way in possession of knowledge relating to the disappearance of Fr. Borynski. I want to say that when I heard at the time of the tragedy of these absurd suggestions. I sent for the chief inspector of police and told him to dismiss from his mind any unworthy thought about this priest."
Bishop Heenan recalled that after both World Wars Canon Martynellis had been taken prisoner and sent to Russia. He had suffered enormously. For 18 months after the second war he had been a prisoner in a Russian concentration camp.
Canon Martynellis went to Bradford in 1948 as chaplain to the Poles. When he retired he was succeeded by Fr. Borynski. who disappeared on July 13. 1953, and was never seen again.
Fr. Borynski had called on Canon Martynellis that day and later received a telephone call purporting to come from someone speaking on behalf of the Canon.
About three weeks later Canon Martynellis was founded collapsed in his study. He said he had been attacked by two men. Matches on his desk spelled out the words, in Polish: " Be silent, priest."
Later Canon Martynellis said that his nervous state might have caused him to imagine the attack and unconsciously form the message.