EXORCISING THE DEVIL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 35, 5 November 1907, Page 3

EXORCISING THE DEVIL.

Five persons, who say they are Parhamites, are under arrest at kion City on a charge of torturing to death .Mrs.. Letitia Greenliaulgh, β-l years old, who had been a helpless rheumatic cripple for twenty years. Two of the accused fanatics are the son and daughter of the victim. Airs. Greeiihaulgh died on Wednesday, shortly before noon. Accordin i' to the confession of her son, Mr. and Airs. Mitchell, Mrs. Smith, and son and daughter, Walter and Jejmie Urconhaulgh, acting upon a statement by Mitchell that the aged woman was possessed of devils, decided to exorcise tlism. The Imshr.nd of tho old woman, who is not a.believer, was lured away /rom the house. The five executioners went into the bedroom of the victim and locked tho doors. This was early Wednesday morning. All five, first knelt in'prayer and then began their work. Muttering incantations, they seized the distorted arms and logs of the old woman and twisted them out of tho sockets. They held pillows over her mouth to smother her feeble screams, boat her emaciated body until it was marked with blows, and sat upon her knees until they hoard the bones crack. Finally the sold of the tortured creature went .oiit and her life ended to the weird requiem of fanatic songs, shrieked and yelled by the tormentors to drown her cries. JSvory biiiio in her arms and legs was broken, her nock twisted until it would not support her head, and her flesh whs purple with abrasions. ■ \ The sect of Pnrharmitos was founded about n your ago by Clmrlns F. Parham, and numbers about 21)0 persons. Its members originally belonged to Dowie's church, and they belioye in the gift of tongues, and especially in diabolical possession. It is their theory that sickness is an evidence of the possession of the body by evil spirits.