HUMAN SACRIFICE TO THE SUN GOD.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8267, 22 October 1906, Page 3

HUMAN SACRIFICE TO THE SUN GOD.

Sun-worship, the latest; of America's "oraafc religions," is responsible for an extraordinary police court charge against a Chicago barber, who is being proseeutel for offering his son aa a sacrifice to the sou I The lad, it is alleged, was kept chained to the roof of a shed for five hours in the torrrid heat of the tropical spell in July. The barber, whose name is Joseph Boearup, Js a positive Anak, towering several inches above the heads of the average of Chicago citizens, and he lives in West Jb'oity seventhstreet. Aonording to the story of a neighbour, Mrs Mamie Kyan, the lather having reprimanded the boy lor some alleged misdeeds, shook. him and dragged him into the yard. I'll put you where the Sun God will punish you!" cried the inhuman father, as he dragged the boy to the roof of one of the sheds in the yard. He looked a long chain around the boy r s ankles, and weighted the chain with a dozen large flat irona. Then be left the helpless lad on the roof for five houis. He did the same thing on other occasions, it was stated, The boy told a remaruable story of his father's extraordinary re ligion. "Father used to get us in the, back yard on Sunday morning," said he- "He would eet up on a soap box and look up to the sun. He seemed to be praying. I don't know all be said, but Ihave heard him talk about sunlight and fresh air for our souls." When Sergeant Pegler went to arrest the father, he refuse to let the officer touch the chain. "I will not let you defile it with your hands," he deolared. This led to the father being charged with offering his son as a sacrifice to the sue; mounting a soap box and assembling bis family about him for weird worship; and making the xoof of a shed an altar on which to offer sacrifices to the aun,