The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-01-25 00:00:00

A SPIRITUAL HOUSEHOLD iBROKEN
UP.
The New York Times has the following remarkable
story :
The City of Newark has been blessed or cursed l for four
or five years past s ith more than her due proportion of
indimuais of both sexes who call thennelvts
. . .

and who, while pretending to preach hdiness, prac,ise ale- sibly have been, consistently with the orderly con 0,...._-,,,, as. ...... ---, --- ---- ------, ---- -
vilry and free love, and corrupt the inoruis of all who come of the proceedings and a great many well-dressed than these, had no legs at aU. Most of the culprits v___ ..
within the circle of their influence. Their head-quar-
ters have been, and still are, ill Bank-street, where they places. clothed, or rather covered, by canvas sacks, the gifts of
have a large hall in which they hold their meetings on rewarded for its curiosity. It had expected to see the
ladies were in the hestThe public was ill- rags, those who were exceptions in this respect were
workhouse authorities.
Sundays, and frequently on week days, and where they rich and famous hi arquise cle Maubreuil d'Orvault, One of these unfortunates committed on Saturday after-
have is' &dished what they call a "Sabbath school," to known as Madame Labruyere and site Schumacker, in noon died on Sunday from exhaustion His name W
of religion and lust As might he expected a spiritual-
all
indoctrlnate the young with their compound mixture the witness box, but she has left Paris and France to Michael Lyons, aged twenty-seven years. Be was a tailor
. .
istic Church of such long standing has graduated be out of the way of the trial. The details which came
hobutdolfabwoiuirrk,foarndbe
out wef very vulgar assassination
many disciples, and among them have been some whose re only those oa Ty ._ . been gtven to 3in William Payne, coroner tor the City of
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aptness in acquiring sptualistic knowledge has misde attempted by cc onfessed thief when foiled in a drape. to
his twenty-Onedeathh
I,d,,ersg.
London, that gentleman held an inquest on view of the body
them wise beyond the written Word or the teachings of rate endeavair to extort money . tn the governor's room at Holloway prison, when evidence
the Apostles. They have aecordingly left the old roost The prisoner had been employed at the Comptoir was given by the prison surgeon which showed that the c dine
cipal rendezvous of these sublimated offshoots and seceders
in Bank-street and ascended to a '-higher plane" The prin. d'Escompte-; but when be was absent from his post of death was serous apoplexy, arising from debility and
i from illness for a few days in September last, the weakness of the heart.
' from the Bank-street synagogue is MI old engine-house in
the Tenth Ward, where they have established a publishing clerk' discovered
who replaced himsomediscrepancies
The chief warder brought in two plates of uel and stoat
t
house, with a mammoth sign hung on the outer wall, for the in his accounts. Schumacker of 's books were examined, saibread on stray covered with a clean white cloth), and
d that was a prisoner's diet for a day.
printing of books and tracts containing the essence and and found to contain different false entries, by which 1 it all looked very nice, but that a
gr
The Coroner said that
quintessence ot the new faith. Strange rumours have been he had embezzled a sum of 2,260 f. This money he had sick man might require something different.