The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-30
|SANCTlFICATI0NISTS.
V KNOWN AS GODS PEOPLE"
y of the Old Dallas and Corsica MI
hand ia Chicago Jail-Friends Want
Their Release and Their
Return to Dallas.

= XT5s Return TO Dallas.
care e.
~ TV'S1! y u sanctificatonists who, u few years
olllee Of J. figured SO lively at Corsicana,
S,,S which place they were driven to
aG city, have bobbed up in Chicago
4 No Or the new name of Goods People
,er r,,H 81 readers of the HERALD have been
st. AM 4 acquainted with the wild re-
UNG Msn of the sect which it fully
~, or n dlated at the time. 1t will be
q stree IS embered that they toiled not
herald II neither did they spin, and yet
LASS OMy were not lilies by II jugfull. The
IN perg 81 vi was they went it in their fanatlcal
DIN Z M ala Adam and Eve in their innp-
nls e, and would have starved to death
hu(M not the authorities Strengthened
Y: re- ,s - Id out. They have gotten into hot
N ~ IL in Chicago. Among those of them
iNS2formerly resided here are Henry
- ,CMhler and Mrs. Slater. In speaking
II. AdJ Them the Chicago Evening Mail has
sired, In following to say:
aug&n somewhat remarkable and eccentric
$j,tG0 Aup of Goods people" are those whom
manrkSStce White has sent to the county
U.s. j.. W. charged with cruelty to children as
- N managers of the FlOrnoy street in
~ Q Hutton Known as Goods home" Id
irdga % %Hyncracy and religious fanaticism
public He combined to stamp them as excep-
er and II nal beings. The sO-called asylum for
ty. Add III ODDS orphans" which they conducted
a1g4 been thoroughly exposed in these
tThSS ~ umns.
Loals, xact'y what they believed beyond a
au ~ ca ue and sickly faith in something
~ ~ IN is altogether impractical and mys-
;,N, Nv 3Ous, it is hard to determine. very
NJ a,, WE Mportant thing which they do not seem
J., 80 tHNiev0 is that there is Il necessity for
mnst inest work to earn their daily bread
bany. 1W seems they have always been eyasive
luz AZ endoavored to keep their doings
T. fI.nasa ....V
nd shiMe children were always kept
lions IMsey in the house, andno one
NM EN frud tell whence they came or
wv hther they Went Babes were obtain
uAL but no one could answer how O.
cs gJ9 a., here. When they died, which they
IL M qlently did, these infants were left
1.-THE house 10 await the resurrection.
'NNV III physician was ever called no record
every tM deaths was ever kept; everything
ana Is left to Goods plan" Some of the
ON or Wembers even went so far as to aver
.. n.!L Mat they would willingly offer the lives
Ithe children ms sacrifices, as in the
sc of Abraham, If the inspiration of
IN Lord should so direct. Strange
tovn I'D shy, they came and went,
y mi Their and thither, no one knows where,
md; wMFmore than two years. Strange and
)od. bird noises issued from the house at
M ~. Fl0urnOy street, sometimes at mid
tilot,ad ght Shadowy figures OF men and wo-
buiIdi ben were often seen in the back yard AT
,peacW Dat hour. There were nearly always
heSe tYeO or SIX strong men about the nstitu-
counl 3Dn with no visible means OF subsist-
ms S eaY Ce. In addition, there were always Il
y, ~ ben or more of Goods orphans" to be
80 Idani clothed.
H. An Evening Mail reporter to-day Wis
aiIo9, n Iid the tVe persons who have been held
10 IanSwer in the Criminal court to the
iIi' IN Ihsgcs preferred by the Illinois Hu-
rd Won lne society, of cruelty to children.
Is eNInoy are Henry Mahier, Oscar w. Ra.-
leratlr Iii, MRS. Anne II. Puase, Mrs. Parker,
et ,,,-sdh w Nd Mrs. Slater.
.T ~ - Henry Mahleris n man between % and
81 iiAV years of age, with an expression of the
,tocE T. higgins order. He seemed meek and
IS, wik 1wly, and wore the air of injury
DalkI he sat on a stool at
aug9 cell door scrbbling a
AND postal card. Notwithstanding his ap-
nd ina II arent meekness, it was assevorated
lua-s lal he did most of the brutal whipping
THOEInd choking of Gods defenseless
on Nphans. lie is Il smallish young man,
otI ther THICK set, ana has brown hair ana
'1Aflut eyes. His eyes are addicted to
hgrtiye glances. lie appears to he sur
ERR harScd with suspicion. He has q thick,
i' Hed1ish-brown mustache, cut snort and
M Hin, like a wOrnOut brush. He was
Wery roticent. He said the children
w nirh they had in their charge
VA Pre- receiving their education from
sim Ne Lord; that the institution owned a
70. Dlrm of 100 acres in Navarro county,
u-- Texas, where they were soon to remove;
NE nd that they sometimes called them
'n,. MrlyeS the "laborn lcle of Cod He said
nro heir belief all came from inspiration
Nom hat they might believe one thing to.
grsIiay and another tally different to-
I'd morrow, but they were al ultimately to
priWbc Thought to blessed siuess state.
81 ID I"God,p he said, provides for us in
sn everything, and He will take care of us
pugl now Mailer was regarded as the
1hpnn pi thn hnnp uf'IDr damn ~ f,t
ent M Henry T.. Williams to Denver, q few
rye months ago. Williams is said 10 be the
udh ndlvi iuai who formally published the
ng Pacih Tourist, Ladies' Floral Cabinet,
80 and various religious books in New
York city. Among these were "Won-
hEi ders OF Prayer ANA "Glad ridugs."
U Mr.. Slater, who took three children
sTI into tho home with hor is ~ years old.
mad Mayhap, she Is 80. She Is not quite Ger.
" tain ON that pOnt, bat the difference is
por so sill sht 1t is II question of no couSe.
@N quenre. From her recital, il appears
XVI sue used o. live In Texas, where she had
jalH husband, but she was too religious for
:l.u MIN. She IL q person of rcpul-ive APP
81 pearance, lank, scrGggy and lean. She
nj. has a scruhby beard ON her chin.
r. which is not luXurant enough Ia
W. warrant her securing an engage
EN- ment in dime museum, She Is
iei sullen ANA ugly. II she is not in a
~ state OF absolute demVuiia, she is within
nr II UhlluH ulSlAlCt bl tldl SNu, Nlfk COlN-
~ Try. Her children are Henry, aged Is;
~ Maggie, aged |, and Nortcnsc, aged s.
II She says she would sacrifice Il child ON
RuH Che altar ut the inspiration of the Lord
~ MY husband told me- she said, "thot
LAH | must either give up my love for the
sa brethren or he would leave me. hut my
love Tor them was so great that | could
- not. lilo wont away from me. | chung
To the brethren. My husband was very
eNll man, auj is responsible Tor my CON
dltion, but tod will be glorlticd bybuild
ing me up, and | shall bc made again
new"
Parties passed through this city last
WI evening from Navarro county en- route
M OF prison.
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