The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-04-06
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Chicago, April 5.-Evidonco against
George Jacob schwciniurth, tho bogus
messiah Of Rockford, is daily piling up,
and tho attorneys who are conducting
tho case against this man claim that
when tho matter is brought to trial
there will BIO no lack Of testimony to
convict.
Mrs. Jeanette W. Barr, at the corner
Of Pauline and Ohio streets, will DO an
important witness. Mrs. Bars daugl.
ter Mary became infatuated with tho
religion about four years ago and first
lived at Schweinfurth's Lake View
home, but for tho last three years she
has been living at tho "%heaven," Mount
Zion.
Mrs. Barr is a pleasant-featured, moth
e%rly.looking woman, whose face, how
ever, shows traces OF some great sorrow.
ut has been just about four years." she
said to q reporter who called on her,
"since our homo has almost ceased to
be a home. 1t was at this time that
Mary, my baby, left mo to 90 Will, that
wicked man, Schweiniurth. We had
made SO much Of her-had given her
the best OF an education. She not only
graduated in tho high schools, but also
became accomplished in music.
eve wero in tho grocery business on
Madison street and Mr.. Coudry's family
traded with us. Mary was in tho store
quito frequently and Mrs. Coudry in
duced her to attend one OF Schwcin-
furth's meetings. The girl was young
just past ninetecn-and sho went. By
some means-1 don't understand how
they got her interested in their doc
trines. She became q regular attendant
ut their meetings from that time. One
day she packed her trunk and went to
Mrs. Coudry's house, where she re-
manned two weeks She then wont to
Schweinfurth's homo in Lake View and
remained one year. Then sho went to
Mount Zion, q 'hcaven,' with Schwcin-
furth, and has been there evcr since.
"She has been home but twice since
that time, and then but for q short
time. She had always been one OF tho
most atfectionate children previous to
this change, but she now seems to have
lost all love for me and does not so
much as inquire after my health. The
only letter L aver received from her
was dated the 10Th OF January, 1890,
and that letter contained nothing but
praise of Schwoinfurth and his doc
trine. In it she said:
"'Oh, mother, l wish you would come
with us and enjoy the blessings be-
slowed upon US, by the dear Savior, Mr..
Schweinfurth.' Throughout the entire
letter there is not the slightest inquiry
about my health. While Mary was ut
the lake View home my daughter at
Alpena, Mich, was very sick, and al
ono time her physicians gave her up
and said she would die. When we re-
celved the telegram I was sick and un-
able to 60, so my son went over to the
Lake View home to get Mary, so that
sho might 80 to the bedside OF her
dying sister. Upon being told of her
sisters illness she said, Wait a min
ute,' and went into another room. She
presently returned and said: John, |
can't co. Mary said my son, why
can't you go? Mother is sick and can't
60 and your sister is dying Well,
john said the girl, 4 would like to 90,
but Mr.. Schweinfurth says that. ] must
not go. He says to- LEI, the dead bury
their dead.'
"And she would not and did not 60.
So it is with everything these people
do, even to writing n letter. They must
ask schweinfurth's permission, and ii
he objects that settles the matter, for
they regard him as their. Christ.
"Since Mary has. been at Mount Zion
her sister Lizzie has visited her. And
upon leaving, Mrs. futile, or their
queen, told Lizzie to tell me that thew
still had their faces Zionward, and that
they were getting up a new bible that
would prove co%nclusively that their doc
trines were right, and that Schweinfurth
was the true Christi ~,
II don't know exactly what Mary
does, but 1 think she attends to the
most OF S%chweinfurth's correspondence.
She has earned as high as SIS a week,
but since she has been with Schwein-
furth she has not becn paid one cen l
wish his place could be broken up, for
he has ruined my home; and broken nv
heart. Mary was always a good girl,
and why she should desert her old
mother | can't understand"
Mrs. Barr is an intelligent lady about
sixty years OF age. She-spoke with
great earnestness throughout the inter
view, and several times was compelled
to brush away her tears as the terrible
condition OF affairs was brought wildly
and freshly to her mind.
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