The age-herald., 1901-12-20
"ELDAH THE
 RESTORE" WEPT DOWIe Gives Evidence Concern ing the Missing Certificates DENOUNCED SAM STEVENSON Said He Was No Use In "Zlon" and Was an AbomlnabIe Travesty.
 Followers of Elijah II
 Came as Body Guard.
DENOUNCED SAM STEVENSON
Said He Was No Use In "Zlon" and
 Was an AbomlnabIe Travesty.

Chicago, December 19.-Dr. John Alex ander Dowie, the proclaimed Elijah the Restorer," broke down when he went on the witness stand today in his own be- half, and between choking sobs told how his confidence in his brother-in-law ana legal opponent. Sam Stevenson, had been shaken. The portly figure of the aged witness shook spasmodically and the tears streamed down his face as he re- lated memories of Stevenson's espousai or Dowies sister, now deceased. Later, as he was cross-examined his meek ana lowly demeanor changed and he de- nounced Stevenson. called him an 'abom- inable travesty." and said that he was of no use in zion and was always blundering.
 Judge Tuiey's court was packed to over flowing with followers of Elijah II, who followed minutely' the Doctors testt| mony, and who at the end of the days session gathered around him to act as his bodyguard back to Zion.
 Gave Stevenson Check for $5o,o00.
 The testimony offered by Dowie was to the effect that he had given Stevenson checks aggregating $5O,000 ostensibly to release certain indebtedness between them. Dowie went into great detail to show how his stock had accidentally come back into his possession. explaining that he had been immensely surprised" to find the certificates for the stock in his private safe. Stevenson had set up T ixyad c certificates Dowie set down as non sense the assertion that by "honeyed words" or "artifce" he had inveigled Stevenson to come to America to take fharge of the lace industries, and denied that he had used any power whatever to that end.
 The all-night sessions which, accord ing to testimony, were frequent with Dowie and his disciples, were explained as necessary because he was very busy man."
 c. J. Barnard, general manager Of Dowie's bank. told today of Stevenson's objection to the manner in which the lace industry was being managed, and how he had asked for s15O,OOo to give up his in terest In them. It was developed that Dowie had arranged with the manager of the bank to give Stevenson $500 any time | he asked for it. Dowie's attorney stated that the Doctors reason for so doing was that affairs with Stevenson had not been completely arranged.
 Was in Dowie's Safe.
 During the cross-examination of Bank | CT Barnard, Attorney Reeves drew from him the testimony that the certificate for $f0.00Q worth of lace stock made out to Mary Ann Stevenson and which had dis appeared, came to light after Mrs. Stew enson's death. in Dowie's own safe MT. | Barnard related that Dowie had said
 wonders would never cease and that he
 was utterly at loss to find the docu- ment among his private papers.
 I When H. Worthington Judd secretary of the Zion lace industries and Zion Land | and Investment Association, was called | to the stand, Attorney Reeves asked him
 whether he believed implicitly that Dowie
 was Elijah. Attorney Packard for the de-
 fense objected. but the court ruled it
 pertinent, and Judd affirmed his belief
 that the preacher was the prophet of
 oldeii times.