The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-14

POINT Iona IN
The LIMELIGHT
Raja Yoga School to Undergo An
investigation.
CAREER OF TINeLEY WOMAN
FACTS BROUGHT OUT IN THE
LOTUS BUDD CASE.
CAREER OF TlNelEY WOMAN


y Katherine Tingley OF the Univer-
sal Brotherhood has received word
from New York to the effect that the
Gerry Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty TO Children will send a repre-
sentative to California for the purpose
of aiding similar societies in this state
in the institution of proceedings to
have the children removed from the
Raja Yoga school at Point Iona. Mrs.
Tingley, in a statement published to-
day, says she courts the most searching
investigation and has applied to the
state authorities of California, asking
for commission to investigate the
Raja Xoga school at Point Iona. She
demands the protection of the state,
not only in the interest of the school,
but in the interests of the state of Cal
ltornia and in Justice to the mayor and
other officials of San Diego, who have
ENDORSED the Raja Yoga school.
Mrs. Tingley's Career.
The character of Katherine T. Ting
ley, leading spirit in the American The
osophical cult and master of the Uni
Versal Brotherhood, with headquarters
at Point Iona. Cal, was assailed in
uhsparlng fashion in the hearing of
the so-called Lotus BUD case, involv-
ing the detention by the immigration
authorities at Ellis island of the eleven
CUBAN children whom Mrs. Tingley pro-
posed to take TO the School for the
Revival of the Lost Mysteries of An
tiqufty," at Point Iona. Mrs. TingIey
IS the seif-appointed successor of Will
liam @ Judge as head of TheOsophists
IN this country. She founded and still
runs the school and temple at Point
Iona. She has d little spaniel, Spot"
which she claims to contain the soul of
William Q. Judge. Mrs. Tingley is said
TO believe the soul in the spaniel
watches and guides all that she does.
/ She goes about dressed in purple. which
! she claims TO be alone entitled to
wear
Commodore Gerry. at the hearing be-
| lore Commissioner williams and the
board of special inquiry at Ellis island.
! put witnesses on the stand who gave
the woman's record from the time she
was Il years of age and lived in New
buryport. Mass
| All Evidence Admitted.
Lawyer Beckwith, who appeared for
the Theosophists, tried to keep the evil
dence out. but the board admitted every
word of il.
/ Edward Parker, a retired banker of
BOSTON, and a Theosophist, testified
lhat when he Joined the cult he thor
oughly investigated the character of
MRS. Tingley. He said that DR.. Alfred
| alton, of whom ne made early in
curry, told him that Mrs. .Tingley was
the 'vilest adventures he had ever
known"
DR.. Walton told him, Mr. Parker said,
! that in June. 1896, Mrs Tingley took a
| party of students to Europe. Dr. Wal
! ton said that he went to the steamer
"a ~ 80
| before the steamer sailed, took him
| INTO her state room and kissed him in
a manner that plainly showed him that
she was woman who knew the WAYS
of bad women
Mr.. Parker said he went to Newbury-
port, Mass, where she was born. He
] found the people who knew her very
Iree TO speak of her escapades there as
girl Many persons told him she had
nfmf1ammed' bankers in her native
town and left behind her a long trail
of gossip, which evidently contained
much truth.
Parker learned that she had as
/ young woman taken parties of girls
/ from Newburyport to New York, where
they had high old links doing the city
| and going to theatres with chance ac-
! quaintances. Mr.. Parker said it was
common talk in Newburyport that Mrs
| Tingley, as a young woman, had broken
/ up one home, if not more, and also had
been guilty of many sharp practices.
Her Husbands Letter.
Mr.. Parker read letter from r. H.
Cook, Mrs. Tingley's husband, written
from the Printers home, Colorado
springs Cook said he was there suf-
fering with consumption. The letter
/ was made part of the record Cook
! said he married Kate Westcott (now
Mrs. Tingley) in 1867 at Savannah. Ga.
| She had either been expelled or had
run away from Villa Maria convent
/ When Cook saw her in Savannah. he
said, he was surprised and wrote to
| her father in Newburyport. Her father
! replied, the letter said, he would have
nothing more to do with his daughter.
| He gave Cook permission to marry her
/ which Cook did. Cook then learned.
the letter said, that his wife was as
soclating with a Savannah woman of
/ bad repute, and he told her she would
/ nave to quit the woman or he would
quit her. She would not quit the wo-
| man, so he left her and came. he saws.
to New York They had been married
only three months.
She followed him there in 1869, the
| letter said, and they were reconciIed
| and lived together. They had. the let
ter said, one child. She soon tired and
wanted to go to Washington, D. c., to
/ WISH d IS1dtlNH, VINO Kept, the letter
said, a gambling house at the national
capital.
Cook says he told her that if she Wis
tied the relative he would have nothing
more to do with her She went how
ever, and he did not see her, the let
ter says, until 1874, when she returned
to New York and sent him her Sixth
avenue address. He called on her and
found that she wanted money. She
had married again, the letter said, and
Cook then told her he would apply for
a divorce on the ground of desertion,
| leaving out all scandal She agreed to
| this, but before the papers could be
served on her she disappeared
Cook says he wrote TO her brother
at Newburyport. and ne wrote back
] that his sister was dead.
How It Started.
The so-ealled Lotus Bud case came
about by an attempt on the part of
! Mrs Tingley and some Of her follow
ers to import small band of Cuban
! girls. Commodore Gerry suspected that
things were not as they should be ard