The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-08

highest ranking color, except purple. and
purple was worn only by Mrs. Tingiey
.drs. llnghys name was Purple or
Just plain n as size was yet more often
called, the witness raid. Il can't very
we'll describe her purple gown. II was
some sort of Gree ian afiair. l found
That abe wore her purple robe just over
her nigntgown and SIC impresss me as
very careless, lnelegaht person.
All OF the Universal Brotherhood went
TO the holy Hill 10 greet the sunrise n,
l.. ). 1. went beyond the imaginary live
. which marked the limits Of TIE others
pilgrimage l was at the Holy Hill once
! as a member of the f. ). 1. II Was at night
| saw lot Of muinmery The men and
women we're dressed in sort of Grecian
robe, Which vas worn over their und. r.
clothing No s;arched clothing Was al
lowed
What caused Inc TO show up the whole
thing was that | found that they taught
the succession OF teachers-through Con-
fuciUs, BuddAa, Jesus Christ, Mohammed
and now, tie greatest of ali, katherine
Iingley. She claimed that she lad the
POWER to stay in tie spirit world. but that
she preferred TO come back here as the
savior # humanity. Tie reason | am
here is that | believe Il NJ she il tent on
going down TO posterity as a second Christ.
if not "A greater. Sic will stop at nothing
TO gain her ends
He institution l. no fiji place for children
or grown persons. have seen them treated
inhumanly. On bleak day, when in heavy
clothes ! was only barely comfortable,
she has kept men and woman standing for
an hour barefooted on an asphalt foored
veranda when il was raining Many per-
sons were aitcrward confined TO their beds
as a consequence of il.
Mr.. Fitch said that Mr. Nereshemer was
called one of the three fathers Of theosophy
out there. and that Mr.. Nereshemer had
told the people at Point Iona if his wife
EAI "a la Ink 20 CO.. lin.
any preteN to detan her. rs she was some
what Unbalanced in mind Mr.. Fitch said
that he believed her to he perfectly sane.
He said that Elizabeth Churchill Never
was a member of the brotherhooi and had
high place in IL when she married A. q.
Spalding.
He said that the brotherhood received
an income from lodges throughout the
| country and from the sale of articles made
| at Point Iona, but its chief source of in
come was through individual contributions.
All mail received at Point Iona was cen
sored bv Mrs. Tingey. One Cuban boy
out in California had TO 60 hunting a job,
as the brotherhood decided that he was not
wanted
Mrs. Fitch in her testimony said they
believed at the Point Io'na school that the
grass had feelings and mustn't be stepped
on. They taught the children that, and
10 was hard to get the idea out of her boys
head now. The songs they sang In The
she said. Children were sent out bare
foot on a cold day. and Mrs. Tingley said
that they would not get cold. as they got
elect ricity from the ground.
Miss Lena Morris testified that she was
the janitor of the house at IO7 West Sixty
eighth street when Mrs, Tingley lived
there In 1892. Mrs. Tingley was dispos-
sessed for non-payment Of rent, she said,
and the tradesmen came around after she
was gone with bills she had left unpaid
bn ia that Mr. Iipu lay tlnn ~ rripI
faith cure business with clairvoyancy.
She had seen Mrs. Tingley under the in
fuence Of liquor, and her apartment was
in bad condition.
Seventy fifth street said that he lived in
1892 at l05 West Sixty-eighth street, Mrs
Tingley invited me TO her house on the
pretext Of meeting her husband, he said.
She told me she could cure ills by passing
her hands over persons and by massage
Her patients were mostly men She locked
herself in the room with them.
She practiced hypnotism. She tried
10 hypnotize me. Her methods were in
decent, l was very indignant
Anderson Of the Treasury Department
who said that the Cuban children were
kept by Mrs. Tingley as stock in trade
for begging purposes,
Mr.. Spalding sent list OF quest ions
which he by letter asked that Commits
Commissioner declined 70 do So
II was said at Ellis Island that the only
appeal from the decision against the adj
mission o the Cuban children lay to the
Secretary Of the Treasury: that no court
had jurisdiction IN the premises II s
expected that tn" children will no deportcd
next Friday. The Gerry society mean
while IL TO clo'he them suitably for this
climate.
8. V. Beokwith OF Kellogg 4 Beckwith,
Al ~ t.
no,ncement Of counsel's withdrawal from
the inquiry. said that the charges and
innuendos put forward at previous sessions
were derived from a publication in the
Los Angeles Times, for which that paper
had been sued for libel Witnesses TO re-
sist them we're In California to attend the
trial Of that suit and could not be here
In their absence, he said. I'VE decline TO
proceed further with the hearing and must
ask Mr. Gerry and the commissioner 10
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