Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-09-18
IN SEATTLE.
Doors Closed While Examination
Proceeds.

Mitchell and Mrs. Crefleid is
not yet completed. A dispatch
from Seattle Saturday says:
Examinations behind closed
doors were the features of the
session of the commission ap-
pointed to examine into the san
ity>et Maud Crefheld and Esther
Mitchell today.
!. O. V. Hurt and his son Frank
were questioned in regard to
the practices INDUCED in by the
Holy Rollers and the commits
sion learned many details that
the witnesses heretofore had re-
fused to divulge. According to
the witnesses the exercises were
far more vile than would be
gathered even from the reports
that have gone out.
1t developed in the testimony
of o. V. Hurt that there had
been insanity in his family. He
also stated that it was one of the
beliefs of the Holy Rollers that
Crefield would be killed and that
his life must be revenged by one
of the members of the Sect.
John E. Miller, Deputy Prose-
cutting Attorney of King county,
was placed On the stand. His
statements concerned conversa-
tions he had had with the 7pris-
oners from the time of the killing
of Crefield up to ard alter the
shooting of George Mitchell. He
declared his disbelief in the
immoral procedures alleged to
have been INDUCED in by the
followers of Crefield, but said
that if such practices were car
ried on they were certainly un-
usual and irrational.
Chief of Police Wappenstein,
of Seattle, verified the written
statements made by the two Wo-.
men after their arrest.
= Mrs. O.. V. Hurt, of Corvallis,
upon hearing the news of the in
sanity examination collapsed.
She will not be brought to Seat
tie unless absolutely necessary.
Tonight the physical examina'
ton of the two women was held,
but no statements were made by
the members of the Commission
as to their findings.
Maud Creheld, who is t. be
tried separately from Esther
Mitchell, charged jointly with
the killing of George Mitchell, is
to b. on trial October ~ before
Judge Frater, providing the
medical commission now making
the examination OF the woman
does not find her insane. Coun-
tv Attorney Macintosh is deter
mined upon prosecution even IN
that event, but this question
would have to be fought out on
legal grounds. .. \
The sanity commission in
secret session this afternoon had
Sheriff L. c. Smith before it.
The sheriff was only asked two
questions about the women S
conduct. He declared that they
acted cody on their trip up t~
the court house from the city
Jail and that summaries the re-
suit of the doctors inquiry.
Monday the commission ex-
poets to conclude its labors, but
its final report may not be made
until some time later, as it is IN
tended to go entirely through
the evidence that. has been pre-.
sented before making the decis'
ion on the mental condition OF
the women. At the CONCLUSION
of the session this evening, the
members of the Commission
made a visit to the prisoners II
their cells at the county Jail
This was for the purpose OF ex
amiuing into the manner II
which they cared for themselves
in their temporary home. The,
found everything as clean a
could be expected.
The women welcomed then
and for long time conversed o'
different topics. An attemp
was made to draw them out
Sunday Oregonlan.
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