The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-04-24
IN BENTON AGAIN.
Bot Only Passed Through.
Creffie1d, the Monster
More Rol1erisrn.

Crefie1d, the scoundrel who poses
as a saint, passed through Benton
county Saturday, and followed by
some of his former victims, is again
up to his old tricks in a camp near
Waldport. This time he is palm
ing himself off on his foolish fol-
lowers as Jesus Christ risen from
the dead, his resurrection having
been his emergence from the state
penitentiary. Some of his follow.
ers are said to accept him as the
risen Christ.
Crefheld's trip Though Benton
was by private conveyance from
Airlie, Polk county, to Wren, Ben
ton county. At the latter station,
he took the Corvallis & Eastern for
Yaquina, where, on arrival, hetook
a small boat and crossed the bay,
journeying via South Beach to
Wa1dport. Near the latter place,
a camp, according to all accounts,
is to be established, and revelry.
in rolletism be carried on after the
manner of similar camp main
tanned by Cref6eld and his follow
ers up the Willamette couple of
years ago. Crefeld was accom-
panied on his trip through Benton
by his wife. She was divorced
from him last year but they were
remarked at Seattle several weeks
ago. At Airlie when Crefield
sought private conveyance to get
to Wren, he was told that he could
go by train for So and it would cost
$6 by team. He said he preferred
to travel by team. At Wren, he
alighted and went into a grove
near the station. Hewas then at
tired in rough clothes, but when he
emerged to enter the train he was
neatly arrayed. 1t is surnised
that the old clothing was a disguise.
His avoidance of Corvallis is no
surprise. His didos are not re-
garded in this vicinity with favor.
1t was here on lovely autumn eve
that he was tarred and feathered.
Creff1eld was released from the
penitentiary last December. He
went to Sacramento. thence to San
Jose and other California points,
and finally landed at Seattle. 1t is
supposed that from the day of his
release, he began clandestine cor
respondence with former victims In
this city. His letters went to the
Seely girls in Oregon City, by
whom they were remailed to per-
sons in Corvallis. In February
their effects began to be apparent
in new, though slight manifesto.
tions of rollerism. Suspicious
aroused by the manifestations led
to a discovery of the clandestine
correspondence. Six or eight OF
his former followers are with Cref-
field, some having preceded him to
the Waldport headquarters. Not
all of his disciples Of other days
have returned to him. None OF
them have shown the violent mani.
festations of two years ago. That
development is perhaps to be a
feature of the near future Mrs.
Hartley and daughter attempted te
join Crefield on the trip to Yaquiua
Saturday, but an incident happen
ed to prevent. Mr.. Hartley dis
covered their disappearance in time
to catch the train on which they
took passage. At Blodgett ths
wife and daughter, left the trair
unobserved. They took lodgings
at farm house in the vicinity
The next morning when the family
arose, the guests were gone. A
half dollar on the table was evid
ence that their departure was stud
led and that flight was the motive
Mr.. Hartley went on to Newpor
and atlast accounts was uninformet
as to the whereabouts of his missing
family.