The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-09-26
FIVE PERSONS UNDER ARREST
authorities Charge That the Religions
Fanatics Literally Beat the Wo-
man to Death in an Effort
to Cast Out Devils
from Fridays Daily.l

To-Day AT zion O1Iv. All dS Gu woman,
a sufferer for years from rheumatism,
it is alleged was killed by religious
sect which believed it could cure her
of the disease ny casting out devils.
The woman's legs, arms, neck and
ribs were broken and she was stran-
gled
The victim is Mrs. Letitia Green
haulgh, 1900 Gabriel avenue, Zion
City.
The disclosure of the murder was
made today after a midnight inquest
held at the woman's home by the
coroner of Lake county. The case is
almost without parallel in the history
Of religious beliefs.
Five persons are being held on the
charge of manslaughter, two as prin-
cipals. Those held are:
Hara1d Mitchell, 1908 Gideon ave-
nue..
Mrs. Harold Mitchell, 1908 Gideon
avenue.
Jennie Greenhaulgh, 1900 Gabriel
avenue.
Mrs Emma Smith, zoos Gideon ave-
nue..
The Mitche1ls, declared to be the
ringleaders, we're held as principals
by the coroner's jury, which made the
midnight investig alton.
Two women are raving maniacs at
Zion City, it is declared, as result of
the religious murder. They are Miss
Roxie Corbett, 1902 Elijah avenue,
and Miss Lucy Tyne, 2719 Elizabeth
avenue.
Roy Neal, also a "Parhamite, is
declared to have attempted to commit
suicide. He was found in Shiloh park
with handkerchief bound about his
mouth.
Zion City is stirred over the reve1a-
ton of the brutal murder. The flu
neral of the dead woman was to have
been held today from the Gabriel
avenue home. In order to stop the
ceremony, Deputy Coroner Edward
Conrad, of Waukegan, hurried to Zior
City on a midnight electric car and
at once impaneled jury.
The death is laid directly at the
door of the religious zeal of a new sect
in Zion City called "Parhamites." Its
creed proclaims that all disease is
devil, and to effect a cure the devil
must be cast from the body.
In casting the "devi1' from Mrs.
Greenhaulgh's body she was killed.
Mrs. Greenhaulgh died Wednesday
noon. For hours the members of her
| her family believed that instead of
dying she had been cured and that
resurrection would follow.
The remarkable story of the wom-
ans death was told by Walter Green
haulgh, the son, who witnessed the
murder Of his mother, and was later
held by the coroner's jury as an ac-
cessory.
The son, on the conclusion of his
story which is almost beyond belief,
said he had renounced the "Parham-
tie" belief, being convinced he had
been deceived. In a dramatic manner
he told at the midnight inquest how
his mother screamed for help as her
life passed away after half a doze n
bones in her body had been broken.
The son was the only witness be-
fore the coroner's jury. On the con
clusion of his testimony the Jury
held in custody the five persons who
were at Mrs. Greenhaulgh' bedside
when she was killed, and at once or
dered that a post-mortem examina-
ton be conducted by the coroner
physician of Lake county.
Mrs. Greenhaulgh was a sufferer
for twenty years from rheumatism,
and was for the last decade a cripple.
! For seven years she had not left her
bed.
Mitchell and Walter Greehaulgh
were formerly employed on the Lake
Forest university grounds. A month
ago Mitchell, according to his story,
was commanded by God in wonder
full vision to drop his work and take
up the religious task of casting out
devils'.
While working at the university he
told Greenhaulgh of his vision and
the supposed command Of God. The
men left their work Wednesday morn
ing and began the work of freeing
Mrs. Greenhaulgh from her .'devi1-
ridden" body. The ceremony was
naked with weirdness and gloom.
Mrs. Greenhaulgh's husband was
excluded from the room. The Nit
chells, who we're in charge Of the
ceremony, declared the husband
could not be admitted, but allowed
the son and daughter to see and take
part in the ceremony. With low
droning the devil Doctors began to
pray while preparations were made
for casting ont the devils.
"They raised my mothers body
from the bed" said the son in his
dramatic recitation of the death of
his mother. ''Then they began to
straighten out her legs. AS they did,
my notaer exclaimed:
81 was in hell, but now I am III
heaven Then they began to straight