The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-21
MURDER
WOMAN BY TORTURE
Shocking :l Story of Brutal
killing of Rheumatic
by Parhamites.
TRY TO EXERCISE
EVIL SPIRITS
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Four Persons, Believing Helpless
Woman Possessed of Devils,
Break Her Bones With
Fiendish Cruelty to
Exercise Delnoniac
Spirits.
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TRY TO EXORCISE

e CHICAGO. ILL, September co.-Five
people, members of the sect of Par
hamites, are under arrest in Zion City. /,
accused OF tortur!ng to death Mrs. Lee
titia Greenhaulgh. sixty-four years old, !
to show their belief in the religion
they profess.
Tie people under arrest are Walterl
and Jennie Greenhaulgh. the son and
daughter of the woman: Harold Mitch
ell, Mrs. Harold Mitchell and a Mrs.
Smith. All or them are accused Of
mas. slaughter. Mrs. Greenhaulgh had
been for twenty years an invalid, suf-
fering from paralysis and rheumatism.
The sect OF Parhamites was founded
a year ago by Charles f. Parhan and
numbers about 200. The members Of
the sect originally belonged to Dowte'sl
church, and believe in the gift of
tongues and especially in diabolical
possession of the body by evil spirits.
The condition of Mrs. Greenhaulgh
convinced her son and daughter and
the three persons arrested with them,
that she must be possessed OF the
devil, and they determined to exercise
the evil spirit. The five knelt by the
bedside, and after prayer, commenced
their work.
The arms of Mrs. Greenhaulgh. stiff
fened by rheumatism. were 5jerked
and twisted about In order that the
devil might be driven out. Mrs. Green
haulgh died "Wednesday noon. but 1T
was thrty-six hours later that the
circumstances under which she died
were learned. ~
Are Held For MansinuEhteY.
Chief OF Police Walker. of Zion City.
at once ordered an Investigation, and
1.-The coroner of Lake county was ad-
| vised Deputy Coroner Conrad reached
Zion City last midnight and at once
Iimpaneled a jury and called Wit
Inesses.
| The Inquest proceeded lar en-. ,enoasI, -,
ito warrant the holding OF Waiter and
| Jennie Greenhaulgh. son and daugh.er
4 of the woman. and the other thses
/ persons on a manslaushter cnaIss.
into custody Immediately after the IN IN
iGuest. Mitchell and his wife and Mrs.
| Smith We're arrested soon afterwaros.
The head OF the Greenhaulgh fam !.
not Parhamite. According to the
story told before the coroners jury
| by the young Greenhaulgh, 1t was nee
(, essary to get the elder Greenhaul Eh
could take place. Wednesday morn-
;lhouse on a pretext, and then the. five
4 lexorcisers entered the room where
i Mrs C;reenhaulgh was living helpless.
i Broke Aged Woman's Arms.
Mitchell took her. by the hand.
I the son testified. "and pulled her rn
away from her body. She screamed
Snr forward. sne sci Mitchell held me back, and
nut Els hand over my mothers mouth
: and stopped her cries. He said 'O1
course. shall not hurt her. Those
], screaming SC Of the demons. and the dew
ills as they leave her. She Is al
Greenhaulgh told Of movements like
), those of hypnotist that Mitchell made
I Iabove the PROSTATE woman, and con.
tinued: "Mtchell and his wife again
!, drew near my mother. They toof
her arms and drew them out straight
There was cracking sound found
i out afterwards that they broke th'
bones. They did the same With hel
legs. They pulled at her head. The,
pinched and worked with her flesh
y She groaned and cried out. They SAID
she would soon be all right. Thel
hooked at me She said: I was in hell
III am in heaven now I thought esh
j, ,lmeant she was getting better. I be
that God was helping her. Whel
! she said that they started work Wit
] renewed vigor.
~. S0lu w Ouluu NAs <N"ASSPs +
Greenhaulgh sobbed as he told TIL
!. story. After more of the torture
! Greenhaulgh said Mitchell told him t
$ pray. and that his mother was sleep
9 " ..A1y father was not allowed in tn
i, room during the .I9a treatmsnlt alt.ha Gresn ts7
), him that my mother was sleeping
}. and that she would eat supper With
: that night. When she failed to ap
pear, my father became worried an
! wanted to go to the room, but but !, thi
i began to realize my mother was dea!
ana Al to naf my # father 4he "
! for signs Of returning life, but non
came"
Mitchell and Greenhaulgh were la
* borers, employed by Lake Forest un
E versity. The men were neighbors an
< close friends. When the husband an
l. son realized that Mrs. Greenhaulg
y was dead the body was turned over
E an undertaken and embalmed for bul
= ial. Later the cause Of death CAME
', the surface. 3f5Gf lf ts5.l