The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-09-24
FANATICS KILL A
SUFFERING WOMAN
Thought They We're Cast
ing Out Devils
IN NAME OF RELIGION
Zion City Produces a New and tart
ling HorrOr-SOn and Daughter of
the Victim and Three Other
Persons Held on a Charge
of Manslaughter.
(By the Associated Press.)

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Chicago, Sept. 20-Five people,
members Of the sect of Parhamites.
are under arrest in Zion City accused
of t%orturing to death Mrs. Letitia
G~reenhaugh, sixty-four years old, to
Snow their belief in the religion they
profess. The people under arrest are
Walter and Jennie G~reenhaugh, the
son and daughter of the oma Har-
old Mitchell and wife and a Mrs. Smith
All of them are accused of man
slaughter.
Mrs. Greenhaugh had been for
twenty years an invalid, suffering
from paralysis and rheumatism. The
condition Of Mrs. Greenhaugh, con-
WINGED her son and daughter and the
three persons arrested with them thai
she must be possessed Of the devil.
and they determined to expel the evil
spirit. The five knelt by the bedside,
and after proving commenced the work
The arms of Mrs. Greenhaugh, stiff
fened by rheumatism, were jerked
and twisted about in order that the
devil might be driven out. The cries
Of the aged woman were considered to
be those of an evil spirit; and were
greeted with triumph and shouts. In
the course Of this violent treatment
Mrs. Greenhaugh not only became so
weak that she could not use her limbs,
but became Incapable of making any
motion. Then her neck was twisted,
and for some time this treatment was
kept up.
Walter G~reenhaugh stated at the
c%oroner's inquest that Mitchell and
his wife recently had a vision in
which Mitchell was ordered to quit
work and devote his time to casting
out demons from the sick. Young
Greenhaugh declared that his mothers
consent was obtained before the treat
ment was begun. He asserted that hyp-
motto passes were made before his
mothers face and then followed the
muscular force, which. he said, was
strongly resisted by the demons"
Mrs Greenhaugh died Wednesday
noon, but it was thirty-six hours later
that the circumstance under which
she died vas learned. The inquest
progressed far enough to warrant the
holding of Walter and Jennie Green
haugh, son and daughter of the wo-
man and the other three persons on a
manslaughter charge.
Snapped Woman's Bones.
The head OF the Greenhaugh family.
wiGower of the lead omar is not
a Parhamite. According to the story
told before the jury py the
Ing G~reenhaugh, it was necessary
TO get the elder Greenhaugh out of
me way before the exorcIsm could
take place Wednesday morning the
was called out of the house
on a pretext and then the five exer-
clsers entered the room where Mrs.
Greenhargh vas lying helpless.
Mitchell took her by the hand the
ton testified and pulled her arm
away from her body. She
oh. h screamed terribly. l Jumped
forward. Mitchell held me back and
put his hand over my mothers mouth.
and stopped her cries. He said of
coure l shall hurt her. These cries
are NOT ht.r, criaS tn T = tho roroo-a
Ing of the lemons and the devils as
they leave her. She is all right"
Greenhaugh told Of movements like
those of a hypnotist that were made
ABOVE the PROSTATE woman, aha COL
tinued: Mitchell and his wife again
drew near ms mother The took her
arms and drew them out straight.
was a cracking soucd. found
out afterwards that they broke the
bones. They did the same witl:
her : they pi pcfled hs ar
and worked with her flesh. She
groaned and cried out. They said
she would soon be all right. Then
mother seemed to become quiet. she
looked at me. She said: I was in
hell; l an in Heaven now I thought
n meant she was getting better. |
believed that God was heIpine her
When h said that they started at
work with renewed vigor."
Her Las Sleep.
Greenhaugh sobbed as he told the
story. After more of the torture.
Gceenbaugh said Mitchell told him to
pray and said that his mother was
sleeping.
My father was not allowed in the
room during the treatment Green
haugh went on. Mrs Mitchell told
him that my mother was sleeping and
that she would eat supper with us
That night. When she failed to ap-
pear, my father became worried and
wanted to go the room, but this was
not allowed In the evening l began
TO realize that my mother was dead.
anu | confessed all to my father. We
watched the greater part of the night
came 49, ~
Mltchell and Greenhaugh we're la
ooreIs employed by Lake Forest Uni
aIlsles. The men We're neighbors and
los friends When the husband and
son realized that Mrs craenboIaL