The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-21
THE NEW MESSIAH
ROUGHLY HANDLED
Brought From kona With His
Two Demented Women
Followers.

Dennis Gavin, the man who has been
playing the part of suppositious re-
incarnation of Jesus Christ, came to
Honolulu on the Mauna Loa yesterday
morning after having been treated to
coat Of tar and feathers and having
ramrod, capped with oily rags, push
ed down his oesophagus into his
stomach.
A few weeks ago the residents of
Kona, Hawaii, were aroused to the
fact that there was religious fanatic
in their midst who stated that he was
Jesus Christ and, by various cunning
methods had made the Hawaiian and
poorer Portuguese people believe in
him.
He announced himself as the apostle
of new Gospel and the Saviour him
self In proof of this he showed the
more superstitious of his hearers marks
in his side and on his feet, which he
said were the marks of the nails when
he was put on the cross. 1t was after
wards discovered that he had made
these marks by means of acid.
Associated with him were two
women, a Miss Carlson and a Miss
Beard The former is admittedly crazy
on the subject while Miss Beard, form
erly Of the Kona Orphanage, is said
to be merely strongly religious and an
easy mark for the other two who are
also reported to have been putting up
a scheme to take Miss Beard s money
away from her.
Miss Beard was the matroness and
manager of the Kona Orphanage, and
at was her money that kept the in
stitution going. After the place closed
up Miss Carlson was her constant com
pan;on and, when this Dennis Gavin
appeared on the scene and proclaimed
himself as the reincarnation, both
women joined him.
The Carlson woman proceeded to
announce herself as Eve and wanted
to go about attired in the costume of
the mother of all of US as she was be-
fore the serpent appeared. Miss Beard
was willing to follow suit but in a
modified form.
1t was Aiot WI bNLOAr' bAO OOh
sentative inhabitants of Kona became
wise to what was going on and they
determined to put stop to it. Dennis
had a comparatively large following of
zealots who imagined that they were
the chosen few and would, under the
leadership of their new Messiah, put
the world to rights.
Matters came to head last Sunday
when vigilance committee was form
ed and they went out in search of
Dennis Gavin. He was discovered in
the Abe hotel, japanese establish
ment in Holualoa. His room was en-
tered by the committee and he was
promptly gagged. A coat of tar and
feathers was then applied and ram
rod with rags on the end was thrust
down his throat.
Once through with their initiation
proceedings, the committee removed
the gag and left the room. Dennis
Immediately set up a series of loud
wells. He was rescued from his coat
of tar and feathers by the proprietor
of the hotel and some other japanese,
by means of several gallons of coal oil
and much agony.
His two women victims were brought
back on the Mauna Loa, Miss Carlson
under guard and Miss Beard merely I'M
der supervision. During the voyage
from Kona to Honolulu Dennis was
made the subject of much quizzingN by
those ON board. He refused to be
shaken in his statement that he is the
real incarnation and stated that, when
the ramrod was pushed down his throat
he actually died but, owing to his
miraculous attributes, he came to life
again. Once ashore he disappeared
and has not been seen since but it is
understood that the police have an eye
out for him and that he will be given
a quiet g Floater.'
This same Gavin was mixed up with
hui of fanatics in Los Angeles who
held forth in hall over the Burbank
theater as those gifted with "Ton-
CUES. The method was to hold reli-
gious meetings during which those
present became worked up to an ex-
traordinary degree and, at a certain
crisis in the exhortations of the leader,
some of them would babble forth in
crazy gibberish, supposed to be any
foreign language from Chinese to
Arabic. He was also mixed up with a
sect of the same kind in San Francisco.
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