Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-24
SAYS CANCELS"
RUINED HOME
FLOCK WERE B0ARDERS, SAYS
Y0NKERS MAN
LATER ALL FLEW AWAY, AND HIS
WIFE WENT, TOO
Edward Tayso Walls Out the Pltlful
Story In Court and Asks Judge
and Police to Come
to Rescue

NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-There has
been no peace in the Yonkers home of
Edward Tayso since his wife become
an Angel.
"six months ago she Joined EN-"
walled Tayso, scalding the desk with
tears as he told his tale to the local
chief of police.
IAN these losses are indeed sad"
said the police chief sympathetically
How did she come to die?"
"She amt dead" answered Tayso
She's an Earth-angel. She's one of
the Seven Angels of the Seven Mes
sages.' You don't have to die to join
'em."
"How's that?" asked the chief.
six months ago." said Tayso, three
of the Seven Angels came to my house
at No. 231h Riverside avenue and
passed my wife a message. 1t told her
that she was ordained to be a MEM
ber of the new sect Of Angels and Apos-
ties that would redeem the world, ac-
cording to Jehosophat an dthe Revela-
tions. Up to that time she'd been doing
real motherly by our seven children,
but the Angels got her. and she went in
with them as a member-two dollars
down and three a month.
Angels Come to Board
1.-TWO weeks after that I came home
from work one night and find she's
been boosted into an angelship, and
she tells me that gives her the priVi-
lege of boarding all the other angels
and three whiskered apostles at our
house until she's been properly In
Quoted angelically' as all the others had
to be.
"All the other angels are heavy an
gels and they eat to fit, and the second
night I come home 1 notice that an
eighth angel has been rung in, which
my wife puts in my bed.
IT kicked a mild kick and told her
that the cult, as she called 1t, must be
overgrowing its constitution, which
only calls for seven. And l asked her
what'd become of my supper that used
to be left on the table when got back
late.
" Turned into angel food she an
swered, tartly. You ought to be thank
full, Ed, that a real angel will conde-
scend to eat your victuals.'
"I'd be more thankful for chance
at them myself l said. But she says
back that I'm an unbelieving dog, that
she'll have hard work to get me into
heaven in spite of her position, and puts
me to bed hungry, with my two Oldest
boys on the floor beside the sofa.
OF on a Pilgrimage
Next morning she's gone. So have
not have known it so soon If the arch
angel hadn't come round to make mo
give up a dollar for more angel food
They said my wife was on a pilgrimage
and that they would stay and pray for
her until she came back.
1.-THE next two weeks 1t took all my
wages to feed them-the archangel and
the other six Sometimes the seven
kids would tell me they hadn't had any
| thing to eat all day, and the archangel
would rip me up the back for bring
ing in some bread and cookies to feed
'en on after the Celestials were gone
to bed.
FINALLY, or Labor Day night my old
est boy, Waiter, told me he'd beard the
archangel plotting with the other angels
to kidnap the two boys they thought I'd
nav ransom for. Next day 1 took all
seven kids off to Rochester and left
them with my people to keep safe until
the angels flew.
"I got back today. The angels had
flown. But the neighbors said they
saw them take every bit of clothing OF
mine and my wife's and the boys"
Tayso asked the police to help him
recover wife and property. The chiet
said he'd do what he could. No trace OF
Mrs. Tayso or of the angels or the
apostles had been found late last night.