Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-09


as is Sarah Joseph. the Syrian girl.
THE Express tonight says
The Holy Ghosters are going to Ber-
muda, and attempt to establish col
ony there and possibly branch colonies
in other West Indian islands. The
destination Of the Rev Frank w.
Sandfords parkentine Kingdom will
net BE- the Holy Land, when she leaves
Portland harhor which probably will
be this evening or tomorrow. The
schooner yacht Coronet, the private
yacht of the Modern Elijah" mas al
ready preceded the Kingdom to the
West Indies
Part Of this Information comes to
the Express Advertiser through re-
liable and prominent Portland man
who was in a position recently to gam
much information about the ShlloniteS
and the remainder is dcduced from
strong circumstantlal evidence. Prom
tneut members Of the colony mentioned
the fact that :hey were going to Der
mlda and the West Indies ana 1t
seems likely that they will start to-
night or tomorrow. since the last load
of baggage was transported from
,outh E'reoport to the Kingdom to-
lay.
Yesterday a mule team hauled load
of IA colonists from Shiloh to South Free
poit. and they were rowed % miles in a
ships boat to where the Kingdom was
Jogging about eight or 10 miles off Green
island A load of baggage which was
brought down at the same time In a hay
rack and stored in the barn of Jones. who
Is a Shiloh sympathf.er. stayed there all
day yesterday. but had disappeared this
morning Two more wagon loads of
trunks and personal effects of the col
Onists were driven through Freeport
early this morning and transferred to Il
ships boat with three men rowing They
started for the Kingdom at $50 o'clock
In the morning. As no more people ac-
companied the baggage today it is pre-
summed that the short exodus from the
hilltop" has ceased.
That Sheriff Trefethen'S energy in pur-
suit and the persistent manner in which
Attorneys James a. and William A. Con-
nellan have been on his trail has hurried
the Rev. Frank w. Sanford in his for
eign colonization movement seems evil
dent. The experiences which the sheriff
has had in the Whitaker cases have in
censed him and other observations which
he has made of what he considered the
effects of the Holy Ghost teachings have
made him determine to do his best to
help stamp out Sanfordsm in Maine
Yesterday Comedian & Comedian OBJ
tanned writ of habeas corpus from AS
sociate Justice George +. Bird of the
supreme court authorizing them to take
Sara Joseph Syrian girl. from Sand
ford. The complainant on the writ was
Wabby Joseph. brother of the girl. now d
resident of Cincinnati, Ohio but who is
staying in Portland in the hope of seeing
his sister out of the power Of Sanfordsm
Taking this writ and also two writs
for the arrest Of Rev Frank w. Sand
ford on suits brought by Mrs Whit
taker ard her daughter Edna Tor H.
legal detention prior to the time they
were taken from the Kingdom on
habe;s corpus. Sheriff Trefethcn ac-
companied by Attorney William A.
Comedian and Wabbv Joseph went
down the bay by motor boat yester-
day afternoon. but the Kingdom re-
fused to come within miles of the three
line limit, and the sheriff was power
less.
On the way out towards the King
dom which was first sighted about
four miles of Green Island, the sher-
IFS boat came across the small slips
boat which was carrying the colonists
from South Freeport to the Kingdom
For nearly two hours the two boats
kept close together. Shortly after they
met the fog shut down, but the King
dom instead of standing in to meet
her people in the little craft stood out
to sea as it afterward appeared. for
when the fog had lifted she was at
least seven or eight miles further. to
sea. 1t was this apparent exhibition OF
cruelty that greatly angered the sher-
III and all the others aboard his boat.
Whether the Kingdom suspected the
sheriff and wanted to keep out OF his