Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-02-06
SAYS WIFE WILL
 RISE FROM GRAVE
Real Wife Stands by Her Husband at Moment of His Mental
 Strain.

are being written III the lie Ol d strange monstrosity.
 On Friday the authorities of New burg placed Edwin Powell, the "sec- ond Moses under arrest because he refused to bury the body of his spiritual wife" She had been dead a week, but no preparations had been made for interment, and no record of the death was filed with the city clerk.
 Complaint was made to the police, and Powell made the astonishing statement that he would not carry out their orders because it had been re- vealed to him that "she would rise You will witness her resurrection, and I shall no longer be condemned.'
 Five years ago Powell, his legal wife," and his Spiritual wife, came to Newburg after having been driven out of Cornwall.
 They were strange trio. Powell
 
 hair gathered with broad black ribbon and a patrarchal beard that gave his face an expression of be- nightly. One of the women was a young girl who carried in her arms child, and the other was an older woman with traces of beauty. She had been the mistress of one of the finest homes in Pittsburg, but she fastened her tattered coat about her, gathered few belongings under her arms and gladly followed Powell in his public disgrace.
 They had been living in Halycon park, a beautiful estate of Newbug, for Mrs. Powell had inherited consid- erable money from her husband. Pow ell himself had been a partner of Carnegie, and had made a great deal of money which he lost after his marriage. After that he looked to the Lord for support" source that evidently failed, for he was later evicted from the park.
 "When a boy of twenty I came to this country from England,' Powell declared; it occurred to me that I was to have a great part in the world. strange experiences that were so out of keeping with this material age that I was afraid to tell them I have never had any religious tenents, but I was led to a study of the Bible. To my intense astonishment I found there many things which in the Old Testament seemed prophetic, allegor- lcal even, and were being realized in me, while my study of the occult taught me what charlatans claimed to produce but did not were also a reality with me
 Be that as it may, Powell became interested in the spiritualism, and practiced it early. He had always enjoyed an influence over women with whom he came in contact, and though a leaning toward spiritualisn he met Mrs. Isabelle Sargent wife of a wealthy steel manufacturer. She became strongly attached to Powell while Sargent was still alive, and when her husband died there was an Investigation. Later Mrs. Sargent and Powell were married.
 Powell goes on with his story: T received a manifestation that. some where in the world there was a wo- man who through me would bear a child who would exercise a potent influence on the world My wife knew was a Godlike man, and she fell in with my desires"
 After the two went to Cornwall he took into his family an orphan. Mar garet Konzert. born in Cornwall whom he afterward adopted He chose her for the divine motherhood and with great solemnity the spiritual marriage was solemnized. his wife being jealous in it's observances. Then Powell began to declare that he was a new Moses" the father of the coming Messiah.
 Had Another ''VisiOn."
 Presently the long-hearlded child was born. But it was a girl This fact was smoothed over by another vision in which the new Moses was told that he was to be the father of family of prophets, who were to be of great eminence in the world.
 This child, Louise, now beauti- ful child of five. is living with the strange family in Newburg But it was on her account that the trio were ordered to leave Cornwall. They have been living quietly in Newburg since then, although the old man, who now looks so, but declares he is much younger, has never ceased rei- teratins that he is new Moses and Louise will be the instrument for the redemption of the world.
 In his present difficulty his wife re- fuses to leave him, although 1t is