Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-06-20
LONG LINE OF PEOPLE STRUGGLE
FOR HOUR TO GAIN ApMiS. q
SION TO SEE TRIAL.
MANUSCRIPT OF SEES BOOKS
INTRODUCED IN EVIDENCE
Life Cult Make Strong Protest
Against Admission Of discriminating
Evidenee-Evidenee Shows Mildred
Bridges Was Detained in "TempIe."


people. school girls and boys and wom-
en-. struggled for an hour today to get
into the court room when the trial Of
Evelyn Arthur See, founder Of the Alb
solute Life cult, charged with abduc-
ton. was resumed.
Charles F. DeWoody, chief investiga-
tor Of the United States department OF
justice, in whose technical possession
the manuscript of two Of Sees books
and much documentary evidence now
is. attended the trial, sitting near the
prosecutor. and making frequent sug-
gestions to the states attorney.
After a storm Of protest by Sees
counsel manuscript of the two books
containing the history of the cult, one
as evidence.
Miss Bridges Held Prisoner.
Evidence that during the time Mild
red Bridges was supposed to be i'll in
the temple" of Evelyn Arthur See she
really was an unwilling prisoner may
be introduced by the prosecution. This
Iife' sanctum which hitherto has been
untouched.
This new move is to be held until the
attitude Of the girl toward See Is
shown by her testimony on the stand.
In case this testimony is completed
today and the girl does not herself ad-
nit anything Of the kind it is prob
able that the state at once will attempt
to prove that the scarlet fever from
which she was supposed to be suffering
really was only a ruse to keep her from
her father
When Mr. Bridges returned from
California to find his daughter had de-
serted her home for the See flat he Of
fered to send her the family physician.
This offer she refused. Shortly after
ward. when the father again tried to
visit her, he found that she was under
quarantine, and when finally he was
able to see her again it was without
avail.
She told him that she would leave
See for no one in the world; that she
had consecrated herself to the "abso-
Lutte life"
Tells Secrets Of "Temple."
The trial yesterday was lit with the
testimony OF girl who had learned
some Of the secrets Of the Temple"
without herself falling under the influ-
ence Of the owner. The girl was Clara
Jenney, who while Mona Rees and
Mildred Bridges resided with See, lived
next door in a flat at 2543 Racine av-
c me. The hall Of this room was on a
level with one of the bedrooms In Sees
flat, and the story of what Clara Jen-
neg saw in that room brought the
Jurors to attention and Sees attorneys
to their feet.
Ibid you ever witness anything ex-
traordinary in Sees flat?" Assistant
states Attorney Burnham asked her.
'I did"
FROM where did you see it,"
- window in the hall of our house"
What did you see?"
The girl hesitated. Several times I
So w Mr.. See arising in the morning."
Did you ever see any one else?"
The answer was indistinguisable
Saw Bridges Girl in Room.
Did you ever see any one with him
at these times?" the prosecutor asked
again.
'Yes"
Who was it?'
Mi dred Bridges
When Burnham, having elected sim
liar testimony concerning Mona Reese,
turned the witness over to Sees law.
yers. they began shooting questions at
her. Tin1id at best, the girl became
confused and answered SO TREMENDOUSLY
that constant repetition was necessary.
At one particularly brutal question
from Attorney Cantwell-a question
pertaining to a physical deformity-
she shivered and almost whispered her
reply Judge Honore sustained an OBJ
lection 20 the question on grounds of
imma teriality.
Thereafter Cantwell made no fur
ther efforts to disprove her testimony,
contenting himself with describing the
location Of the two flats in such a
manner as to indicate that the view
would have been impossible An ar
chitects plat Of the building was in
troduced into evidence and viewed by
the jury. 1t showed that the distance
between the two flats was a matter of
only three or four feet.
Claims Shade Hid Wow.
At the risk of casting stigma of
secretiveness upon his own client,
Cantwen q sked II a window shade was
not alta ched permanently to the lower
sash of the window IN Sees fiat thru
which the girl claimed to have peered:
The answer was, Yes, but the WIN
dow was open"
She still was on the stand when
court adjourned. The morning testi-
mony was all from Stephen N. Bridges.
father OF Mildred. and the husband
Of the w man who first introduced the
child to the exponent Of absolute
life"
Mr.. Bridges made what lawyers term
a good witness" No emotion was in
his face as he testified to the manner
in which he had been robbed Of a
wife and daughter by the lure Of a
strange religion. He sat back In the
witness chair and gazed out at the