The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-21
Elder Davis Was Slain Because He
 Fought Po|ysaIny


 New York, Sept. 21.-Prof. Henrv
 E. Crampton, the zoologist of CoIum- Dla University, arrived on the Royal Dutch Mail steamer Coppename fast night, bringing the first details of the murder of Elder Davis, the Anerfcar1 missionary. by Indians in the noun tains of Brazil not far from fine
 mountainous border of British Gu- ana.
 Prof. Champion, with Guiana In- dlans, had penetrated with great hardship, and at almost the cost of his life, the mountainous and jungle barrier between British Guiana and Brazil. Just before they reached the
 Brazilian village of Kamaiya- Wong
 a heavy rain fell and the professor
 that night, but go into camp. This
 undoubtedly saved his life, for after
 the evening meal some of the Guiana Indians went on to the village and learned that Elder Davis of the 9ev-
 enth Day Adventist denomination had rows for preaching monogamy. Chief Jeremiah of the Brazilian Indians warned the Guiana bucks not to fn- form Prof. Champion of the crime It took all the powers of argument emiah that Prof. Crampton had not come to investigate the murder of Elder Davis. They said that if the professor had entered the village un- announced he also would have been killed.
 The Murder of the Missionary.
 As Prof Champion learned after ward, Elder Davis had left his wife in Georgetown and had gone to Ka- maiva-Wong, where he found the In- dians living in polygamy. He told them they must be content with one wife and put away their others For a time it was supposed that certain wives who had been discardeed by dered the missionary.
 Inside of Jeremiah's hut some mys- terious objects could be seen through the half-opened door, but whenever Prof. Crampton tried to enter the hut in order to develop some photographs plates Jeremiah or one of his wives would prevent him from passing the door.
 Once back in Guianan territory his bucks told Prof. Crampton of the position that the body had been ta- ken to Jeremiah's hut, and that his bones were preserved fn/t the mysfer~ ious parcels. The bucks said that after the missionary had been shot his throat was cut. Prof. Cramp- Georgetown, and the missipnary's wid- ow and the British Colonial Govern ment has sent an expedition to in- vestigate, as Elder Davis was last seen on British soil.
 Prof. Champion, whose expedition was in the interests of science, a1- most died of illness, and three times his life was in danger from Indians When he caught sight of his wife and . daughter on the pier near the foot of Wall street, last night he almost lost control of himself.
 ho nrnfo0rnr vuhn has aYnInTo6 in s the South Seas, found the South Ann ! erican savages to be of the same fa- talistic and ignorant type as those in : the South Pacific.
 His Journey Into Brazil.
 The zooologist started from George town, British Guiana, proceeding 200 miles up the Demerara River, and thence up the Essequebo, to get to- : gether his thirty Guiana Indians, who accompanied him across the 0uian8 mountains int3 Brazil. A base was esta blished at Kalteur Falls, which left another member of the expedi- tion, Prof. F. E. Leutz, of the Ameri> can Museum of Natural History.
 Prof. Champion and his party oo foot cut it's way through 120 mf1ee of jungle and across savannahs unto miles of this trip was in Guiana The British authorities at Ceorgecown had told him the way was impasSaofos
 The jungle was thick and soaking with a malignant moisture. The sci~ enlist was stricken with rheumatisms which became so bad that for several days he was paraiyzed on one sades Every one of his Indians was III at one time or another. One contract ed a Brazilian cold. which ended in Another is now fatally ill with blood poisoning in Guiana On some days they made only fiva miles Crossing 4,o00 foot pia< teau the expedition reached Kamaie at the foot of Mount Rorai1 ma, in Brazil $500 feet above tfs sea.
 A squad of Jerenliahs Indians esv corted the party part of the way on their return. One of them was tas ken with cramps If the Indian hao died his comrades would have murs dorad the rrofessor as a sorcerer th4