The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-01
APOSTLE Of CULT
HELD AS GIRL DIES
lSadsT Is Arrested When Young Woman
Who Lived 10 Religious Home Expires
EXPECTS TO GAIN HIS RELEASE SOON
Doctors Who Perform Autopsy on the
Body Of Deceased Send Tissues
Of Her Stomach to colum-
bus for Analysis.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Alliance.-With Rev. P. A. George,
formerly head OF the Kingdom OF
God" cult in Cleveland, held here
in connection with the death Of
Miss Amy Tanner, 23, an Alliance
young woman who had lived in his re-
ligious home, 221 Hartshorn-av, since
January, Georges friends are rallying
to his support.
George, who expects his immediate
release on a habeas corpus writ, in
sistently claims that the girls death is
due entirely to natural causes.
State Experts Called In.
Five Alliance doctors are performing
an autopsy on the body Of the girl and
the tissues OF her stomach were sent
to Columbus. In the laboratories of
the state board of health they will be
analyzed to determine whether poison
is present.
Just why there is suspicion of poi
son is not clear here. The girl has
been suffering with "pernicious ane.
mia" for a long while.
The worst case ever saw" says
DR.. N. w. Hole, one of the physicians
who performed the autopsy.
When the body was turned over to
the undertaken he found almost no red
blood in the veins. The death might
have resulted from hemorrhage."
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girls neck may also indicate tuber-
culous glands.
The autopsy was performed by DR..
Hole and DR.. B. C. Bernard, under d.
rection of Coroner ]. E. Dowds of
Stark county at the undertaking rooms
OF D. B. Cassaday.
At the inquest conducted by Coroner
Dowd, George explained the presence
of Miss Tanner at the Brotherhood
home. He said that Miss Laura Hall,
one OF his converts" brought Miss
Tanner to the home in January to re-
ceive spiritual betterment." The in
quest also developed that Miss Tanner
until several weeks ago had been
working in the Sebring potteries.
George told the coroner he under
stood Miss Tanner had been injured
last September in a fall sustained
while picking grapes. George said the
girl was taken suddenly i'll several
weeks ago. He said she became un-
conscious before the arrival of DR.. N.
w Hole, who was summoned Wednes-
day by William Phipps, one of the
workers, after Mrs. w. A. G. Tanner,
the girls mother, had asked police aid
70 compel the removal of the girl
Tries to Obtain Statement.
DR.. Hole told Coroner Dowd he tried
to obtain a statement from the girl
when first called to the house. Failing,
he called DR.. w. c. Manchester as con-
Sultant. The two doctors then ordered
the girl removed to the Alliance city
hospital. Removal of the girl to the
hospital was accomplished after Police
Chief France went to the house with
an ambulance.
George and his converts still OBJ
1ected to the removal of the girl.
At the hospital Dr. Berry King, DR..
B. c. Bernard and Dr. c. H. Rose also
we're called in final effort to save the
girls life.
She was all run down physically
and spiritually when she came to the
home" George said. Ever since she
has been there she has been receiving
treatment for her ailments"
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dead girl, whose request first led po-
lice to interfere at the Brotherhood
home, said: Amy went to live at the
home so she would be nearer to the
potteries where she worked, she told
me. Laura Hall induced her to live at
the religious home. Amy was always
a good girl | never knew she was
sick until l went to the home one day
several weeks ago."