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would be raid and that we would
have to get the girls married.
Q,-What did you do?
A.-Mary and I made a list Of the
boys and girls and went to the girls
and told each one how Prince
Michael Mills was imprisoned be-
cause OF examinations of girls in the
Detroit colony. I asked each girl
II they would get married to protect
King Benjamin and for the glory of
his kingdom, and each said they
would. Next day u couples were
married in q group.
Odd Mrs. Bauschke try to get
her daughter out Of the colony?
Ayes. but We thwarted her by
Disgusting Harriet in King Ben's red
wig and slipped her off to Chicago
until the thing blew over.
Q.-What else occurred there
among the girls?
A.-Benja and Mary once took
about thirty Of us girls on a vaca-
ton trip up to Lake Arrow on the
House of David freight boat. We
girls slept on the deck, all lying to-
gether, with a wagon top cover
ing us.
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would charge it to samples. That
rather surprised me, but he in.
| sisted and / saw nothing very
wrong about it.
Next day he called me up. Fol
som had given him my number
| l know I did not. He told me he
was going on the road and asked
me to write him. l did not do so
at the time. / told him, however,
about when ! would come back
| from Shelter Island. l left July
ID, to remain until August 4. But
we came back a few days sooner.
Why. l shall tell later. 1t has 10
do with the final break with Sny
der that l mentioned above.
Sympathetic Toward Her
But that break had come.
When told Judd Gray that l
would meet him again downtown,
talking into q telephone out there
in the far suburb, my heart hurt
and my soul bitter against my hus-
band. did not entertain even the
FemOtest notion that Judd would he
the straw to which would ever
cling for relief and cOnsOIa ton,
much less that he would awaken in
me such love as I had never known
could be on earth.
! liked him, true. had liked him
on sight. though he is not hand
some. And ] wanted woefully just
then TO pour into some sympathetic
ear my grief. Somehow i felt
drawn to this stranger; somehow l
sensed that from him / would get
friendly hearing.
To one who later heard Judd
Gray under oath, telling the story
as though he had shaken his head
over my confessions of domestic
discord, had advised me to try
patching it up. the picture must be
the exact opposite of what the
truth really was.
He took such immediate and
warm interest in what ] told him;
he was so sorry for me; he told me
that he, too, was not happy Mt
home, though he dominated his
household, and, while he had little
JOY there. he did not permit any
one to cause him any actual un-
pleasantness. But in my case he
seemed to see at once that was
the victim, and said he felt for me
beyond words.
SHe ftdO FOuNu 1eF Soul Mate
II came over me from q clear sky
that / had found in him the man
of my life!
rubbed my eyes. looked again:
then I closed my eyes and listened
some more.
/ felt as I had never felt before.
/ was trembling with a newborn
sensation. the most stirring that
comes to a human being.
j was in love!
l cannot truthfully say that I at
tempted to resist it or fight it off.
1t was too wonderful To me, who
had never known it before except in
very weak imitation, il lifted me out
OF myself.
For hours we sat there. Most OF
tho time | scarcely knew what he
was saying. 1t was music such as
my ears had never heard. When he
asked me to leave and go with him.
don't think l knew where. I went
would have gone anywhere with
him.
Put His Arms Around Her
He told me that he had to make =
late train and We would 90 to his
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URGED
DODG|NC
DRAF 7
BY WILLIAM J. BUTLER
International News Service

ST. JOSEPH, Mich. May IS
King Ben jamin Purnell, issued
instructions TO his followers to beat
the draft and engineered a scheme
to defraud the Government during
the World War, Mrs. Esther John
son Hannaford Hansel, former priv
ate secretary to the House of David
leader testified today at the States
dissolution suit.
Mrs. Hansel told how, armed with
conscientious objection articles writ
ten by PurnelI, she went before the
war boards and asked the military
authorities to exempt Purnel's he
Whiskered cohorts at Camp Custer
The strange influence the bearded
cult leader had over his flock. ac
cOrding to Mrs. Hansel, rarely failed
to silence the tongues of his vic
Tins. However, in 1914, two SIS
ters, Lena and Augusta Fortney.
ran away from the colony and told
their relatives OF the 'purifica-
ton" they had received at Shiloh
Their father filed suit against King
Ben and Mrs. Hansel was dele
gated to take care of old man
Fortney and shut his mouth"
Charges Frame Up"
Accordingly. she said. in the zeal
and loyalty of her absolute trust
in Purnell and his teachings. she
carried out his Instructions to tele-
phone Fortney in Benton Harbor
and ask him to come TO the colony
on "a matter of Importance"
When he reached there she said
oh I.sr
a little child named Annie " olfe.
who had been coached to scream
and say he had attempted to harm
her. The child's mother and an.
other woman were concealed in the
room and jumped out to confront
the "attacker."
We believed it was holy and
right to resort to any means which
would save Benjamin" she said.
Another time. Queen Mary
Purnelrs brother, DR.. James Stall
lard, who was. not a member of
the cult, visited the House of Da.
vid and remained some time.
Girls Get Married
while he was there, BENJAMIN
told me that DIR. Stallard paid too
much attention to the girls in
Shiloh and suspected the doctor
was trying to find out what Ben
jamin'S relations with them had
been. He instructed Violet Tulk
and me to bore small holes in the
door of StaIlards office and spv
on him. We reported to nun that
the doctor was examining the girl
patients. Benjamin got a gan and
confronted his brother.in.iaw.
'You dirty dog" he said, you've
been shopping around here long
enough. Get out of here or I'll
fill you full of lead"
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land scarcely anything personal was
preached. Folsom had written Judd
told him he had met two nice mar
rled women, and about me wrote.
the blonde one is the hOmeIier If
the two. more quiet and drinks
less.". He told him he was lunching
with me at Henry's on such and
such day. and suggested that
Judd join us.
] doubt whether Folsom had any
definitely wrong purpose in mind:
| do not think he deliberately plot
ted to get me and Judd together for
anything more than passing com
partnership. l read the letter he
had written to Judd later. and there
was nothing out Of the way limited
at, except in the fact that Folsom
knew Judd was married and 1
was, too.
Gray's manner was genial. in.
gratiating, and, l might almost say,
polished. Folsom had 10 make a
4 o'clock train and left me alone
with him. Judd took me to his
office. That was before 5 O'Clock.
There were many people there. I
recall on that occasion meeting
men named Holt. Reilly, and Ko-
bell and a Miss Yarnen.
Showed Her Intimate Garments
Judd introduced me as Mrs.
Strong" and said I was his sister
in-law. He picked name begin
ming with 81 because / had hat
letter very plain on my handbag.
He explained that he wasn't al
lowed to sell wholesale to out
sfders, but statesmen were permitted
that privilege to their families.
He showed me some intimate gar
ments. That was-the word he used
in all his testimony, garments"
whcih is customary in the trade.
As a matter OF fact what he gave
ma was a pink cOrselette with
brassiereS and girdle, worth
about S25, retail. He declined 10
take any money for it, saying he
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Later, after our romance had set.
tied into a familiar situation, ]
wouldn't have thought of such a
deed. Nor would he-for me; for
himself he conceived it and for
himself he executed it.
Judd now pleads that he was the
love slave"
HypnOtism Talk All Bunk
This man who was away from
me weeks at a time, most Of the
time under control of bad liquor
that he bought in every town he
made" wants you to believe that
I had and kept such irresistible
influence over him at that time
that he finally yielded, after bat
Ting with me and with himself so
hard and so long and so often. and
went through the gruesome acts he
confesses because / had him hypno-
tized.
1. Of course. know how false
that is. the exact opposite being
the truth. But should think that
even to a passing reader his story
would appear too absurd. And the
State of New York will take my
life for it.
1t is so easy for some people to
distort the truth. Lies, can be
made so believable at times. And
Judd Gray always had been the
most skilifuI liar ! ever knew. He
lived on lies. sold goods on lies, goi
his position on lies. lied 10 his en-
ployers TO his customers. to his
wife. and TO me- His testimony
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Following the escape of the Fort
ney girls and their complaint to
the authorities, Mrs. Hanssl said
that she, Purnell, his wife, Cora
Mooney and Edith Meldrim had a
conference and decided that all the
girls who had been purified" by
King Ben should be mar cied. They
were sent to High Island and she
went with them.
II called them all together and
told them that it was their duty
to protect BENJAMIN by getting
married. / read them a Letter
which Mary had given me Fri
they agreed"
Mrs. Hansel was questioned by
Special Prosecutor George E.
Nichols.
Q.-Do you know of any trouble
that led to a group marriage in the
colony?
Ayes: Lulu Bauschke had a big
dispute with Benjamin in 1910 about
the way he mistreated her daughter,
Harriet, and Mrs. Bsuschke left the
cult.
Q.-What did BENJAMIN say?
Ale told me that he was afraid
she would cause trouble and there
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about me.
MY arms and shoulders were
badly sunburnt. the slightest touch
of anyone else would have made me-
jump and cry out in pain. But l
was immune to all senses, all except
that he, this man, this man Of my
dreams, had his arms around me.
Then he kissed me! The first kiss
OF my life that ever meant any.
thing to me.
He had pictured me as a vampire.
This man who Travelled. who hor-
rowed money from me that he has
never returned to get himself out
of a scrape with some woman up-
state from whom he had borrowed
money that he couldn't pay back,
took en- oath on the Bible he now
processes to worship, and said that
had corrupted him, / had torn
away his will power.
Would Have Murdered for Him.
I, who had never done anything
unforgivable, went with him to his
place in the dead of evening in the
business district. floating. only half
conscious that I was alive, intoxi-
Gated not with liquor but with an
overpowering emotion of strange,
new joy. lured him there!
That night, perhaps, I would have
committed a murder for him. He
says that almost two years later,
he committed one-tor me. That
night ] would have done anything
he asked, anything he commanded.
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RU TIL SNYDER'S FINAL
APPEAL FORMERCY

Continued from First Page)
drinks. Presently she left the table.
walked past me and behind my
hack. ] did not turn just then to
zee where or why.
In few minutes she returned
with pleasant, presentable gentle
man and introduced him to me as
Harry Folsom. He behaved politely.
told me he was a salesman in silk
hose and scarfs. wholesale, gave me
his card, and asked me to stop in
whenever l wanted anything at
dealers prices. l thanked him.
Karin and l went home together a
few minutes afterward.
Introduced Judd to Her
Meantime, Karin had given Mr..
Folsom both our telephone numbers.
Soon afterward, a few days. Mr.
Folsom called me and reminded me
to get some things when / was
near his office. He also invited
me to luncheon. l accepted. He,
perhaps unwittingly, did me a fatal
and terrible injury when he intro
duced me to Gray, and he had
framed" for me 70 meet Gray with
out my knowledge.
Presently my fate walked in.
had, of course, never met Judd
Gray, had no thought that there
was such person alive. He stepped
UP to Folsom as though he ex-
pected him there and was expected
himself. Folsom introduced Judd,
telling me he was his friend, a
travelling man for an Undergarment
concern.
Gray sat with us and had some
drinks-perhaps three or four. But
he was and remained sober. He
gave me his card, too. and asked
me- to his showrooms to get any,
thing in his line that / wanted at
inside prices.
Blonde One the HOmeIier'
1t did not develop at this time
for my time with Gray was brief
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/ assure you we did not talk gar
ments. =
don't know just how. or exactly
when, but the next thing / knew he
had his arms around me. fpH :
thrill THAI made the world swim
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office. This time ii was late and
dark, ? O'clock. He let us in with 4
Key and the door swung smut and
the automatic snap-lock clicked
Judd Gray has sworn he took me
lnors % give me a garment. z
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was a fabric of deliberate and dia.
bolical falsehoods.
He pleaded guilty to things he
never did and pleaded me guilty to
things never did. But they
couldn't. trip him up. He was too
good at it, too well prepared.
Every slip / made. they caught me
before caught my breath again.
could only get away with little
lies. He was q master at the big
ones.
yes or No" Cramped Her
Much Of my story I have told on
the stand. But am seeking, with
sidelights, the true color of nv af-
fairs, to picture the truth and how
1t became the truth. This is NV
story that 1 would have told told on
the stand If they had let me. But at
least $50 times my prosecutor
shouted me down with Eyes or no,
madam"
Yes or no cannot tell Anv such
story. What is in our hearts Ia the
story. The yes or no" story of that
first night in Judd Gray's office is
nothing like the full story, for that
can be told only by the way felt
and the way he felt, not by what
We said-no, not even by what we
did.
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shot IN FIGHT
OVER Path

HAGERsToWN, Nd. Aug. 3d.
Asrby Wolfe was seriously wounded
and his neighhor, William Toms, Is
being held charged with shooting
him as the result of an alteration
over a right of way through land in
the South Mountain at Mt Zion,
near Smithburg. 4
According to the authorities, Wolfe
had q right of way through the
land owned by Toms. Bad feeling
Is said to have existed between the
men for several weeks. Toms built
4 barrier of stone to block Wolfe's
passage. Wolfe was removing the
stones when Toms appeared on the
acene and ordered him away.
They quarreled and Toms, it is
charged, got a gun and threatened
Wolfe, who Is said to have defied
Toms to shoot. Toms, it is charged
fired and missed and fired the second
time with effect
A physician of Smithburg spent
several hours removing shot from
WOlfe's body. Though seriously
wounded, Wolfe is expected to re.
evNeHs
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Man, 78, Held on Girls Charge

j. r. Franklin, 7S-year-old painter
Of East Riverdale, the last Of the
Famous Flying Franklins," Bar
mum and Bailey's trapeze artists
from 1857 to 1897, held in the
.Bladensburg Jail without bond for
the Prince Georges county grand
jury on charges by a 13-year.ol
girl, will be transferred to the La
Plata jail, in Charles county, for
safe keeping sometime today, it
was announced by States Attorney
]. Frank Parrar.
This Is not a change of venue
action, it was explained, but a
move necessitated by repairs TO
theN Marlboro jail, which has made
1t necessary to take prisoners ia
La Plata temporarily, b. II. Dolby,
of Mt. Rainier, attorney for the
transferred to any jail in Prime
Georges county other than the
Bladensburg bastile."
He characterized the BIadens.
burg building as ''unsafe, unsound.
unsanitary and unhealthy Threats
by the girls parents are believed
to have FASTENED this move.
Franklin, who is rs years old,
seemed unperturbed by the charges,
even when the mother OF his al.
legged victim threatened to kill him
on the jail porch yesterday. He
charges ''frane-up"
Attorney Dolby expects to cIear
his client when the case comes M
for trial, he said, il the Prince
Georges county grand jury returns
an indictment. He believes ths
girl. Louise. Chapman, Is trying tc
shield another man.
Franklin was arrested Sunday
night on receipt of information
from the WASHINGTON police. Counts
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EX-GOV. MORAY
TO OUT JAIL

The prison days of Ex.Gov. War.
rem T, McCray. of Indiana, are
about over. his friends here be.
lieved today. McCray becomes
eligible for parole tomorrow. and it
is predicted that favorable action
will be taken in his case imme.
diately.
Attorney General Sargent, in
whose jurisdiction the McCray case
rests. win return to Washington
tomorrow. The parole is under
stood to have already been favor.
ably reported by the prison parole
board Consequently Sargent's APP
prevail Of that report would swing
the prison doors outward for the
ex-governor.
McCray was sentenced to 10 years
for using the mails to defraud
He has been . model prisoner and
has secured every concession in
the prison allowed because Of good
behavior.
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NEXT SEEN
IN BBI4
HOUSES

CHICAGO, Aug. 80 Chi
cago S strike and lockout of
motion picture theater oper-
ators may become nationwide,
it was indicated today.
As the 300 of the $50 ex-
hibitors Of this city went into
session to consider ways and
means Of reopening their thea
tiers, threats were hurled by
both sides that sympathy
strikes might be called in every
large city in the country.
Trouble Seen In Baltimore
According to the operators
chiefs, trouble is already brewing
between the operators and theater
owners in Baltimore, and the
. first of the countrywide sym
pathy strikes anticipated may be
called in the Maryland city.
Indications were the tie-up may
be enlarged with strikes by the
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brook Hunt Club and been taken
for q guest, and vet Mr.. Scarlet
could swagger down Tenth Avenue
without having so much as
single gunman mistake him for
a prospective client. For these
qualities some had said, unjustly,
that the Dandehon was hypo.
critic, slick customer. one to be
watched.
But Mr.. Scarlet had his ster.
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tried to read the open book YOU
would have found the pages sin
gularly blank MIR. Scarlet had,
to his direct advantage-the thing
known as a poker face. And
though he looked you straight in
the eye, there was neither warmth
nor coldness. neither self-be.
trayal nor wilful concealment In
his wide open glance A non.
committal face had the Dandelion.
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Rise In Temperature
Leaves 81 Record
for Cold Intact

just when . weather record
of SO years standing appeared
likely to be shattered, the tenn
perature in Washington today
took an upward climb and left.
the cold weather mark regis.
tered in 1891 intact.
Prior to Monday, the mean
temperature for August had re.
manned at 70 degrees, officials
Of the District Weather Blu.
reau revealed that mark hav-
ing been maintained during
August Of 1891.
The forecast made today
read: "Partly cloudy tonight
and Wednesday; slightly
warmer tonight"
A return to normal warm
weather in this section Is pre-.
dicted by meterologists who say
that the recent cool spell has
bean dissiDated hy the sun.
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HAS
BRITISH
PILOT
BY international News servIo.

by international News Service
LONDON, Aug. 30.-Capt.
w. G. Hinchcliffe, a British
airman, was definitely retained
by Charles A. Levine today to
pilot the transatlantic plane
Columbia back to the United
States. Levine will travel as
"a passenger. The air ministry
granted Hinchcliffe three weeks
leave of absence.
"Keen" For the Trip
sHinchcliffe refused to discuss
the terms of the contract but was
enthusiastic over the prospect Of
the flight, saying:
81 am with Levine. He is a
fine type of man. / am terribly
keen to pilot him to New York. ;"
No definite Gate has been made
for the hop-off, although both
Levine and Hinchcliffe said they
were anxious to get away as soon
as possible.
At 4:4O this afternoon the
Columbia left for Cranwell with
Hinchcliff as pilot and Levine
a passenger.
Levine has obtained the services
of Thomas Kincade, of the Wright
Aeronautical Company. KincaIe
win put the Columbia in condition
for its return flight.
May Come by Himself
wen be ready in a day or two,
perhaps earlier" Levine said today.
II will be ready as soon as the
machine has been put in trim and
a pilot chosen.
THE flight back won't be quite
so exciting as our first crossing, but
it will be some thrilling just the
same.
Levine appeared considerably
elated today over his successful
flight across the channel, which.
incidentally. was the first time he
had ever handled d plane alone.
Levine explained why he slipped
away from LIE Bourget under the
pfetext that he wanted to test" the
Columbia. He blamed Drouhin for
failing to attempt the return flight
to America before this time. He
said he saw no immediate hope of
getting away from Paris although
he had been ready to go for almost
two months
i brought Miss Columbia to Lon.
don because Believed 1t to be in
the best interests of the flight" he
said. Il saw no prospect Of getting
out of Paris under present condi-
tons.
when the reports / haYe been
receiving from British and Amer
lean meteorological services showed
me that conditions were right for
the hop-off. ! suggested to Drouhin
that we start, but he declined, say.
ms that French weather reports
showed that the weather was un-
favorable =
Levine added that he considered
he had made mistake in signing
for transatlantic flight with a
pilot with whom he could not con-
verse.
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HOPES Revived
FOR REDFERN
Nv international News service

BY international News Service
RIO DE JANEIRo, Aug. 30.--
Hopes were revived here today that
Paul Redfern, missing Georgia-to-
Brazil solo filler, may stilI be alive.
Government and municipal au.
thorities continued their efforts to
verify the report reaching Para from
Caracas that plane resembling the
Port Of Brunswick, in which Red.
fern hoped to be the first man to
make q nonstop flight from the
United States to Brazil, had been
sighted over the Bay de L'oyapok.
about 100 miles from the northern
Brazilian border.
Another unconfirmed report has
been received here that Redfern's
plane was sighted over the delta OF
the Orinoco River.
In an effort to determine the au.
thenticity of these reports, the Ma.
tional Telegraph Bureau has queried
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ling qualities all the same. For
one thing he knew when he was
beaten, which was very clever OF
him. For another he knew when.
he was funny, and even, upon
occasions. was able to laugh at
himself.
New when Scarlet had brought
Becky McCloskeys hungry. half
frozen, shabby into the private
room Of a restaurant. his mo.
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police say they were reluctant 10
make the arrest. doubling the pos
sibility of the crime.
Louise Chapman was arrested in
the Public Library park Sunday
night with Mark M. Ward, AZ, a
building contractor of 927 e st.
N. E., and friend of the Chap.
man family.
According to the Chapman fam.
ily, they and Franklin were jointly
purchasing house in East River.
dale and Franklin was domiciled in
their cellar Sometime ago he Sc.
cured a position as caretaker for
the, old Reed mansion nearby. Of
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and he could command 4 manner
10 match.
4 manner" puts It almost IN.
sultingly. MIR. Scarlet had sew.
eral manners. and could doff them
al will as he could doff his
checked cap and pineh-back suit.
or the well cut Harris tweeds he
affected upon occasion. Mr.. Scar.
lett had, also upon occasion,
passed blandly into the Meadow.