Salt Lake Herald | 1897-12-12 | Page 32 | Cast a Spell over His Flock

CAST A SPELL OVER HIS FLOCK Evangelist Forced to Give Up Work Because of His Influence Chicago Chronicle Markleville Ind is just emerging from a sort of Dr Jekyl Mr HydeSvengall experience which has a created no end of excitement As a result re-sult of five members of the flock going Insane In-sane and several mora showing a loony p disposition Rev Mr McCraig an evangelist who held meetings in the town church was asked to move away Mc Craig is an eloquent speaker and a good evangelIst but according to the evidence which was produced he possesses a strange influence over his audiences It was claimed that he exerted a predominance predomi-nance of mind over those who attended his services regularly and those that went insane and thom inclined that way it Is claimed owe their mental aberration to him One of the five John Markle died and his people were inclined to hold McCraig for his death It was In this form that the grand jury got the case They could not return in indictment charging1 murder mur-der though they may have been convinced con-vinced that the influence McCraig exerted did the work Marklea aberration resulted re-sulted in him thhlklnc that he was God ar > d laboring under the hallucination he passed away The oth ° r four victims and F the loony ones are pulling through all I right but the meetings have closed 1