| Show I IE I 1MB GIRLS CRAZED BY NEW SECT j quo j jII Two Former Public School Teachers I Become Insane at Holy Ghoster i a Camp I Portland ilteMrR Alice Phelps I of Kansas City has consulted attorneys attor-neys in an effort to have the law remove re-move her daughter from the Holy a Ghost and Us sect of worshipers at Wo Shiloh Rev Frank Sand ford Is the I head of the colony and styles hlmsell I I its Elijah Six years ago May and Hessle i Phelps aged a 2 and 33 respectively io wero respected young women of Kansas Kan-sas City They were considered Intellectual 11 In-tellectual and were teachers In tho public schools They had made a special study of Biblical literature and fell easy victims to tho arguments of one of Snndfords missionaries Then they came to Shiloh The methods of the strange sect I undermined tho reason of time younger I i girl Hessle and she became Insane I Her mother had her removed to tho state asylum There sloe has remained I in a semiconscious cataleptic state I despite nil physicians can do Itecently the mother heard the elder daughter was also likely to become be-come Insane Mrs Phelps went to the Shiloh colony but could not Induce In-duce the young woman to leave The Girl seemed thoroughly Imbuod with fanatical idrns 9 Sho was clad In only a calico wrap per nnd was shivering It Is said her food allowance for that day was ono if teacupful of parched grain and that many days sumo was allotted oven a m D mailer proportion of cither oatmeal lakes 01 grain with occasionally half a nup of skimmed milk It Is further alleged that she slept on time coldest nights in an old shed through which wind and rain swept and that her bed was a idle of straw or u few shovelfuls of sawdust The young woman claimed this to be tho true life Mrs Phelps Bays she saw many In tho same plight Small children were so cniaclntcd that their cheek bones almost protruded from the flesh and their eyes were glaring and sunken Sandford Is on a cruise In his palatial pala-tial yacht In the Mediterranean and has practically all tho funds of the colony In his possession AH the daughter of Mrs Phelps Is of ago attorneys says she cannot be compelled to leave |
