Show BENTON HARBOR COLONY FACES FAGES STATE CHARGE Michigan I Attorney General General General Gen Gen- eral Files Complaint Seeking to Disband the House of Dav David d dLA LA LANSING SING Mich April 4 For 4 For Formal mal mat charges that the Israelite House House of ot D David colony at dt t Harbor Harbot is based upon a a foundation of deceit Immorality and fraud were filed tiled in the Ingham county Lansing circuit court today by Andrew B. B Dougherty attorney general for tor Michigan The charges were tiled riled In support of quo warranto proceedings begun gun in the tho court yesterday y to compel the leaders of ot the cult to show cause why the organization should not be disbanded Today's charges allege that the colony has set itself up as a kingdom king dom doni with Benjamin Purnell head of ot the tho order as king The allegation allega tion also is made that the association association association tion which filed articles of Incorporation Incorporation in 1908 as a a. religious and ecclesiastic corporation has haa usurped its privilege of an organization of ot this by fraud The attorney general alleges the colony Is not and never has ha beer been beena a corporation for tor religious and ec ecclesiastical ec- ec c- c purposes but on the theother theother theother other hand has haa f for r its true object t tho the enrichment of Benjamin Purnell and his elevation to the rank of at temporal king and the tho establishment within the state of a kingdom dom whose king and his subjects ar are are or eventually shall be free froe and Independent Independent Inde Inde- pendent of the civil power of the tho state John J J. Sterling of ot Benton Donton Harbor Harbor Harbor Har Har- bor attorney for tor tho the cult said the I House of David is ready for tor iny Inv investigation In In- v estimation v the state may make mako |