Show Weird Tale of oi Modern Fanaticism To Be Told in Probe of Devil Death Br BY United run Tresi LINDEN Texas Dec Dee 26 A 26 A weird tale of twentieth century fanaticism which cost the the life life e of ot old 5 Bernice Bernice Ber Ber- nice Clayton mute and par paralyzed was scheduled for recital today at the examining trials of h her r father and two healers all charged with murder The healers Paul Pa Oakley 20 and his brother Coy 25 and the father lather Sherman A. A Clayton have been in Jail jaU since They were arrested after the little girl irl had been choked to death during what officers were told was an orgy of prayer to cure cure her paralysis by driving the devil from her body Sheriff Nat Curtwright described her death as the lithe m most st brutal In Cass county in my 40 years as a peace oUi- oUi He said the Oakley brothers wandering wan wan- deg dering apostolic pos o c minister ter who y pro pro- b fe fess treatment of the child was instructed instructed in in- by God have ha confessed their part in the fatal rites at the Clayton Clayton Clayton Clay Clay- ton farmhouse ten miles southeast of here in the Piney woods of cas cast Texas Coy Oakley said he represented Jesus Christ in fri the c ceremonies and that the father was there to help Inthe in inthe inthe the praying The younger brother said he believed God directed him to press the throat of the struggling child I II know now that it must have been the devil that told me and not the Lord he said When the choking girl frothed at the mouth the brothers said the it the devil spirits com corn im t ing out of her while in Jail the Oakley brothers refused to drink coffee and criticized sheriff and his deputies for using tobacco They are are cousins of ot the year old mother of the dead child |