Show 5 OLD YEAR YEAR OLD IS Is' KILLED IN DEVIL RITES RITES' TWO Held for Murder as ask k Result of Ceremony Fatality m Br fly United r rm LINDEN Texas exas Dec 23 Two 23 Two young apostolic healers were held heid here today charged with choking the l life fe from BernIce Clayton year old paralytic lc child in rites conducted to drive the devil from her body Those accused are Paul and Coy f brothers who professed to be beJ J Cindering preachers of th the apostolic healing faith The childs child's mother I Mrs W. W J. J Clayton is their cousin I Neither brother is yet et 25 years old j They came here several months ago to conduct meetings in rural com com- Sheriff Nat Curtwright i who filed Wed murder charges charges' against them after being informed how the child thUd died said he l learned they asked recently to heal her The child had been c crippled since babyhood as a result of oC infantile paralysis The preachers Curtwright 1 said asserted a devil was cawing causing the trouble and averred the they could drive I it away The ThC matter came to f attention after George korge Wilson a neighbor reported he was attracted to the Clayton residence three three- days I ago by b- bR a R disturbance Curtwright said he I learned arned the he healers lers entered the the childs child's room seized her beat beather her pounded her against the floor and that finally one choked her In the course of these actions he said the men prayed praed and recited in They ord ordered red Wilson away from the house Officers investigated and Dr O. O R. R Taylor C Cass county coroner ruled the child had been choked to death Curtwright arrested the brothers and charged them with murder ing ng trials will be held Monday Meantime Meantime Mean Mean- I time they arc are in jaiL Curtwright said they told him the devil instructed them to choke the theirL girl irL He said Paul Oaks o was believed to o be the one who did the choking |