Show I I King Benja Benjamin s sHarem Harem Troubles Aired in Court I Woman Discloses Disclose Mysteries Mysteries Mys Mys- teries of House of David BENTON BE HARBOR Mich 1 Nov IS 13 King Benjamins silence Is t to be broken I The mystery surrounding the cult at the Israelite colony House of David David Da Da- vid In Benton H Harbor is to be brought I to light Ight S Sensations c centering In n nc c charges arges alleging Benjamin Purnell ashead aa as head pillar of the strange religious s sect ct to have be been n the master of ot a harem numbering a score of girl members of ot the conoly conoy were pried open In circuit court In St. St Joseph today with the opening of ot the first of ot two slander suits against Prince Coy son SOl of Benjamin al al- al though tho not a member of the sect Two Sisters Complainant in the first case now on I trial before Judge Weist of Lansing is Mrs Augusta Fortney Fortne Holiday Her i sister Mrs 1 Lena Fortney Fortner McFarlane McFarlane- I is the complainant In another nother similar simlar simi simi- lar ar case Action Is b based sed upon an ar article published by a local ocal newspaper under the signature of Prince Coy In n December In which an attack upon the characters x Df f the two sister com complainants com com- s former members of t coony colony col co- ony was made Mrs Holiday took the stand as the chief witness in the suit tO today ay With remarkable calmness she related her history of the seventeen years prior prioro to o Joining the House of David colony colony colo colo- ny with her father and mother She told old of ot being married off to a Holi day a man member of ot the sect without with out even hardly knowing him at the order of Benjamin She was married along with several others in the Je rus lem building of the colony by a justice ustice of ot the peace In a wholesale wedlock ceremony She testified she never lived as wile wife with the man to whom she was married this being one of the orders of ot the faith Accuses King Benjamin She told of the abuse to which she and ml other girl Ir members of ot the sect scot I suffered at the hands of ot the Master King Benjamin She admitted Benjamin Ben Ben- jamin forced her to violate this sexual sex ual tenet of the tM faith which she said finally caused her er revolt from tha Around about her were seated scores of her former friends yet members members mem mem- bers of the House of David Several Severa of the tho chief chiet pillars o the church there but Benjamin and his wife Mar Mary were absent absent- She pleaded her days day's ordeal without without with with- out scarcely bearing a tear Many witnesses are held hed in readiness to contradict the facts of her story to absolve Benjamin and paint to court action as a cloak by which she seeks to extort large ransome from the p e of pt David I |