Show ft reaches eacher ties tiesa I 1 daughter b a beats beat tier eer with S stra r hated pleasure and saw it girl have an aej by belt lashings KNOXVILLE TENN so would be safe from worldly a clatious ciati clat ions ons on her birthday an vcr ver sary a pa pleasure asuree hating hi p time preacher chained ai his daugh to a bedstead 1 augmenting enting hi I 1 u US weekly balt lashleg of th the blo 0 girl police sal said the sobbing girl was relea released sei authorities she bore welts on body from the repeated lash laiafa the police took the lather father will massengill to lail jail and held the n 1 I 1 mother for questioning massengill was described as itinerant minister w who ho took pal pai han hanging ging jobs to supplement meager income from the collece plate at camp meetings au ot ol temporary pulpits geraldine jerry massengill small slight daughter owed 11 escape to her own ingenuity As A 9 birthday anniversary dawa 1 she said massengill came in t room and padlocked a big iron ct ch F around her ankle he padlocked othel tend of the chain to the I 1 stead in her dingy room the chain gave her enough r dom ol of movement to get to the dow to toss a note to edward J jo son 8 playing outside friend notified it was addressed to barbara J 1 nut rutherford herford a neighborhood g clr jerrys age iri i daddy has chained me to i bed please call the police I 1 note said r edward took the card to barb bar and she called police capt C V Chri and henry grady arri arnved vedis w in an hour when saw the chained bruised child atul called police chief joe kimsey aimse he could see it for or himself him As the police struggled with locks and chain massengill c in and gave them the keys he readily admitted chaining to and said 1 I guess I 1 ashamed ot of this but it was only way I 1 could keep her homi she get into trouble you wont believe me bu loved her he continued I 1 when police questioned him al a the red welts on the girls hips legs he admitted that he wat was the habit ol of whipping her at least every week broke the weeping girl if i massengill produced a coiled 71 of belts that he said he used la in 11 beatings described as quiet 1 mrs delbert johnson mothe the boy who delivered the note i geraldine was a quiet child i I 1 stayed at home virtually all of 1 time 1 geraldine said she had never alf to a movie gone swimming or tended a party because ol of her harsh rules her brother j ward 18 ran away from home most a year ago because ol of the vere beatings he received froni from father the girl added 1 I jerry will be placed in a guv lum home where she can receive p arg er care officers said and vw they told her she tearfully claimed thank goodness H police were so touched by aft girls plight that tha they took up a g lection to buy her a complete ap outfit ol of clothing formal charges had not bf placed against massengill orl jorj wife jerry and edwards moll diott died some years ago and afa mam gills first wife had also died |