Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-04-16 | Page 3 | Visions Cause Three Deaths

VISIONS CAUSE THREE DEATHS I Lure of Spiritualistic I Cult Too Much for forI I Farmers I OMAHA Neb April 16 16 VisIons of a reunion of earth friends in n cn afterworld born of oC the tenets of o a spIritualistic cult ire ne held to 1 he hethe the causes by county officers of o 0 a murder and two suicides It at it Bever- Bever Beverly ly Bever-ly ly Ir Ne Neb accord according to a special dis dis- dispatch dispatch patch received by the Omaha World Herald from McCook Aeb Sunday Herman LI Light ht grieved ly for his wife who who died lied re- re recently re recently leaving him with Bith a j old y ar- ar arold old boy Attracted by the promise or of reunion In an afterworld extended ex- ex extended ex extended tended by the is cult Light and hI his neighbor John L L Sul SuI Sullivan Sullivan livan lIun began an earnest t study of oC the strange cult They filled their II 11 branes with writings of oC Sir Conan Doyle and other spiritualistic au They welcomed discus discus- discus the neighbors who had taken up the cult culL To Light promise of oC the reunion in m the afterworld became a golden drenn 1 with Ith which he forever occupied his thoughts I Last Thursday night Light forced his son to drink a pOison poisonous poisonous lous ous lotion and then drank a fatal draught himself I The funerals were held Friday afternoon I As the double cortege passed sed the house of Sullivan an there a was a shot within Sullivan In had blown out hIs I brains lIh a shot shotgun n