Show A NAT acs ics EL A atta I 1 I 1 S TOR I 1 T history of new religion Is told after the deadly fray kall kansas sas city dec 1 9 I r am n not arg to die am going SS to get well go and live to kill a few more polle 3 wen that is the assertion of louis aratt self styled adam god the r legious fanatic who is lying in the gen eral ciral hospital hero seriously woun wounder deI ill Ses desres a battle rES between his followers and 1310 police late yesterday As a result of the us fight pratts 13 year old daugh ter lulu and policeman albert 0 dalbow are dead and two other police men aro arc ln in a critical condition james sharp 1 known own as elijah II 11 r cua nd who was tho the real head of the lit tle hand band ot of religious enthusiasts fa h till still at large shortly after the shoot log yesterday he walked into a sa loon and laid down his revolver with the remark 1 I am satisfied I 1 civo up As there were no policemen present and no one seemed inclined to tako take him into custody sharp waited a moment then picked up the weapon reloaded loaded re it and walked out he has bas not net been seen since mrs pratt with two of her children spent last night in the matrons matrona mat rons room at police headquarters but Ms mrs M s sharp who fired the two first shots that struck policeman michael mul lane was confined in the city city jail mrs pratt bemoaned the death of he rother daughter lulu aged 13 who was shot during the second stage of yesterdays battlo battle when the women bome 1 nna ana children took to a rowboat row boat on tho tha missouri river and attempted to escape at tho the hospital this morning morning IT it was said that patrolman had small chance of recovery but that sergeant i patrick darks clarles condition was slightly improved A J selzer tho the bystander by stander who was hit by a stray bullet also la is expected to recover mary pratt the little ll 11 year cearold old bister of the dead girl displayed tho the same rd remarkable coolness shown by 1 her elders when questioned by tho tha police she did not cry when told of her sisters death she se died for her god was tho the childs remark the girl related then the ot of kneir wanderings you see we got acquainted witti with this man sharp up in north dakota j she said that must have been two years ago this summer we began I 1 following him in the houseboat w wi 3 started down the missouri river wo we would stop at each city and preach arid and sing of course wo we kids did the singing and it was great tun fun we left st joseph about a week ago and floated down to kansas city just as those ice cakes began to appear yes it got cold on the boat but you know we were serving the lord and our master had to endure hardships when he was on earth when we stood on the street corners and sang tor for the people we felt repaid fer we know knew we weib were doing the lords lord work no they make us children sing wo we did it because we loved to vo no so those big guns guna we carried were for protection papa says this is a free country and we could carry firearms it if we AVO wanted to then we needed guns to kill rabbits and ducks floating down with the when we were current did we got get hungry the child turn ed her black eyes on the questioner did sometimes but wo we of course we aint 1 Int mind that papa and mama went ent without things tp to eat cat too mrs pratt in a statement to an ns as prosecutor told of t the he bandi band work mr and mrs sharp our leaders said mrs pratt were known and eve and we to us as adam it was ro rk believed their teachings healed to mr sharp h arp last summer that our oui meetings were e not to be interfered it with again we armed ourselves the police attempt to arrest you they can cant t leader khoot said the kill me ril ill live forever the first arac I 1 heard of tho the tr tragedy yesterday was miln 4 came ru when lulu and mary down to tho the baat and told me that tho the shooting was going on then tho officers cors came an and d wanted to take us away I 1 got my iny winchester to to gt get a down oft off the wall told lulu into a skiff that and we all zot got was gull tied ded to the eouse houseboat house boat I 1 sat gat in tile the bow with my gun gull in my liand hand I 1 I 1 had to unless going to shoot to as aasc because I 1 had bad no chance either cither adam or r evo vo what to do I 1 am im afraid I 1 have torry horry I 1 resist think I 1 life because eternal lost my to shoot advised me have adam would tile the back ot of the skiff lulu sot got into and alary toor took ali the e which was covered started across abe naw divor and we oars shooting at atio the officers began and bank boat we drifted u up p to tile the I 1 L lulus car blood on whon when I 1 saw then rhen mry sll she was shot know knew that tho the s elde I 1 de hung on rind I 1 got out ot a and nd I 1 us Is of boat until they captured the ille wo oman sharp a slender I 1 0 melissa mrs whose 5 stat let of middle ago age detailed officer another WAS vw taken by leading up III to yo tho occurrences 1 told of th the 0 wi wand nd then hen days fight and t griogs u irtes of the band mo 1 I was born in ill mountain bov arii a f farm on thirty seven years biars ago hearp a far fa 1 I married mrs sharp went weilt and we nier twenty years ago tn tc 01 1 went tn Arkan cag later wo we ic 0 had claira iloma homa and took up a c about df at 1111 ther then no jio religion band came lintao lius husband one years night ago and MY said gald lie he did A not thilla wo we were living right ile he had had a revelation of the frithof fai of god we be kan to road the bible and a week lar er r I 1 got the revelation then we both repented for two weeks weeping and mourning not because we wanted wante d to but because we could not help hell it the spirit of god came to us tile the same game that tt it came to adam to david and to christ wo we then sold our farm farin and gave the money away to people who needed it and started out to preach since then wo we have traveled through oklahoma texas kansas kansa s Misso missouri url and illinois then we went north to minnesota and last summer we spent in canada in manitoba and SA we lived on gifts mado by converts and by small sums offered us by who whoever cared to one man who found the light sold all his property ond nd put in use we kept all the tha money in a common fund about last august when wo we came hack ack from canada we built a houseboat and started down the masso missouri ri from a place in montana near whito white earth we floated down tile the river stopping and preaching at towns and sometimes camping in the woods in many places we have been persecuted by the officers who wanted to take our children away and make them go to school we have been going armed for many months I 1 have practiced shooting and my older children have practiced C shooting none of 0 the child children rolt can read or write we taught them but wo we teach them righteousness paul says the wisdom of the world is foolishness ish ness christ chose his disciples from ignorant people christ did not go to school my husband and I 1 can read and write that Is enough to teach the bible chief of police abeam announced today that yesterdays bloody affair would mark an end to the street meetings in kansas city and ordered hid men to allow no more speakers to address crowds on public thoroughfares thoroughfare 5 |