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Show l Four Members of Queer New Sect Reluse y to Eat y Los Angeles. Cal., Aug. 20 Lving on pallets, too weak to move, detectives detec-tives found in an Arroyo Scco bungalow bung-alow last nlpht four members of a queer new sect, whose members were j deliberately starving themselves to J , death In anticipation of the end of the world. There were two men, a I woman and a girl 1G years old. They 1 had not touched a morsel of food for I six weeks, and for the last ten day.? had not stirred from their couches on the floor of a room that had not been , aired since the long fast began, j Last night the officers forced them I to take their first nourishment a pint ' of milk divided nmong the four. John Irving O'Neill, one of the four, said he was the leader of the sect which i he called Disciples of the Holy Ghost with the Gift of Tongues, and invited the curses of heaven down upon those , who compelled him to break the fast. I "The r.ppearanee of the comet was the sign of the end of the world." he I said. "We were starving because fasting fast-ing will gain us heaven, and there is i no better way of getting to heaven j than starving to death." I Ills companions, Mrs. Nellie 1?, Poyle. aged forty, and James E. Butler, But-ler, an old man. declared that they had willingly entered the death fasi. but the girl, Alice Priffen. according to tiie detectives, said she had been forced to starve, and that she was quite willing to live. I The adults were not taken into cur.. ; tody, but It was announced that tho , girl would be placed In the care of the juvenile court. f I |