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The Huron Expositor, 1926-12-03, Page 3t "ii It C�! } r'i e;. ii pry iii hQ �{tiny•' �Si4s4t�y;;1,Vg!ia 7T.. ifr ;4 r m SEAF t aai'+� blr�oaee tl G dE SrEAtvir..4tis X-H.t: ItA 74, sti Manager. QUEEN, 'HUNTS FOR ROYAL who hold to them, as some sort of .guide for this world and promise for a world to come. But there are certain practices current that •place. the order beyond the pale of the law. ,These practices, we suppose, are supposed to be the exclusive pre- rogative of the headof the order and are net recommended for the ordinary ' communicant: They savor of the . Mormonism of the earlier days when i, polygamy was not only preached, ,but lustily practised. Jaen- jamin Purnell is accused of having corrupted young -girls who- have been drawn into the cult, under the pre- tenee<t'hat iftects their rel gious duty to obey him. At is said that his wife, `the so-called `Queen Mary," aided him in these debaucheries, and took her own reward in the form of cost- ly presents made by some of the wealthy parishioners. Purnell is ac- cused of having several women who shared his wife's position, and it is inferred that her lot for many years has been a terrible one. Yet she is accused as an accomplice. In 1862 Purnell was born in Ken- tucky, and at the age of twelve had a reputation as a boy preacher. He was almost as unlettered then • as he is now, but history shows that illiteracy is no obstacle to the founder of a religious cult, Joseph Smith having been about as far down the social and educational scale as it was possible for him to be. Pur- nell continued to be an exhorter until he reached man's estate, got married and had a family. Then he began to give forth intimations that he was really "King Ben," and be- came a member of the "Flying Rollers," a cult which_was dissolved several years ago. From 1898 to 1903 he lived in an Ohio town and gradually gathered a few followers who professed to understand his in- comprehensible doctrine, and who certainly were greatly under the man's magnetic influence. In the latter year public opinion was strong- ly aroused against him because of his refusal to care for the body of his daughter, who had •been killed in a factory explosion. He said it was a matter of religion with him. After that the outfit left Ohio and established itself in Benton Harbor. To the outside world the House of David in the following years was merely a religious order of unusual eccentricity. The 'men -did not shave, and they dressed themselves out- landishly. The order was extensive- ly advertised by the tours of a bearded baseball -team and a highly hirsute band, both of which were competent ..organizations and useful tools of propaganda. Converts in- creased, and they included some people of wealth and ' culture. What Purnell had to expound did not seem HOUSE OF DAVID ON ITS LAST too childish for a man like H. LEGS Dewhirst, formerly a superior judge of California. • It was hope rather For more than three years a fugi- than reason that drew the followers. tine from justice, Benjamin Purnell Purnell told them that they would has been arrested and is now out on not die if they lived properly. He bail of '$126,004. Outside the State purposed to -produce at Benton Har_ of Michigan, the name of Benjamin ,bor a race that would never perish. Purnell is unknown, but he has a far Of course, members did die, but it wider celebrity 'as "King Ben of the was plain to the survivors that they House of David." For some years had died because they racked per - past he has been. the heaEl of a cur- fection, that death, in fact, was sous religious colony established at weeding all imperfections out of the Benton Harbor, Michigan, with real colony and that in the end, perhaps estate and other property valued at in a second gr third generation, more than $3,000,000, according to those still living would continue to some estimates, It is said that all live forever. It seems preposterous this property is in his name and the rubbish to those never brought on- etime of his wife. If this be true, it der the spell of the prophet, but he is highly probable that Purnell will was a man of keen mind, quick per- ✓ ish, leaving his bail bond to be ceptions and a knowledge of mob tainted. But his available wealth psychology, and while he lost a few may be exaggerated. Everything a- members, his following continued to bout him may be exaggerated, but increase. not apparently the credulity of his It was in 1920 that there occur - followers. He still has a loyal band red the first important defection, of some hundreds, shrunk from some which was followed by others, ac - thousands, despite the fact that he companied by suits charging fraud. has been exposed as a disgusting re- People had joined the colony who in- Iigious faker, and a man of the most vested their money with Purnell, .degraded morals. His pretention to and when they withdrew they wished personal ,communication with the not to withdraw naked. But "King Deity is what has enabled him to prey Ben" fought these suits as long as Upon . many .Hysterically religious peo- possible, and retaliated/ with other pi+$e. suits charging libel. Then the stor- We do not.know what are the pre- ies of girls who said they had been -vise beliefs of members of the House abused by the prophet began to be of David. They are probably cams heard. Some of them were fought -pounded of the usual mysteries and determinedly by even the mothers anoral platitudes --lend serve those of the gird victims, so thoroughly Were they under Purnell's influence. But an. investigation in 1922, and a later Brie in 1923, indicated that the man was a moral monster. War- rants were issued for his arrest, but he had vanished. Rewards amount- ing to $4,000, including one from the Detroit Free Press, which hal led the crusade against the cult, have been standing ever since. It is under- stood that all that time Purnell has been living in the colony. .He was apprehended through the cupidity or love of justice of dne of his former victims who gab© information against him and told the police hour the raid was to be directed. 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