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Murdering Holiness The Trials of Franz Creffield and George Mitchell 1st Edition by Jim Phillips, Rosemary Gartner 0774851910 9780774851916

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Author(s): Jim Phillips; Rosemary Gartner
ISBN(s): 9780774851916, 0774851910
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 3.42 MB
Year: 2003
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0774851910 

ISBN 13: 9780774851916

Author: Jim Phillips; Rosemary Gartner

Murdering Holiness explores the story of the “Holy Roller” sect led by Franz Creffield in the early years of the twentieth century. In the opening chapters, the authors introduce us to the community of Corvallis, Oregon, where Creffield, a charismatic, self-styled messiah, taught his followers to forsake their families and worldly possessions and to seek salvation through him. As his teachings became more extreme, the local community reacted: Creffield was tarred and feathered and his followers were incarcerated in the state asylum. Creffield himself was later imprisoned for adultery, but shortly after his release he revived the sect. This proved too much for some of the adherents’ families, and in May 1906 George Mitchell, the brother of two women in the sect, pursued Creffield to Seattle and shot him dead.

The authors take us into the courtroom for the trial that made headlines across North America, as Mitchell was acquitted of murder. Though the formal plea was insanity, the defence built its case on the “unwritten law” that justified killing to protect or avenge family honour. Based on court records and archival sources, this case study includes a detailed examination of the trial, the media’s response to it, and the dramatic aftermath, and sheds light on the rise of ardent religion in the Pacific Northwest, the justice system in Seattle, and the role of the press in influencing public opinion.

Table of contents:

The Creffield Sect in Corvallis, 1903

Driving Out the Sect

“Sensualist Practices Prescribed and Ordained as Coming from Heaven”

Disciplining the Sect

Revival and Revenge, January to May 1906

Seattle Prepares for Trial, May and June 1906

Justifiable Homicide and the Unwritten Law

The Trial of George Mitchell, Part 1

The Trial of George Mitchell, Part 2

“And the Evil That Men Do Lives After Them”

The Law, Maud Creffield, and Esther Mitchell

Epilogue

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