LED ASTRAY

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 231, 28 September 1915, Page 2

LED ASTRAY

BY - BROTHER " IX RZXIGIOIT. GIRL'S TALE OF STRANT3E SECT. (Bj Telegraph.- Own Corrwponflent.) HAMILTON", thi« -lay. The- doings of a girl of 15, wno w &» charged at the Hamilton Juvenile Court to-day with not being under proper control, provided a rather -unusual story. It -wiie explained by Senior Serjjeant CasseUs-that tin , girl "waa found winderinp penniless nUuit the Hamilton streets. She belonged to a. nert known as the "Israelite J louse of David." the male mrmbcrs of ■which wrrc all known to rack other and addrtiwd a-i "brother." La<t Thursday th* jrirl carno to Ilanulton in coniparry with a younjf man, who, shr eiiid, \nvA her brother, but who w;i« merely ii member of th<» sect, and not a relation- Th<- man. ftlw stau-d, had Induced h»r to run away «Tth -him from her mother in Auckland. On arrival at Hamilton Uu- proprietor of a, boardinghouse took o>m[>iut-Mion on her and boarded, her till Saturday night, when she disappeared. After her arrest yesterday, the poliep wired to her father at Coromandid. giving him details of her apprehension. The father icpliod that his daughter was capable of looking alter hena-.lf. ami that he hiwl left her in Auckland with her "brother to teach her the Word of Cod. ' Tho Senior Servant drecribed the nuin as "a nice sort of brother" to take a young srirl away from her people in this fashion. It waa a very peculiar way oi tcach'inp her the Word "( <'«td. Mr. K. Kawson. S.M.. in committing the srirl to an industrial school, charaetprised the man who had led her astray a* a ecoundrel.