THE DEPOSITION.
The leader was accused of misapplying the funds and' of immoral _ teachings and acts, and was threatened w/th deposition. Mrs Dowie said that in receiving "confessions"! he s had suggested to attractive women the idea of r polygamy, and had endeavoured to set his lawful wife aside. 1 He "was allowed to nominate a. /successor/' and chose one of his stoutest partisans,-. Voliva,' of • Melbourne, who went to Zion Qity to champion the leader. Arrived there, •■ found a dreadful state of things, half had: n ot been told."- He joined with the leaders in deposing Dowie, who, violently [protesting, was dismissed oil a handsome pension; the,, courts confirming the Caption on the ground that the leader's position was fiduciary. Latterly, Dowie "appears to have become partly tabecile, occasionally sending put V'fulininations. against his successor, and now his strange and ' meteoric career has closed.. • .Zion City is apparently still ;in-a. bad case, for it has ■just-b een that '. Voliva, who has been otlW-S&fekt.iin^charge, has withdrawn^ aSaMs^&A lead a Socialist colony ii Meiiccp-'",. V- '
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, 14 March 1907, Page 1
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174THE DEPOSITION. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, 14 March 1907, Page 1
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