THE BOY SUN GOD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14984, 4 May 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE BOY SUN GOD.

STORY OF THE RELIGION'S ORIGIN An investigation has - been ordered \by the United States authorities into the temples of the Masdaznan sun worshippers in New York, Lowell, Massachusetts, and elsewhere. .■ - ■ .'•' ; .'.."'"'""l The Government is being assisted by Charles R. Lindsay, jun., uncle and guardian of v twelve-year-old George Lindsay, the heir to a fortune, who was kept for months, on a diet of beer and grapes in the Chicago temple by the Mazdaxnan* ites to increase his divinity. The. young boy mysteriously disappeared during the proceedings in the ; Chicago * juvenile court.. ■ * : Hanish, the high priest, who has been released on bail, was surrounded by women devotees, - "who tried to shield him' from photographers as he left the court after his commitment for triaL The authorities have found a. cult catechism which they say contains immoral matter. The high priest, who gave' the titles of prince, duke,; and duchess to his council members, has issued a statement, reading: "We were bom in 'Teheran, Persia. Our mother was a Russian princess and ! our father was a German baron stationed there as ambassador. Subsequently, both Russia and Germany tried to claim us, and to avoid difficulty we came to America.'-