DOWIE'S FUNERAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10963, 4 May 1907, Page 3 (Supplement)

DOWIE'S FUNERAL.

--■■■* : . ... T .. ' •-.--/■, •-■--..'-,'■ MOURNERS CLUBBED^ NEW YORK,f March 15. Extraordinary scenes were" witnessed to-day at the funeral of John Alexander. Dowie at Zion City. Thousands bf Dowieitesknelt along theroute of the'' funeral procession, hoping that the ill and crippled would be miraculously healed," but "they were'disappointed, arid : mahy of the' devout caught cold instead/ T ■• T ■■■t_ £ ."••- T;- v " Dowie's. 1 followers .believed that'he would rise from his coffiri as he had pre;-., dieted many. time|;> and they-; crow ded around the hearse-in order to have an unobstructed view of the resurrection. There, were many severe fights with the police m consequence, and some of tie mourners were clubbed. Th*main gateway to the. cemetery was' broken, presumably 'by workmen who' were constructing the Dowie vault. The cemetery authorities held Dr Gladstone Dowie, the"unkissed son" of. the "prophet," responsible, and threatened to arrest him at the grave unless he guaranteed to niake good the damage. -■.:-'. Dowieihad written; his . own .funeral seririori'j- bait his r^pMsentatives would ric. .permit it. to be .i*ead at the, graveside, for fear of provoking disturbance's.