PURNELL GAOLED.
RELIGIOUS CHARLATAN BENTON HARBOR, U.S.A. Nov. 18. ’White-beared and looking very worn and weary, old “King" Ben Purnell, whose long suit was securing pretty' girls and then finding be* whiskered husbands for them in his colony, stayed in goal three hours this morning while the members of his cult obtained £IO,OOO hail in a ease involving a charge of moral turpitude. Purnell was missing for three y r ears, and is supposed to have spent some of that time in Australia. Hi l was betrayed by a former member of his flock, whom he had selected to marry one of his girls. The police swooped upon him at midnight and snatched him, partly dressed, from the House of David.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16200, 25 November 1926, Page 7
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121PURNELL GAOLED. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16200, 25 November 1926, Page 7
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