MODERN SUN WORSHIPPERS.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13413, 10 May 1912, Page 8

MODERN SUN WORSHIPPERS.

An investigation has been ordered.by. the United States authorities into the temples of the Mazdaznan "sun worshippers" in New York, Lowell, Mass., and elsewhere. Tho Chicago headquarters of the sect has been under investigation for some time, and Ottoman Zar Adusht Hr.nish, the "hign priest" of tho order, is now awaiting trial tliere charged with sending cbjectionable matter from one State another. It is stated that 25 arrests among the members of tho cult's lirur council will be made. Tho Government is being assisted by Mr. Charles R. Lin say, junr., undo and guardian «f Georgo Lindsay, a boy of 12, the heir i'> a fortune, who was keipt for months < r. a diet of beer .and grapes in ■ tho Chicjj;o temple by the Mazdaznanitea, to increase his divinity. Tho young foy mysteriously disappeared during M"<>--ceedings in the Chicago Juvenile Court. Hanish, who has been released on t oil, was surrounded by woman devotees, who tried, to shield him from-;>hbio-graphers as ho left Court after his "ry.ru mitment for trial. The authorities '.'tr«< found a cult "catechism," which, thov aay, contains objectionable matter Hanish, who gave the titles of "priii ;->/ "duko," and "duchess" to his coujjjJ members,-has issued a statement, lrr.J- , ing "We were born in Teheran, l'«?r r >;3 , Our mother was a Russian princess, .• ml our father was a- Gorman baron, stationed there an ambassador. Subsequon-Iy. both Russia and Germany triod'to cltiiM us, and to avoid difficulty wo (Mino to America." I