WEIRD RELIGIOUS CULT
A MOTHER’S CONFESSION
GIRL BURIED WITH DOGS.
SEVENTH CHURCH OF JESHUA
(By Tfllegrapn—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) (Received October 8, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 7. The Los Angeles police investigated the weirdest religious cult, following a confession by Martha Rhoades that the body of tier daughter, aged 16, who died of diphtheria four years ago, had been carted from a dozen different houses and finally buried w : ith seven dogs underneath a suburban dwelling. The police dug up two caskets, and found the woman's story correct. The body was fairly well preserved. Mrs Rhoades and her husband were members of a new cult called “The Royal Order of the Eleventh Branch Headstone of the Seventh Church, of Jeshua.” The seven dogs buried with the girl were symbols of the power of the Resurrection.
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Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17836, 8 October 1929, Page 7
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