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NORA DAVIS, THE LEADER OF THE “ALPHAS,GUILTY OF VIC IOl)s CONDUCT.FOUNDNorah Davis, leader of the Alphas,” or so-called “Christian Spiritualists,” the woman who is charged with abandonment and neglect of four infants adopted by her for bringing: up in thereligious teachings of her strange sect, was sent to the correctional department of the Indiana Woman's Prison for six months, and was flnfed $500 and costs, .... ~t •The woman's case was heard in ju-v«iile court,*and the offense was shown to be an aggravated one,' and withoutr palliation. Four babies , none overone year-aid, -were b the hands of Tatraveling band of pilgTims, men and women, who had been driven from Ohio cities because of gross immorality and vidousness. Three of the Infanta were In the clutches of pneumonia, and the fourth, when found by the police, was drunk as a rehult of taking beer from a nursing bottle.Klljah aroomes, who admitted that •he had bought the beer and had given it to the baby to quiet taa-child, demanded a change of, venue, Monday aid arms s«it to1J*tt ee°w«H Tor trial in!.criminal court on a ohange of con-trlbutins to the deltaaueney ef a chile
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Indianapolis Sun
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Mon, Oct 26, 1908
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