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Betrayed by Their Own Mothers Into Hands of Man Who.Pro claims Startling Cult. CHICAGO, Jan. T.——Facing serious charges of improper relations with two young girls, whom he was educating as “mothers of a coming race” and priotesses of his cult of “The Abso lute Life,” Evelyn Arthur See, the founder of the faith, was today ar raigned in court here and will remain in the hands of the police until it suits Judge Beally to hear the cage. See's arrest was decided upon at the police only after Mona Reese and Mildred Bridges, both sixteen, had confirmed the admissions by the lead er of the cult that there had been stronger than religious association be tween them. Before the police and reporters, the two girls gave their evi dence against the “revealer of the per fect life.” When questioned as to earlier denials, the girls pointed that the police had used such terms as “in decent.” “Nobody in the ‘absolute life’ can sin,” they contended, “We believed in these things, and Mr. Lee believes in them and we don't see why the law interferes.” When Mrs. Freda Reese and Stephen Hudson Bridges and his wife, parents of the two girls, were ex amined as to Lee's actions, Mrs. Reese was not shaken in her devotion to the prophet. “My daughter was living with Mr. Lee with my full permission,” she said. “Il am a believer in the cult. We have absolute faith and don't sin.” Mrs. Bridges expressed the same views and gave $15,000 bonds for the release of the two girls. Bridges, the father, however, looked at things in a different light. He charged that Lee had hypnotized his wife and daughter and made threats to kill the founder of the cult. Lee, who has a wife in Chicago, from whom he is separated, had fully a score of boys and girls in his es tablishment here, which he called the “junior commonwealth.” Since the revelation of his teachings and prac tices, the “commonwealth” has gone out of business.
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Lincoln Evening News
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sat, Jan 07, 1911
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