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TAKRKS FREER OWN LIFE In Fear of Sentence Ida Craddock Inhales (Cal, New York, Oct. 18.—In fear of an other term in prison or spending the balance of her days in an insane asy lum, Miss Ida Craddock, high priestess and pastor of the “Church of the Yoga” in Chicago and missionary hero of her peculiar belief, committed sui cide yesterday by inhaling gas. Her body was found by her mother, Mrs. Decker, by whom the suicide was to have been accompanied to the United States court to be sentenced under a conviction for sending obscene matter through the mails. Fear of this sentence and also that her mother was planning to have her committed to an asylum led to the sui cide. She left a most affectionate let ter to her mother, in which she said: “I will not consent to go to the asy lum, as you are evidently planning to have me go.” Miss Craddock served three months on Blackwells Island for circulating an objectionable book, and upon her release was prosecuted by the federal authorities for sending the books through the mails. Before coming here she was convicted in Chicago and prosecuted in Philadelphia and Wash ington for circulating her books, which were alleged by the authorities to be indecent. Miss Craddock came orig inally from Denver, and first drew public attention by her defense of the dance du centre at the World’s Fair which she maintained was a solemn religious performance. She was a woman of culture.
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Rushville Tuesday Republican
Rushville, Indiana, US
Tue, Oct 21, 1902
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