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9780870044243

Holy Rollers: Murder and Madness in Oregon's Love Cult

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  • ISBN13:

    9780870044243

  • ISBN10:

    0870044249

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-03-01
  • Publisher: Caxton Pr
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Summary

This is a story that has the elements sometimes found in modern novels -- sex, mass insanity, the downfall of prominent families, murder, and sensational court trials.

But this story is all true. . . and it happened a century ago!

Corvallis, Oregon leaders weren't terribly impressed with the Salvation Army dropout who appeared in the community in the early 1900s and announced plans to start a new church. While Edmund Creffield may have been unremarkable in the eyes of the city fathers, he became something else to many of the city mothers and daughters.

When Creffield and his "Holy Roller" religious cult made headlines in Oregon in 1903, it was page-one news -- not just in the Pacific Northwest, but around the country. Yet few people in Oregon and Washington today have heard Creffield's name or his story. And the descendants of the people who were involved still refuse to talk about those events 100 years ago.

Robert B. Blodgett spent years sifting through newspaper archives in Washington and Oregon, piecing together the story of Edmund Creffield. Theres

Table of Contents

Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgements xi
Prologue xiii
The Seduction xvii
``Trust me, brothers and sisters''
1(6)
``God, save us from compromising preachers''
7(8)
The Flock
15(10)
Holy Rollers
25(8)
Housecleaning
33(10)
Community concerns
43(8)
Esther: the chosen one
51(8)
Tar and feathers
59(8)
Sane people don't go bareheaded
67(10)
``More beast than man''
77(10)
``God will plead my case''
87(8)
Scandal
95(10)
Calm before the storm
105(10)
Giving up the Ghost
115(10)
The People v. Creffield 125(80)
``I've got my man''
127(10)
The Widow Creffield
137(6)
Killer or hero?
143(8)
The trial
151(10)
An inherited streak of insanity
161(12)
Testimony
173(14)
Two other murders
187(8)
The verdict
195(10)
The Madness 205(70)
Seeking Reconciliation
207(6)
No remorse
213(8)
``What can Papa do for you?''
221(6)
``Human life is too cheap in this community''
227(10)
Grief
237(6)
Insanity?
243(12)
Poison?
255(10)
Final chapter
265(10)
Epilogue 275(4)
Bibliography 279(18)
Authors 297

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