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Sample Chapters from Holy Rollers:
Murder and Madness in Oregon's
Love Cult
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The Cast of Characters
Photos and Bios of the Holy Rollers
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1903 to 1907 Newspaper Articles About the Holy Rollers
1906 Editorial Calling for Gun Control
After Multiple Murders Involving the Holy Rollers
Stewart Holbrook Holy Rollers Article
Advertisements from 1893 to 1913
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Oregon Insane Asylum
Where the Holy Rollers Were
Committed
Creffield, Brainwashing & Thought Reform
Early Cases of Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity
1906 Autopsies Of Holy Rollers
Forensics Before CSI
Holy Roller Bizarre Divorce Decree
Hartley describes trying to kill his wife's lover
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How the Fire Fell
A Movie About The Holy Rollers
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Life
in Corvallis in the early 1900s
Life
in Waldport, OR in early 1900s
Facts & Stats about 1906
And How The Holy Rollers Measured Up
Oregon State Penitentiary
Where Creffield Was
Incarcerated
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Info
about Cults
Could
you ever be lured into joining a cult?
Share your thoughts about, and experiences with, cults
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Creffield's
Preachings
Creffield
Vs. Crefeld
The
Salvation Army Opening Fire in 1886
Holy
Roller Theology
Reverend
Knapp's Bible Songs of Salvation &
Victory
Songs Sung by
the Holy Rollers
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Pleading not guilty by reason of
insanity was a novel defense in 1906, yet there were two
prominent defendants in the United States at the time who
made such pleas: the young man who killed Edmund
Creffield in Seattle and Harry Thaw who killed Stanford
White in New York on the day the Creffield murder trial
began.
- Because of the similarities between
the murders and the motives, the Thaw/White case in New
York also had an effect on the Creffield murder
trial.
- Both cases made headlines across the
nation but Thaw and White's story stayed in the news
longer. That's because Harry Thaw was the son of a
Pittsburgh railroad and coke magnate and his victim,
Stanford White, was at the time America's most
distinguished architect. It was sort of the the O. J.
Simpson trial of the day.
- This may also be a partial explanation for why little before has been written about Creffield's murder. Even though Creffield's story has many of the the same elements as White's and Thaw's--sex, insanity, murder, and sensational court trials--Creffield's story was overshadowed and eventually forgotten.
- Since the Thaw/White case had an effect on Creffield's case, it was written about in Chapter Twenty-One of the book, Holy Roller's: Murder and Madness in Oregon's Love Cult.
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