V.'s own flirtation with the sect lasted only a few weeks). Hurt, whose wife and children were followers. For a time the cult operated from the home of prominent local citizen O. To this end, they let down their hair, threw off their corsets, burnt their hats, went barefoot, and wore long shapeless tunics called 'wrappers.' Their devotions included long periods of ecstatic rolling on the ground, and the people of Corvallis called them Holy Rollers, although they styled themselves 'Brides of Christ.'Ĭreffield had arrived in Corvallis in 1903. They prepared for the millennium, took the Bible literally, and rejected worldly things. Adherents, who numbered around 20 at any given time, were mostly female. A former Salvation Army worker, he had renamed himself Joshua and declared himself a prophet of a new religion. I'm in jail here.'Ĭreffield had been a thorn in the side of fathers, husbands, and brothers of Corvallis for years. V.' Hurt of Corvallis, Oregon, who was Mrs. From jail he sent a telegram to Orlando Victor 'O. He surrendered to police and handed over his gun. Thus did family quarrels ignited by an Oregon love cult erupt in the streets of Seattle. As soon as the couple passed, he shot Creffield in the back of the neck with a 32-calibre revolver. Mitchell took up a position in front of the Quick Drugstore at 1st and Cherry. Franz Edmund Creffield was walking with his wife Maud down 1st Avenue. Early in the morning of May 7, 1906, Oregon mill worker George Mitchell spotted the man he had been looking for in Seattle since he had arrived from Portland on May 2.

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