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Charles "Taze" Russell - Russellites sentenced...
Charles "Taze" Russell - Russellites sentenced...
Item # 715572
May 06, 1920
THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 6, 1920
* Joseph Franklin Rutherford & Russellites
* Charges dropped for espionage - WWI
* Pastor Charles Taze Russell followers
* Christian restorationist minister
* Founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses
Page 6 has a somewhat discrete report with small heading: "Nine Russellites Go Free" (see image)
Complete with 32 pages, light toning and some wear at the margins, generally good. Should be handled with care.
wikipedia notes: On June 21, seven of them, including Rutherford, were sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. Rutherford feared his opponents would gain control of the Society in his absence, but on January 2, 1919, he learned he had been re-elected president at the Pittsburgh convention the day before, convincing him that God wanted him in the position. On March 26, 1919, the directors were released on bail after an appeals court ruled they had been wrongly convicted; in May 1920 the government announced that all charges had been dropped.
Category: The 20th Century
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