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

by T. McCracken and Robert B. Blodgett

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
Insanity

Judge Frater***

DID ONLY WHAT THE SPIRITS COMMANDED

Headline, Seattle Star, September 18, 1906

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Esther recovered, but again something delayed her being brought to trial. Frank Hurt now swore to a complaint alleging that she and his sister Maud were now insane, were insane when George Mitchell was killed, and had been insane for a number of years before that. Judge Frater immediately appointed an “insanity commission composed of experts on alienism.” It was something he had wanted to do practically from the time the two women were arrested.

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