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Murdering Holiness

The Trials of Franz Creffield and George Mitchell
  • Jim Phillips and Rosemary Gartner
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2007
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A riveting microhistory and legal examination of the murders and subsequent trials associated with the Holy Roller sect of the Pacific Northwest in the early twentieth century.
Murdering Holiness explores the story of the "Holy Roller" sect led by Franz Creffield, a charismatic, self-styled messiah, in the early years of the 20th century.

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Jim Phillips is director of the Centre of Criminology and a professor in the Faculty of Law and Department of History at the University of Toronto. Rosemary Gartner is a professor at the Centre of Criminology and the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto.


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The Triumph of the White Caps, 1903–1904
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Sex and the Creffield Sect
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Seattle Debates the Mitchell Case
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The Unwritten Law
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The Death of George Mitchell
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