Three negro preachers were placed in the guard house this
afternoon for their failure to obey the injunction of Mayor Killette to close
up their place of worship on East Nash street. This is the crowd who call
themselves the Holy Rollers, and do not believe in work on Saturday so they can
get two days to loaf. The Mayor, of course, ordered them to stop their meeting
on account of the spread of influenza, but there was one negro from
Philadelphia who told the Mayor it was God’s work and refused to stop and they
kept on. He came back up town and securing officers placed them in jail. One of
them is named Joe Johnson.
When the editor of The Times went into the city lockup to
secure the names of the strange negroes, we asked the one hailing from
Philadelphia and he said his name was the church of God and the saints of Jesus
Christ. He refused to tell us his real name. We received the same answer from
the next. In the last cell was Joe and he said that he was following the
teaching of Christ. We asked him why he wanted to listen to a strange negro
from Philadelphia and not the law of the land and the Mayor of the city.
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