Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1891 — THE SECOND CHRIST. [ARTICLE]

THE SECOND CHRIST.

He Fears Mob Violence and Invokes Police Protection. A small, slim, nervous man with red whiskers has been a frequent caller kt the office of the chief of police of Kansas feJity for the last four or five days. He is Walter Forth the Kansas City ‘‘voice of Schweinfurth,” the pretender, of Rockford. 111., who claims to bo Christ on his second visit to earth, and who threatens to visit that city with floods and pestilence to annoy the people for the treatment accorded him there last week, Ford is content with claiming to represent the imposter. lie is the power at Mrs. Ward's “heaven,’ on East Fourteenth street, lie is afraid of mob violence, and for this reason has visited Chief Speers. He asked the chief to send police to the “heaven” whenever services were held, and to also have men in readiness to send to the house whenever they might be needed. He said that ho feared rough treatment, being in this respect unlike Hfchweinfurth. who boasted that lie was not afraid of fffty mob. Great crowds hang anxiously tft'ound the place every night, and it is expected that it will he cleaned out. Two extra officers have been put on the boat.