ANNIE BESANT SUED.
BOY WHO WAS DEFIED
FATHER PROSTRATES HIMSELF. TO SON.
[INDEPENDENT PRESS CABLE] LONDON, Dec. 2. A remarkable case is now engaging the attention of the courts in Madras, where a Hindu is suing Mrs Annie Besant, the famous Tlieosophist, for the restitution of his two young sons, who are being educated under her direction in England. The plaintiff alleges that Mrs Besant reported at intervals that the boys were progressing towards their initiation into her cult. She told him that one of the lads was going to be Lord Christ, with the result that- the boy was deified, many people prostrating themselves before him. The defence was that the boy was not deified. Mrs Besant admits the acts of prostration, hut avers that the father began them.
There is a probability of serious charges of conspiracy arising out of the case.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3702, 11 December 1912, Page 5
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144ANNIE BESANT SUED. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3702, 11 December 1912, Page 5
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