| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.5

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Jim Phillips and Rosemary Gartner. Murdering Holiness: The Trials of Franz Creffield and George Mitchell. (Law and Society.) Seattle: University of Washington Press. 2003. Pp. x, 347. $29.95.
Jim Phillips and Rosemary Gartner locate their book in the case-study approach to social history, a technique that uses well-documented events to shed light on peoples and processes that are ordinarily obscured. Their judicious, thoughtful, and very well-researched examination of a sensational holiness sect illuminates the history of religion, deviance, gender, law, journalism, and more.	1
Franz Creffield left the Salvation Army to form his own sect in Corvallis, Oregon, in 1903. The movement became increasingly extreme, and townspeople charged members, including daughters of respectable families, with burning possessions and animals and engaging in sexual immorality. Creffield and his leading assistant were tarred and feathered, and Creffield spent most of 1904 in the state penitentiary for committing adultery.	2
Creffield emerged from prison "transformed from a prophet to the Messiah himself" and soon reinvigorated his movement (p. 95). But at least three men were determined to kill him, and George Mitchell, the brother of two of his followers, soon shot him dead on the streets of Seattle (p. 95). Mitchell was acquitted by a jury that upheld a widely accepted "unwritten law" giving men the right to kill men who had seduced their wives, daughters, or sisters. But the acquitted killer was in turn gunned down by his sister Esther, the very woman whose honor he had defended.	. . .

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