The Archive · 1937

"JESUS" GETS THREE YEARS IN PRISON

Los Angeles, July 2

John West Hunt, west coast leader of the Father Divine cult, known in the movement gs "Jesus the Christ, was to-day sentenced to three years' imprisonment in the Federal peniterfor violating the Mann white-alleged seduction of Jowett, seventcen-yearrl. Hunt, who is white, was said to have enticed Miss Jowett from' Denver to Los Angeles on the mise of -making her the "virgin Mary" of the New York negro leader's movement,—United Pr

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