Because his wife reported that today was a sacrificial day on which she and her eleven-year-old daughter were to die in a voodoo cult cere-many, Verlen McQueen, a $3-year-old negro, was arrested by police here while' attending to a twenty-gallon pot of boiling water. Police author!- were hiding the negro's wife and Jdaughter late. to-day fearing that other members of the cult might seek fo harm them. Charges of threat to kit may be brought against McQueen, 'The negro, who calls himself 'Verlenevi, "the servant of Allah," said hho joined the voodoo cult in 1932. A Detroit negro was beheaded at a crude altar here in 1092, His murderer, Robert Harris, known to cullists as "King Islam," was' later adjudged insane, 'A group of educated negroes two years later protested that many child-Fen were leaving the elly schools to enter the voodoo cull's "University of Islam." Police arrested the leader fof the cult, Wallace Farad, in 1034, precipitating a riot at the police station by angry members of the voodoo organization—United Press.
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