An Entire Family Insane

An entire family of seven were taken into custody at Cleveland charged with insanity. The family consists of Henry Buchwold, the father; Charlotte Buchwold, his wife, and two grown daughters, Eva and Emma, and three small children. All of the members of the family are strong believers in the spiritualistic faith and have been locked in their home over a week holding wildly insane seances. One daughter believed that she was a spirit and the others believed that she must die. The spirit was willing to be sacrificed, but the officers arrived in time to prevent it.

It seems that it was quite the thing to call people who had seances followers of “the spiritualistic faith.” There was apparently a building in Boston to house the faith, also.

There is still a congregation associated with the First Spiritual Temple. (Their page has music, so make sure the your volume is turned down if you’re in a quiet area.)

I haven’t been able to find out anything about the Buchwolds or any late 19th century Cleveland area spiritualist churches/temples.