Hansel v. Purnell

DONAHUE, Circuit Judge.

In 1902-03, Benjamin Franklin Purnell, commonly known and generally referred to as “Benjamin,” caused to be copyrighted, printed, and published certain of his writings, consisting of four volumes, called “The Star of Bethlehem,” “Seven Books of Wisdom,” addressed on the cover page “To the Twelve Tribes of Israel Scattered Abroad,” and a great number of pamphlets, among which were “The Little Book,” “The Key of the House of David,” “The True Light,” “What is the Soul!” “Where Did Cain Get His Wife?” These publications proclaimed Benjamin ss the “Seventh Angel Messenger,…