Talk:L. W. de Laurence

Press Coverage

Order of the Black Rose (1912)

• "POLICE MAKE RAID ON MYSTIC HOUSE". Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois): p. 3. 12 Nov. 1912. http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1912/11/12/page/3/article/police-make-raid-on-mystic-house. 
• "UNIQUE CULT PROBED BY GOVERNMENT AGENTS, Chicago Doctor's House Raided to Learn Relations of White Women and Negroes.". Milwaukee Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisc.): p. 7. 13 Nov. 1912. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19121113&id=w0FQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NAoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=925,6522579&hl=en. 
• "'PROPHET' FUTILE AGAINST POLICE, Cult Leader Fails to Strike Anyone Dead. WOMAN DESCRIBES ORGIES. Order of Black Rose Said to Have Been Worst. MAIL MISUSED, IS BELIEF. Negroes Mix Freely With Whites in "Temple," Says Witness Who Relates Seances, Fights and Insults of De Laurence.". Morning Oregonian (Portland, Ore.): p. 1. 13 Nov. 1912. http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83025138/1912-11-13/ed-1/seq-1/. 
• "INVESTIGATING 'BLACK ROSE' CULT LEADER". The day book (Chicago, Ill.): p. 8. 13 Nov. 1912. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1912-11-13/ed-1/seq-8.pdf. 
• "MOB THREATENS HEAD OF 'BLACK ROSE' CULT, Forced Back by 'Body Guard' as Seer Leaves Courtroom After His Arraignment. MRS. MUERLE ADDS FACTS - L. W. De Laurence Faces Federal Charge on Mysterious Canada Parcel", Chicago Examiner 10 (218): 5, 13 Nov. 1912, https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=d&d=CEX19121113.1.5&txq= </ref>

Federal Charges (1915)

• "UNCLE SAM'S WAND HOVERS OVER "BLACK MAGIC" HEAD". Chicago Examiner (Chicago, Ill.): p. 3. 26 Nov. 1915. http://digital.chipublib.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/examiner/id/59877/rec/1.