ANNALS OF CRIME about C. Thomas Patten, an Oakland, CA evangelist and his outrageous methods of collecting funds from his congregation, and his fraudulent ventures. In 1944, not long after Patten and his wife, Bebe, had established their permanent revival in Oakland, they were offered the opportunity to buy, for $265,000, the City Club building, whose theatre auditorium they were renting. The article tells how the funds for the purchase of the building were found. Patten & his wife held joint ownership in the building, but the congregation was given to understand that they were simply acting as trustees. Bebe Patten, in flowing white robes, declared, "It will always belong to the people." In July 1947, tempted by an opportunity to realize a quick profit of about $200,000, Patten sold the building to the Loyal Order of Moose for $450,000, the very building that had been dedicated 3 years before and that the Pattens had sworn would remain as a monument to God "until Christ comes again," When some members of the congregation were bold enough to remonstrate with Patten, he retorted, "It's nobody's business what my wife and I do with our property."