Show 4 r SPIRIT MEDIUM FOUND GUilTY J G U Arnold Did Strike Aged Woman Declares Court CourtS Sentence S Deferred TESTIMONY AS ONE OF BROTHERS REcoe AS ALLEGED GHOST John G Arnold of the tho notorious Arnold Dickson brothers spiritualists was con convicted convicted in police pollee court yesterday esterday afternoon or o having assaulted Mrs Mary J I Bran Brandon Brandon Brandon don 73 old with his fists on tha tho night of September 8 while whilo Mrs Brandon was attending a materializing in the headquarters East Third South street Mrs Brandon Is a pioneer of the state having pome Orne ome here with the first company of fifty arriving In Salt Snit Lake valley in the fall faU of Her ler home hoine is at Center Centerville yule ville and she will leave for fol that place today toda S The trial of the case attracted an un unusual unusual usual amount of attention and tile the court courtroom courtroom room was crowded with spectators Thero There were a dozen or fifteen women in time the audience some of whom were the friends of or the time accused Mrs Brandon and Mr and und Mrs MII W TV H Dye were also in the courtroom Mr Dye D o was the complainant nt in the ease case Mrs Lice face still sUlI showed sh ved the discoloration discoloration discoloration oration which resulted from the beating which she sue received while in the tho room In which the took tool place Both of or her ern e were blackened ante antt ane there were other marks which had not been effaced by b the lapse e of ot a week from 1011 the tile time the assault took place Mediums ill at Ease John G Arnold the tile defendant occupied a n seat on the prisoners bench At his hia side James Dickson his fair haired partner in the spiritualistic medium busi bust business business bustness ness Both were agitated and ill at ease case Tile The prosecution of ot the case clUte was con ducted by Assistant City Attorney P J I L Daly and under his illS close clo o questioning ad light was thrown on tho tile methods of or the pair who have gained wealth by playing on the tile weaknesses of weak men anti and women Judge O 0 W Powers conducted the time de defense d delease lease but all of his Imis ingenuity could not save his client from rom conviction At tho the conclusion of the testimony City Cit Judge J J Whitaker hitaker pronounced the defendant guilty guilt and sentence will vili be passed d Mon day morning at 9 The rhe testimony te which was adduced was of or such a u character as ns to expose many of the time methods of time the men who claimed to be able to secure communication with the beloved dead of or their dupes When Than the case was WitS called Arnold an aim that his attorney had not yet arrived but would be in Iii the tile courtroom in a moment At that time Judge Pow Powers Pe ers ems entered the courtroom and ana the Ule case was taken up t c Woman Badly Bruised Bruis d Prosecutor Daly stated stilted the time facts al in the time complaint and stated that the th city eit was ready lead for trial W V H Dye and amI Mrs Mary M 11 Brandon were called and amid sworn Mrs Brandon was called to tho the stand The bruises on her aged ag d face ace could be plainly seen from the body bod of or the courtroom courtr om Mrs Brandon stated under the question ue tion inS ills of the prosecution pro that her homo was wasat wasat wasat at Centerville She Sue had heard much macit of the th brothers and had come to the time city to see them Do you OU know the tho defendant Arnold she he was 1 l certainly do she answered I have seen him more than once I r went to their place she said in an answer answer answer to Mr Daly to see sea time tile spirits of of my dead friends and to hear these spirits talk with me I saw what was represent represented ed id as the tile spirits of my m d dead id boys bo S my daughter my father and mother mothel rhey They kept coming com in and coming coaling I 1 finally nied Arnold Arnod as ns appearing as us my dead father 1 determined to investigate to see soe if ir the apparition Wits was a spirit or a human being I found the spirits to bo ho human beings b On what occasion As one of the spirits approached I felt feU the cloth eloth that th t formed fO the covering C t spoke of the material and was told that it was spirit goods tood Then I grap led ledwith with ith it and Arnold stepped out into the tho room me on the th face That loosened the tho grip which I hind had on ore oreth th the garments of Ute time supposed ed spirit and andI I fell feU over a chair The rUe blow made my nose hose bleed all aU over Oer my clothing Was the room light or dark Judge Powers In opening the he Continued on Page 2 MRS M M BRANDON Who Was Beaten Till Blood Ran by an Spirit and J Js JG s G Arnold SPIRIT S MEDIUM M i FOUND GUILTY Continued from Page I 1 It was nearly ri arly dark dark but but there the was a faint fa int light from the windows back UL or of us us Why did you yau go to this place VI 1 wc with my for t th the h purpose p ot of talking with my dead friends und and a nd relatives I was not Ilat suspicious until I recognized Arnold appearing and rep resenting r my dead children This was wason on o n the platform I was below on the floor fi cor I asked them to come came down They The td told t old me to come up on the platform I did d id so sa As AB I approached them they re receded ceded eded c cIn from me inc All AU of or these were vere v ere clad In Ins In n robes I seized the robe of ot one and na shouted s Now Ive got you I 1 recognized three different features of o f apparitions which I 1 took t ok to be persons and a aw nd not spirits One Ono of these I 1 believe boll eve was w at as DIckson appearing as aso a woman At the t ho he time I 1 believe I saw Dickson appear Ing l ng ag as a woman there was a faint light so that hat t I could tell that It was not a spirit As I seized the robe of the alleged spirit s there was a rumpus and a scuffle C sC sI Chairs hairs were knocked over aver and Arnold ran st nto Into I the room roam asking what was the mat ter t er I fell down clinging to the robe and was waR w as pulled over chairs and struck my k knee nee bruising It Aa As I was being pulled over o ver tho the chairs a light appeared for an Instant I Il and thon then Dickson turned on the light ight l 1 Not Indian I but Arnold Some Samo one hit me In the face ace Arnold said s aid It must have been an Indian Was It an Indian asked Daly No it was Arnold replied Mrs Bran Brandon Brandon don d on Did you say that they would have to pay p ay you a big sum of ot money or you would have h ave them arrested II I 1 did not I said that they thoy would pay dearly for that I 1 would have commenced proceedings because they had deceived me meso m so 80 s o Arnold asked me to come up stairs and wash my ray face but I would not do it i it I went home he ask If you had seen a wo wa woman waman woman man there and did you not say No It was too dark but you ou believed you ou saw sawa sac saca a a woman No Judge Powers then thon asked the witness If It i f she had told Dye to telephone to Arnold after they returned home about a money mono settlement Mrs Brandon declared that thai L sho she had not and denied that she had In Instructed instructed Instructed Dye to ask them how much they the would give to keep the matter quiet Dye Tells His Story William Wiiiiam H Dye complaining witness was WM W then summoned to the witness stand He Re stated state that he lived East Sec Second Second Second ond South street and had gone with his hi Mrs Brandon to the tho Arn Am headquarters on the after utter afternoon noon of September 8 Ho He then identified i Arnold and said that as they entered the thi S building they tho p saw Arnold first in the tho of office office fice flee and afterward in the hall ball where when meetings are held State on what occasion you saw Arn Arnold Am Amold old aId demanded Prosecutor Daly I r saw slL w Arnold when he struck Mrs Mr I Brandon In the face faco with his fist Where were you while this was going goIn g on an ond asked Judge Powers who had hal taken take ri up the cross examination of the tho witness I OIl I had his Ilia spirit In my arms I was wa S holding one ono of the spirits wrists with Ii my hands Was tho the room light or dark There Thero was a a faint licht t from an electric lamp I struck a match matcha Li a little after ho had time to separate him hini himself himself self from the spirit What did you ou go to the sons for III 1 I went went there mere to 10 see sou the me spirits spirit T i mu dl d i I not nat believe in them and went ent out r f I had h d thought of expo matter and went for that i pose I went to catch a spirit no ne i j what trouble it occasioned J I Did you OU 20 go 0 there to create croat a It rough rou ii h house I did Did you au have ve hold of Arnold 7 Had Hold of Spirit r I had hold of ar Arnolds spirit not Ar Ai Arnold Arnald Ainold nold Was Vas It a woman oman I will not swear that It was I P Did you u not denounce them UNo No Why not noU Well Tell I i had hold of or Arnolds spirit Why W hy should should I i denounce them j I L was c convinced co After the melee and after the spirit sp irit got away from my grasp I un nfl unlocked i locked lo the door so BO that we wo could get outI out I j went to that place for the purpose of or d determining de whether i A the apparitions iti n were n spirits sp or 01 fakes takes L did not care what wh t hap happened p v ened so long as I was satisfied Did you not telephone to them thorn after atter you vou y ou got home to arrange tor for a money set settlement ement tl u so that you would keep still No 10 almost shouted he witness you ask for money UNo No he replied with emphasis In h r excitement he continued re referrIng ferring f to Mrs Brandon she said that J they hey t would pay Da dearly for what whet Wh t they had h ad done Did you OU say ay that you had hold of ar a amans amans i mans m ans spirit III I had hold of or Arnolds spirit Defense Makes Denial The prosecution i r announced d that no oth othor othor or o r witnesses would be called and the de f f ense was opened by the testimony of or A Arnold A the defendant He was nervous and a nd his face was palo pale His dark eyes were w ere brilliant with expectancy and sup pressed p 1 excitement Arnold stated In answer to the questions of o f Judge Powers that he had lived in fn L Salt SaIt S alt Lake four years cats He admitted that n Ive he h Ue knew Dickson in fact they lived in Iii L tho t hn same sanie place Arnold sId Id that he ne had mot mt Dye D e and I J Mrs rs Bran n He had met Dye several severa I 1 times imes t but Mrs Brandon only once severaL t L was on the afternoon the trouble took 1 place p lace In Tn running form his lils testimony was as a follows f Dye and Mrs Brandon came to the theoffice theoffice th i office o together and went to the han hall for tOl tOla i a ar materializing I was not In the r but was on the floor above I r heard h eard a noise In the hall hail and ran down I the t he stairs to pee fM ce what was the matter Is I rushed into the anteroom and shouted several everal s veral times tho the matter the matter Then I the door and find ran in I T saw s aw that Dye hold of his Jaw l aw and she phe had ha hold of him They wore were S tussling t about the room I 1 saw that they the r had ad caused the excitement I shouted to ti D Dick on to ask why he had not thrown ri on the lights Dickson threw throw the light S on I saw no one In the room but Dick son Dye and Mrs Brandon I was not in the room and did not no t strike Mrs rs Brandon Dye D e was las as white whit noC C as a sheet and rushed out Mrs Bran ion don t said a woman had struck her Branci I J told tol ci her that it was nonsense and asked her he r to search the house Then Dye Dc rushed rushe hea a out when she left l left ft the house Dye D Cl telephoned to me later He said I Arnold Arnold you yau know what took place T I i want to know what you will do about It 1 tt to keep leep me still r I told him that ho he was wac more mara worried d about it than I I was and hung up the th 0 receiver Womans Nose Bleeding After Acter I T entered the thc room I saw that L Mrs o nose was bleeding T slight L ly Ip I told her to go up stairs and wash was 11 1 her face Did you take part in the 7 I never neer take hike Dart cart in lu II the I was upstairs Who does asked Daly Dah in cross ex e am I nation Mr DIckson He Is p my m partner I 1 give consultations of all the affairs of life Ire ii e and conduct the tho Sunday Sunda evening meet mee Ings he lie answered pompously Do you au call up the spirits I do not call them i up They come of or f their Own accorO They have an interest St I In those living on the earth There Thero was a spirit there thoro that day dar d Ly which was decidedly human was there the re e not asked Raked Mr Daly Dal p pI I know nothing or of it Was it dark there that day Yes but not necessarily so The isi t ten ter ma may have hare total darkness or a little litt lo e light as he lie may elect I have never seen s m n spirits materialize in the light lightA When YOU came down stairs on hear boa r ing the commotion how did A you ou know kno w v Where here to go goI gor the I r stayed sta ed at the door shouting What 3 S matter DId you take tale hold of Dye I r did not As soon as I opened the tho ti lie e door do or I saw Raw Dye Dc and Mrs Irs Brandon gling ng with each other The Tho g room was to t 0 tally ta lly dark After the lights were turned turn s1 1 on ont onte I 1 i went inside and Mrs Brandon said sald I object to the witness testimony t said the prosecutor volunteering ig T The T he witness was ita then told to confine tu his I HIS ds s te teth testimony to the answers to questions ns s that th at were put to him Denies Indian Story What That was said about an Indian 1 Nothing Dont you au believe in Indian spirits I believe that Indians have spirits just it t like Uke lik e other people Where hero was Dickson s I 1 do not know positively You are endowed with supernatural ral 1 gifts gi and tell te ll me mc where powers Dickson and was yet et you ou cannot tot t Yes Why rh you ou get a spirit to tell where w here Dickson was you y ou m I fail fall to see what I for fo necessity there was US us r me to invoke one at that time Which oh h would w be bo tha th quicker for me to run and andI a nd id see se e what was the matter or to Invoke spirit sp spec irit to tell teli me a I am sure I do not know said Pros Pr ec ece DS Daly With a laugh I am not an n e on spirits Arnold Arnald stated that no foe toe in was exacted advance adrance as the sitter tho th o if Ie he could pay after af u were satisfied If It was w as dissatisfied he did he lie not need to J In answer to another question pay nav pa Arnold Arnoldi Am old JT saId s st aId K I that fc Mrs lUrs Bra Brandon don was wis injured I that hat t i her hor face was not bruised but mt Then there was vas a dramatic lIra M Ms Mf Mb rs Brandon Interruption on n seat s eat and arose excitedly from tier hor I or a to a poInt front f atthe witness exclaimed directly In Gentlemen I en face b leeding my was bruIsed and d to t o Mrs her Brandon seat was quieted and returned ned ej tp Arnold was then tf post past p ast life life Ure He said questioned that that he as to his is from f rom San Francisco about caIne came hore lj ore Q Prior P to four faur years cars ago a 0 that time he re PY had York Y Ps ork living Jiving in New N lived In New IS Iw w York said s aid he lived JIved In Cleveland 0 O he iG u Where did you au U live before to t o Cleveland you youA ou went w en ll A I d dont n t know I was born thore there And you mean to say that not n ot know you do mow where time ti me asked Daly Dal you yeu lived before that hat t at as a titter wont went w ant nt through the crowd Dickson on the Stand Airn Arnold ld was excused and Dickson called c to the was as stand He Hc cI I was nervous and nd cf indolently leaned ch 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