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Show VOUDOO DOCTORS' METHODS. Tho Rigmarole by Which Scamps Got Money from houtharn Negro. A white man who claims to be a hoodoo doctor of unlimited ability, and calls himself "Dr." Johnson, and sails uuder the alias "Sam De Leon," has been swiudliug the superstitious negroes ne-groes who live on the Waters road, near Deiter's store, for a long time. The eminent professor of hoodooism got iuto trouble recently on account of Robert Fletcher, one of his negro patients, pa-tients, on account of the strange aud weird manner in which he cures all the ills that flesh is heir to. Johnson, alias DeLeon, has a big clicutele among the negroes on Waters road, and his remedies, which were guaranteed to cure anything and everything, ev-erything, were bought up by the wholesale. whole-sale. Johnson gave a glowing account ac-count of the wonderful curative pow- ers of his hoodoo physic, and his unsuspecting un-suspecting patients were charmed, as ! it were, by the graceful eulogizing of bis remedies, which ho usually sold at 60 cents and 75 cents. The hoodoo doctor met his Waterloo when he succeeded in inducing Robert Fletcher to hand over 75 cents for a small dried-up herb, enveloped in a strip of fiery red flannel. Johnson met Fletcher in his house and talked "root medicine" ami hoodooism so glibly to him that Fletcher finally ngreed to buy one of the charms. The doctor told Fletcher that before his charm would act it was necessary for him to baud him over the price of it. This done, the "doctor" proceeded to business. He made a number of hideous gyrations, gyra-tions, walked around the room, aud, standing up in an erect position ho lifted his right hand in tho direction of the sky and commenced to revolve on his feet, pointing with his index linger i as he revolved to tho north, south, west, and east. Ho then rolled his eyes around, looked out of the door, aud said: "Gini'mo a piece of red flannel." Fletcher produced the flannel, and the doctor took from his pocket a small rulo and measured oil six inches of it. He then placed his hands in tho shape of an arch over his head, nllow-ed nllow-ed them to slowly descend, aud as they reached the red flannel he cut aud measured another piece, but this time only took four inches. The negro was somewhat nwestrick-en nwestrick-en at the strange spectacle, ' and he regarded the "doctor" as a sort of semi-devil. That was just what the "doctor" wanted. The "doctor" then took two small pieces of some hard substance having tho appearance of dried herbs, and, wrapping them up in tho two pieces of red flannel, gave them to t he negro. Johnson called it the "King of the World," and said that, the bard sub- stance enclosed in the red flannel was ! load (?) stone, but that it was "500 times stronger than anything." Another An-other remedy he called the "Quoon of the World, " and the two combined, he said, would exert a powerful inlluence over everything, and effected marvellous marvel-lous cures. ' The hoodoo gave the negroes a lengthy statement concerning himself, aud told them that his ability was such that the doctors in Savannah bad compelled com-pelled him to leave the city, and, consequently, con-sequently, he had to practise among the colored people. Fletcher waited patiently for the remedies to assert their powers, but they didn't work. The liumboozled negro came to town and swore out a warrant in Justice Russell's court for Johnson's apprehension on the charge of cheating. Fletcher was so excited in making his statement that the magistrate magis-trate made him kiss the Bible twice to be sure that his statement was true. Johnson was brought to Justice Russell's Rus-sell's office by Constablo Robertson, and he made ati earnest appeal to tbe prosecutor to drop the case. He was very nervous, aud talked about a pistol and a lot of other things. His face was sun tanned, and he was dressed dress-ed well for a man who travels ou foot in the country. He said he was from New York, but with all his pleadings Fletcher was not incliued to drop tho case. "Dr." Johnson went to jail. He showed Justice Russell his stock of medicine and hoodoo charms, and the sight of them nearly took the magistrate's breath away. Savannah News. 5 . |