Show PIRITDAL FRAU Diss De Barr and Her Crew of Bunco Spirit Painters ARE TO THE FRONT ONCE 3IOKSJ Urs Harriet E Beach Wife of the Editor at the Scientific American IsBein 01 Made Their Victim Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatcnf NEW YORK Dec 2kAnn Odella Salamon alias Diss De Bar and her crew of bunco spirit painters have come to the front once more Irt 18S8 Luther R Marsh a distinguished lawyer and a vice president of tho Union league was he victim This year the dupe is Mrs Harriet E Beach wife of Alfred E Beach editor of tha Scientific American As in the case of Marsh Mrs Beach has believed in spiritualism for many years but it is within only a short time hat she has como oat as a bold defender of the fat speak priestess and patron of the nineteenth century work of Titian Rubens and other masters of the brush who It is popularly supposed gave up painting when they died Pictures come for Mrs Beach as they came for Mr Marsh and they fill the rooms In her fine house at West Twentieth street as they filled Mr Marshs line house on Lexington avenue Unlike Mr Marsh however Mrs Beach has been persuaded Into believing she has some power herself In making splrifr pictures come It was on Sunday andJMrsBeach came punctu ally to the foreground to espouse the cause oC the spirit painters She had believed in them before but recently it having been written to heron a slate through a medium as she de scribes It that the spirits of The other world had elected her to be their champion on earth and it also having been related to her through spirits that her duty was to help R sister iiH disgrace Mme BIas De Bar she decided U > j face popular criticism and get right up and do some talking She spoke at a meeting of spiritualists on Sunday at Adelphia hall and on Monday night upon the same platform she con ducted an exhibition of spirit art and a mediums reception extraordinary Mrs Beach described some of the pictures which were on the walls and how they came Seeing heavy Ann Odella in the audience Mrs Beach suggested that possibly a spirit Dicture could be received through her mediumship The lady said Mrs Beach is now known as Mme Margaret having dropped her criminal name of Diss De Bar That excited the quondam mistress mis-tress of Mr Marshs Lexington avenue house and raising her big form to its full height she Hashed anger from her eyes and oudly exclaimed ex-claimed 1 have not given up the name of Diss De Bar I never will I was imprisoned on a false charge and will go there again for the same good cause if called to do so Mrs Beach has been called upon and chosen by heaven to carry on the work which the false hearted and recreant Luther P Marsh so Ignominiously Igno-miniously lad down It may or may not be a scheme of the mediums surrounding Mrs Beech to repeat the trick of fleecing her as they fleeced Marsh They persuaded him to deed over his house on Lexington avenue to Ann Odella as a temple ef spiritualism They are now persuading Mrs Beech to found a home for the mediums Whether they hope to get her to give not merely ncr tune but some money Ann Odelia can tell best Now that the scheme is out very likely nothing will come of their plans Just as in Marshs case Mrs Beach says that thc e public will ridicule her But I shall not th-c she adds for it is so at first with all reforms re-forms The early teachers are the objects of public scorn but later centures vindicate them VVhatever people may say I shall not mind I am sorry that my husband may he annoyed His brain is worlud up against spiritualism ho is intelligent and has been very successful Ah I I wish he might see the truth as I do |