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Show DEPARTURE OF MISS KATIE KING FROM BROOKLYN SOCIETY. SO-CIETY. Mrs. Jennie Holmes, tho material-iine- medium nf Philadelphia, has recently resumed operations in Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, and the last issue of the Spiritualist Spirit-ualist Manner of Light contains an account of her devious and wicked ways, as observed by the Brooklyn society of Spiritualists. A committee of the society spends six evenings at her seances, furnishing her with the necessary cabinet, at the society's hall, on Fulton avenue. The "conditions" "condi-tions" were simply a muslin bag, loosely stitched together, which the medium drew around her, and whose mouth was tied over her head. Then she was seated in the cabinet, and put out the arm of John King through a hole in the door. Then she put out his other arm, and then hiB India-rubber India-rubber tace, with its black whiskers, well known to Philadelphia fame. 1 Then she put out Katie's face ; being her own, namely; t-ut no one found it out at the first Beance. At the second sec-ond seance two of Mrs. Holmes's black curls hung down over Katie's face, and this "gave rise to suspicions." Thereiore the bag was examined, and found to have trick seams which opened and closed by pulling a thread. It was suggested to Mrs. Holmes at IIW IUUU BtJltiiUO Ulan ik iyuuiu "wii if a lady present could hold her hands while the manifestations went on. Another lady offered to pin her to the iloor carpet to see if Katie would walk forth materialized under those conditions; condi-tions; Mrs. Holmes declined to afford thepe aids to awakened thought. An extremely sceptical gentleman observed ob-served that John King did not walk forth, and that his India-rubber face had no breath in its nostrils, while lovely Katie, on the other hand, always came forth in a white muslin bag and had a warm, human breath. At the sixth Beance, thereforo, Mrs. Holmes was sought to be searched by a committee of ladies desirous of discovering dis-covering spirit faces concealed about her person. But to that she do-murred, do-murred, and being disencumbered of her muBlin bag for the last time, became be-came suddenly faint and must have air. Therefore she tottered from the room very sick; but the fresh air im-nifidiatRlv im-nifidiatRlv bevond the door so revived her that she ran away like the wind and never was heard of in. that place again. "Wherefore," concludes the committee report, "ne think she was a fraud" or words to that effect. |
