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Show "KATIE KING" AND HER DUPES. Tlio HolmodCd of rhiliulelphia, uu-dor uu-dor whoso auspices the Kutio Kine niaterializdtiona wtro made, the fnuiduleut character of which was recently eipodt.il by a ycr.tlcman and confeeacd by tho young woman who wtta employed to perform the tricka, now come forw.ird to explain. They say they have been the victims of a con-piracy, not so much against tlicmst'lvca as against a pi ritual Una. They promise even to produce the veritable "Katie King" under strict test conditions, and deny that they have ever been guilty ef deception. Certain lawyers, vho have investigated investigat-ed tho case, propaao to bring the young woman who pretends to have personated Katie King into court, and profew to ha ablo to bIiow that tho upparalion was frequently seen in the Holmeaea cabinet at tmiea when thU woman was absent from the pi"e-miaee. pi"e-miaee. It is alleged that there id evidence to prove the woman to be a blackmailer, sho having attempted to procure money from Dr Child last October.' Mrs. Holmes thus explains , tho woman's possession of the trinkets given to Katie King : Wn.e presents ware Rivan to ' Katie" ha could not du-mnter;-h.'i them, on' guntiraUy seereU-d tbem in various parts of the liousti (iho power of tarrying away and hiding ui.ile ial objec'.s i-ftancrally i-ftancrally accredited to spirits by bo-Movra). bo-Movra). At the concluding ooince lair. lutnmer Kt o called ilr;, tiolms Ui the cabiDL'L and itave her all tho trinkets, bidding her take jjood caro i f toitm. lti-teudiiig lti-teudiiig to rtUurn in tho frill, Mr), lioluies loft ilium in a drawer, wIuto ilia womin who now sai she w.is Ktttio Kina; f. ui,d and got posiPisiun of them. Tuig woman wo-man remained in tho hou-e, and it whi for money to iiay th? rent that iho 8p-plivd 8p-plivd to l)r. Child. If this story of Mrs. Holmes were true, it ii tu&mfeu that these trinket could not b aain shown byaipiritin the cbinet. Ono or two wiinest"i c'ftitu that they bavo seen thiiiu inco, whilo Mrs. Holmes claims that such is not tho case. This explanation will be regarded as lacking in the element of veracity, and only a very credulous person is likely to accept it, and it should be said that several of the moa- prominent promi-nent spiritualists of Philadelphia regard re-gard tho Holmeses as impostors, and thoir effort now is to ahow that tho "Kntie King" materialization at Loudon are not to be classed in the same category. It has since turned out that the Holmesea have been guilty of the crime of forgery in London. Iu a letter to the Banner oj Lijht, written since the Philadelphia exposure, expo-sure, Robert Dalo Owen, while repudiating re-pudiating the Holmes eeanccs as fraudulent, contends that in the in-Tcstigations in-Tcstigations of ilr. Crooks, of Loudon, Lou-don, and Mr. Olcott in Vermont, that there is a vast balance of evidence, during this year, going to establish the reality of spirit-materiali ition. Apologetically, he says: There ii nothing genuine, not oven rel'iiiion itself, which ca ito'. bo simulated; simu-lated; and the prusiduits and direc tor of some of our bost banks hav CA-eajiocary accepted a their own, i ncte thst had beun struck off in ten! secret workshop of soma skiilfj.1 coj:i-I lerieiter. Now while fresh from the exposure! of this fraud, we are confronted with' Missouri materialization mysterv, in which one of our own citizens is in-volved, in-volved, and it U said under conditio rendering trickery impossible. We published a long account of these seances in Thursday's Herald. Certain Cer-tain it is that the science, cr art, or phenomena of spiritualism are not to be killed at a single blow, and thai the attractiveness of mysticism is in-1 creasing rather than df creasing in the light of our superior civiliz.ition. as we are apt to call ii, and the progress pro-gress of science. Tho recently U. corered spiritualistic frauds, however, should teach investigators to demand more rigid test conditions, and force managers of mediums into open d.iv-light d.iv-light or gaslight tor their exhibitions. It spirits will exhibit themselves at ail, they should be made to show clearly that they are what they purport pur-port to be. A little more mai-.iy research re-search would soon settle the materialization material-ization business one way or the Other. |