Show CRABS SPIRIT AND IH FINDS S IT TO BE A HUMAN BEING Aged Ad g e d Woman Woma and Her v Have Struggle 1 With Spook Spooks Arno Dic son Breaks Up U p in in Scrimmage and an Expos Exposure Exp os ure ur e Arrest A of o One of o the he Brothers Follows Mrs M M Brandle 7 73 years of age residing at East Second South street grabbed a spirit at an yesterday morning She found the spirit to be decidedly flesh and blood for It 1 struck her Her soni W H Dye who lives at the same place came camo to the tho rescue in fn the darkness and grabbed the spirit The ghostly vis vie visitor visitor proved to be a human being with many flowing draperies but these draperies did not prevent the spook from fighting vigorously J G Arnold one of the brothers rushed In and struck Mrs Brandle Brandl e in the t he face f ace according to her testimony and that of her Mr Dye let go of the human spirit to protect the aged woman and the spook took advantage of this chance to es escape escape escape cape Mr Dye and Mrs Brandle left the house and Mr Dye swore out a warrant charging Arnold with wi h assault The case will be tried before Judge Diehl this afternoon The brothers pretend pr tend to call spirits from the other world for a fixed price allowing conversations with them The experience experience experience ence of Mr Dye and Mrs Brandle indicates the kind of a game the pair have been working They were driven out of Hawaii a few years ago for this sort of business and came to Salt Lake Here the th authorities have let them go on with impunity until they have amassed a fortune from from the sorrowing and the gullible who In most Instances in have been be n poor I I As a result of ot a fist fight with a spir spirit it in which the spirit 1 struggled for freedom and dealt swift blows with ma material materIal material force and precision upon UDon the body bod of a mere merc human being who had at attempted attempted attempted tempted to seize the visitor from spir I Uland a warrant was issued yesterday afternoon for the arrest of or John Doe Doc Dickson whose true name is James Dickson one of the Brothers The complaint was roas sworn to by W Y IT Ii Dye who charges Dickson with assault and battery As soon as the warrant was issued service was made and Dickson I wont went to the police station and was re released released I leased on his own recognizance after being be beIns Ins ing booked The The Ph trial of orthe the case caso will willbe be held hold in the police ponce court before Police Judo Judge Jud e C B Diehl at 2 this aft att afternoon afternoon John G Arnold and James Dickson known as the Brothers are a pair of spiritualist mediums who wore wora driven out of Hawaii a few years ago after an exposure of their methods I After leaving the thc island they the took up their abode in Salt Lake and for a L time lived modestly mo and quietly Methods Are Exposed Mr Dye declares the clever methods of ot their alleged materialization of spirits which are now exposed by a n former vic victim victim victim tim consist of impersonations of the spirits of the dead by b accomplices who are arc familiar with the leading characteristics character characteristics i of their dupes These men have preyed on the sorrows of the bereaved Mourning for their de departed departed departed parted loved ones and hoping for some ray of consolation for their sorrows the victims have been drawn into the clever cleverly cleverly ly y woven net of these men and have given given given en up their money in exchange for the shadowy consolation of believing that that they have hac been permitted to speak with the spirits of ot the dead This shadowy consolation is not given for nothing and a fee is exacted for every materialization In this manner the Brothers have played on the feeling in human hearts until they have accumulated sufficient I money to purchase property and build a I magnificent residence and offices fur furnished furnished I with almost barbaric splendor I This house is especially designed for forthe forthe forthe the purposes of carrying on the work of ot the materializing mediums It ItIs Itis Itis Is fitted with secret passages and ar arranged arranged arranged ranged with all the appliances necessary for their legerdemain and for the com complete complete complete illusion of the gullible Spirit Attacks Aged Woman The arrest of Dickson was the Ute result of a fight in a dark room in the home of or orthe the mediums W H Dye D e and his aged Mrs W M bf Brandle of East Second South street seized an alleged spirit and attempted to tear off its masks and nId garments Dickson in interfered Interfered interfered and according to Mrs statement both he and the spirit as assaulted assaulted assaulted her savagely Mrs Brandle several months ago lost her hat h son William Brandle 24 21 years old Her H r grief was poignant Hearing of the alleged materializations from the she spirit world which her friends claimed to have witnessed she went to see the phenomenon ph nom riom enon She became interested as did her W H Dye and they attended a number of oC meetings The rhe suspicions of Mr Dye D e and Mrs Brandle were aroused two weeks ago They attended a number of public torts tests public materializations and private ma and were deeply interacted In the subject At a private materialization which they attended a little more moro than a fortnight ago the materialization was effected in much less time than before At Mite tho conclusion of the the spirit wafted a shadowy scarf toward Mrs Brandle Bran le with the remark See what a beautiful scarf I have Grabs Spirit Scarf Mrs Brandle being a woman wanted to examine it more closely than sh ahn f from the distance distance at al which aim sat and th spirit waved waed ft it banteringly In tn her di direction tics Mrs Brandle seized the time spirit scarf To her It seemed grossly real r aJ There Thera was nothing of the shadowy texture that th t she had fondly imagined ima ined a lI spirit scarf should be composed This looks like any other scarf scar said sad sa d Mrs irs Brandle skeptically But It was made in spirit land said mid the spirit Give it to me said Mrs Brandle who held It firmly up to this juncture do lr ing to have something tangible to show for her money Oh no gasped the spirit in a hor horrified horrified rifled tone surprised and shocked at the tho audacious sacrilege But Mrs Brandle was not to be boot boat batten booten en so easily Instead of or dropping tho the shawl when sho she received this refusal from the Immaterial and und shadow owner she attempted to twine her fingers In the tho fringe According Ae to all aU precepts and proverbs the shawl should have melted Into thin air or Mrs Brandle should have dropped dead because of her Impious wIsh to pos sess herself of the private property of or u a bona fide spirit spirita But neither of these things happened Instead ad a the spirit apparently lost its temper n and gave gaye i the o scarf Ii a vicious tu Mrs Brandle Brandt e held on but the spirit rue needed th scarf to protect It from the tho chilling winds of the shadowy land from r m which It had come and bracing Its ghostly feet upon the hardwood floor jerked the scarf from Mrs grasp with such suddenness that tho timo spirit was thrown backward nearly losing Its balance Human Beings in Disguise From that moment Mrs 1118 Brandle was suspicious She conceived the idea that the spirits which could be summoned to her from the flowery fields of the life lite beyond the grave grae and which could be summoned at the bidding of ot the Arnold Dickson brothers at 3 per bid were hu human human human man beings b disguised discussed so that in the dim light and with the time the aid of ph phosphorescence they appeared like shades Mrs Brandle discussed the tho matter mattor with her and md they the decided to lay laya laya a trap for the spirits They arranged to attend a private ma materialization materialization materialization yesterday Their plan was for Mr Dye De to seize th the spirit and while he held it Mrs Brandle was to tear the disguise from its features and thus thua unmask it Continued on Page 3 I SCENE OF THE I Is r h he hI s t z I s sI e I Gt d cl dd r I rIi Ii d Y YR 4 1 6 C I R r Qi 1 f I I l 1 f 4 I t Ital I Ei r Diagram showing shoving floor plan pl n of room in which sOIl Brothers hold and spiritualistic materializations I lions Hons Public sits in space marked marle Seats Scats with exception of two front rows TOWS and station marked d Gu In I these hese seats the faithful are loc l a in order that interference may be pre prevented prevented vented v Stage entrance is shown close to the stage so located as to permit entrance entrance and departure of spirits Those Impersonating giants sP rit may auter tiara hero and pass behind black ek curtains to appears rS in il materializations ri and then unseen GRABS SPIRIT AND FINDS V IT TO T BE BEA A HUMAN BEING Continued from Page 1 In the private privat materializations not more than two persons can attend at the th same time Both must be related to the deceased whose shade Is to be called from its abiding place and the materialization place only In a darkened room A Adim dim fleeting Indistinct light is ad admitted admItted from a low candle power lamp 10 lo located at the back baek of the room Only the most vague and shadowy outlines of artl arti clos cbs or persons In the room can be dis distinguished distinguished Across the front of oC the room Is the cabinet in which the materialization takes place In this materialization Dickson and the theman theman man and were the only persons In Inthe it Inthe the tho room rooms Dickson according to Mr Dye went ent Into th cabinet and permitted an anI I Inspection to convince them that there was JJ no other person In the room Spirit Is Shown Then rhon one onely lonely spirit was material materialized materIalIzed bed for their benefit while they were In Inthe Inthe inthe the cabinet and at the conclusion n of this demonstration ot of the powers of ot the ma me medium over the mysteries of ot the grave gravet they t hc were Invited to take seats scats In the A body bodi of or the audience room This they thc did Dickson remained at the right of ot the stage or cabinet where he hemd had bad control of oC the lights In u a moment the thc spirit for whom they had made ap ape to see Hee emerged from the In Intense Intense tense darkness of the cabinet and began to converse converso with them in sibilant whis pars Mr Dye De Dy and Mrs Brandle were close cloe enough nough to their ghostly visitor to almost touch it Suddenly upon a prearranged Mr Dye D e leaped looped at the spirit and at attempted attempted attempted tempted to seize it According to t the ancient ghost story stor he ho should have hav truck struck a gust of cold wind while n tho the saint floated above aboe him with a mocking g laugh or with a n heartbreaking sigh because of his cruel crupI skepticism sl But this was a twentieth century ghost and a husky one at that Mr Ir Dye Do threw throw one arm around the ghosts hosts necK and with his other hand one ghostly wrist But It was not nota a shadowy neck or wrist that he felt The ghost was taken by surprise but regardless of or this was able to put up a mighty good imitation of a fight While Mr Dye attempted to hold the spirit Mrs Brandle got busy with the ghosts Fierce Struggle in Dark Up Pp am anti down the cabinet the three struggled the ghost refusing to be he downed Mrs Brandle tugged at the draperies and as was a Ii warn warning warnIng ty ing lag rip Arnold rushed into the room rom In his shirt sleeves According to Mr lr Dye who was busy bmw just thon than wrestling with the ghost Arnold I struck Mrs Brandle in the face lace with his clenched The fight waged wu ed fiercely up and down do the tho cabinet Chairs were tipped over oyer ami ani an ant tables t were tossed aside Arnold mixed It St with the assistance of or the visitor from and finally the ghost made Its escape with Its filmy garments consider considerably consid r ably disarranged Then Th n Mr 11 Dy D tye and Mrs r Brandle l ft thE tho house which has secret 5 passages for fot forthe forthe the accommodation to immaterial bodies s that thet desire to pass from room to room find Mr tr Dye went to police headquarters where ben he swore to n complaint charging with JUr asat and battery batten According to his statement Mrs Bran from the nose and from 11 lie wap as bleeding ii ii w the mouth where the tho th spirit had bAd struck her her eye ye was ns badly black blad blackm m end d h ier r face fuce cue and she looked I to her fellow fetlow adventurer s though she hI had hud nad an engagement en with witha a S fighter Instead of ot a 8 friendly with tho the spirit of a departed loved one Mr lr Dye Is Ia of the opinion that the spirit which he and his tackled was a large and powerful woman oman HOW GAME G ME IS WORKED Methods by Which Money Is Lured From Easy Marks Tho Tue spiritualistic materialization game such h as the th Brothers have perpetrated here for several years Includes a series eries of oC methods of getting es of tho money of or those who are and who wish to Jet get a shadow of hope or consolation from the spirits of ot those who have preceded them to the tho grave The Tho system s st m includes Sunday night meet meetIngs meetIngs meetings Ings at which an admission n tee fee of ot 10 cents c is charged and Thursday night meetings S at which materializations m t are made and car Cor ar which a feo of or BO 60 cents Is charged Then there thero are arc the tho private readings which net the enterprising medium 1 I per and the tho private mate materializations such as Mr Dye witnessed with Mrs 1119 Brandle at sa each ach The rime Sunday evening meetings are Ire open to tho the public that Is if the public has hasa a dime At these thc c meetings those pres present tnt ent nt having questions which they y would like to have huc answered are invited to write their own name also al o that of oC a friend or relative who has died and whose hose spirit Is supposed suppose l to be able to answer the question and last of all the question for which an answer Is desired Those cards are arc gathered up by b Dick DickSon Son and all of or these are supposed to be Uld IId on a n table In the cabinet In plain Mv of or the audience Arnold occupies a sort of pulpit and this table Is placed before beCore the pulpit Then a n number of the questions are repeated by him He cites the name of or the writer and gives an answers answers answers to the questions In many in instances stances the time spirit prompter says sa s that it is unable to give the answer at a t that time and the questioner is told that If he Will vIll come at a subsequent meeting tha lh answer may be bc forthcoming This is another form of the come on of the ordinary confidence game sharper But the ordinary sharper does doos not touch upon up o n the t feelings that animate the t he hearts of or human beings and does not torture the souls of oC men with the delu deluS VA ip S hope of If giving them knowledge of or i r dead friends and loved ones fluting During the course of the Sunday even evenS L 7 rg S meetings one of the members of oC the i adept performers delivers a n brief brier lecture on Spiritualism and Its Phenomena Materialization Thursday Evening At the Thursday evening meetings the admission to which Is 50 60 cents entrance can be gained as s c a rule only by pre pro previous previous arrangement It Is customary in order to secure a scat seat In these meetings to make reservations several days in ad advance advance advance vance At the opening of oC the meeting the room is fully lighted The men and women and occasionally a few tew children are arc met metat metat metat at the door by b Arnold suave and polite poUter and deferential He shakes hands with nearly every evory one who enters and tells them how glad he Is to see them there He hopes that they |