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Show TRICKS ON SPIRITUALIST. Woman Collapses In Pulpit of New York Church. NEW YORK, Jan. 9 Mrs. Mary 8 Peppef, pastor of the First Splrltuulls-tlc Splrltuulls-tlc church In Brooklyn and widely known among followers of splrltunl-lsn splrltunl-lsn collapsed from heart trouble Sunday Sun-day night In a room to the rear of the pill M Just at the conclusion of a "reading" "read-ing" In which she had denounred an attempt at-tempt of a young man In the audience of five or six hundred to trl. k fJer. Attempts by persons In the i hurrh to restore Mrs. Pepper to consciousness were fruitless, and two physicians were summoned. They succeeded tlnally in restoring her and she was removed to he:- home In a i-ab. As is customary In the church a number of artfrles belonging to dead persons were placed upon her desk ami she announced that sin would put herself her-self In communication with the cplrlt world. The first article was In a sealed en's en-'s elope. Mrs, Pepper appeared to become be-come very angry and pointing to some one In the gallery declared attempts were being marie to trick her. The services ser-vices were brought to a close a few minutes later and the woman staggered to the room back of the pulpit v here she collapsed. |