| Show THE KATIE KING RING fraud frato A SPIRIT WITH A BAD BREATH HOW AN AMATEUR DETECTIVE UNEARTHED THE 17 TIIE SPIRITS confession AND restitution the he full account of the discovery of the shallow trick of the holmees was contributed to our dur columns by the he gentleman nt leman ieman who made it and from whom vf horm homm our representative obtained it through the agency of dr child it emanates therefore from the highest and best authority we can only regret that the gentlemark gentleman has insisted that his name shall not mob bel be divulged for in an discovering and dragging to light the most generally believed in swindle of the time he Oe deserves serves tb the a thanks of the community being possessed of the friendship and confidence of both mr owen and dr child our informant had but little difficulty in convincing them of the deception practiced upon them when he got his evidence together this gentleman visited these stances on ori several occasions and was disposed to lookyat look at the matter inor efrom a scientific standpoint than otherwise he discovered discoverer one evening what he supposed to be rather a singular characteristic ofa of a materialized spirit quite a number of spirits had made their presence presence ence enee known by different joani te stations dick rosa ioann tiann ann ap and the italian lady 11 per performed perforce forme ad in the dark se ances each in their pe cullar culiar sty lebut the most attractive and the one producing the greatest sensation was il ciAle ki king i 0 alias annie morgana maiden I 1 lady d upwards of years of age as she stated but still having all the a ati at i tr actions of youth and beauty in appearance not over twenty years old katie ratie had bad many admirers among both sexes all the pretty prett y names such as darling angel flangel pet etc were lavished upon her while the adjectives beautiful splendid glorious etc were bestowed without limit many a well meaning lady jady received her with the kind greeting god bless you you lovely creature the gentleman above referred to failed to see how spirits could cover themselves with flesh and blood iu in fact such a thing stands not within the prospect of belief beiler but he was still willing to be convinced if facts sufficient existed one evening when in irl proximity to ratie rati katie hati 0 11 he ascertained she had a bad breath which produced rather an unfavorable impression but still he be reflected that a lady who had been dead two hundred years ought to have a bad breath and he was unwilling to bear the tidings of calamity like an unseasonable stormy day to others and for the time remained quiet in other words submitted to the conditions imposed upon all frequent frequenters em of the spiritual sanctum believing that flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom of heaven and too gallant to believe that miss king was spiritually in other othen Ll place the aforesaid gentleman concluded that thab katie ratie must be to the manner born 21 the admirers of katie were neither few nor far fan between in fact the young lady had been loaded with with presents rings lock lockers lockets loe ioe kots ets pearl crosses beads love letters ac had been free freely y bestowed no modern belle or acknowledged acy beauty could have received more attention than did katie A number of those who came under her influx influence got to poetry in her honor some of this poetry was just as wretched as could possibly be put together by presumably sane people therol the following is a sample oh gather round and let us sing the praises of sweet katie king ahot from her ber bright and happy happs sphere comes cornea smiling to us mortals here cainus then with glad voices let all sing the praises ot of sweet katie king kang although the evidences of the machine make verse are in the above many of the other inspired lines are much worse as to time sentiment metre and rhythm many blany of the suddenly made poets were formerly intelligent iren lyen and women who will wiil probably after reading what follows return to their senses things were going on smoothly money was flowing into the coffers of the mediums and katies friends were jubilant at the number of converts dally daily being made to the cause of pint materialization thoin but suda suddenly enly euly without warn ing katie katle disappeared lis appeared night after night her devotees assembled to welcome her ker return the me with plaintive voice sang 1 I am coming I 1 am coming but she did not come various were tho the reasons assigned some said cashe she was offended at unkind remarks that had been made about her the medium said that bome some bome some rude fellow had entered the cabinet und and taken all the magnetism out I 1 and furthermore that katie raile had dad oad ascended as aided to a higher highee sphere and exhausted her er strength others were uncharitable elou enough h to say that katie was on a strike ke in the meantime the gentleman who was seeking knowledge under linder difficulties had been making extraordinary 4 exertions to nud nind her dally daily whereabouts otherwise her heir boarding house little by little he quietly picked up information that enabled him to nind find a young lady whom he thought very much resembled katie katle king using 8 the most detective like s skill 11 he followed his hig clue bocc successfully U by certain peculiarities which h he observed in the katie watie of the other world at the stances he found that a young woman who resembled ratie katle generally and had bad her peculiarities liari ilari ties with great regularity at att a certain house which he had piped bar t 11 in detective parlance he then shadowed this ahls woman and found that she attended all the stances at the holmos hoimes house he ultimately eop cop concluded eluded to scrape an a acquaintance 6 with wun katle katie in the fleshy ch posing as afian ail all auspicious time an hour when i the lady of materializing tendencies cles cies had been ren rendered derad happy by a good square worldly meal jneal the first interview was a failure the supposed katie katle protested that she did not believe in m spiritual ism declaring that she iliad had seen been seeb beeb the manifestations at holmes but once and so far as she alie knew they were all gil right these anser asser assertions assertion tion however did not satisfy the earnest seeker after truth and various schemes and promises were resort resorted edlo to in the hope of discovering some bome of the mau many presents that had been made to katie through patience perseverance and certain considerations one present was produced produce 4 this satis satisfied nned fled the gentleman that lie he was in the d right t place more patience perseverance and promises and out dropped another and so on until a small table was was covered with rings beads and robes worn in the different spheres from which natle natie had bad kindly descended to visit mortals atso at so much her per capita the Tho object of the gentle mahs efforts was to so narrow down the evidence of fraud that he be might be able to knook the bottom out of the humbug lat at a blow and here was his object attained here was not only the veritable katle katie acknowledging her duplicity but producing immaterial material evidence of atrin it in tho the shape of all those little tokens of regard which she had been fondly believed tb have borne off icher in her spirit shape to her abode in the other js pear 2 as most mor odthe of the affected term it the prison pr amenta tation of these could dould not possibly fail to convince the pe persons esons who had given give them to the 66 spiritual natie natio that the latter had a place orde of deposit on this planet for her valuables so that course was determined upon all who aro ano acquainted ted wath the hon robert dale owen and dr henry T child of dt this city will not hesitate to say that they were honest upright truthful men but like the rest of humanity they are liable to bo be deceive deceived dr the party who had made the discovery consulted cheso gentlemen showing them the presents which katie had kindly loaned him they having been identified with the manifestations from the first were considered when the fraud was discovered the proper parties to denounce nou n ce the them m ono one word fro oro from in lb them a m casting a doubt on the reality of the thing would havo have knore effect upon the people than fifty exposures gotten up by outside parties moreover tho the who were the real victims were supposed to have unlimited confidence in fit the integrity of these gentlemen with co commendable m promptness they immediately sent to the banner of light the cards recently copied into our columns announcing the withdrawal withdrawn of their confidence in the manifestations in order to make conviction absolute on ther part of those who had had bad hitherto endorsed endowed the manifestations that n pro cess was a most barefaced bae bao faced humbug hu abug the gentleman imp improvised i revised a procuring a suitable apartment apart nent to which he Invite invited ol a number of kataev Katl elb eyb the prearranged pre arranged with che lally lady who now acquiesced in his suggestions for her appearance dressed iq in the gauzy fabrics and other trappings she used to disport herself in at holmes shows she did so in a sort fort of cabinet being hastily improvised and the exposure was vas ron rendered derei derea complete beyond a chance of cavil or dispute As a result there are ard a few who are better and wiser men and women and as a still better result a check cheek was waa administered to lo a most danger dangerous ous ex eit cit ellement ement which was beginning to affect the minds of thousands ofed of cu thinkers as ariit it had bad al already weakened those thoe of 0 many benaud men abid aomen women who believed all too tog wll wil n the trickery of designing greedy new yorkers of the tr true e yankee stripe I 1 the woman who personated persona ted katie king ring has already returned as far as possible all the presents she received to those who gave them to i her she bhe deeply regrets her iler martof part of the swindle and if all kli the facts in the case could be made public slie she would be freely forgiven by those who were duped by her aid A letter was yesterday received by the lady above alluded to containing brutal threats against her per son and warning her that if she does not stop in in her mad career meaning of course courte her willit willingness igne s to aid in the exposure she y yli vil 11 be visited with the most mor vengeance Natu naturally rally raily the tho sneaking coward who would write bil bucht c 4 a letter to a woman forgot to big sign his name but although disguise dj di the mediumistic character df thid penmanship lias ilas been recognized it is said sald that the hoimes holmes stances are still running various excuses being made for the nonappearance non nom appearance of katie king failing to be able to run the show with the original cast it is not altogether improta im proba ble that some one may be procured to ta do the part of katie katle while holmes frowns the part of the old pirate through a false face at another aperture in the cab inet it if bo however wever therl there is any one so silly as to be gulled by bv the claptrap after the exposure made wade it may weaken as anand indisputable atre p stable evidence that they ohey naturally belong within the limits of spiritualism inquirer |
