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Show Divine Healer Once Called 'Messiah' Dead Widow Believes Irate Spiritualists "Got Him But Autopsy Shows "Miracle Man" Was Victim of White Plague . ST. LOL'IS Oct IS. (By The Associated Press ) The death of Francis Schlatter. 66. alleged divine heal r.'' In a rooming-house rooming-house here Monday night was caused from h-morrhages super-Induced super-Induced by tuberculosis, it was announced, following an autopsy today. The autopsy was performed following an assertion by Mrs. Schlatter, who arrived hero from Kansas City. Mo., Tuesday night. , that she believed her husband to have been the victim of foul play. Police, however, are continuing continu-ing their search for a young woman who was with him for several days preceding his death. The woman told a physi- Ian who had been -called to trat Mr Schlatter that she was his nurse, according to the police.. Schlatter Is said to have attracted attract-ed national attention by his "cures" at Denver, Colo.. In 1896. He was reported to have been a cobbler i v trade and told his audiences au-diences 1h.it he had been born blind, that his sight was restored by the prayers of hi'-i mother and that Christ appeared to him In a "ball of flame'' as he sat at his last In the cobbler's shop. Thousands of persons arc declared de-clared to have attended the lecture lec-ture which followed an alleged apparition In ISV6 ho Is said to have "healed" a child of an Incurable In-curable malady at Albuerqueque, X. M.. earning the title of "The Mi s?da b" there. At the meetings presided over by B hlatter, handkerchiefs and other tokens were blessed by the "healer" and were glvr-n to his followers. In a short time his fame had spread from coast to coast, and he was heralded as the "miracle man" and "king of healers." heal-ers." Schlatter was pictured as preaching from the hills in the rocky mountains and multitudes flocked to hear the "divine healer." heal-er." He wore a picturesque long black beard and was attired in a black robe. After disappearing. several ' times, ho finally dropped out of sight and tho local police several times received telegrams from his wife, who formerly made her home In Chicago, asking aid in searching for her husband Sh said her husband suffered forget-fulnesrj forget-fulnesrj caused by tne strains of his labors, and tmt clten he wandered about the country. Mrs. Schlatter said she had prosecuted sevqal persons who had impersonated her husband, and that they wore found guilty and sentenced to prison. At one time Schlatter was given v. Ide publicity as the man who "cured Mrs. McKlnley." mother of President McKlnley. Mrs. Schlatter said she had been awaiting the arrival of her husband In Kansas City for sev- t al days. She explained that Schlatter had a following of spiritualists who. she said, wore much opposed to his contemplated contemplat-ed confirmation into the Episcopal Episco-pal church, of which she is a member. It had been arranged, she added, that Schlatter was to Join her in Kansas City and then go to Salt I-ake City, where ho was to enter the church. Kxpre.ssing the belief that her husband was waylaid here. Mrs Schlatter asserted "they got him." |