Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1853-12-24

LIFE IN New YoRK-Ertraordinary Do
ings of Cla.rvoyaat and Spir,tualist.-A
man calling himself physician, was ar
rested in New York on the 81 inst, charged
with having, by the aid Of his wife, pro-
fessed cIairvoyant and curer of diseases, by
means of scheme of the most Infamous
nature defrauded r. Stuyvesant Esq. out
of house and lot, worth from eight to ten
thousand dollars. In mis- affidavit Mr.. S.
swears that in the early part of the present
year, beng afflicted with severe pain in
the breast, he was induced to visit the house
of Seymour, then in Division street, and
subseq uently 10 49l Houston street, for the
purpose of consulting the wife of Seymour,
who by sign on the front door and by ca.ds,
and by by-words spoken: protessed to be a
clairvoyant and while in that state to be
able to prescribe efficient remedies for the
cure of diseases. That he frequently visit
ed the house. and for each consultation with
Mrs S., paid her one dollar, and for the
medicine she prescribed he paid her hus-
band, who procured it, from one to three
dollars per bottle. That during these visits,
Mrs. S., by her responses and acts, invited
liberties to be taken with her person by him,
gradually and ar,fully leading him on as he
now perceives and believes with the view
and design-though he was not conscious Of
it at the time-of getting him into such sus-
picious and eqaivocal situations as would
enable both her and her HUSBAND, who, he
believes, was conspiring with her for the
purpose-to extort money and other proper
ty from him. That on the night of the 10Th
of May last he was at the house, when Mrs.
S. informed him that her husband had gone
to Boston; she then gave him night-key
to the front door of the house, and invited
him to visit her the next night, saying that
she would have the servant out of the way
That on the following night he visited the
house, when she repeated to him what she
had said the previous night relative to her
husbands absence, and by her seductions
advances and caresses," induced him to
visi, her room, and while both were partially
unrobed, she suddenly gave a signal by
slamming the door three times, when her
husband Immediately rushed into the room
with drawn sword cane in his hand, and
struck him violently with it upon the head.
and stabbed at him several times, and threat
ened to murder him unless he would pay
him money or its equivalent, and refused to
give him up his clothes until he had con-
sented to transfer to him house and lot
which he owned on Sixteenth street, which
he subsequently did transfer. He further
states in his affidavit, that Mrs. Seymour
possesses no such power of clairvoyance as
she protested to have, but that the business
carried on by her and her husband is the
practice of gross impositions to entrap the
unwary and defraud them," and that in this
instance they had conspired together to
cheat and defraud him out Of his property,
and have thus succeeded in procuring from
him a deed of house and lot worth at least
eight to ten thousand dollars. Upon the ar.
rest of the accused, he was taken before
Justice Osborne and committed to prison to
await examination.