The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1853-12-15

ExrRAoRDfSARY DoIsGs OF CLAIRyoY-
ANT AEp SPrEITUALIsT. "A man, calling
himself physician, was arrested in the city
Of New York, on Saturday last, charged with
having, by the aid OF bis wife, a professed
clarvoyant and curer Of diseases, by means
Of a scheme Of most infamous nature, de-
franded Joan r. Stugyesaht, Esq, out of a
house and lot.worth from So 5000 TO $4,000,
In his affidavit, Mr.. s. awears that in the
early part of the present year being afflicted
with severe pain 10 the breast, he was In
duced TO visit the house of Seymour, then
in Division street, and subsequently, to 49l
Houston street, for the purpose of ofconsplting
the wife of Seymour who by sign on the
| front door and bv cards, and by words spok-
I en- professed to be ciairvoyant and while
! in that state to be able to prescribe efficient
remedies for the cure Of diseases. That he
! frequently visited the house, and for each
consultation with Mrs. s., paid her 81, and
/ for the medicine she prescribed he paid to
( her husband, who procured it, from one to
I three dollars per bJttle. That dnrlng these
visits, Mrs. s., by her responses and acts,
invited liberties to be taken with her per-
son by him, gradually and arti6cially Lead
ling him on, as he now peTceiVes and be-
lieyes. with the view and dsign-though
he was not conscious of it at the time--of
getting him into such suspicious and equiv
Ocal stuatiors as would enable her and her
usband--who, be believes. was conspirinS
with her for the rurpose--to extori. money
ard other property from him. That oil 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 a night-key to the-front door of the
house, and invited him to visit her the next
night, saying that she would have the SER
wants out of the way. That on the follow
ling night he visited the house, when she re-
peated TO him what she had said the pre-
vious night relative to her husbands alb
sence, and by her "se uctions, advances and
lcaresses," induced him to visit her room, and
while both were partially Unrobed, she sud
denly gave a signal by slamming the door
three times, when her husband Immediately
rushed INTO the roem with sword cane in
his hand and struck him violently with il up
on the head, and stabbed at him several
times, and threatened to murder him unless
he would pay him money or its equivalent,
, and refused to give him up his clothes until
. he had consented to transfer to him house
and lot which he owned on Sixteenth street,
which he subsequently did transfer. He
; further stctcs ID his affidavit, that Mrs. Sey-
mour possesses. no such power Of clairvoy-
: auce az She proie ssed to have, but that the
business carried on by her aud her husband
is the ''practiee of gross impositions to en-
trap the unwary and defraud them," and that
in this instance they have couspired togeth-
5 er TO cheat and defraud him out of his prop
erty. aud haze thus succeeded in procuring
from him deed Of house and lot worth al
least So 600 or $4,000. Upon the ares,
. of the accused, he was taken before Justice
: Osborne and committed to prison to await
examination.