Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-12-28
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Mr.. J. 81. Mansfield, of Boston, has for. lion,
time astonished people with his performances n.
q spiritual medium. Letters sent tol1im. unde,
seal, nd directed to departed spirits, itbas beer
claimed were promptly and correctly answered
without being opened. Rev John PIsr6Snt q
is known, was in this way converted to the spi.
ritual taith through Mr.. MansGeld's medium
More recently, Mr.. Mansfield has achieved
Voc petoElsty by protesting to draw crayon
sketcnes otdeceased persons, and has paimesi Of
cies .sFs1 ~ go, : ~ ''i'
. It appears however, that real artist with
ue:ti ,s: and bones, has appeared, to contest the
Claims the spirits to- these portraits, 81 III
Cailaghan, of West Newton, ayows himself the
workman; and although man who would be.
come the voluntary, agent of,a deliberate fraud
has few claims upon public conf dence we rss. 1gS
sumo he has the advantage ofhis invisible COM
Pettitors, and will be generally Believed. lie
says AIR Mansfield would not .pay him for bis
WORK; and for this reason he determined ia eY.
pose hlm. We extract the following from his
y took tho ambrotype (from- MansHell1 to
my nome IN West Newton; Mass. and drew n
portrait about two thirds the size of life md
deliVeled to him in his office abonttwo weeks
afterwards He was much pleased with it, and
Sald 1T was perfect as a likeness then question.
ed me as to whether had. show n it any where,
to which, answered in the negative. He said
that was all right; and that Il must keen dark
and tell no one that had drawn a portrait for
MIN: l made no reply, but smiled at his coolness
Nothing was said concerning the price. but he
asked me to call again soon / called in alrayta
days, and he told me that the persons for whom
the portrait was intended had seen it. artl,,VeTs
very much surprised at what the spirits had
produced, but that they had not yet concluded
10 takeit, and .he was afraid that they suspect.
ea roguery. He added that i must keep still
and he. could dispose of it aud paw me stPhis
was news to. me, but / said nothing He said
that provided kept dark he would give me as
many orders as could fulfil; that the medium
IN ONO could not do them as well -as.the one
had done, and thatif kept on drawing the
spirits would come. to me. laughed at the
'dea, and told him that L probably saw all the
sPlrltssl should ever see. Mr.. Mansfield AFTER
wards exhibited to me q COPY of the 'pictureR n
had drawn, and the ambrotype from which / had
drawn ii, placed side by side in double case
and said he Intended to send them to France. to
snow'th people how awellhthe spirits had sue.
ceeded IN drawing likeness Of one Departed
ANY person skilledi4 drawing might easily have
ueteeted, the picture as having been copied from
-Ihe one by ITS side, from its being in the same
position, with the same drapery and other me-
cessarics. Since that time I have drawn for Mr..
Mansfield about thirty, different pictures ut.f
wards et. one.tifth of which were from ambro-
types and dagnetreotypes furnished me by him.
the remainder being from descriptions which he
gave. According 70 Mr.. Mansfeld's statement.
the most OF. these pictures were recognized and
accepted rs being likenesses of'the persons they.
were drawn to represent 5.,t .ss
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