Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-17
sPIRITnAL .IIGIlGIELLEIRE.II.. IE.I
carieus rase OF spiritual DeeeptIo
Soc % in New orleans. I -

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Carieus case OF spiritual DeeeptIOa
4 6zRs8 9i in New Orleans. 5Ed
4 From the New Orleans Republican, J uly s.
1.-The following singular statement was
/ given as testimony in civil court last
winter, and as the case fell through there
il was taken to the Fourth District Recor-
| defss Court, where il is now pending We
are Of the belief that the half has not yet
been diVulged, but this is sufficient for the
present. When the reader hiss finished
he viii lament with US that the fool Killer
either has not been this way for a long time
or has lost much ofhis ancient acuteness:
Frederika Kern, formerly Widow Rub,
now wife Of Charles KIar, residing on
Fourth street, in the Fourth districi, city
Of New Orleans Who being. duly sworn,
deEosed and said that one Frances Willis,
alias -, aboHt the year 1862 obtained the
confidence Of deponent By her artfuIly
representing herself as picus woman, in
direct converse with the Holy Ghost and
as showing the path 10 eternal kalYstion
and 10 heaven, fhat depouenl sohne time
after this, confding in said Frances Willis,
purchased in the Cemetery No. /, on Wash
ingtOn street, aud contracted at the same
time with the then sexton, Simpson, to erect
family tomb thereon for deponent, wherein
afterwards she caused to be deposited the
remains Of ] Ohm Rub, her deceased hus-
band; of Peter Rub, her son, and those Of
the deceased children Of her daughter, wife
of DR.. Kathman; that in part payment
depoBent gave said sexton vault which
she owned in said cemetery and whence
she removed the remains Of Rub TO the new
tomb; abe further paid, after eifecting The
contract, TO the sexton, Simpson, $500 in
cash, with the bargain that at the compile
ton Of the tomb the balance Of $500 should
be paid. The price of the two lots Mos
267 and 266), with the tomb erected there
on, amounted to $500, and the vault given
in payment was valued at $40. That when
said balance became due your petitioner
was very sick, and fully reposing confidence
in the integrity Of the before mentioned
Frances Willis and in Mrs. Leidinger,
sister Of deponent, now deceased, she in.
trusted to said parties the sum Of $3.50 to
be paid to Simpson, the sexton aforesaid,
to extinguish the debt incurred by the pur-
chase of the lots aforesaid and for the tomb
thereon. aa, .- +.
That shortly after the said Frances Willis,
who at that time had full control over de !
ponenfs mind, seriously informed deponent
that it was the will Of the Divine Spirit
that the remains of a deceased husband Of
said Willis should be deposited in the tomb
aforesaid, and thus obtained deponent's
consent thereto. E 80 ,3.lEtHa ta
That at the death of Peter Rub, depo-
nent's son, which occurred November s. i
1868, the said Frances Willis by her art
persuaded depOnent that the Divine Spirit j
commanded her to hand over to her a gold
watch of the estate of said deceased, to be
for a young son of said Willis, who she
said is predestined to become great
prophet and thus said Frances Willis OBJ
lained said watch. bias -at. ,.
That in July, 1866, Mrs. Leidinger, on
her death bed, knowing that she was about
to die, to atone for her sins, openly con-
fessed that Frances Willis and herself had
committed gross frauds on deponent in re-
gard to property whereon deponent resides,
and about the lots and tomb aforesaid, and
commanded and exhorted her descendants
not to attempt to take any advantage of
the fraud or 10 claim any ownership in the
lots and tomb aforesaid, but to have the,
title corrected. ls so
That IN May. 1858, Seposstst viii herr
Ahab4hu rAdA4tntu thS 'title DOCK OF Ceme--
terry No. l of Washington street, and found
that the lots and tomb aforesaid stand in
the name of Frances Willis and Mrs. Leid-
niger as owners, and that by the fraud of l
said Frances Willis and The penitent de-
ceased Leidinger, and that said Frances |
Willis persistslih her fraud to the prejudice !
of 'deponent, who therefore charged said |
Frances Willis with embezzlement and
with obtaining property under false preten-
SOS, and with being accessory to the en-
bezzlement and fraud confessed by the pen
itent Mrs, Leidinger aforesaid.
1t is asserted that much other property,
real estate, was obtained through the same
spirit, Accused is a queer looking body,
and if she cannot call spirits from the
vasty deep can do some strange inancier-
ing. -rrsE H f. l-A