Wilmington daily commercial., 1874-12-21
FIRST EDITION.


FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE EXPOSED rRIoKERY
How KATIE KING GOT INTO THE oABINET-HER
HIDING PLACE IN THE REAR PARLoR-A
PREVIOUS EXPOSURE AT TOLEDO.
Since the " naturalization expose on Friday
last, scores Of persons have denounced the
Holmes seances as the veriest bumbuggery and
the manner in which the deluded spectators have
been hoodwinked is slowing coming to the sur
face For instance, it is now well-known how
Katie King manged 20 myeteriously to enter the
cabinet a gentleman who formerly endorsed her
5eances having investigated the matter and i'm
parted his information to the public. He says /:
The cabinet was placed III the front room, with
its back against a door which opened into the
adjoining department. The door was taken OF,
| and there was substituted by Mr.. Holmes wal
nut board partition, and this partition might be
examined by anybody prior to the occurrence of
the seance, and many, including DIR. Child and
Robert Dale Owen, did examine it, finding moth
ing at the time to engender suspicion. These
walnut boards were secured by four battens on
each side, and frequently the gentlemen above
named were invited to come and take these bat
tens off and examine the boards. 1t has since
been discovered that Holmes had the means of
| taking out one of these boards-the centre one,
which was about fifteen inches wide-and of
| substituting in it's place board that was cut
| across the centre, admitting of the removal of
| the lower half, and easily adm ttng person
| from the back room into the cabinet through the
| aperture. This was the way in which Katie
| King entered the cabinet.
| But there were further discoveries made subse-
| quenly which were of an extensively interesting
| character. II Katie entered the cabinet in this
way where she concealed prior to the eehncee,
and during the intervals when she disappeared
| In the rear room there was bed, upon which
| ladies and gentlemen attending the seances were
in the habit of depositing their superiuous
clothing. This room was as matter to be ex-
pected, subject to close scrutiny, the closets and
the bed bong examined, and more than one pain
of eyes cast their glances beneath the bed, to
| hee If any confederate might be hidden there
But no search resulted in such Il discovery. Yet
as it afterward turned out, the bed like Mael
zel's wonderful automaton. did hold a confeder.
| ate vt the time, and that confederate WAS none
| other than the lady.
But where could she burrow2 The attendants
| upon the seance had the freest liberty of exami-
nation. The bed was open, some doubters ever
| probing the mattress to ascertain il it did moi
| for the time cage the beauty. Who would have
| thought of looking at the bolsterp The bolster
was 30 unimportant matter that it never once
| excited suspicion. Yet it held the living mystic
ny, none other than tho ruby-lpped and fair
| armed creature who was in few moments, via
| the walnut partition, to burst upon the delighted
| vision of the breathless spectators. The boil
ster, then, was none of your old-fashionet
striped ticking bags puffed up with down, bu
instead wicker cage ingeniously constructed
and as ingeniously oyerlaid in which the charm
ing confederate to all this spirtualistic tomfool
golden beauty from cocoon.
KATIE KING DETEorED Ar TOLEDO.
correspondent OF the Philadelphia Bulletin
of Saturday, furnishes that paper with an <
pose of one of Katie Kings seances at Toled
some years ago. He writes; Now have seel
no much of this particular medium and her non
senscal impositions that l have become disgust
ed at her hoaxing the Phlladelphians. Who il
she2 What is she What was shep cal
answer. Ten or twelve years ago she was livin
in Toledo, and her character can be attested
by hundreds. In June of this year she wer
West for rest under advice of aye spirits, an
visited friends both in Toledo and Blssfielo
Michigan twelve miles from Toledo. 1t wa
there she gave some OF her wonderful seancei
and Katie King appeared. This went on for
few evenings, when, one night the boys put @
guard outside the house soon saw Katie enter
window in the rear Of the cabinet. The guard
closed in, and, at signal from the inside, jui
no Kutie came out before the audience, rus
was made, and Katie disappeared into the cab
net and was caught getting out Of the window
1t proved to be young person in flesh an
blood, The consequences were cabinet burst
ed, Holmes got a black eye, Mrs. H. ditto.