The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-25

SHADES Arrest in London Tremendous III, j
= =< Profits. - 's@~$A y. y J.
Correspondence Chicago Times. -
DR.. Slade and his assistant, Mr.. Sim
mons, were, as the telegraph. stated,
cited to answer summons at Bow street,
| at the instance of Professor Lankster,
the first charges the doctor with oh.
tanning money under false pretenses,
and the second charging him and his
assistant with conspiracy to cheatsand
defraud. Among the witnesses are,
DR.. Carpenter, F. r. S., eMr.ST. J. ALL
man, the publisher ); Mr.. Henry Sedge-
! wick, Mr.. Edmund Gurney.s Of Trinity
College, Cambridge, and Mr.. Richard
Hutton, the editor Of the Spectator.
Mr.. George Lewis has been specially
retained to- conduct tthe prosecution,
| and returns from the continent for
that purpose. These proceedingshave
naturally caused some perturbation in
the Spiritualistic world, and on. the
9th a meeting, which included
among those present most of the lead
| ing Spiritualists of the day, was held
| in London. There was considerable
amount of discussion, and it was stated
that in the personal knowledge of
those present the names or two or
three persons which appeared upon the
summonses, had been placed there by
consent. After long debate a COM
mittee was appointed to watch the
case, with power to act in any manner
that they might see fit, and subscrip
ton list was opened to place funds at
their disposal, between ESQ and ESQ
being subscribed in the room. Letters
were also read from several influen-
tial persons offering their assistance if
necessary.
Louis j. Jennings writes from Lon
don to the New York World: ssDoubt-
less you will have heard all about
the attempt to bring DIR. Slade to
book for the startling performances
which he carries out in the name of
the Spirits AS 1 predicted some
weeks ago. he has been making money
like Enthusiastically not less than
f20O week, And all for writing lit
tie scraps on the slate! I have writ
ten great deal in my time with pen
and ink, but should like to change
them for slate and pencil if I could
get rich at this rate. They say that
Slade cannot even spell correctly.
What Of it !? [ once knew man who
spelt pneumonia 'newmonia,' and yet
he was quite a 'big-bug' for time, and
it he had no wits of his own he man.
aged to live on other peoples, and to
instruct all those unbusinesslike
| scholars who could spell, but who
were not up to the tricks of trade.
| Therefore I think Slade's defective
4pelling is nothing against him, but
father point in his favor. Half the
sown has been to consult him among
them Mr.. Wallace, DR.. Carpenter, and
many eminent scientific men, who
have come away puzzled and unable to
make out how the writing is produced.
know that MI. Wallace is decidedly of
the opinion that the exposure made
| by Professor Lancaster does not &C
count for the manifestations of which
he was an eye witness, and other gen.
tlemen have told me the same thing.
All this controversy of course helps
Slade, and his fortune is now as good
as made. He has very lucrative EN-
gagement' in Russia, the moment he
can get away from here. It is fact
worth mentioning that of all the per-
sons have met who have had seance
with Slade, not one received any mes
sage on the slate which told them any
thing new, or which could in any way
be useful or was worth having. The
slate generally contains such messages
from the spirits as L am glad to be
here with you. Il am quite happy, or
| Remember me to Tommy For my
own part am not prepared to say or
think that there is nothing in Spirit
ualism-there are more things in
heaven and earth than are dreamt of
in our philosophy, Horatio!-but this
| will say, that I cannot understand
why, if spirits can come back to earth
and communicate with us, they never
tell us anything we did not know be-
fore, or that we care to hear. And
yet, surely, they must have much to
tell us-all is not barren in the land
from which they came, and we have
no telegraph or correspondents there,
I fancy that it poor R., or S., or p, or
any other of the old friends of ours
who have gone over to the majority
could call upon us, they would have
! something more to say than Pretty
we'll thank you. So ANIL
A Eronch EvncntiOn