The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-11-16

A Bogus Medium.
A Trustworthy correspondent sends US
the following from Webster, Mass. Mrs.
Huntoon, the person caught personat:ng
q spirit, is sister of William Eddy, the
famous materializing" medium, for.
merly of Chittenden, VT, but now of
Angora, N. j., where he is practicing his
profession with eminent success. Having
dissolved partnership with his interesting
brother Horatio, the latter, in conjunc-
ton with Mrs. Huntoon, has been carry
ing on business at the "old stand, " max
ing occasional sorties into the country
round about, and turning up at last in
Webster, Mass, where Mrs. Huntoon has
come to grief in the manner described by
our correspondent below 1t may be re-
membered that q representative of the
Herald, something over year ago, inves-
tigated the pretensions of Mrs. Huntoon,
and came to the conclusion that she was
very insignificant trickster. Since then.
however, people of supposed intelligence,
who have visited her at Chittenden, came
to an opposite conclusion. Even a we'll
known gentleman of Boston, member of
the Suffolk bar, states without reserva-
ton that he saw in her presence and clear
ly recognized the phantom forms of two
of his children in the other life. The
statement of our correspondent is as fol-
lows:
The exposure of mediums is becoming
so frequent of late that the question
"Who will Ike the next?" is scarcely
asked before it is followed by the report
that another has fallen. This time it is
Mrs. Huntoon, of Eddy family" fame.
For some days past Mrs. Huntoon has
been delighting the faithful in Worcester
and vicinity by those manifestations so
often described as beyond the possibility
of human production. Could it be feared
that the spirits would fail her here in the
equally aristocratic town of Webster!
Alas for human expectations, when de-
pendent upon the invisibles! She was in
vited to this town, and gave her first seance
here on Tuesday evening.
People saw, or believed they saw, the
spirit hands and faces of their departed
friends, and were assured of the presence
of their loved ones. There were, howev-
er, some who believed they took the me-
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relative, as was claimed. Without giving
expression to this belief, however, the
medium and the assistants were invited to
the house of MIR. and Mrs. John Flint,
persons we'll known in this town and vi
cinity through their intimate business re-
lations with all classes of people during
the past fifteen years. She consented to
60 there last evening, and "the circle"
orronra6 ocorrIin rl1 In
prominent persons present were CORTLAND
Hestherington, DR.. E. G. Burnett, Mr..
and Mrs. Hines, Mr.. and Mrs. Butler
Bates, Isaac Regan, Mrs. John Haven,
Mrs. Susan Wood, Della A. Wood, George
O. Davis, Sanford Fisk. and others.
At about $50 O'Clock the circle was
arranged, the lights were turned
low, and the invisible soon manifested
their presence, at first family and with
interruption, "but as conditions'' i'm
proved by some Encouragement of the
parties present, there was a marked change
in the degree of their power and daring.
At length the curtain was thrown out at
one side, and some of us could see low,
bending figure, with apparently a night.
capped head, seeking recognition. 1t
was, however, shy of the light, which il
| was found necessary to diminish consider.
| ably. Hands were now presented at the
oritice in the curtain, faces appeared be.
hind it, and at length an old lady, profess.
| ing to be the mother of Mrs. Flint, de.
sired recognition. Mrs. Flint approached
the curtain, when the delicate, tluttering
hand of the spirit could be seen in eager
effort to grasp her daughters hand, which,
of course, continued by its earthly nag.
netism to repel the ETHEREAL form, causing
it to dance before her, but to elude the
grasp it professed to seek. With the
| question, i" Is this my dear mother? ~ to
which was replied in hoarse and broken
whisper, Yes, l am your mother!'
Mrs. F. succeeded in arresting the
attention of the supposed spirit, and al
the instant seized and held the proffered
hand. Instantly, Lawyer Wood turned
on the gas, which had been left burning
for that purpose, revealing to the
audience Mrs. Huntoon secure in the
hands of her captors, but endeavoring to
sink upon the floor. Both Mr.. Davis and
Mr.. Flint rushed to the rescue. Mr.. Film,
raised her, and succeeded in setting hel
on her feet, but while he was still endeav
oring to support her, and in the face of thu
entire audience, in the full light of the
gas, she threw herself from his support
with the exclamation: "There, you've
broken both of my arms!" and fell nearly
PROSTATE upon the floor. No sooner wa:
she again raised than she declared tha
Mrs. Flint had never touched her hand un
til she broke into the cabinet and dragged
her from her seat
Did she know, or did she not know
that every movement had been distinctly
visible to that audience from the momen
the light was turned on, while the same
form in the hands of Mrs. Flint had beer
visible from the instant she was seized
Such, however, was the fact With thu
same reckless disregard for the truth ant
of the actual knowledge of the twenty t.
twenty five witnesses of the occurrence
she declared that Mrs. Flint had throw
her on the floor, when she fell or threw
herself froE. Mr.. Flint's arms.
A more stupid attempt at fraud canno
we'll be imagined.-Boston Herald.