The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-05-28
The Mansfield Fraud Last Night
The Opera House Filled with
Dissatisfied People.
The Presence Of Ladies Prevents a
Riot and Repetition Of the
Davenport Stampede.
+" Sometimes the Spirits Work and
Sometimes They Don't"


our beng; the great "what Is u tnat
was to prove to huudreds OF people IN
way, that the theory OF spir-
ituslism il the only true method OF tread
ing the straight and narrow pathway
that leads 10 the Vi known world to come.
has exploded her store OF knowledge,
and the result has been that NJ ,Dsheid
has proven herself to be one OF the most
frauds in the form oil
medium that ever tackled spirits
in any shape or form. Some
DAYS since this self styled medium, who
iuggies = living out of the PEG Die under
the gsrb OF religion, announced that she
would give performance ut the Opera
Il, use on Sunday evening, at which time
and place mani citations would be mad-
in splrltualistic way which would con-
found tie skeptical aud prove ~ the most
hardened sinner that mortal cou d COM
munlcate directly and hold sweet con.
verse with those who lad passed on to
1.-The glories of spirit lite." She did
MORE THAN THIS.
She advertised to produce q genuine
medium; to have he she or it float about
10 mld.air surrounded BY many, very
man spirit forms, who we're all gifted
with gao. and would talk back ut you rs
though they were OF flesh and blood;
table was to raise in mId-air TO an atl
tude of from TOUR to FIVE feet, and float
gracefully around the room; spirit heads
aud faces we're to be plainly seen and re-
C q lied by friends guitar was to be
manipulated by spirits and pass around
the house,. bells were to be rung; harps
played upon, and
GHOSTS AND GHosTEssEs
Of good moral habits were to appear to
the benig bted visions OF man and
womanklnd and tell them what they knew
. spirit land, for all of which q 'smalI
Abundance fee My, to detrsy expenses.
Was to be charged. This being The case
y large concourse of people assembled ut
the Opera House-the building was
crowded from pit to dome-to become
euI,g htened in the ways that are
dark and tricks that are vain,
AMI inhale rs much spirits a.
Door, weak human nature could
endure, each individual contributing
small admiJtance Iee'foT such iabaiatioT
to the amount of so cent note. Of
course there WAS suffic msney taken
in at the door to dotrsy expenses, and
Mrs Mani Id, who was represented by
portly locking fellow with huge back
moustache, whom we will call Mr.. Mans
fs d, felt CORES pondlnsly happy.
The representative appeared on the
stage laboring under n severe attack
of "cheek;" announced that the
performance WAS about to com
unpsce, and asked for committee
10 be- appointed by the audience. The
naples of several parties were mentioned,
but they did not suit the
MEDIUMIsTIC FRAUD;
they were OF u me alive G Iaracter, go to
speak, and be himself selec ed Messrs.
Dennis Avery aud B +. Caldwell rs
such committee, contrary to the desires
of the audience. But the a.sh is weak,
and the audience succumbed to his imp
+ ltlon by the msnIpulst,r of spirits, and
the show went Oh. In the centre of the
,tage a square cabinet had ben placed,
the sides of VIII CHI were covered with
heavy cloth, and within this cabl-
net the medium performed bis
wonderful feats. The medium entered
the cabinet; suffered himself TO be Sc
curely tied to II chair, aud asked for
lady to enter the cabinet with him, along
with member of the committee, which
request was conplled with, aud tue cur
tain OF tue Cabinet hid the trio from
view, the lady and committeeman holding
tue mediums feet and head, but suffer-
moment after the CABINET was closed,
bell, gong and gui ut announced the act
I nat the medium, committeeman and lacy
we q hobEooblhg with spirits, whose skull
MS MUSICIANS WAS OF a very inferior OrOer,
judgi, & from the varis.loDs on the dit.
Ierent Instruments. The curtain WAS
then raised. and the C, mmitteeman ard
lady stepped from the cabinet to the
81 aye, aud answered such questions Ms
the MED ium saw fl u ask them. which
were OF course satisfactory, the lady say
Ing that some one had put his
ARM AROUND HER NECK AND KISSED
HER
This rash avowal on the part of the
lady set the house wild, aid thereafter
II WAS astonishing what num-
Der of people wanted TO be kiss.
Ell. Another lady entered the cabl-
net, and the same performance WAS
repeated, the woman WA king from the
cabinet after the experiment badly
right, ned, and urable to give any ex
plsuatlou O. the nOdus opersndi of the
medium During this test hugh fist,
rs though belonging to workhouse
stoLe-crscker, Was thrust through an
aperture IN the curtain rs sample OF
spirit hand, aud the homellest face we
ever gsz~d on-fsr t., home y to die, in
fact and go to the spirit land
showed Itself. Of Course this
every body that Mans
field had made n hit, and when he
closed the cabinet and united himself, a
very wonC erIul feat, and performed
only by him, every body was convinced
against their wiii-lhat he WAS u sick
,ort Of q medium. From that time on
.ue Manifestations were made without
he medium being tied, and the next
sdy who entered the cabinet, Mrs.
residing al So Main street, !
'eports that the medium was "humbug,"
ND tina. the spiritual DEMONSTRATORS
we're made by his own hands, but
when she attempted to announce this
act from the stsge, the glIb.tongued |
Mansfield very promptly and judicious ly
hanged the subject 10 something more |
and insisted on going on
With the show. This attempt to seal the |
ips of Mrs. Williamson caused terrible |
Iprosr. Numerous demands we're made |
o have the money refunded, and for q
lme
RIOT WAS IMMINENT,
nd it was greatly feared that the Dsven.
'ort stampede OF some years sgo would
'e repeated. But own & 10 the p essence of
sdies in the house quiet was finally re-
tored by Sheriff Gso r. Tinzie and Mr..
acob Grub oeit & appointed a Commit.
PA in nlspe Of Me.srs Aysrv e,1 SS