The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-07-04
DELLA DUVAlL.

Further Particulars from "sPlri'
Laud,,-Report OF an Eyewitness
of the buvall Girls Trieks-The
Final Act in the spirftualisitc
Drama-Thc Girl Takes Sick and
the Spirits Fail to HOrk-Tbe Ex-
pose Complete.
At last has the Mountain View Ridge
mystery been fully exposei snd the
FRAGMENTS of the different onsenslcal
theories of gas, electricity and spirit
uslism hurled into eternity, the
supporters of such not having the least
thread wbereon to suspend their shattered
hopes that they were too wise 70 De
deiuded. AS was predicted by the REG
IsTER, human agency was At the bottom
of the whole mystery, and the prime
mover in the affair is none other than the
girl Della Duvall The Incentive
prompting her TO the act cannot OF course
be given, and will perhaps remain
secret until she herself sees 1T to make II
known. Yesterday, the spirit reporter
OF this paper WAS so fortunate IS to near
from the lips oil
TIE PARTIES WHO DETECTED OH
IN several of the ~ accredited
to spirits, their own Try OF the affair
and the manner in which the girl was
detected. The first party INTEL
viewed was Joseph Minister, employ
ed on the farm of Mr.. VIM. Nc
Comas. and q man who kept nightly
ylpils at the Duvsll house after the man
ifeststions commenced at that place.
Minister states that even the girls OWE
family are of the opinion that she is the
guilty party, and that he himself detect
ed her in at least one of tho acts. On
Sunday, while he WAS sitting in room
at Duvsl's, the girl came out OF the pan
try in the house into the room where ne
was sitting and going to the bureau
PULLED OUT ONE OF THE DRAWERS,
when she accidentally saw him and lett
tue room in great haste. Ia few mo.
ments her mother came into the room
and called Minister'S attention to the fact
that the ".piriLs" or mystery" had again
pulled out the drawer. Minister informed
her that he had steu Della pull the
drawer out of the bureau, but she would
not believe him, and going 10 me pantry
from which Della had but few mo-
ments before made her exit, found the
tlolr upset. and cited this as another
evidence. But this manifestation, Ike
the other, was knocked in the head by the
fact OF the girls coming out Ot the pantry
but few moments before her mother
entered. In addition to the above IN
stances, Mr.. Minister also related several
others which had come under his own
personal observation. but a. the people
are by this time becoming tired OF
spirits and spirtuallsts, we desist from
further noticing what was seen by this
gentleman, and pass on to
ANOTHER INCIDENT IN WHICH THE GIRL
WAS DETECTED
in her tricks. On Monday gentleman
from Bridgeport watched the girl
through an open window, he having
climbed tree in order that he might
see all that TRANSFERRED. While concealed
in the branches OF the tree, the gentleman
had full view OF the room in which the
| beds had been moving about, and saw
Della Duvall give one OF the beds sud
den jerk and spring hastily away from
! the bed, and the parties in the room At
the time, who did not notice her touch
the bed. with one accord proclaimed
it to be the work of spirits.
But this is not all, in addition to the
above, two gentlemen whom we know and
whose versclty is as good as gold, secretly
got away with q pie which was IN the
spring house, putting the same into their
capscious maws. Soon after Mrs. Du-
wall went to the spring house, and find.
ing that the pie had disappeared
ATTRIBUTED ITS DISAPPEARANCE To
SPIRITS,
little knowing the practical part OF a
hungry joke that WAS being played on
her by Investigators OF spirituslism. In
this same manner all that has yet trans.
pired in the McComas or Duvsll houses
can be accounted for, and Of course such
evidence only tends to cOutirm the ssser-
ton that fraud has been prsctced on the
guilble people OF Mountain View. Be
tore closing this final revelation Of what
has been seen and heard in spirit land"
we cannot refrain from stating that
night before last gentleman arrived At
the Duvali house for the purpose OF H.
vestigating the mystery, and that as soon
AS his prese, ce about the premises became
known,
DELLA DUvALL GREW QUITE SICK,
and has boen confined to her bed ever
since, and that no manifestations
have taken place since such
confinement. A few moments before
she was taken sick, or we might SAY at
the time, Della was on the porch talk
ing and laughing in high glee, and no
thought of sickness ever occurred until
she saw the gentleman who was 10 lnves-
tgate the manifestations, driving up the
lane This fact, coupled with the fact
that the demonstrate have ceased, is
only further evidence OF her completely
in the matter, and with these few remarks,
thinking that we have fully exposed the
grossest rsud ever perpetrated in this
vicinity, we leave the whole affair TO
THE PGsTMASTER PHYSICIAN
ard his bundle of atiidsvits and stout
article, hoping that he may not succeed
in deluding the people of Belmont cpunty
with his Donsensicsl theory of GHOSTS and
ghoste.s es, as has the girl whom We have
exposed. Hoping that our readers will
excuse the attention we have given the
matter, inssmuch as we have fully eI-
posed it, we for the present bid a final
sdieu 70 spirits and spirltuslism.