Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-29
A Spirit Cast Out.
How nm UnbeItever Materiallzed Sea
From the San Francisco chronicle,l

From the San Francisco Chronicle.l
 On Fremont street, near Folsom, is build ing belonging to 8 Mrs. Sleeper, which bears couspicuously on it's front tin sign, impart- ing to a worldly public that Mrs. Crindle lives within and exercises for it's behoof Q wonderful occult faculty for the highly use- ful art of materializing disembodied spirits Mrs Crindle has been in the practice, on sta- ted evenings, of beckoning up from spirit land the incorporeal shades, clothing them with f1eshy integuments for the benefit of cu- rious or sentimental people who have four bits to pay for their folly. Mrs. Sleeper rakes in the four bits from the credible and the curious alike, and Mrs. Crindle summons up the spirits from the vasty deep, and for for four bits more sets them talking to indi- vidual members of the circle, who pay for the privilege of getting points from their friends in heaven. On Monday evening there was one of these spirit shows given in the building to large gathering of people among whom were Colonel J. P. Dameron, the distinguished democratic statesman, Judge Collins, and other believers in the spir- it's. There was also in the gathering one Thomas H. Hannah, of No. 5151 Bush street, graceless unbelever, who had been coaxed by his friends into attending, to be convinced by ocular demonstration that the spirits will, to oblige certain gifted persons, return and put on their carnal vestments to talk with the living. The lights were turned low, when the medium entered cabinet aud began preparation for calling up the spirits. After the usual mystic persuasiveness, 1t was an Eounced that the ghosts were acquiescent and were coming to commune with the circle. An aperture appeared in the folding doors, a curtain moved aside, Spirit No. was dis closed and was announced as the Empress Josephine materialize& The spirits of sev eral other distinguished defuncts returned in the flesh to talk with the select circle of sit 4a,- GGohJo o,,1 GGo11 1of acknowledged the favor, holding their breath in awed credence. A departed sister of one of the party returned, and was recognized by him and talked with him at considerable length Finally, the spirit of lady long dead, who was announced by her celestial title of Star Eye, by which name she seemed familiar of several of the circle She appeared to be a spirit of superior rank, and the veteran sit ters of the circle were much more awed at her appearance than at the condecension of the Empress Josephine, Duke of Wellington, Hannibal or any other of the distinguished dead, who had come for few moments gos- sip with the meeting. MT. Hannah grew in terested, for he noticed remarkable physi- cal resemblance in all the spirits of the even ing as if each wore the same feshly garment over different spiritual framework. In fact, the spirits, to an eye which penetrated the outward disgUses of head-dress and paints looked all of ( family. Hannah put up his half-dollar fo- hat with Star Eye, learned from her tha sister-he never had one-was hafrts; -An ; that his mother in-law-he -Yas being re- warded acco s. in the other world, and that his wlles spirit was rejoiced to see him coming to belief in the spirits, and would come to commune with him at the next sitting of the circle. At parting the spirit put out hand to lay it on his head, when he grasped the wrist with both hands and tyava a vio1eOt Du11 stStaY Fva'p Sbrialxa6 historically as her head banged against the door with force which changed her to Blackeye and proved the material part of her, whatever might be thought of her spir- itual pretensions. The company held up it's hands and raised it's voice in horror at the proclamation of the spirits. Hannah braced himself against the door, shouting above the clamor of the company, sCome out of that, you son of gun" The spirit struggled hard, but Hannah tugged like puppy at 8 root, and, after a brief struggle, the spirit yielded with shriek, and came through the aperture in the door head -6rst with another spirit strangely clinging to her. The two piled on top of Hannah, who fell on his back in the middle of the floor with the violence his pull and the sudden yielding of the spir- it's. In the fall the spirits wig fell off, re- vealing the features of Mrs Crindle, the medium, and the other spirit provedto to be the husband of Mrs. Sleeper, the owner of the house and treasurer of the show. The circle broke up in considerable excitement and con- fusion, and Hannah made his exit through the front window.