Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-10

personStorS OF spirits dressed. Inere were siatS
the door between the back paror and the dark
bedroom, which gave it the appearance OF being
permanently closed, but one Of these Stats was in
geniously arranged so aS to be readily removed and
the door opened. Mrs. Whitney one night consented
TO personate q materialized spirit. Mrs. REYNOLDS
was fool to sew her eyes out for pittance when
there was so much money in the medium business
On that occasion the dark bedroom was used q
dressing room, and the slat being readily removed,
she and the other persons taking part passed with
out difficulty INTO the room used cabinet. She
was partially undressed, her face powdered
white, and she was enveloped in gauzy robe
MORE FRAUDS.
Mrs. A. B. Souther a medium at II55 Mission
street, Mrs. Whitney says, personated materiazed
spirits for Crindle- Reynolds. Another who aided
was Mrs. Feathers, then of 10 TAYLOR street but
now Of Petaluma. Mrs. f. succeeded Mrs. s as
- lnez Logan, spirit that haunts the Souther
seances. Mrs. F. took the part of Inez so that Mrs
Souther could be in the audience, and thus
disarm suspicion that hal arisen regarding her
identity with the spirit Colonel L. B. Hopkins was
present and declared (Feather the spirit f Inez to
be genuine. Mrs Feathers told her she could
hardly keep from laughing out, for Hopkins uu.
doubtedly recognized her, taking particular notice
OF ring he had repeatedly seen on her hand.
MORE LIGHT
DR.. A. Morton, who keeps a spiritual bookstore at
2lO Stockton street, says Mrs. Foye, the medium
committee to examine the medium who, at is con-
clusion, made an excuse to 20 to the ladies' toilet
where the woman Feathers accompanied her and
got S3 for passing her the goods with which the
effec'ed. She concealed them
under her clothing and entered the cabinet Mrs
Mary +. Thayer 209 Valencia street. saws that four
years ago she attended the lights for Mrs REYNOLDS
seauces at the Sacramento House, and while so do
ing she saw lights shining through the open door OF
the dark be ]room, the wardrobe standing before the
door having been turned partly round so as TO allow
OF the eress and ingreSs of the persons represent
ing materiaized spirits. She said that when Mrs
Reynolds was personating "Gruff she saw the
mask which she used, and also Mrs REYNOLDS back
hair. At another time, when Mrs REYNOLDS person.
ated Jesse shepherds tall brother Willie, standing
on a large box, she Mrs Thayer) recognized her
black dress under the oyercOat which she wore She
told Mrs. Beynolds after the seance her suspicion
that she had herself persOnated Willie Shepherd
and she confessed to her that it was So That &"
Mrs. Thsyer said, " let me out"
THE SENSE OF TOUCH.
Mrs. Hendee medium residing at the corner Of
Fifth and Market streets, said that she had reco-
nized Mrs. Souther while Mrs. Souther was person
atlug spirit for Mrs. Reynolds. She reached out
and felt her corsets under the gauze robe
Mrs. Lena c. Cooke, 320 Mason street saws that
her sister-in-law, Fannie King, the daughter of
Mrs Fuller who attends TO the lights for Mrs Rev
nolds' seances, told her that she had personated
spirits for Mrs. Reynolds, and SO had her mother
toned used to persOnate BERTHE Wilson, daughter Of
the Wilson's Of Alameda. Sadie told her sister Fan.
ME that Mrs. Reynolds agreed to give her and her
husband 81 each TO 30 te Laurel Hall, 81 OFarrell
street, and recognize a test about some bananas
which was done about year and half ago. Re
Gently, since Mr. Militz had Mrs. King subpenaed
witness, Sadie has been to her and roundIv be-
rated her for giving the whole family away to
her slster-n-law, Mrs. Cooke, telling her that If
she goes into Court and tes iies it will be taking
the bread out Of their mothers (Mrs. Fuller's)
mouth. Mr.. King told this to Mrs Cook, his sister
and indignant that his wife had "let the cat
out of the bag" Not long ago, at seance at 3S4
0Farrell street, Esprit came out of the cabt II
and announced that her medium then dema-
teralized,' and one Of "the faithful looked be-
hind the curtains and sure enough the medium was
gone, and did not get back till the spirit returned
A WRITTEN STATEMENT.
Mrs. Aitken wrote out statement of what was
said of Mrs. Crindle (ReynOldsl by Mrs A. B.
Souther one evening at Mrs. c. NJ. Sawyer's house
She secured Mrs. Sawyer's Endorsement of its cor
rectness. II reads:
ION the 7th day of July, 1850, called at the
house of Mrs. Sawyer, II Ellis street. | was shown
into the back parlor. The folding doors were closed
and after waiting a few moments Mrs SAWYER
were left open, and looked through them and saw
Mrs Anne Souther sitting in the front paror facing
me, and reading letter in very loud tone of voice
Mrs Souther said that the letter was written by
,
Mrs. Criudle had become jealous Of Mr. Jackson on
account of Mrs. Souther's moving from Mrs Grin.
dies house, and the letter was written to try and
disgust Mr.. jackson with naturalization The letter
read as far as | can remember, thus
80 Are you a fool? Don't YOU know that those
women have been playing tricks on you? Have YOU
been insisting those in disguise to make money by
the ashes OF the dead 1t does not appear half So
bad in those women as it does in an able-bodied
man like YOU. Are you not afraid that your people
in New York will hear OF your assOcaung with such
frauds?
land a great many other things which we're SO
filthy that | do not wish to repeat them. Mrs
Souther then said that Mrs. Crinde (Reynolds) was
a hog that after working for her for over year
and a half that Mrs Crndle should write
such letter
Mrs. Souther said that she had worked for Mrs.
Crindle for over year and half and exhibited
herself the spirit Of Inez Logan nearly every
evening, and many times during the day While
the spirit she wore only her chemise
md veil over her head, and the most that Mrs
CTindle paid her was 81 a night. Mrs SAWYER then
,sked how Mrs. Crndle managed when she went
lpon the hill to give seancss, and Mrs. Souther
hen said that Mrs. Crindle always took horn five
eet long with her. This she dressed up in her
,Uthes and placed it the chair and came out into
he audeuce herself as Star Eye and by the dim
light the audience think that the dressed-up trum-
pet in the cabinet is Mrs. Crindle Mrs Souther
.lsO said that her sister-in law Mrs. Fuller was in
he habit OF persOnating a spirit She also said
hat Mrs. Crindle was very greedy and tried to get
ewelry and presents from her patrons. Mr..
5ruff MS Crinde's controlling spirit was in the
labt of taking the ewelfy out OF gentlemen's shirt
)OSOms and demateTialzing them and taking them
o the spirit world, but that Mrs Crindle took them
o Sacramento and exchanged them for jewelry for
herself "MRS. EGGERT AITKEN,
1880 Mission street
endorsed by Mrs. C. NJ. Sawyer, II Ellis street"
TOO QUICK FOR DEATH.
Mr.. Ronald, of Sansome street, at Mrs Rey-
holds seances talked in German with the spirit of
MS dea1 sister, but it evaded test questions The
spirit told him his mother was as well as usual, etc
At the time he had letter in his pocket announcing
ais mother oeath.
Mrs. Hopkins, wife of Colonel Hopkins, one Of
Mrs. Reynolds henchmen, told DR.. Dean Clarke
hat Mrs Reynolds had called once at their house,
md, while searching for some slippers she had left
here previously, found postal card from lady
md carried it away. At her seance in Laurel Hall
he next Sunday she gave the contents of this care
% Colonel Hopkins a test from the spirits.
CAUGHT THE SPIRITS.
Dr. H. u Bailey, Of S6l Jessie street, SAYS that at
me of Mrs REYNOLDS dark seances he caught
supposed spirit hand, and the spirit pulled SO hard
o get away that when it finally broke his hold 1t
umbled over backward, upSetting the stand with
he musical instruments on it, at which Mrs. Rey-
holds supposed to be sitting, and when after a
title light was struck Mrs. Reynolds and the
tand were in q reverse position from that occupied
when the lights were put out On another occasion
le saw her play the part Of GIug singing through
lis horn. From long aud intimate acquaintance he
ays he knows size Is fraud.
AN OAKLAND HOLE IN THE WALL.
The San Francisco reporter, then in pursuit of his
Investigations, brought up next in Oakland. Jason
smith, photographer at 17l6 Seventh street, Oak
and said that his late wife, Nellie Smith, was in
iuced to 90 to Mrs Reynolds rooms, at S3I O'Far-
ell street, San Francisco, to be developed She
in February last. Nellie told him one
lay that Mrs. Reynolds wished to come over to their
-ooms in Oakland and hold a na,erial!zing seance
md wanted him to bore hole through the base
BOARD in the corner where she would have her cab-
let. few hours before the time for holding the
eanee, Mrs. Reynolds produced rubber tube,
which with some difficulty she fitted into the hole
She had previously arranged with q Mrs Josie Rose
VIA was then staying with Mr.. aud Mrs Smith, to
Je in the adjoining room and to speak through this
ube as spirit. The seance did not come off how
;ver as Mrs. Reynolds heard hat skeptica person
lad threatened expose and she gave up for the
ime. Soon after Mr.. Smith moved across the street
o the house where he now IS and Mrs Reynolds
anne there and held two seances.
WHERE THEY KEEP THE DRAPERY.
Previous to one of these seances he happened to
oOk into the room where Mrs. Reynolds was and
distinctly her engaged IN adjusting the spirit
irapery around one uf her limbs, and saw that a
mask was tied on the knee of the same leg. This
,onti med what his ife had told him the
Il which Mrs. Reynolds smuggled the paraphernalia
ntO the cabinet. AT their table the next day. Mr..
smith stated Mrs. Reynolds went through the roles
# Mr.. Gruff and " Efie," speaking exactly in
heir tone and manner as at the seances, and made
Ill manner OF sport of the dupes who believed in
ler pretensons she said it was all trie - that
III mediums were FRAUDS and that she "might as
we'll make money out of it as any of them" Mr.
h addad hat yyifes ste II Love