Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-11-24
spirit NATURALIZATION"

In reply to letter which WAS published in
the RECoRD- UNION last Saturday and in the
San Francisco Cal the following day. the
following communication appears in the Cal
of yesterday:
Editor Morning Call, In your paper, Of Sunday
last YOU copy considerable portion OF letter writ
ten TO and published in Philadelphia spiritualist
paper Mud aud Matter, from the pen of George
f. Parsons, former editor Of the Sacramento
RECoRD-UNION, certifying in the most emphatic
manner to the genuineness rather TO his belief in
the genuineness, Of the Undertaking manifestations
bv. through, lady medium Of this city, now
under accusation before one Of our Courts for fraud
in her materalizug sesnces. Fit were not that her
is before the Courts, and that IL is undesirable
II not absolutely lndecorous that il should De tried
by the papers in advance, would at once give you
for publication evidence, which has recently come
into my possession, going TO show very conclusiyely
that, not only in the case OF Mr., Parsons, but Of
several other persons who have felt sure they had
deceased relatives materialiZed before them
through the instrumentSlity Of this medium, the
manifestations have been completely fraudulent.
l have nothing TO do with the prosecution Of
this and have no personal acquaintance
with the medium complained OF, and no
personal or other selfish for endeaVOrlng to
expose these frauds My only motive for discusSugt
is open the OF honest but too credulous per
sans to the gross imposiuous practced upon
them by cunning and unprincipied women-ior
there others IN the same neiariouS husiness-
who, BY studied arts and tricks, play upon their
tender recollections Of and intense affection for
their loved and lost ones, and thereby rob them OF
their treasured gold or slender earnings am not
a Spirtudist though for years interested inyes-
tigatOr of the alleged spirit phenomena, but the
testimony have in my possession agains, the rle-
dunn comes from those VINO are, or have been, PIC
fessed SpiritualiSts, anu who have, some Of them,
persouated materialized spirit forms for the medium
referred 10, they confess, through friendship or
for coin, and who have listened to the confessions Of
those who did so, giyioC details OF the manner in
a tfragk
the facts not brought out fully on the tria-ant
as 90 not know any OF the witnesses summoned
cannot Judge whether they are likely To be
or not will send such evidence as l
have to you for publication, giving the names
and residences Of the parties confessing OF
testifyiug Tor which have permission. Meantime,
you have published MIR. Parsons statements, per
haps you Will publish slso this communication, and
allow me add that Of the confessions Of which
have spoken is that OF young lady Of this city
who was asked by this medium to persouate for her
the materiallzed spirit Of Mir. Parsons daughter,
and who did 50, in tnouShtless fun, several times,
very satisfactorily. But hen she saw the tender
ness ana tears evoked by her deception and when,
on acknowledging 10 a relative the part she had
played at the seances, she wa sharply refused for
ner conduct she then felt she d5strN ed, she ut
terly refused 10 lend any further assistance TO the
c,uel imposition, aud the medium was obliged TO
procure another person 10 take her place. No one
who knows Air Parsons pIobsbl, doubts his honesty
and sincerity in all this mat er, but nothing Is mere
certain TO my mind, from the facts before me, uuly
atteSteu tNA NiAt ne has bttn l1SSu ulhu lVok
Wickedly. The feelings are too acute IN such cses,
perhaps to allow Of that calm, DOL judgment 50
ueedf1l to with carefully planned and skillfuly
executed fraud. JUNlUS-
In addition, we have been shown a letter
written to gentleman in this city by repu-
table citizen of San Francisco, who has been
identified with spiritual investigation for
years, and has been recognized as the friend
of the Spiritualists. We are permitted to re-
cite passages. The writer says he has at
tended the seauces Of the medium in ques-
tor and that he ''was thoroughly disguised.
A blind man, or one not conditioned by
recent loss by death, coulc have seen
through her tricks" But there are, adds
the writer, a humber of people who have
implicit confidence in the manifestations
made through her. as it is claimed is done.
" know several persons here who were en-
ployed to personate spirits fer her, at so much
night, says the writer, and also know
persons who have had the spirits permit hair
to be cut from their heads, and it was found
to be full of nils The medium friends say
if the spirits can materializs one thing, they
can another. l must confess ! can hardly be-
lieve this. / have seen the hair myself re-
ferred to. At Charter Oak Hall, three years
ago. she mate rallied coru, carrots and po-
tstoes no small ears or potatoes, tut good
large ones. But l do not know what the
spiIits cannot do under proper conditions"