Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-15
ANOTHER EXPOSE.

The ReYnolds-Crindle woman, who
claims to be spiritual medium, and has
deluded many good people in San Fran
cisco and this city, and has had great
deal of newspaper notoriety, was efectually
exposed at Stockton Tuesday night
caught in the very act and condition of
her fraud When the same woman APP
peared in Sacramento, after the fame she
had attained by the conversion of a tai
ented gentleman of this city, her public
exhibition was miserable failure and
palpable fraud. Nevertheless in private
seances," she thereafter convinced "
numbers of our people of the commences
of the materializations made through her
mediumship' But in every case of that
kind degree of privacy invested the ex-
hibitions that eiieetually prevented any
exposes being attempted. Men are I'M
willing to enter the house of neighbor
and undertake expostions which are
altogether likely to result in the use of
severe physical force and in undramatic
scenes" But in Stockton the woman,
who, despite the expose made of her frauds
in Ohio and in San Francisco, has con-
tinued to brazen out her shame-faced
practices, gave seance in hotel apart
ments. To one of these, FIVE newspaper
men gained admittance After number
Of spirits of various sizes, kinds and
nationalities had appeared and con
WINGED " few credulous people that they
had indeed come from another world, and
while the most mysterious and interesting
of the spirits - was materialized outside
the cabinet, one of the newspaper men
sprang upon " it. and such was the tenac-
ity of his grip that throttling By be-
levers and blows by confederates did not
induce him to relax his hold. Outsiders
burst into the room, lights were brought,
and the newspaper representative was
found to have safe and close within his
grasp the exceedingly lightly-clad form
Of the medium. Her clothing made
the usual heap upon the floor
Of the cabinet, which apartment
was well supplied with pads, pillows.
masks, gauzy fabrics and other parapher-
MALTA used in personating materialized
spirits. The woman begged for mercy.
protiered kisses for release gave back the
money taken at the door, packed up her
kit and left the city by the next dawn.
Yet after this we may expect mysterious
explanations to he made, and the medi-
um' to be reinstated in the good graces of
believers. We will be told that the spirits
stripped the medium that her seizure en-
dansered her lie; that her presence out
side the cabinet does not disprove the
evidence Of the senses that several figures
had appeared at one and the same time,
and that, in short, the Crindle woman is I
martyr to conditions ordinary mortals
cannot comprehend. We have no intcn
ton of SOOTHING Al sincere believers in ma
terIalization. We respect the religious
belief of the SpirituaIist precisely As we do
that Of any other person. There are strange
and unexplained things related to modern
spiritual manifestations; they have com
manded investigation by scientific commits
sions, and are as yet unSolved. But We
protest that such mmitigaied humbng, as
this Reynolds-Crindle woman are re-
proach to honest believers, and merit their
contempt and their hostility. They prey
upon the superstitious element in human
nature make capital out Of the woes Of the
recently afflicted, and turn the sorrow of
the nlourner to account in the enactment
of disgusting farces. Seven out Of ten Of
these so-called materiaiizing mediums are
arrant llnaves. specializing upon the tender
emotions Of men and women, and deluding |
the unwary They obtain money by false
pretenses, and whatever there may be of |
verify or credit in spiritualism rs doc