Telegram-herald., 1886-05-09
MARRIED TO A SPIRIT.


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TIE order - ot,~g ei an8 the f4iloeing
sntry READ from tae record. Asrrie.j. 25d
March. iss5 F.anie H9~ara snd James +.
Sterling
"Nes, ves All she "a ana nov con
yineei fhe man siF. 10 ~hop yas mar
riei NE 49, my drat husband. You Inay
not believe H. buE - sure as 7 ana a living
~onAn the ceremony YOU performed bound
Ia Nedlocx live Nomza and man sho
had been dead Tor three years. Here. swear
me ~ speak the truth she said grAspiug
Bible lying 0n the table.
With On expression "a Il spoke plainly his
astonishmsnl judge Poe took the holy
book and administered the 9th IL vas a
most peculiar proceeding aud one that the
reporter watched with ave and trembling.
You have sworn 20 me 10 speak the
truth and nothing bat the truth and will,
80 help me God Listen 10 what 1 saw
You married me 10 a naterlalixed spirit. /
see YOU DO not believe "a spifitualism. do
and On oath declare that IA this rnonl. on
the twenty-third dag Of March lss3 you
married ne Fannie Howard. % James
Franklin Howard and not 10 r. sterling.
that there Is not, nor never was j. r
Sterling Who married me ia this room on
the 23d day OF March TWO years ago.
Eleven Years ago in the-couuty of Mon
roe IA this state. l. Fannie WestbrOOk
married James Franklin Hosard. nav hus-
band We lived together twelve months
when he vas taken sick and died. Shortly
aherwsrd went north. In ny distress |
visited the celebrated Mr. Foster, OF New
York. There / saw nay husband a mate
rallied spirit. | talked with hiu. aud
enjoyed the happiness his presence gave rue.
/ leit The medium room with new life aud
hope. and in short time returned home.
The quiet neighborhOOd of a country
home i seldom broken by the appearance
OF a visitor Oae day, however, there came
10 our house a stranger lie had been in
the neighborhOOd several Gavs and his
striking resemblance 10 my husband hal
been noled by many OF nv friends who had
seen him. He came 10 our hOne at the in
viratiOn Of my father, who had requested
him to dine with us, | did not enter the
dining room until all had taken seats
around the table. NV ,yes rested upon the
stranger and IN moment / saw before me
nay dead husband as distinctly. sir. As | see
you. 10 not know what passed atterward:
memory deserted me- L seemed to be under
the influence OF some spiritual power.
Mr.. Sterling came To our house often
after ward | was never so impres -ed in INV
l,te a- | was at our nrsf meeting. His
smolance 10 my dead husband was start
az In time be addressed me. and
eepted his offer. against my fathers
shes. We came 10 this city. and In an
| hour after We arrived you married us We
left your office for the hotel My husband
left me at the room door. | partially
| closed the door and instantly opened IT,
/ he Was not in the hall, "a he was "A moment
| before. Nowhere could he be seen. He
| had not entered the Office. and no one saw
| him leave the hotel. IL was mystery. He
never returned. was advised by the pro-
prietor to consult the police | did 30. but
never afterward heard OF him"
You were cruelty deserted madame, by
= cOwardly villain" suggested the justice.
| Deserted - she repeated with an incred-
ulOus smile. No; let me tell you. man
/ OF flesh and bloof could not cover two hun
dred feet Of hallway in the short space of
five seconds. No one saw him pass. Be
sides. is il likely the police force could have
failed to fad him if he had been in the
/ city7'
From the facts sir. have stated TO you,
/ firmly believe that | married the material
ized spirit of my husband, that his spirit
/ came back TO earth aud assumed a form like
that he wore on earth, and that for a season
he made me happy and thet forgetting his
/ spiritaalized life ne oversteped the bounds
Of that existence and was recalled pere pit
/ only u the spiutiand."
The strange visitor glided out IF the door
"a II she her.eli might have been n material
izei spirit Macon "a Telegraph.