Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-20
DISS DEBAR'SPOWER GONE
LAWYER MARSH NO. LONGER BE-
 uEvES IN HER.

Evidence Filling Up Against the Bogus
 Princess-The Pictures Stolen from the
 Man She is Alleged to Have Poisoned
 in the Hands of the Police.
 NEW YORK, April 2O-Lawyer Luther R. Marsh has at last been emancipated from the spell of his spiritualistic enchantress. He has told Inspector Byrnes that his hallucination had been fairly dispe.led; that he was con- vinced by the overwhelming character of the evidence produced against Mime. Diss Debar and her associates, and that he had had enough of the astute medium. The publica- tion of her dealings with Lowenherz, the old picture dealer in Un iversity place, seems to have opened the lawyers eyes and awakened him to the fact that he, too, had been vic timized.
 Not knowing what s'spiritualn influences might be at work on MT. Marsh before to- day, Howe & Hummel concluded yesterday that they would not wait to have the pictures brought into court, but would send for them forthwith Armed with the afidavits made the day previous by David Valkenburg they went before Police Justice Kilbreth. MT. Valkenburg was administrator of the estate, and is cousin of old Samuel Lowenherz When he took charge of the estate much of the assets, consisting of oil paintings were missing. Before the old picture dealer died Mime. Diss Debar had become very friendly with him, and on several occasions he loaned her pictures to sell on commission. The end of it all was that the madame got a great many pictures and ran much in debt to MT. Lowenherz. One night the latter went to the madam's house to collect some money and was treated to cake and wine He died soon afterward, and his body was not discovered till several days later.
 MT. Valkenburg discovered lot of new evidence lately which convinced him that Mime. Diss Debar had his cousins paintings in MT. Marsh's house. He obtained a search warrant from Justice Kilbreth yesterday and it was placed in Inspector Byrnes' hands. That official took with him several detectives, and securing big van went to No. 166 Madi- son avenue They were also accompanied by Mir. Valkenburg and Maurice A. Friedlander, an artist and connoisseur in paintings The latter had known MT. Lowenherz intimately, and was we'll acquainted with his pictures They were admitted by Mime. Diss Debar's daughter Alice, alias Lola. MT. Marsh was not in. What took place Inspector Byrnes told reporter as follows:
 "When MT. Marsh arrived" he said, Che treated us most cordially. I explained to him my call Mr. Marsh then said: T am glad you have come. I want you to take away all those pictures, and I wish you would take everything else belonging to that woman. have had enough
 By that" said the inpector, "I under | stood that his eyes were opened and he had concluded to see the last of Mme Diss Debar, The van drove up to the door and my men | began taking down the pictures. MT. Marsh kindly assisted in pointing out which were the madame's and which his own"
 "Did you take any spirit pictures2" | "No; only such were taken as were pointed out as having belonged to Mir. Lowenherz In all thirty nine were taken"
 "How much are they all worthr
 "They have been valued at between $25, 5,- GOO and $5O,OOO"
 |, The pictures were all taken to headquarters. | ''Some of the paintings were found in the parlor, some in the madame's boudoir, and the remainder in secret room on the top floor of the house, the entrance to which was hidden by large piece of furniture. As soon as MT. Friedlander saw the huge picture of the crucifxon, which Mime. Diss Debar has always insisted was given her by King Lud- wig of Bavaria, and was worth $5O,OO he identified it as one of the Lowenherz collec- tion that had been stolen. This same artist said he examined the alleged spirit pictures, and that they were the worst daubs imagin- able. They violated every principle of art, and were the vilest ever thrust upon an ignor- ant mind"
 | So the evidence accumulates about the willy medium. While she lies in the Tombs, always saying she can get bail, yet never getting it, the prosecution are hard at work piling up the truth about her. After reading the ex- posture of the Lowenherz matter, for a time her nerve forsook her. She took to her bed, and did not rise again during the day. When a reporter called to ask what she had to say Hoiv, foIy< quarters she had the effrontery to send back for an answer that 'it was done on her order, and she was deighted;" but when told that MT. Marsh had cried enough she answered not word.
 Among the newly discovered evidence re- ceived by Howe & Hummel is a letter written by Gen. Diss Debar to his sister-in-law, Au. gusta Solomon, in Louisville, Ky. It is dated Onset, Mass, 1886, and begs that Miss Salo- mon send him $25. He sad he wanted it to send to his wife, who had met with an acci- dent by being thrown from carriage in Kansas City. They were awfully hard up he said, and must have some money. If she wished he would paint her portrait from any photograph she had in payment. ''I have been studying painting lately" he wrote s'and have been quite successful in making copies"
 Mr. Howe said the record in the New Y York hospital did not show that MT. Lowenherz died there, as the madam claimed. He maintained that his assertion that the old dealer died in his room from poison was true. Time will tell
 Ohio Republican Convention.
 DAYTON, O., April 20.-Gen. E. L. Lam. poson was made permanent chairman of the Republican convention here. In taking his place he made a speech in which he said Gen Sherman was the only man from Ohio who o,,,ld load tha Rerlhlicans to victory in 1888