Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-27
The DBis IDebar Trial.
MT. CaryalhO's Neat Bit of Scientific
 Picture Making.
WITNESSES IN HER DEFENSE.

Several Witnesses Appear in the Me-
 dium's Favor-One Thinks the "spirit
 Pictures" Are Works of Art-A Motion
 to Dismiss Denied.
 NEW YORK, April 27.-Lawyer Marsh did not come to court in the Diss Debar trial yesterday. His medium had been searched again before she was let in. D. N. Carvalho was called as the first witness He is reading clerk of the common council and photo grapher. He produced large sheetof blank paper. Mir. Howe passed it over and said: <
 'sIn the absence of MT. Marsh would like Mir. Townsend and his client to examine this paper carefully"
 Justice Kilbreth marked it and it was handed back to the witness He was asked if he could produce anything on it, and MT. Townsend interrupted to offer him sheet of legal cap instead.
 "Oh, mop rejoined MT. Howe; '.this is not miracle. This is only little seance"
 Sergt. Reinisch and Policeman Sinclair held the paper up against the glass door of bookcase behind the bench, and MT. Howe said solemnly to tho witness: Approach it, and, without any connection with the spirits, please tell us what you can produce upon it, if anything" rr
 The witness said that he could produce a picture of Adelaide Nelson, but he would have to have some water. The water was got, ana he rubbed a wet sponge over the blank paper. An excellent portrait of the beautiful actress appeared sinstantaneously.
 Q. By MT. Townsend you produce an oil painting on canvas in the presence of two or more persons, without going within five or six feet of it, whether the canvas was prepared or unprepared? A. I could not.
 Mme Diss Debars lawyers then made a motion for the dismissal of the charge, and the immediate discharge of all the defend ants. MT. Howe made some very biting re- marks in reply, and the motion was denied.
 The defense then opened. Nelson Cross, a lawyer, testified that he had tested the me- diums powers and received pictures, in the MT. Cross is pretty old, and looks older. He is pale and little feeble as to bodily powers, but apparently all right mentally.
 MT. Townsend, whose picture was among those in an album of spirit photographs shown to the previous witness, took the stand to say that it was taken by Mumler in Boston, eight years after his trial here at the Tonlbs, and that he, the witness, was not then and is not now spiritualist.
 c. P. Mccarthy, who used to be Univer- salist minister, was later George man, and is now McGlynn man, was called as an art expert. He thought the spook pictures were pretty good.
 Mrs. Harriet B. Beach, in a bright red spring bonnet, described herself as a student of occult forces and facts that prove the inn mortality of the soul. She testified that she had got from the medium a picture of Ama- roma, an ancient Egyptian, who had been materializing to her for three years at Mrs Williams.
 Matthew T. May, who said he was a 'shealer, i" told an awful story of seeing the medium in bathing at Onset Bay, Mass. A lady who had provided herself with a piece of paste board from bandbox called for a picture while the medium was in the water, and got it. The lady who got it was an unbeliever, and the picture was that of her sister, who had been dead four years.
 John L. O'Sullivan, who is little hard of hearing, now told the court from the stand that he was man of letters, half way be- tween "A and 75 years old, had been Ameri- can minister to Portugal regent of the uni versity, editor of The Democratic Review and of The New York Morning News. He was converted to spiritualism in Europe | twenty-five years ago. He described many | of the circumstances connected with the coming of some of the pictures, but MT. Marsh had already told the same.
 | MT. Townsend was several times asked by the justice if he intended to put the defendant medium on the stand, and he answered that he had not fully decided. The examination l was adjourned to Monday at 1. D. m