Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-25
Those Spirit Pictures.
Another Interesting Day in thu
 Diss Debar Trial.

huotuor Interesting Lay m tne
 Diss Debar Trial.
 LAWYER MARSH TESTIFIES. He is Very Proud of the Pictures-Pro-
 nounced to be Mere Daubs by Compe.
 tent Judges-The Prisoner We'll Sup
 piled with Cash.
 NEW YORK, April 25.-Lawyer Marsh't medium, Ann O'Delia Solomon, or Messant, had got ready to move into Justice Kilbrethf examination room at the Tombs in great state yesterday afternoon, when Warden Osborne, of the prison, stopped her, and or. dered that she be strictly searched by two matrons. So all her finery came off, and she was "madder than a wet hen"
 The occasion of the search was a vague threat that the big prisoner was said to have made that the examination would never ge on. Nodynamite or other violent interrupteI of earthly justice was found about her, but the discovery was made that she had 6 com fortable roll of bank notes and some valuable jewelry on her person. This will interest nobody more than her little German nrse maid, whose savings of $40 she has bor- rowed.
 On the witness stand the aged but robust Lawyer Marsh seemed to dilste with the idea that he was standing against great opposition for his principles. He told Lawyer Howe that he had been introduced to Mrs. Dis Debar as a medium about four years ago. She had never, in so many words, said that she was the daughter of Lola Montez, but be had derived that impression from her, and had been induced to believe that she was. In answer to similar question, if she had said her father was King Ludwig of Bavaria, he answered.: "Not in those words, and yet the impression she conveyed to me was undoubt- edly to that effect" He supposed she was married to Diss Debar, or he would not have had them in his house.
 The spook picture of Lola Montez was pro duced by Detective Sergeant Thomas Adams custodian of the ,rogues' gallery at police headquarters. It is woodeny figure of washed out tints. MT. Marsh was very proud of it, and anxious that everybody should see it It "came," he said, at No 166 Madison avenue, on Feb 8. He was in the room down stairs and did not see it come. but MT. John L. O'Sullivan told him that it had just come. The general, who had been out when the picture came, saluted it on his return as 'sMy mother-in-lawrn
 Mr. Marsh's portrait, the Christmas present
 
 Rembrandt, was then shown. It portrays the venerable lawyer in a Roman toga, hold ing scroll. There is just suggestion of a likeness, but the drawing is wretched.
 "We got the picture of Raphael by Rem. brandt about ten months ago." said Mir. Marsh, "and it was promised by an inde- pendent message that Raphael would return the compliment and paint Rembrandt" MT. Howe-Who told you of this promisei Was it a communication from Raphael him selfa
 The Witness-It would rejoice me very much to have you so regard it
 | Then he explained, as usual, that it came through Mrs. Diss Debar, and continued: ''I kept place on my wall open for it by | the side of Raphael. After months had passed I desired, through the medium, to have the picture produced Rembrandt said he would sit for it to Raphael if would dc him the honor of sitting to him; and that is how my portrait came to be painted. It is the only one of living person."
 When the picture of Rembrandt was pro- duced the witness again said: "Don't turn ii toward me, I can identify it without. There | is an interested audience that wants to see | these pictures, and as our friends the re | porters have called them daubs want them to be seen"
 | In referring to the picture of the Savior | the witness said that it came in the presence of a lady who would come forward and SC | testify if she were not afraid of appearing ir court. He afterward said that the lady was Helen Potter, the elocutonist.
 There was weary lot of this When cross ss-examined by MT. Townsend the witness surpassed any previous recital by telling of one of his earliest sittings with the medium in the Washington place house. Mrs Debar had retired from the room while he held a canvas for an oil painting. The children | came to the window and asked for bread and butter; a picture had taken form, but as Mrs. Debar ran to quiet the children it disap- peared. When she returned another and diff. | ferent picture was produced.
 Mr. Marsh then said he had never been sick, and what little mind he ever had he had then and has now. He testified that the Debars had never tried to get any money | out of him, and after listening complacently to the reading of the deed he executed con | veying 166 Madison avenue to the woman for a temple, he said:
 "That was intended to take effect when ] shall depart this life about twenty-five years | hence. You will perceive that the instru. | ment is merely consummated will, drawn | to down the lawyers. have beaten so many of them in my life that I thought I should beat them after my death"
 10 MT. boyQ ne SalQ that ne Deneved 1n spiritualism as religion, but any spiritual. ism that denied the divinity of Christ he re. pudiated. He believed in the Old and New | Testaments, revealed religion and the life of | the spirit after the death of the body, with power to return and manifest itself under certain conditions. He also believed in the doctrines of Swedenborg.
 Sigmund Goldberg, of 2S5 Sixth avenue, 6 | dealer in artists materials, testified that he had sold the stGeneraln and the medium | many canvases, all of one size, and tubs | colors. Miss Jennie Kellogg, saleswoman testified that the General" had once re turned canvas, saying that as it had Gold berg's stamp on it he could not use it. He | gave orders that no marks at all should be put on what were sent to him. Augustus NJ | Friedlander, of 1,512 Broadway, an artist | criticised seriatim the pictures as they were shown to him. He said they were all daubs. MT. Townsend cross-examined the witness | and learned that he had once painted 8 DOT | trait of Mir. Marsh that was not accepted | ,,,d had borrouod x150 of him that had no,