The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-19
4 MEDICAL CONJURER.
A Blood Stained Human
Skull to Aid in Eff
fecting Cures.

AT the meeting of the County Health
Board yesterday, President Gordon
called attention to one John
Feilae. of No. sc Central ave-
Iue, who, he said, was practicing medi-
cine without diploma and with all the
magic OF an Asiatic conjurer. The doc
tori receives his patients in darkened
room, in the centre of which is a table
with a human skull covered with
hieroglyphics add spotted with
blood upon il. This is used
in the mystic ceremony which is
completed only when the doctor gets
his fee. This is always in odd money like
this:-Andrew Hanlon, No. l99 Wayne
street, 50. .55; 90; .25; total, So SO; or in the
case of William Larnlin, No. POL Wayne
street, S2.01, So 80; 90; total. s4.69.
Counsellor Winfield was directed to
bring an action against this doctor" and
he will soon have plenty of use for his
magic.
No. So Central avenue is dingy three
story house, the lower part having az
some time been used as store, with
room in the rear. The store has been
closed for business purposes long time,
but it has been occupied for more than
two years by doctor" Fleifie and his
family.
TELL FORTUNES, TOOL
Before visiting the place this morning
made inquiries of a German lady in her
notions store, adjoining.
They call him Doctor" she said, ''and
people say the woman tells fortunes
In reply to my inquiry, she said;-
Young girls go in and out of the place
nights and Sundays. They say they have
had their fortunes told, and | see them
come out laughing over what they have
heardh
/ went through the dirty hall of No. s6
to a side door at the rear, over which is
little sign inscribed F. Fleifia Knocking
at the door shriu voice said Come in, !"
and two dogs welcomed me with bark
ing.
l entered q small room with bare q oor
and fully occupied by articles of furni-
ture; an old woman engaged in rolling
backward and forward in a small space, q
child's carriage containing babe, a little
three year old boy, the two small dogs, a
cat and a canary bird, the latter in strange
contrast with its surroundings.
For want of a better, took a seat on a
chest, and proceeded to business. The
cid lady was Mrs. Fleifie. She replied to
my questions, and told her story in badly
mixed English. She said; ZACH neiu,
mein man is an alt man, seventy years.
He his sick und can do not much"
Showing some dilapidated chairs, she
informed me that she tried to support the
family by Gaming chairs, and going out
washing and scrubbing She denied that
she was in the habit of telling fortunes,
and shed tears as she spoke of the
fanily's poverty. She said she was mar
ried seventeen years ago to her imam, !"
when her daughter was three years old;
that before that time her husband had
been in Bellevue Hospital long time.
The daughter is the mother of the two
children. Her husband deserted her,
"und now" said she, Il have to work to
get them something to eat. / have no
money, und can no tell, how | will pay
mein rent She said her daughter had
no work.
A CURE DESCRIBED.
asked If her husband was doctor,
and whether he sold medicines She an
swered:-
'Nein. He make no medicine; some
people come and tell him something, und
write their names. He puts the paper in
bottle und then he looks in der looking
glass and says something's because he be-
ieves in dot den he tells dem sometimes
to go to butcher und buy bones dot have,
what you call it?-marrow. He say dey
must make der marrow warm und den
rub dem nit der oil. He never gives
incidence
/ had difficulty in making her under
stand question about his using a skull
and crossbones, but when she did she in
IeDll6O III bu6 ucSdblNt, duu 10
assure me that they had nothing of the
kind, she showed me through the rooms
She informed me that her husband and
she, had row Saturday, and he went
away yesterday morning, to enter some
hospital, and he had not returned
A young girl entered the room, to en-
quire ostensiblY about some chairs, and
my interview was thus terminated The
woman followed me to the door, and
asked me to do Something's, so dem
people dot tell stories about as, cannot
do anyding nit us"
SEVENTEEN CENTS FOR LUCK.
Mr.. HI. W. Winfield, counsel to the
Board of Health. said this morning that
it was not at all certain that Feilf1e could
be prosecuted as he administered no drugs
or other articles pretending to be medi-
cines
One Of the peculiar features of the "doc
tors" treatmentis is the fact that he never
deals With anything but odd numbers. He
claims to be the seventh son of a seventh
son, and even numbers are said to have
the same effect upon him that holy water
is popularity supposed to have upon his
Satanic majesty.
His first charge was S3.55 as a sort of
consultation fee. Then he had a schedule
which included such items as seventeen
cents for luck, twenty-seyen cents for
nroDifiqfjrlu the cpiritc and tho liEa