Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-24
DISS DEBAR'S WILES
Entrap Another Victim of Her Bunco
Spirit Painting.
AN EDITORS WIFE THE DUPE
Who ESpouses the Cause of the Agents of
the Angel World
AND PRODUCES HER OWN PICTURES
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DrsrA1cH.

ESPECIAL rKLEGEAM TO THE DIsPATcH.I
NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-Ann O'Delia
Salomon, alias Diss Debar, and a crew of
bunco spirit painters have come to the front
once more. In 1888, Luther r. Marsh, a
distinguished lawyer and a vice president of
the Union League, was the victim; this year
the dupe is Mrs. Harriet E. Beach, wife of
Alfred E. Beach, editor of the Scientific
american. As in the case of Mr.. Marsh,
Mrs. Beach has believed in spiritualism for
many years, but it is within only q short
time that she has come out as a bold de-
fender of the fat spook priestess and
patron of the nineteenth century work OF
Titan, Rubens and other dead masters Of
the brush.
Pictures "come" for Mrs. Beach as they
''came" for Mr.. Marsh, and they fill rooms
in her fine house at 9 West Twentieth street,
as they filled Mr.. Marsh's fine house on Lex
ington avenue. Unlike Mr.. Marsh, how
ever, Mrs. Beach has been persuaded into
believing that she has some power herself in
making spirit pictures ''come."
Decided to Def end the Priestess.
1t was on Sunday and Monday that Mrs.
Beach came publicly to the foree round to
CspOuSc LHG VI Lue SplIIL
She had believed in them before, but re-
Gently, it having b cen written to her upon
slate through a me dium, as she describes it,
that the spirits of the other world had
elected her to be their champion on earth,
and 1t also having been related to her
through spirit that her duty was ito help
sister in disgr ace, she decided to face pop
ular criticism and get right up and do
some talking
She spoke at a meeting of Spiritualists
last Sunday at Adelphi Hall, and on Mon
day night upon the same platform she con-
Quoted IAN exhibition of spirit art and
mediums reception extraordinary" 1t
was indeed an extraordinary show for the
extraordinary purpose OF obtaining money
wherewith to start q fund for the building
of home for mediums.
Miss Diss Debar and other mediums"
argues Mrs. Beach, in presenting the matter
to her acquaintances and others, "do not get
enough to live upon. As agents of the
angel world, they cannot be expected to 90
menial work; therefore we must provide for
them. Often they are almost hungry, and
this is shame upon us.
Funds for the Hungry Mediums.
The Monday night show was attended BY
some 200 persons and the profits to be
devoted to beginning the building fund for
the hungry mediums home amounted to
only little over SIG. Other meetings are
planned, however, and Mrs. Beach hopes
that the fund will grow rapidly when more
is known about her purpose. Those at the
meeting saw a score or so of new paintings
! by old masters arranged on easels. Mrs.
Beach said these pictures had been "pro-
duced" largely through her mediumship by
Raphael, Titan and Rubens.
The most remarkable of these canvasses
was portrait of Cassandra, the daughter of
Priam and Hecuba, born thousands of
years ago, a beautiful woman, as mythology
hath it, and one who, though a prophecies,
none would believe. Mrs. Beach came for
ward amid plentiful applause on Monday
night. She is gentle woman in appear
ance, manner and dress. Slight in figure,
almost ascetic in coantenance, low-yoiced
| and accurate in using language, she is the
| direct opposite of Ann O'Delia, ponderous
in form, worldly in face, loud-toned and il
literate. Mrs. Beach began by saying: IT
am the sole manager of this affair, and take
no orders or dictations from any one on
earth. My orders have been received from
on high"
Diss Debar Wakes Indignant.
She then described some of the pictures
and how they came. Seeing heavy Ann
O'Delia in the audience. Mrs. Beach sug-
gested that possibly spirit pictures might be
received through her mediumship. 1.-The
lady," said Mrs. Beach, "is now known as
Nine. Margaret, having dropped her crimi-
nal name of Diss Debar. That excited the
| quondam mistress of Mr.. Marsh's Lexing-
ington avenue house, and rising her big
form to its full height, she flashed anger
from her eyes and loudly exclaimed: 81
have not given up the name of Diss Debar.
never will. l was imprisoned on a false
charge and L will go there again for the
| same good cause, if called to do so.''
Ann, alias Nine. Margaret, was dressed
| in imitation of a Dominican nun and her
robe futtered and her veil swung to and fro
as she sweepingly gesticulated. She sat
down nearly winded, but before the sensa-
tion she had caused was for the time for
| gotten, she hoisted herself up again and
solemnly made this declaration: "Mrs.
| Beach has been called upon, chosen by
| Heaven, to carry on the work which the
false-hearted old recreant, Luther P.
Marsh, so ANONYMOUSLY laid down."
She said much more, and wound up by
promising TO produce" at the next meet
ing, one of the pictures which the court was
afraid to permit her to produce" during
her trial. Edward Beach is said to serio usly
disapprove of his wiie's latest yagary and
summary eiectment of the spook-raisers is
l. al ,I,,,o Al.