St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-26
DETECTED.
A World Reporters Exposure OF
Spiritualistic ImpOstOr.


New York Evening World.
Mrs. Caldwell and Mrs. Richardson,
the wonderfully successful Spiritualistic
mediums who have excited the awe, adj
miration, almost the worship of "the
faithful, " for the past ten years, at No.
244 Lexington avenue, Brooklyn, are in
a sorry plight to-day.
Thanks to the patient, perSevering
work Of reporters for the World, IN
which conSummate skill was exercised,
one more mediumistic fraud has been
melted and few hundred more modern
Spiritualists" have had their idol rudely
stripped of tawdry trappings and idiotic
fol de rOl.
It took the World nine weeks to bring
about this consummation so much to be
wished for, andsto bright, energetic,
live woman reporter belongs the honor
OF catching the spo0k prieSteSS.
The expose occurred Saturday after
noon, and in the deliberately planned
campaign the great force most lately i'll
vOked by man for his assistance. cleo
tricity. was brought into play.
The Worlds woman reporter, a
bright-eyed, frail little parsonage, with
the spiritualistic advantage of prema-
ture gray hairs and an ethereal air,
succeeded as ''seeker' in making the
acquaintance of Mrs. Caldwell and her
lieutenant, Mrs. Richardson, and for
weeks she communed with the spirits
of q dead husband whom she never
married, and dead friends who never
existed; joined in singing old hymns,
i'll ferve ntly praising the wondrous
medium, and in paying 81 per Seance as
often as she could get chance to kneel
at the feet of the spook priestess.
By dint of infinite tact, she gained
''brOther' and afterward her ''Skeptical
COUSIN" Another World man got in
Saturday by seeking" at the shrine in
Conservatory hall, where he finally got
card of introduction from w. j. Kand,
of Boston, friend Of Papa Green"
the male protector of the female frauds.
Brother Charlie' and sCousin
Frank" were rugged up with pocket
storage batteries by the World's~elec-
trician Saturday, each with power
enough to display ten-candle mean
descent light. The batteries were stored
in their ''pistol pockets" and connected
with wires running under the waist
band. A light bulb was hidden away in
each reportial inside vest-pocket for use
at prearranged signal.
Nelse Seymour, the long dead min
strel, had ''materlalized" at the opening
Of Mrs. Cadwell's cabinet; the late
Frederick Bremen, the German author;
CANCEL Mother" of the medium had
spoken their pieces in very bad Eng
lish from the parting in the curtains.
and then a beautiful female spirit
stepped down out of the cabinet right
into the horseshoe, which the twenty
five visitors had made in forming 'scir-
Gle"
She introduced herself as Lucille
Western, the late actress. Lucille had
not forgotten her stage teachings APP
parently, for she gave the audience
some charming exhibitions OF high kick
ing.
The fun was rudely spoiled, however,
for the signal was given in the eXclama-
ton, ''Well! well!' by one of the re-
porters. Another reporter moved to-
ward the cabinet, and, arriving, re-
marked "Wonderful?" at which signal
the slender woman reporter threw her
arms about the waist of the spirit and
the imam from Boston" and the skep-
tical cousin Frank raised their cleo
trio light bulbs aloft, switched the hid
den wires to connection" and flooded
the room with light.
Lucille Westerns spirit then sud-
denly materialiZed into Mrs. CadwelPs
scantily clad body, a mantle of cheap
cheesecloth being wound about her
otherwise almost entirely undraped
form.
The cabinet was empty. There was
wild confusion. and the woman re-
porter was knocked down and kick ed
by a friend of Mrs. Caldwell named
Deleree, while one of the electric light
bulbs was bitten off its wire by the
daughter of Mrs. Caldwell.
1t was too late, though. The ex-
posture was made complete by "the man
from Boston, who tore away the cur
tains from the windows, letting in the
honest light of day, and Mrs. Caldwell
was permitted to take Der half-naked
form out of sight.
She has beena smedium," making an
Income averaging $1,000 year from her
dupeS, for at least decade. She and
Mrs. Richardson will be called on to de-
fend themselves against charge of OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses,
and Deleree will have to answer for his
brutal assault upon the woman re-
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