Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-27
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Money from Southern Negroes.

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Money from southern Negroes.
A white man who claims 10 be n
hoOdoo doctor Of unlimited ability. mn
calls himself DR." johnson. aud sails
under the alias Sam DE Leon" has
been swindling the suprrSlilOns me-
grOrs who 1.-Two on the Waters road,
near Deitcr's store. for Ion. time.
The eminent professor of hoOdooiSm
got inlu trouble recently an account of
Robert Fletcher. one of his negro pa
tients. on account Of the strange an
weird manner in which he cures all the
! ills that flesh is heir To-.
johnson. alias DrLeon. has n big
clientele among the negroes on Waters
| road. and his remedies which were
! guaranteed 10 cure ANYTHING and ev-
| erythng. were bought up by the whole
sale. johnson gave II glowing ac-
count of the wonderful curative pow
ers of his hcodoo physic. and his un-
suspecting patients were charmed. ~
it. were. by the graceful euoyiziny of
his remedies, which he usually cold ut
so cents and IS cents.
The hoOdoO doctor met his Waterloo
when he succeeded in inducing Robert
Fletcher IT, hand over IS cents for "a
small dried-up herb. enveloped in n
strip of fiery red nannpl. Johnson
met Fletcher in his house and talked
root medicine" and hoodooism so
glibly 10 him that Fletcher finally
agreed to buy one of the charms. The
doctor told Fletcher that before his
charm would act It was necessary for
him TO hand him over the price of it.
This done, the doctor" proceeded 10
business.
He made a number of hideous gyra-
tons, walked around the room. and 4,
standing up in an erect position he
lifted his right hand in the direction Of
the sky and commenced to rrvolve on
his feet, pointing with his index finger
rs he reyolyed TO the north. south.
west, and east. He then rolled his
eyes around. looked out of the door.
and said:
Gimme piece Of red flannel"
Fletcher produced the flannel. and
the doctor took from his pocket "a
small rule and measured of six inches
of it. lie then placed his hands in the
shape of an arch over his head. allow
ed them to slowly descend. and rs they
reached the red flannel he cut and
measured another piece, but this time
only took four inches.
The negro was somewhat aweStrick-
en- mt the strange spectacle, and lie
regarded the doctor" az sort of
semi-devil. That was Just what the
doctor wanted. The doctor" then
took two small pieces of some hard
substance having the appearance of
dried herbs. and, wrapping them up in
the two pieces of red flannel, gave
them 10 The negro.
Johnson called it the king of the
World" and said that the hard sub
stance enclosed in the red flannel was
load CD stone, but that it was 800
times stronger than anything" An
other remedy he called the Queen of
the World" and the two combined. he
said. would exert powerful influence
over everything, and effected marvel
iouS cures.
The hoodoo gave the negroes
lengthy statement concerning himself.
and told them that his ability was such
that the doctors in Savannah had COM
PEELED him TO leave the city. and. con-
seqLently. he had to practise among
the colored people.
Fletcher waited patiently for the
remedies to assert their powers. but
they didn't work. The b;.mboozled
negro came to town and swore out n
warran' in Justice Russells court for
Johnson's apprehension on the charge
of cheating. Fletcher was so excited
in making his statement that the magiS-
trate made him kiss the Bible twice
to be sure that his statement was
true.
johnson was brought to Justice Rus
sells Office by Constable Robertson
and he made an earnest appeal to the
prosecutor to drop the case. He was
very nervous. and talked about a
pistol and lot of other things. His
face was sun tanned and he was dress
ed well for man who travels on foot
in the country. He said he was from
New York. but with all his pleadings
Fletcher was not inclined 10 drop the
case. DR." John. went to Jail.
He showed Justice Russell his stock
of medicine and hoodoo charms, and
the sight of them nearly took the
magistrates breath Gway.-Sduannah
keaOS.