Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-23
BEATS DIS DEBAR.
AMAZING STORY OF A SELF-CONYESSED
SEGPLIRTERS SUCCESS
Ia Fleeing hs Widow Of q Millionaire Brewer
Coupling the Mans Of the Noted Artist Frank
3. Csrpsasr, After he Fad Saved HT
from Prison, with That Of The
Wealthy Widow.

New York, July 2s.-Mrs. Mamie
Durling has been one Of the most prom
inent mediums in New York for several
years. She is about forty years old,
with black hair aud black eyes and a
fine figure. Her chief charm is her
marked magnetism.
She has been prominent attendant
at the Sunday night meetings OF Spirit
ualists in Adelphi Hall. and did big
business at her fashiOnably furnished
fat in the Albany apartment house, at
Fifty-6rst street and Broadway.
On each Monday evening Medium
Durllng held a'Weekly Circle, another
name for seance. The circles were well
attended. At all times she would
accommodate searchers after ''the
truth" with private sittings and confer
ences with accommodating SpOoks who
were alleged to DO subject to her con-
troll and who were certain to talk
through the medium, provided she had
a handsome fee, the payment OF which
she usually demanded in advance.
RARE PICKINGs.
J. c. Carson was wealthy retired
brewer Of Newburg, n. Y. He died
four or five years ago, leaving widow
who is now seventy-two years old.
Mrs. CarsOn'S income, according TO
Colonel Ethan Allen, is between $50, COO
and So, 900 a year. which would make
her estate worth, at q moderate esti-
mate, between 81 900, 900 and 81, 100000.
In addition she has palatial residence
at Newburg.
Mr.. Carson had shrewdly invested his
fortune in New York real estate when
he retired and the bulk Of his fortune
he left to his widow.
Before she came in contact with Mrs.
Carson, Medium Durling was having
hard time TO get along even with the
help of her son, who was employed in
Trainers restaurant.
Mrs. Durling, when she bloSsomed
out as q medium, claimed that she had
been developed" by DR.. George, a
s'marpetic physician and meSmerlSt,
who, it is asserted, at an early stage OF
Mrs. Durling's mediumistic develop
ment, was instrumental In inducing nsr
to leave her husband.
Even the missing and unmourned
Madam DiSS Debar never had such luck
as Mrs. During, for she had only just
blossOmed into q professional medium
in a precarious, lmpecunious way when
aged, credulous Mrs. Carson, rolling In
wealth and always generous, came
within her reach.
A DISTINGUISHED CIRCLE.
Add to the weekly circle" Mr.. Frank
B. CARPENTER, the well known and emf
peptlv talented and respected artist,
and Mr.. William C. Brown, the shrewd
manufacturer, and you can readily per
ceive that it was distinguished gath
ering that met each Monday night in
the parlOrs Of this clever adventures
and self-convicted thief.
It was not lOng after her husbands
death that Mrs. Carson met the me-
dun. How they were brought tOgeth-
or have not been able TO ascertain.
Colonel Allen told mo that Mrs. Car
son was q philanthrOpist In the sense
that she helped many worthy people
and that doubtless Mrs. Durling was
brought to her attention by an appeal
from the medium for aid.
Anyhow, according to Colonel Allen,
Mrs. Carson extended aid to Mrs. Dur
ling before she become imbued with a
faith in Spirituallsm.
Mrs. CarSOn's bereavement had been
of recent date. Naturally impression
able she was willing to test the me-
dium's power and the latter's boast that
she could bring the aged widow into
communication with the spirit Of her
departed husband, OF whom in life she
had been very fond.
Once in the mediums net II was the
old tale OF the spider and the fly, with
the difference that Mrs. Carson was res
cued before she had been very badly
bled, for even 500, 900 isn't much when
you have a million.
She sought out Mrs. Durling not
only for consolation of affectionate COM
municatiOns with her departed husband
in the spirit world but to obtain his
keen judgement with regard to bust
ness affairs and the management Of her
property.
Considering her sge all this can be
easily forgiven in Mrs. Carson by the
charitable when so shrewd a business
man as her nephew, Mr.. William g.
Brown, became interested In Mrs. Dur
linRss mediumistic efforts.
MIR. Brown Is manufacturer OF ma
chinery at No. 1O7 Liberty street and
has his residence at No. 200 West Forty
fourth street.
JOAN OF ARC A FAvoRITE.
1t was through his aunt, Mrs. Carson,
that Mr.. Brown was introduced to Mrs.
Durling. Naturally shrewd, alert, and
sensible, even Mr. Brown was hood
winked by the adventures, though not
so thoroughly rs his aunt.
The chief spirits which Mrs. Durling
claimed to represent are said TO have
been persOnageS Of no less historic
prominence than the great Napoleon
and Joan Of Arc. According to one OF
nv informants the Maid Of Orleans in
spirit form was cOnjured up by During
for the especial edihcation Of Mr..
Brown.
So deeply impressed with the me-
dium's powers did aged Mrs. Carson
become that she and Mrs. Durling soon
were almost inseparable companions.
Gifts of money and jewelry were law
ished upos the medium by Mrs. Carson,
who hired and furnished the stylish Fat
in the Albany for the medium and re-
sided there during her visits TO the
city.
She paid all Of Mrs. Durling's bills
and even entertained her at her elegant
home at Newburg during the summer
months.
EVIDENCES OF JEALOUSY.
On one Of these occasions Mr.. Brown
and his family were also Mrs. CarsOn's
guests, and the kind hearted old lady
told Mr.. Carpenter that his studio in the
CITY was hot and uncomfortable and