The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-02
MARRIED A sPooK LOVER.
1t Must Be So, for May Bangs Herself
Tells the Story.

From the New York sun.
Onset, Mass, Aug. 25.-May Bangs. one
Of the Bangs sisters. materializing
mediums and independent slate writers
of Chicago, was in the cabinet room of the
Happy Home Cottage at Onset Bay at
30 last Tuesday afternoon. when she de-
clared positively and without any provisos
that person of flesh and blood in this
life could be married TO a materialized
spirit. She declared that a woman from
the west, woman of wealth, had been
married IN the very room in which she
sat
Il materialized the form she said
'and the lover came out of the cabinet at
tired IN the uniform of an army officer
The premises had been previously ex-
amined to prove that there was no mortal
about The materialized spirit asked
that the curtains be drawn for while to
shut of the front parlor. The bride
wanted him TO put on her slipper, and he
did
Only a faint light shone through from
the room where the minister and others
were waiting. He kissed her numerous
| times. The bride was in a new wedding
dress. Then the materialized spirit lover
requested that The marriage ceremony be
performed, and the request was granted
lie placed ring on her finger, They
a -
The reporter, who investigated the
spiritual marriage, had heard from other
sources OF such matrimonial event, and
from two different persons he had heard
That the woman in the case was from the
west; that she was wealthy well ecu
Gated and woman of refinement She is
said to be firm believer in spiritualism
and has long known the Bangs sisters,
Lizzie and May. She is about 80, short in
N nd Il al
gantly. Another account of the wedding
from the lips of one who claims to have
possession of facts is this:
"On the night of Aug. s, which was
Wednesday, everything was ready for
this strange ceremony. and the wedding
party, consisting of about half a dozen
persons, was within the walls of Happy
Home Cottage, the home or the Bangs
sisters, which is but few rods distant
from the grove where all the big spirit
ualistic meetings are held. Miss -,
who was to be married to the one who
had passed away, had purchased flowers,
and with her own hands had decorated
the rooms. Curtains covered the windows
Just as at a seance. A single dim light
was burning in the parlor, Just candle
in box. the tiny fame being subdued by
blueglass.
Lizzie Bangs and the minister were to
street, surrounded by the floral display
of ferns and lilies. A cheese cloth had
been hung across the double doorway
which led into the cabinet room behind
May Bangs came tripping down the
stairs and entered the dark little apart
ment where the spirits first made their
appearance. She was followed by the
bride, who took seat in the cabinet
room and awaited the appearance of the
spirit who was to become her husband.
May Bangs. materialized the form of a
late captain in the army, who, when in
life hailed from Maryland.
An ordained minister then went through
the marriage service, and at the close de-
clared the couple TO be husband and wife
When the minister, who is woman, at
present in Vermont, finished, she was
heard to say that she hoped 1t was really
materalized spirit that was married,
for If it was man in earth life he was
married sure enough.
1t is rumored that when the Bangs sis
ters start for Chicago on Monday two
young men will 90 with them One of
these young men, who struck Onset with