Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-01-06
TRICKS OF THE TRADE.
A Medium Exposed at Senee il
Camden

An exciting episode took place last
night at spiritualiStic Seance in n
private house on Hudson street, Cam
den. ssys the Philadelphia Record,
which resulted in Maurice Barnett, "A
determined young En"lishnan, living
ut No $40 Warwick street, this city,
exposing the tricks of a medium named
Henry LolIar, of No 123y North
| Twelfth street who is assisted in his
work of dcfraudiug the public by his
wife ana a man named Brown. Bar
nett was accompanied to the scauce
| by Harry Upham, of No. 1737 South
Eightceni street, and Or w. 5. Bray,
of No 9O2 North Second street Cam
den, ANA both gentlemen materially
jassISteu in exposing the fraud
Barnett is beardlcss young man
of spiriualistic tendencies, bur not at
IAN spiriuelle in appearance. lie is
/ tan ana muscular, and has more than
ordinary strength in his hands and
arms He has been attending the cir
cleS given by Lollar for some time,
and on account of his belief in spirit
ualiSm was at first an easy mark for
/ the medium and his assistants Hear
! ing, however. that the spirit manifcs-
tauouS as produced by LolIar were
rank receptions, he determined to
fathom the mystery if possible, and
| last night his opportunity came, lie
was invited by DR. Bray to attend 4
private circle in Camden, and, after
some hesitation, decided TO accept,
| Accompanied by his friends ne went
to the scance, but his story is best told
/ in his own words:
'1laving attended the dark circles
given at his rooms by Lolhr and wit
ucsScd many strange manifestations
and celestial lights, and experienced
spirit touches. | was thoroughly cOu-
WINGED Of the man claims that he was
spirit medium All my experiences
were most mcanny, and | can tell you
| was frightened ut the apparently
wonderful manifestations on several
occasions. But my faith was some
what shaken by other people present
ut the circles telling me that the spirit
touches | experienced We're produced
by 4 gloyed hand, which they saw
moving around the darkened room by
means of Il chink Of light that came
through a crack in the door. AS
always held the mediums hands,
thought possibly Lollar's assistants
administered the spirit touches ana
! .g.t.,r,,,fpaT invacritrqfn
There were seventeen people at the
scuuCe when we arrived there tonight,
and although we were not expected
/ Lollar invited ME 70 join the circle.
The eighteen of us sat around in tie
darkcued room, ana, | must confess
/ was somewhat nervous. The first
thing suspicious that / notices. was
when we rad to move n divan in the
room to complete the circle. In shoy-
ing this piece of furniture about we
were stlrtlci by flashes of light shoot
lug across the room and apparently
emanating from the carpet on the
floor THIS was an uncanuy Circum-
stance. ald | deteimueu 70 investigate
&c. Reaching down / rubbed my hand
over the carpet and found That l could
produce the spirit lights myself. 4
misty film seemed % arise from the
lights convincing me that this effect
was produced by phosphorus thrown
on the door
After completing the circle Lollar
asked where he should begin to make
the spirits manifest themselves, and
although he was on the opposite side Is
the room from me Mr. Brown Sug
gcsted that he call some OF my rela-
lives forth from the spirit world Lol.