The times., 1899-03-31

the rest free of charge The seances and
frances and messages from the spirit world
followed at So head, and the money came
in too fast to be counted, from all sorts
and conditions of men and women. She
completed her tour G New England. re-
turned TO Boston. made sensational predic-
tions there which came true, and then went
abroad She settled in London for time.
then she visited ST. Petersburg Berlin.
Vienna. and Paris, after which she return
ed TO London.
She arrived in London from the United
States about 1878. Her fame had. to GER
tain extent. preceded her She got in with
the London Spiritualists and sought only
the patronage of the wealthy and persons
OF high social position. 1t was not long
before she had secured satisfactory Glen
tele. She was clever, fairly good looking.
talked we'll, and threw an air of mystery
about herself which had the effect she de-
sired TO secure. In London at that time
was woman OF wealth and social position,
Mrs. Macdougal Gregory. who lived in
fine house al q Green Street. Grosvenor
Square. Mrs. Gregory was interested in
spiritualism. She heard of Lottie Fowler
and consulted her. Mrs. Gregory was much
impressed. and after that Lottie Fowler
was frequently guest at Mrs. Gregory's
receptions There she met and became
well acquainted with Lady We're Campbell,
Sir William Crooks, Sir John Murray, and
others.
Lo,tie Fowler amused and astonished
these persons. They didn't pretend to un-
derstand her or her powers Sir William
Crookes said Of her that what she did and
what she foretold could not be accounted
for on any hypothesis he could construct.
and so he just accepted what she said
and did as among the things not to be ac-
cnnntat IIt- with
TO vouch for her, the woman achieved
great vogue in London This became even
greater in 1874, when, according to spirit
uallst records. she predicted that the
Prince Of Wales would BE- injured white
out driving. that the coachman would be
killed, but that the Prince would recover.
This prophecy startled London town from
its centre to its borders, and Londoners
were more startled when the prophecy fell
true Some enthusiasts then went so far
as TO declare that the woman had some
connection with the Second Advent
4 Prince Falls in Love.
Shortly after this the woman left Lon
don and visited Vienna as the guest of
Countess Adelina Won Wurmbrand. There
she was feted and made much of and
finally she went with the Countess 20 Ber
lin. There she met Prince Wittgensteia.
an officer of the German army He fell in
love with her and asked her to marry him.
She laughed at his proposal at first, but
finally, seeing'tha the man was hard hit.
said TO him:
You think you are in love. NY friend
you are only fascinated, and you are not
the first one. You are of noble birth and |
am the daughter of poor and very humble
parents By and by this fascination will
lose its spell and you will then thank me
for declining your offer If you find it is
not SO, come 10 me again in year"
There is record in Spiritualist annals
of this conversation. but no record that
the Prince ever came back. From Berlin
Lottie Fowler journeyed to Paris and
there ~ de Bourbon. whoever he may
have been, became one of her clients.
and through him she met Rousseau. the
painter, and La Rocheloucauld and Roche
fort and Gerome and other well-known
men and women. Then she went to st. Pc
tersburg. That was some time in 1880
While there, still according to Spirit
ualist annals, she predicted the assassina-
ton of Alexander ii on March Z, 1881. The
crime was committed six days later and
the Russian Government decided that. if
the woman MAS not In league with Nj
hiiists. she was, at least. dangerous per-
son TO have In the country, and she was
turned to England, and in the summer of
1881 returned TO the United States. When
she arrived in this country she found that
she was pretty generally forgotten. and
little or nothing has been heard of her
since.
So much for the original simon-pure
Lottie Fowler. To identify her with the
Lottie Fowler in Bellevue. some things
must be taken on faith. Last September a
Mrs. Brayton. who lives at 15s West Fiji
teeuth Street. became acquainted with a
spirit medium living at 309 West Forty
second Street, who said her name was Lot
tie Fowler. The woman was trying to
make living by her arts She adver-
tised in the papers. but her surroundings
suggested to Mrs. Brayton that she was
making hardly more than enough to pay
for the advertisements. The room in
which she lived was poorly furnished, and
her appearance was very shabby.
After time the woman fell i'll, sent for