Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-03
FISHER NOT Only DDPE
Lincoln, the Omaha Clairvoyant,
Conducted Big System Of
Blackmailing.
The Detectives Discover Numerous
Signed Confessions Of Supposed
~ Reputable Women.
Admissions Of Guilt Extortsd t,
Incredible Extent-Lincoln
sklps Out.

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Incredible Extent-Lincoln
Sk1ps Out.
Special to Times Republican.
Waterloo, Sept. 3.-George Fisher and
his niece, Mrs. Biddle. who reported to
the police the robbery of $3.50 from the
former. have about given up hope of
hearing of the rascally clairvoyant who:
gained the mans confidence. The Oma-
na officers gay the man has fled from
Omaha.
Omaha, Sept. 3.-since George Fisher
was robbed of $3.50 by an Omaha clair
voyant. as told in the Bee of Wednes-
day, Chief Donahue has determined to
discourage fortune telling and kindred
Industries in Omaha and drive sibyls9
and black art jugglers or: of the city.
He has decided 10 bring the matter to
the attention of the mayor and city
council at once, to use his influence to-
ward canceling all licenses now held by
|soothsayelS, and toward the passage of
an ordinance forbidding the issuance of
licenses to this class of fakirsin future
Then, he says, should any be detected
plying thier craft without a permit they
Will be arrested and thrown into jail.
The undoing of Fisher discloses a
system of double dealing and blackmail-
ing on the part of Clairvoyant Charles
Lincoln that is' almost incredible. In
the rooms recently vacated by him at
- ~. IL.
cred large number of written state
rents of confessions signed in most
cases by supposedly rsputa BILE women of
tbs. city. These confessions reveal se-
Ecretssof a private and personal charac-
ter that the 'penitentsR would hesitate
TO whisper to their most intimate friend.
They disclose intrigues Of married wonl-
| en-. many Of them of good social stand
ling, and each bears the pen and ink sig
nature of the maker. The documents
are now in the hands OF the chief of po-
| lice.
| Aa to what diabolical means Lincoln
l3resorted to To extort these admissions
lof guilt there isyno telling. His purpose
doubtless was to levy blackmail upon
larger game in George Fisher he con-
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make a $3.50 touch and get out of
town.
Fisher was a hard working farmer
who, by many years of frugality and
saving, had boarded up a little nest egg
! and was looking for a safe place to i'm
lyest it. He preferred to go into some
small business in a country town. he
said. Having faith in second sight,
h oaI le,1 In;
IChares Lincoln ait 1722 Dodge street and
made known his desires.
There seems 10 have been a dash of
4 IRONY IN Lincoln advice to Fisher te put
This $3.50 in a charmed belt and to go ia
/ Waterloo, Iowa, to invest it. Certainly
Eany other town would have dones as
. we'll, but Lincoln chose that Fisher
should learn in Waterloo that he had
been buncoed in Omaha. There was a
peculiar fitness in The name. Fisher says
iLsneoln put the money in the belt him
sslf. buckled it around his (Fisher' -
waist and told him not to remove 1T
until he arrived in Waterloo. He fol-
lowed the instructions to. the letter.
4 Taking off the belt in hotel of the
Iowa town, he found it to be stuffed
with brown paper. The supposifion is
that Lincoln had two belts alike and
that they were exchanged under the
Victims eyes. Lincoln and Fisher left
1Omaha at the same time.
1t has long been d mystery to the
public az 70 how clairvoyants learn the
lprivate affairs of their customers .
said Chief Donahue 1T is upon this
knowledge that they depend to gain
their power, and there's really nothing
so mysterious about it after all. A
woman calls upon fortune teller. The
first time she fails to see him; he is
busy and can be disturbed The wom-
an goes away after having made an
appointment to call again, and a cap
Iper or confederate Of the seer shadows
her. Following her to her home he
hangs about. picking up a word here
land there from neighbors, tradespeople
and servants until he had lea rnetl
enough to enable his chief to thoroughly
mystify the woman When she. calls
Iagain.
There aHe hundreds of persons in
Omaha. respectable and supposedly in
Itelligent, who are gulied by this class of
Ifakirs right alons. and they seldom
make their complaint TO the police UNI
It'll the guilty parties have gone