Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1901-07-27
ANOTHER SCHLATTER,
Al Alleged Divine Healer in Trouble
In New York City.
CLAIMS NE WAS IN AlsUoUrRoUl,

a Drunken follow. calling himself
Francis schlattor. the Divine Curcr.
Who has nourishcd the past year In
New York city. is In peck Of trouble
iu that city. an ON account uf quarrel
with HE Wife, who has loft him. going
t0 her homo iu Washington ID. c.. Gnd
be- now declares hc will leave the
United states and take up his resi-.
drncc SOONER or later in Europe. This
! follow was interviewed the other day
| hy ono nf the yellow journals uf New
| York city. and The following extracts
| viii prove interesting reading. show
| Ing 90 what extent some people viii
r0 Co make themselves famous HAIRS.
~ am forty four years old. ! was
| born in AlHnce. / came 10 this country
Hrat Ia 1875. ! went 90 work as nsh.
/ orman M ST. James. H. /. wen, to
/ Denver ln 1891 and opened n llttl0
shop I was shoemaker by trade
q know I had this divine power, but
had mover rsod Co. one morning ear
nv / was sitting at my bench. when
! Christ came right through the window.
iic told me Co 80 forth and 60 heal To
toll the truth was lazy did NOT
| want to make shoes and I was only
too glad To- go.
80 / went into the country twenty
six miles. That night / slept in n hay.
/ stack lu the morning ! backed out
and went tu Denver. ln q few days
started ont again That was the nrst
ui my adventures For forty.onc days
had nothing but q few glasses Of
milk / never begged.
/ FIRST EXPERIENCE As a HEALER.
q nnaly got Co hot Springs. Ark.
went into the military camp. ! heal.
ed man who was helpless with the
rheumatism ilo walked across the
floor us lively az any ~ thcm. but
hpy threw mo out Without food Then
was pat in jail for nirotytwo days
Il was tOrsc.whippOd hy the pris
uers hyculfo they could not find my
, money But I got out Of there and
made my way down into New Mexico
81 Albuquerque ia whore I reached
fame went Go % little adobe hut
. and asked q woman Tor u cup of VA
h TOR While she was al the well
picked mp her little baby that was ly
ing In crib I did not know that ID
. sas helpless cripple
~ put IL down ON the floor u ran
4 | toward the door to meet Cos mother
! She dropped the pail uf water au,
| catching % ln her arms cried The
1 | Holy ono has come From that tim,
I was known the world over. I hay,
been 90 an the states of the union ant
a great many places IN Europe.
"NOw my Wlf, and have quit.
4. am glad 1i TO- Sh, thought moro o
her boy than .hp dId OF inc. ! ann go
, Ing 90 NlHI,o fur Un estate lgft 20 ma
4 there asked hcl 10 go. She salt
n she Geld not leave her boy. ! said
I The Rad or mo| She said. IN tak,
the lad. aud she did.
She ia handsome woman hut
Il could not stand fur tho boy She wa
. a gidow when I met her Her nam,
/. was Mrs L.. a. Conner I married be-
, Boz Cplman. Ala. She is a beauty. Bu
~ mower mind. can get plenty OF others
, am selling off my stun ! said lea
Il few days ! wish her good luck
4 THE TRUE sCHLATTER DEAD
g. The Francis schutor who mad
e. wonderful CD cures iu this city. D.
5 dead he parihUI mscrably u
e. "a lonely d,ryrt down ln MeNic,
"a unattended by ans of the thousand
b who profess themselves cured by hi
o. miraculous touch a writer. who too
]
% divine uurcr who visited AlhuQu,I
s quo m an article on his death. said
q "Schluttpr remained some thrr
q months In the cliffs OF Casas Graudgs
Mexico. Then. mounting his burr
d this strange man started forth into Ga
b desert 90 fast and pray. with the 10
. tcntion Of ultimately returning 90 Ga
e United states. but 30 grew hot iu IN
10 desert ard Boz had taken little food an
water. Ills McNiCgn followers gre,
uneasy Thcy followed Schlsttor u
ami found him Biug dead under
cactus bush.
S. Miles behind uu hls back track th
hyul,r.a aml heed burrO was disco,
"a. erred aud sim nearer was found Ga
g hraHs stan which sghlattcr always Cal
"a rIDd. ln One hand ho Clutohud the %
Beg ulu given hy one OF the most prom
%. nOnt burlington oiHciai whose iuhol
a ityl iuurmity had mIEaculuusly yiell
10. cd to the divine touch
d. The Iunc Polite OF CasaB Grando
was informed that body had bee
10 found 90 learned that II was th
O. body uf Sphlntirr ana gave u a doCcn
O., burial in the old cemetery ncav Tol
"a RACES.
.o ESQ the healer was BARRED. hayln
% passed away. scarcely known, ln "a
c Obscure Mexican haml1t while th
cities al the Rocky mountain rogio
were still ringing with his name.
81 NO healer in modern times ha
o aroused su strong belief In his pow
~ ors or won as large % following. An
q atill numerous SChalttrrs now trnyc
H ing throughout the west are guinin
u tho ucruulHry benefit of tho dpa