The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-17
Further Revolving Testimony Con-
cerning the Conduct of the Wom-
ans Alleged Husband.
COUPLE OF ARCH SWINDLERS
WHO MAY GET a MERITED TASTE OF
GOOD ENGLISH JUSTICE.
Their Career in the United states Be-
Icans-General Foreign News.

LONDON, Oct. 16.-When the hearing Of
the charges against Theo and Laura Jack
son CAnn O'Delia Dis De Barr was resumed
in the Police Court to-day the woman en-
tered the dock dressed in spotless white.
She placed her hands together before her
face and closed her eyes, in the attitude of
prayer. The crowded courtroom was silent.
The hearing was devoted to revolving testi-
mony of the behavior Of the male defendant
toward a young woman who was one of the
victims of the pair. The alleged deceptions
were seemingly accompanied by hypnotic in
fuence. AS the prisoners left the dock they
were hissed by the spectators. Jackson
cried, Keep quiet, you reptiles" The tes-
timony was of such character that the
London papers which usually print YER
batim reports Of sensational criminal trials
say that in this instance they are unable
to do
Ann O'Delia Diss De Bar has not been
been reported dead from time TO time.
She is now, according to her own story,
ffty-one years old. She asserts that she
is the daughter OF King Louis |, of Bavaria,
and Lola MonteZ, but she ism [. She has been
identified by relatives as the daughter of
lone Prof. John G. Z. Saloman, a political
refugee" as she called him. once of Wash
ington. and later Of Kentucky. Ann O'Delia,
notorious now these many years the
"spook priestess,' ayers that she spent the
years from her fourteenth to her twentieth
ION the confines of the frontier dividing
India from China" where she says: Il
evoluted into that psychic wonder which.
despite the penalty demanded by ignorance.
yet defies doubt and challenges investiga-
ton
She made her debut in America (as she
puts IT'D with the Saloman family aud after
varying fortunes and prosecutions by per
sons who would have had her confined
in an asylum she married n DR.. Messant
That was in 1871. Later she was or de-
clared that she was the wife of General
Joseph II. Diss De Bar and oy him she had
She was going and coming about the
country the personification of occult
powers and the revealer of hidden truths
spiritualistic and other. and in this way
while living here, In Washington square
she met Luther r. Marsh, who became So
wrapt up in her delusive pretensions thar
he decided her his Madison-avenue home
and Gen Diss De Bar offered her the CON.
ISOLATION OF an eternal adieu." She went
TO live at the Marsh home and also hired
apartments in the Alpine, where she OF
ficiated as spook priestess and won
greater notorsety.
Suit was brought TO snow her up as an
impostor and she was charged with con-
spring 10 defraud Marsh. She was ar
rested and sent 10 jail and was indicted
by the grand jury. The Gerry Society took
her children. on her release from prison
she went TO Europe, then returned TO this
country. and going TO the West got into
more difficulties in the pursuit of spookerv
and was sent TO the Joliet Penitentiarv for
two years. Released from there. she mar
ried William j. MCGOWAN i'm 1925 ar Chi
cagO at the home OF her 'old friend the
Rev. Dr. David Miller" l72 Ashland bouIa-
ward Mr. MCGOWAN. like Mr.. Marsh. was
a man of wealth. For the last half dozen
years or more Diss De Bar has bobbed up
serene al different times and different
places and under different names. but al
WAYS playing the occult against supersti-
tion for the ducats:
Two years ago she was run out OF New
Orleans with Jackson. whose wife She
then said she was. They were PLAYING
the spock game there and said that they