The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-30
How Mrs. Tingley Brings Up the
Lotus Buds.
EVIDENCE IN LIBEL SUIT
MOST OF THE ANSWERS RULED
OUT BY THE COURT.

New York. its subject matter covering
a period about eleven years ago, when
deponent was the janitress at 107 West
Sixty-eiGhth street. where Mrs. Ting
ley resided
The plaintiff succeeded in excluding
the answer to the question concerning
Mrs. Tingley's business at the time de-
ponent knew her, and also a question,
Was there a girl living with Mrs.
Tingley?" Only the formal portions of
this deposition were admitted.
The deposition of Johl NJ. Price of
ST West Sixty-ninth street. New York.
was next offered by the defendant.
This deponent knew Mrs. Tingley when
she attended the theOsOphicaI meetings
at Madison street. He understood that
she claimed to be the successor of
William Q. Judge, the leader Of the
movement
A few words of Mr.. Prices deposit
ton We're admitted, lin which he said
that he knew all of the leading theoso-
phists in this country and in Europe,
and that he knew Mrs. TingIey as liv
ing with her husband and having no
business so far as deponent was aware.
Questions then took the trend TO gen.
eral reputation, and the answers were
excluded.
Mrs. Tingley a spiritualist
Regarding his personal knowledge OF
Mrs. Tingley's spiritualistic beliefs, Mr..
Price answered:
'She was a spicitualist in belief.
know that she was given to going into
frances as a medium. I have seen her
in frances giving forth prophecies that
never came true. L am giving this
from my own observation. She used,
or. claimed to use, clairvOyancy in all
her doings in theosOphy."
A question concerning Mrs. Tingley's
use of hypnotic power was vigorously
contested, arguments of counsel taking
in all the INTERPRETATIONS of medium
istic and mind reading and hypnotic
powers.
Mr.. Hunsacller of defendants eoun-
sci made a plea for the admission of
the answer upon the theory that it has
been claimed that people found it diff
ficult to escape from Point Iona, and
that it made no difference whether
they were restrained by physical
means, by the laying on of hands, or
by the exercise of hypnotic power.
Answers Excluded.
The court excluded the answer. Sew
eral other questions, all bearing upon
Mrs. Tingley's practice of hypnotism in
New York, were in turn shut out.
On the cross examination of the de-
ponent Price, he said that he had
written TO the Los Angeles Times, tell
ing the publishers where they could
obtain evidence. On redirect examina-
ton deponent Price WIS asked TO tell
what Mrs. Tingley had said when she
came out of the trance states that he
had described on direct examination
He said:
sD&1
Rlayatski and the late William @.
Judge spoke through her while she was
in a trance state"
The plaintiff at this juncture began
objecting to the reading of questions
as they appeared in the text Of the
deposition. on the theory that they
contained assumptions which it was
improper to read in the presence of
the jury. The court permitted the
reading, and the deponent's answer to
a question relative to several persons
leaving the theOsophist movement was
that they did not leave en- masse, but
at intervals.
The deposition of Mrs George F.
Mohn of Los Angeles followed that of
Mr.. Price. She had been at Point Iona
during the congress Of the Universal
Brotherhood four years ago.
Called Her Mother
Mrs. Tingley, she said, wore a dark
blue robe and was known by the name
Of Purple" and Mother" Deponent
said. in answering a question, that these
names had attached to Mrs. Tingley
because she so signed herself Depo-
nent attended a great many early
morning meetings and one midnight
meeting. This midnight meeting was
on hill about half mile from the
hotel. This hill was the place, she said,
which was known as the Holy HILL
The special ceremony was the laying
Of the corner stone of the School OF
Lost Mysteries OF Antiquity Earth,
air. water and fire We're symbolized by
acts and words by Mrs. Tingley, who
sprinkled ashes as she spoke. The
ceremony took about two hours, when
the return was made two by two The
ceremony was very largely in silence
Mrs. Tingley had her finger on her lips
some of the time. Deponent testified
that there were guards about the
premises
She was at Point Iona four years
ago with her little daughter. The
child was sent to the colony The
little one later begged her mother to
take her away as she did not like the
other children or the fare IN regard
70 separation from her child. Mrs.
Mohn related q talk with Mrs Tingley,
IN which depoHent said:
a Point Iona idea.
she told me that mother love in me
was very strong. but she said it was
not good for the child. and that her
plan was 10 remove children entirely
and to keep them apart from it; that
the mothers held them back and the
child could only go as fer as the moth
er went in their nature; that is. they
could not draw out their better quail
ties. She said I ought not to look
upon my child any differently from any
other child, and that 1 oEght not to
show any different feelings for her. She
said il WAS natural. of course, but not
along the higher lines. 1t was not
what she called higher spiritual lines.
II was not the thing; We should kill
out this thing, otherwise we could not
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Concerning her departure from the
home, Mrs. Mohn said that Mrs. Ting
ley said 10 deponent there were people
coming with money and that deponent
had better go but that she would be
sent for to return in about a month
Mrs Mohn testified that II was the
duty of one of the night guards to re-
main near Mrs. Tingley's room and
watch.
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