The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-23
MAGI MYSTERY And MEDICINE
MASTER" ACCUSED OF
MIXING THEN TOO MUCH.

Girl seuth sayy Assorted Literature and
Nostrums We're Dispensed From Cosey
Corner Temple in Harlem F1at-Lore
OF Atlantis Marked Down to 500.
The Order Of the Magi, warranted to
acquaint those who have the price with
the hidden mysteries practised by the
inhabitants Of Atlantis In 1900 B. G., went
out Of business for while yesterday while
its Grand Master and Chief Poo Bah, Olney
L. Richmond, . was being pinched by
worldly cop. arraigned before a worldly
Magistrate and prosecuted by a worldly
lawyer who looks out for the interests Of
the New York State Medical Association.
The mysterious Mr.. Richmond was oorralled
after he had told young woman that
certain medicine he had given her would
cure her nervousness and had pocketed q
five-dollar fee The young woman was a
detective on the lookout for 'dootors'
who have been too busy to get license.
and on Tuesday next the Grand Master !"
will try to square himself before Magistrate
Crane in the Harlem police court.
The Order Of the Magi got itself incor-
porated in Illinois a few years ago and
hasn't been in this city more than few
months. Richmond set up his lares and
penates In a handsome apartment house
at 321 West 117th street and filed the ground
floor with signs Of the zodiac, charts in
awe inspiring hieroglyphics, Moorish lamps
and hangings, tabourets and Oriental FIX
ings that made it look like cigarette manu-
factlrer's window. That was the temple"
Of the order. Richmond, his wife and son
slept there and did their cooking in the
kit chen, which isn't Oriental at all.
When the cosey corner temple was COM
pleted and the lamps ready to shed their
dim lights, this advertisement began to
appear in some of the newspapers
ORDER OF THE MAoI will open its meetings Oct.
o; training classes will be organized to prepare
teachers to represent the order For particulars
address o. l.. RICHMOND. reception hours is p. M.
S2l West ii7h street.
Those who became interested In the
advertisement found that Richmond was a
tall man who would pass for either a
cler gyman or a physician. They found,
also. that Mrs. Richmond was frail little
person who held the job Of chief reader
in the mystery outfit.
The Richmonds, according to their ac-
cusers, explained, in the cosey corner tenn
ple." with great solemnity, that the Order
of the Magi did a big business on the Con-
tinent OF Atlantis, back in 1900 BIC. or there
abouts. and that 1t was driven out when tho
continent was submerged two centuries
later. Then the Magi delegation got to
Egypt somehow or other with all the records
only until the Dark Ages came and priest
craft chopped of all the heads of the faith
full save two. Since then the mysteries
have been handed down verbally from
generation to generation after the candi-
dates met the requirements of the order,
and Richmond was one OF the chosen who
was letting people in on the good thing.
1t only cost 800 to learn the whole thing,
but the student would Sind 1t needful to
have the works of DR., Richmond l. g.,
tionism.' SIPS. The Mystic Text Book
S., and five ul our principal charts, s2.5o.'
Pamphlets announced that the course Of
study covered eight weeks and that DR..
Richmond elucidate1 by lecturingon as
tronomy, astrology, chemistry and n lot Of
new "olc ges" that are secret to the order.
Three degrees gave the order a Masonic
sound and they cost IS a piece. 1t was
also said that the Magi crowd was the
only order going that knew and told to
the faithful the -Grand Word spoken by
the Masons.
How many neophytes, applied for ad-
and at present he isn't telling; but mum.
Der of persons, mostly women, visited
the temple, and tomorrow night, under
the sign Of Libra, there was to have been
a conclave
Everything would have been smooth
sailing if q reputable man who lives IN Madi-
son avenue and whose name is withheld
for the present hadn't complained to
James Taylor Lewis, counsel for the New
York State Medical Association, a few days
ago. The man told Mr.. Lewis that his
wife had visited the Grand Master and
that she hadn't been so fond Of her home
since. The informant felt pretty SIRE that
l. l. H., I'D lt,aI
ment in the Magi temple. 80 Mr. Lewis
sent one of his women sleuths to investigate
on Friday.
She called Richmond Doctor and
told him that she was suffe ring from per-
vousness and that she had been referred to
treated and cured by the Grand Master.
who was she?" asked Richmond.
The woman sleuth invented a name and
Well" she declares Richmond answered,
II have 80 many patients thet l can re-
member 'em all by name.
The detective says that the doctor
asked her all the questions about her con-
Gition that physician would and then
ooked intently at her eyes,
ing from heart and kidney trouble" she
declares that he said. He then offered to
sell her a case OF medicine put up by, a
drug firm. There were twelve bottles in the
case and NO g. was Wnat enc needed
all for only $40.
But the detective didn't want 50 worth
of useless stuff and said 30. The Magi
man, she declares, then said he'd give her
some Of his own medicine that was just, as
good, and handed over powder to be dis
solved in milk and taken once an hour.
She gave up IS and promised to call again.
She did. Accompanied by Policeman
Levy Of the Harlem police court she found
Richmond yesterday, and Levy took him
in on a warrant charging him with prao-
Using medicine without a license.
Richmond told Magistrate Crane that he
wanted time to procure witnesses, 80 he
was held in $500 bail for examination next
Tuesday. 90,
In court he wore a silk hat and fine cloth
ing. He looked 80 prosperous, all In all,
that the cops think the Magi business must
have been very good
Si3,5OO Allowed for ARMY ManGuvre
Damages.
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