The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-18
NO COURT NATURALIZATION.
INCIDENTS OF A SPIRITUALISTIC
FEUD IN BROOKLYN.
Rasmussen. male Carrie Nation" OF His
Cult, Was Hit with q Material Club by .
MaterializinE Medium, Hugh n. Moore,
Who, With His wife, Is Held for Assault.

Jacob Rasmussen. the male Swedish
Carrie Nation Of spiritualism, who smashes
spirits enclosed in shrouds, not in kegs,
and Mrs Lucretia Sawtelle, fake-smash-
ing mediumistic Joan of Arc, were In the
Gates avenue court in Brooklyn yesterday
to press charges against the REV. Dr..
Hugh Moore, whom they are after hot
and heavy.
Mrs, Sawtelle and other mediums and
believers went to a 'materializing' seance
at Dr. Moores spook studio. 324 Madison
street, on Oct @. At their request Moore
produced the naturalization OF Running
Water" his Indian control. The 9th er
mediums fell upon Running Water, and
there was a mix-up. They say that they
tore from his shoulders a red kimono with
feathers sewed all over 1t; also that the
Rev. DR.. Moore, in an access OF right Gus
zeal, soaked Rasmussen with club They
had him pulled for petty larceny. assault
and keeping child under improper in
f1uenoes.
The court was packed with Spiritualists
and mediums OF all shades Of belief. The
Rasmussen faction testified to the row In
the seance.
-The whole thing WAS fake said Mrs.
Sawtelle. Here's the kimono 1 pulled
from the shoulders OF Running Water
ask you, Judge, il any spirit wears kimono
like that?'
Il saw her bring that kimon into my
seance under her cloak" said Moore.
HE charged 81 for that seanoe, and 1t
was fake, 30 he's guilty Of petty larceny
said Mrs. Sawtelle.
Magistrate Furlong found that Moore
hadn't collected any dollar the night OF
the interrupted seance. so he dismissed
the charge of petty larceny and proceeded
to the assault charge. or this the Ras-
mussen faction was sure, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Moore were held in $1,000 bail apiece to
answer at Special Sessions for assault and
keeping a child under bad influences. The
child is his little daughter, who, the others
saw. impersonates Little Pansy," the
guide of the circle. Moore demanded a
hearing to prove that the dead do return
All right" said the Magistrate. Can
you materialize a spirit for me here in
oourt?"
NO, I can't said Moore, with some
warmth. Mother can I make a photo
graph without camera. Give me the
proper apparatus and can convince the
most soeptical.'
y think there must be something the
matter with your mentality said the
Magistrate.
Moore had many witnesses to testify
that he can produce real spirits, but the
only one who got on the stand was Charles
-. Low, VINO san the ghost of Running
Water at the first sign OF trouble, fade
into rapor and drop through the floor.
The Brooklyn sl,iritualists who believe
that the dead do return in the body rallied
at Moore's last night to condole with hun
Those who believe that tho spirits show
themselves only TO the eye of the medium
rallied at RasnussenS
at was not | that stood on trial before
that Judge, said Moore, 1T was my religion.
What ri ght had that Judge. to demand
Roman Catholic t. prove transsubstantia-
ton? Would he dare? | claim that l
bring them out IN bodies. warm, living,
clothed bodies, They aren't ghosts they
aren't mist They take on flesh and
blood. Believe It? | know it!
Il ought to have them arrested for as
saplt Why? Mrs, Moore was in that
brought forth Running Water '' ANY se irt taa
ference with the spirit is likely to kill the
me .ium In that state. Ii isn't generally
known, but inter erence With the spirit
sne was materializing was what killed
cabinet few months ago. 1t nearly killed
my vie. She lies sick upstairs now.
They say my little dau ghter imper-
sonated Little Pansy. Why, last Wednes-
day my daughter sat in the circle and title
her in tull view Of every one. And there
are people here tonight who will swear
in any court that they saw me materialize
Little Pansy twenty years ago-same
voice, same, form, same clothes. You
know that the spirits Of mature persons
sometimes choose to take child forms"
That's right" said a believer In Mr.
Moore's party, Mrs. Williams over in New
York has a spirit called Little Bright Ewes
that speaks four languages and talks phi
losophy like professor"
/ MY own Little Pansy can speak three