The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-09-26
"REVREND" MABEL JACKMAN
Thrilling Story of How Chicago Doctor Was Parted From His
Money-=-Mil City Now Scene of Ladys Operations nsSpr-
ituasm and Mining the graft.

Rev" Mabel Jackman has been min
ing" at Mill City under the direction of
some ocult power which she is pleased
to call direct from the spirits. She IS
operating there yet and has recently
gone to Chicago to take ION a little
more coal" She has been the cause of
several people making locations in the
vicinity of Mill City and is working the
is also evidently working the Chicago
end of the road and has initiated one
DR.. Cole into the mysteries of the spir-
itual word If one may judge from the
following taken from the Chicago Rec
ord-Herald. The article shows that an
old fool is the biggest fool that breathes.
arrangement whereby he could have
dead sure thing" and is entitled to no
sympathy whatever for being so success
fully worked by Mrs. Jackman's spirit.
The woman is now dividing her time
between Mill City, way out here IN Me-
vada and the Windy City. and will prob
ably catch many DR.. Coles. The world
is full of sharp people and Rev. Mabel
Jackman Is by no means at the foot
of the class. But here is the story as
told by the Chicago Record Herald
Crystal gazing proved costly pas
time for Dr. Alfred l.. Cole. a wealthy
retired physician. living with his family
ar the Auditorium Annex. Roughly es-
timated. the sum of money extricated
from the bank account of the doctor, af-
ter he had gazed into the crystal sphere
for ten or fifteen minutes, taking deep
breaths in the meanwhile, is about 81. 500.
He may have lost more. but he is will
ing to forget that. Now he wants to
recover $500 of the total amount lost.
and he has sued Rev" Mabel Jackman
Of 1868 Indiana avenue, for that sum.
the Sheriff the other day for service, but
Mrs Jackman had not been found last
evening
AS for the A,7o0 for which the doctor
mourns. he has no hope of recovering it.
He would just as soon forget about it,
II he could. He retains lot of memen-
tos, howeer. which refresh his mind as
TO how he lost the money through his
implicit faith in the spirit message given
him by the Rev" Mrs. Mabel while ne
sat in her developing circles" at S25
North Clark street more than three
years ago. 1t was there that DR.. Cole.
a believer in spiritualism. came under
the influence of Mrs. Jackman and be-
came entangled in the schemes OF a
number of cunning men. whom he de-
clares to have been her confederates.
DIR. Cole has sued Mrs. Jackman
whose prominence as medium. teacher
of the occult sciences and founder of
cult of her own, has brought her into
contact with the courts heretofore, for
s2,SO0. This sum is represented by fifty
six notes, each for $50 executed by her
ser ana ner sister, Mrs. Della simmons,
after Mrs. Jackman had been arrested
and threatened with punishment on the
charge of being party to conspiracy
to swindle. The notes were given with
the understanding that prosecution
would be abandoned. But since DIR.
Cole has been unable to collect his mon
ey and has placed the notes In .he
hands of Arthur Burr Pease of the law
firm of Pierson. Pease and De Young,
with instructions to collect If possible.
The ease with which DR.. Cole was
separated from his money offers
chance for study to psychologists. The
doctor formerly practiced in Minneapolis
and there laid the foundation for his
large fortune. Later he had an ouice
at 163 State street, where he garnered
many more dollars in the course of
few years. When he retired he had
learned how to make money, but it was
Mrs Jackman and her friends, If he is
to be believed, who showed him how to