The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-27
RUCIIONS AT PEPPER SEANCE
DIR. FUNK ASSISTS the MEDIUM
on THE PLATFORM.
Pick pocket Contributes TO the Sensational
Proccedings-Nirs Pepper Loses Her
Tempcr-She Refuses TO Accept n
Sealed Letter From the Reporters.

Peppers Spiritualst Church in Brooklyn
last night A constant fire OF gallery inter-
ruptions from David Goldberger one Of thu
men who has been alenging Mrs. Pepper
to prove her power TO read sealed letters
before an impartial jury, came TO climax
in rimpus before no pulpit, between
MIS-. Pepper Goldberger and Judge Daily.
Mrs. Peppers attorney. II looked almost
like a fight for a while Mrs Pepper was
led away 10 the vestry room by her bench
men, shouting as she retreated:
Il know you You're that $3.50 mani
Well. produce your money!"
pickpocket chose that moment to snatch
purse and try to make q getaway. An
incipient riot followed
The services were full Of sensa tional
displays of medumistic power, Of strong
language directed at Mrs. Peppers ao-
cusers, Of cheers and applause and hisses.
Or. Funk was present and assisted Mrs
Pepper on the platform.
When the doors OF the church wers
opened at O'Clock fully 400 people wers
waiting outside BY half past nearly
900 had paid their quarters and passed in,
I and the church was crowded TO it, capacity.
The police at the door turned back hum
! dreds OF late corners. Fully 300 sealed
letters we're passed up to the pulpit by tho
| ushers.
The preliminares included hymn, an
anthem by the choir and Scripture read
| ing No one paid much attention to them
| The mir was thick with sensation. The
! first rustic came when DR.. Funk. carrying
long silk handkerchief. mounted the plat
! form and ranged himself alongside Mrs.
! Pepper.
Then the medium rose in her long black
| clerical gown and paid her respects to
W s Davis. the ex-medium who has been
talking about her for publication
Last week she said, tho papers were
full Of stories attacking ME in the most crude
manner possible Who is responsible for
them? man who stamped himself as a
villain and a cur-who took the mask Of
spiritualist and played with breaking
human hearts What he says about my
methods of reading sealed letters does not
for a moment touch a letter placed on this
platform He says the phenomenon OF
spiritualism is a money making scheme.
II it were a money making scheme with ms
the theatres and dime museums would give
me more money in week than this church
makes me in a year
This man Davis tells how all do Ia
done by aocomplices Let ms tell you
that there is a more intelligent public now
than ten years ago. when he fool q tho
people with such stuff. ! wondeiS, '9the.
/ time will ever come when hon be 49,
to find for their mother the bodies Of tSTo
boys which had lain in the river for week?
did il not five weeks ago Alcohol
wouldn't have done that Prolonged APP
plausel
Then there was boy who never knew
where his father went The boys mother
never told On her dying bed she refused
to tell But the boy sent up letter in one
Of these meetings. and gave him his fathers
address and they were reunited. Alcohol
didn't do that" More appausel
The rest OF Mrs Peppers address ~as
on purely spiritualistc lines. In the oourssN
thereof she perpetrated these two gems;
"We throw away the pearl Of great price
because it has not knocked at the door Of
our intuition through those in authority.
1T rang down the corridors OF time as q
breath from the spirit world
Then DR. Funk took the floor. The gall
leries stirred and whispered
That's him.
Mrs Pepper is going 10 read the letters
this evening blindfolded said DR.. Funk.
/
ton but Mrs Peppers ! presume every
one here is anxious only for truth. / am
going to put every letter in my pocket
when she il through with it, and take this
names and addresses OF the writer's for
future confirmation
DR.. Funk blindfolded Mrs Pepper, choss
letter from the pile and handed it to her.
and she began to read. She seemed to hit
the target every time The author OF the
letter always admitted that she had tho
contents down pat. together with the
names of friends in the spirit world.
This little incident was noticed early in
the evening woman who afterward
acknowledged the authorship Of one OF
the sealed letters read 80 clearly and mar
yellousv hurried up to an usher.
Was my letter taken up?' she said.
Il don't know. / gave it to the boy
al the door. said the usher
Il told YOU TO take it up yourself I
shall report you to Mrs. Pepper in the
morning, said the truth seeker.
Mrs. pepper had reached the third letter,
when Goldberger heaved himself up from
the gallery You could have heard pin
drop in the audience.
Mrs Pepper, would you accept and read
a letter from the public press?' be said.
There are many reporters here tonight.
II they wrote a letter 10 you and you read II,
am sure they would accept II as proof
1T is growing late put in DR.. Funk.
He was interrupted by a voice from the
opposite gallery. which cried:
why not Mrs. Pepperi'
i will not do So cried Mrs. Pepper.
The public press never dealt fairly with
me. ! started out to do this and III 90
through with IL.
When the applause from the front seats
had ed down Mrs. Pepper went straight
on with her scaled letter reading and Sir.
Goldherger sat down
She had read five letters blindfoldsd
when a woman rose from the congregation
and said.
May | ask il you will remove the band
age' 1t is uncomfortable and unneoes-
sary and a downright shame anyway
W, all believed
50 Mira. Pepper read 81 K or seven more
letters with her eyes bare. A tenor in the
choir asked at one point II DR.. Funk would
open the letter and find II its contents fitted
the reading given by Mrs PEPPER Dr.