The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-03
FOX SISTER DDN'T'APPEAR,
MRS. PEPPER, HOWEVER, cor on
FAIRLY WELL ALONE.
Ex.JudEs DALEY Tells the spirituallst
Compensation OF the Courage OF the
Fox Girls and How II Came About
That one OF Them Made = Confession.

mat One OF Them Made Confession.
The Rev May $. Peppers First
Spirtualist Church Of Brooklyn celebrated
the hfty-seventh anniversary Of modern
spirit ualism last night. II was hoped and
expected by the congregation that the
spirit Of at least one Of the Fox sisters
would send some communications through
tle medium. They were disappointed.
The Fox sisters did not appear.
EK-Judge Abram II. Daley, who pre-
sided, had some caustic things to say Of
those who doubted the Fox sisters and
those who doubt modern mediums.
Think Of those three poor girls he
said. They were called fskers and witches.
They were terrified by the revelations
which surrounded them. Yet they stead
lastly told the truth. Leah Fox once told
me how they faced committee appointed
10 investigate them. The circle was formed.
There was no manifestation, The men
ieered, the women sneered. They wanted
70 close the neance, but Leah Fox refused,
NO she said. Wen stay right here.
This test was TO last until Q o'clock. I'll
not leave the room until then
so the committee ordered a dinner
served. While the committee was laugh
ing and joking at the expense Of the three
poor girls, who we're crying. one end Of
Of the table was raised in the air and then
the other. The dishes were hurled to the
floor and the table stood suspended in air.
I he walters fed in terror. And the women
Of the committee clasped the three FOX
sisters In their arms and said
You poor girls, how we have mistudged
you"
After the Fox sisters had teen taken
up and wined and dned by the wealthy,
two Of them contracted the liquor hal II.
And in be- age one Of them, hose cha ac-
ter had been weakened. was hi Ell by the
emissaries Of the Chui ches to say In pull lie
that she had done it all by q acking the
joints Of her toes. While she said this,
there came rappings and beatings on the
platform. The manager OF the ahar
rushed up TO her and said:
You must stop this She answered:
II can't. / can say what you pay me
to say, but l can't stop the spirits
Mrs. Pepper stepped Lehind the tig
floral horsehsoe which decorated the pulpit
in honor Of the anniversary and Logan TO
read from the customary pile OF sealed
letters.
when YOU wrote this letter. she said
TO the woman who acknowledged the first
note she drew from the pile, your mother
said write it II you want TO- but you'll
thing Isn't that so?"
The sitter said in a firm voice that II
was so.
Mrs. Pepper told a pair Of bereaved
parents from their dead daughter that
bowers should be used 10 brighten their /
home rather than 70 decorate her grave. |
Then she brought the spirit Of an aunt for |
woman on the side seats.
The spirit wants me to tell you that |
you'll never find her body. It's in the !
water. | get the name Minnie.
That's right, said the sitter, she was /
drowned on the Slocum.
Mr.. Pepper told the fourth sitter that II /
he used so much muci'age in preparing |
his envelope people would call him con- |
federate
ITS Just the same, she added They'd |
say you we're a confeder te anyway. ! get |
il either way She revealed TO this one |
hat he runs a necktie factory.
The spirit Of John Henry Leideoker told I
his uncle to get after the man who owed
him money right away and he might re lie
DR.. Belden informed his widow
hat il would be safe 10 bring Gladys back
rom California. Fred had sonnet hing so
private to say to the person who called him
that Mrs. Pepper wouldn't reveal it in
public.
There are too many reporters here
she said.
The congregation sat up and took notice
when Mrs. Pepper asked a man, who ac-
the letter she hel up. II some
Dne in his family didn't pass out with some
hing the matter with his throat and II the
question he asked didn't have something
10 do with rope. II was all right, though.
The rope, il was revealed referred to
United States revenue cutter. The owner
ngton and Il would all come out right
,af ugaar HelaD and the Daa con.