Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-13
GUIDES ARE LAX
IN THEIR DUTIES
AT FAKE SEANCE
HERALD SPOOK EDITOR SEES SHOW
Many Who Have Been Duppd by Dollar-Grabbing
Mediums Ask Nlystagog to Explain PtrlOr
Tricks of ClairvOyants Under Control
of Spirits of Another World

heard my wife's voice in the trumpet
we were married for thirty years and
she has been dead for FIVE years. A
little later an ethereal form was seen
floating around the room and again
my wife spoke to me. I never saw
Henly before, and there is no doubt
about It being my wifes voice. Yours
truly, ]. C.
South Olive street
The trumpet fake has been exposed
hundred times I'm all parts of the
country. 1 have never been to one of
Mr.. Henly's seances, but IL he is even
half clever he has chance to gain
believers in Los Angeles. In a score
of trumpet frauds | have uncovered the
talking was all done by the medium
and several departed ones have been
impersonated by the charlatan in
charge. The chattering in a hoarse
whisper is not sufficiently plain to
recognize a voice unless the victim.
eager to be hoodwinked, is in a state
of semi self hypnotism. There is
nothing new or marvellous in Mr..
Henly's trumpet stunt.
AS for the ethereal form you de-
scribe: They are made of tarltan
cheese cloth or silk or other textile
fabrics. There are many methods of
floating them around the room. The
favorite method is the reaching wand,
WHICH is ITO lOIlBeT llldil
led pencil, but which telescopes in
tubular joints and are silently extended
so the mediums and guides can float
the white cloths around the room with
ease. In future article in The Herald
[ shall describe at length the methods
adopted by the trumpet mediums.
Volumes have already been written
q bout the naturalization. Come down
and see the Herald's exhibit. We have
do nf oh olA
taken from a notorious faker by the
detectives and Herald reporter few
weeks ago. 1t is in the window prop
erly labeled
Clarence H., Long Beach.-You evil |
IDENTIFY have not seen the exhibit in the |
show window of The Herald.
The book on the faker's table rose and |
fell in answer to your questions when |
the medium pressed with hands or
knees a small rubber bulb connected |
with a slender tube running beneath
the table cloth to a smaller soft rubber
bulb which, when inflated by pressure
IF the master bulb, lifted the book
wing on the table cloth over the small
oulb.
Thus were you hoodwinked and the
answer to your anxious questions
came from the knee of the fraud who
was swindling you and not from your
departed wife.
Come in and I will show you just
how it is done A bulb and the tube
hangs in the window in the Herald's
exhibit among the other paraphernalia
captured from fake mediums whom
We have exposed.
f. r. H.-Thanks for your informa-
ion. We are already on her trail with
strong hope of getting her into the
clutches of the law.
w p San PadrO-Yn1I Kissed her
knee, which was made up as baby
with a face painted on it with a cap
and child's coat. It's a cruel hoax, but
he wonder is how any one who can
write such an intelligent letter as you
10 could be taken in in such manner.
It's the old solution of victim being
blinded by his own credulity. You have
been brutally hoaxed.
Mrs. w. F. r., Los Angeles-The slate
writing by which you were deceived
was simple piece of legerdemain.
Read more carefully what the Sunday
Herald said regarding slate writing.
See the trick states in the Herald win
low.
BY all means do not give more money
to this medium. She is swindllng you.
1t is criminal for her to take your |
money by working upon your emotions. |
H. e. W., Redondo-You clearly have |
been buncoed. We do not print your
letter because yours is case for police |
Investigation. If facts are as you state |
1t will not be difficult to send at least
one faker and confederate to the peni-
tentiary. We advise you to report your
case to the prosecuting attorney with
out delay.
Spook Editor-I would like to ask you
the question how you can explain this.
l have been to many materializations
and know my baby girl came to me at
the cabinet many times. 1 know the
face of my darling baby. feel. know
1t was my child. Yours for the truth,
MRS. SARAH L.
East 5th ST., Los Angeles. Nov. 12
Can anyone conceive a more wickedly
cruel hoax than this?
Would anyone with a spark of human
decency stoop to as low trick as this?
Someone has coined this mothers
woe into a few paltry pennies.
The methods of making a child's face
or full form appear at the cabinet are
varied. One which seems to have been
worked quite successfully in Los An
geles is for the medium to make up his
or her knee with face painted on it,
dressed as a child. / have found a
number of persons who admit having
kissed the greasy knee of a notorious
feminine faker whom the Herald re-