Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-25
by MYRA q. REED

r. evidently do not take as good
~ care of her as they might, Tor
Mrs. Reynolds, with all her spirit
magic and marvellous second sight,
did not know me Tuesday afternoon
when 1 called upon her for reading
and yet / helped break up the seance
the night she was exposed, October To-
Mrs. Reynolds has moved twice since
that night and when my companion
and I rang the bell at the new nome
we were admitted by small, fat man
who confided that Mrs. Reynolds was
In.
The pseudo-medium met us at the
door of the dining room. She was
sorry looking person to be the spiritual
guide of any one. Her face dried with
constant use of paint and POWDER her
hair, once probably brown, now
streaked with gray and yellow where
the peroxide has not taken properly,
matted and unkempt, and her dress
covered with grease spots, are haruiy
what would be called the accompanl-
ments of a spiritual soul born to lead.
My companion asked for a readlng
and Elsie looked at us Tor minute
and then exploded:
"Where did you come from and who
sent you here? How did you know
my address," These questions were
fired at us with such rapidity tnat
we fairly gasped and without waiting
for an answer she screamed:
Doctor Tells of Troubles
"I give no readings; my license was
taken away from me and | am not
allowed to do business" with tnat
she called the little man who had ad-
mHted us and asked him to tell us
all about it. We were nothing lotn,
as we did not want to go away SO
claimed to be spirit physician-pro-
ceeded to inform us of the terrible
iniustices which had been pract1ced
upon the medium.
mo he said, Mrs. Reynolds is not
giving any more readings now pc
cause she has no license. She IS not
fit for it, anyway, for several weeks
ago she was set upon in one of her
meetings and since then she has peen
exceedingly nervous"
n OF course we were curious and so he
unsuspectingly, told us about the ras-
, cally' attack that had been made upor
her. 1t was interesting to me to have
nv own actions described and to hear
the ridiculous meanings that were pul
upon my actions. He said:
| "MrS REYNOLDS was having a circle
for her friends and the spirits were
undertaking wonderfully and one had
even been good enough to come out
into the middle of the room When
| some rascal rushed up and grabbed
the medium from her cabinet and then
| declared that she was the spirit. or
| course all of her friends knew the
truth, but these marauders raised
fuss and it very nearly killed Mrs;
Reynolds, for she was in a trance ana
accordingly in very weak condltlon
and a shock of that kind might have
killed her, and as it was they had to
work over her for three or four hours
to save her life"
Has Plenty of Spook Material
All during the doctors recital Elsie
had been passing to and from the
rooms, carrying bundles of white tarla-
tan of the kind she wears when she
appears as a spirit. 1t was ident1cally
the same material which was taken
from Elsie the night Detective King
grabbed her while she was posing as
the spirit of his sister.
Mrs. Reynolds came out to say she
was expecting company, and of course
that was a gentle hint for us to CO.
hut we said that we had not yet re-
gained our breath from the long walk
UP the hill, and the doctor. who was
becoming interested in us, told us 10
remain as long as we wished. Elsie
asked him then if he would fix some
thing for her, and the doctor departed
into the other room, probably to get
his instructions.
His wife appeared on the scene at
this time and a more vivid contrast
could not have been made to order,
for while the doctor was probably not
more than five feet tall and exceed
/ | J,,t, ba five feet eight
or nine inches and as bony as could
be. When the doctor returned we
asked him in q very imploring tone
when we could get reading from
Mrs. Reynolds and he told us con-
fidentially:
'"There will be new mayor Decem-
ber and then she will be able to
get a license all right and she can
read for you" OF course we had to
be satisfied with that.
Talks of Spook Kisses
The doctor by that time was be-
coming so impressed with our evil
dent desire to part with our money
that he proceeded to tell us about
himself. He said
! my wife and L have been spirit
ualists for forty-siX years and in all
that time we have never seen a bit
of fake in it.. These stories in the
/
of lies which have been hatched up.
Surely l ought to know when l have
studied it so long. Why those people
are fools who say that mediums cam
not produce spirits. l have seen sew
enty-five and eighty spirits in room
at one time and they would all come
up and shake hands with you and
kiss you"
We asked him what his name was
and why he was called doctor and he
replied:
my name is Sylvester w. Rich
mond and l have lived here for twelve
years. / cure all diseases with my
hands and with the help of the spirits
In fact do nothing myself, the spirits
| do 1t ALL"
He has not cured Elsie Reynolds OF
her nervousness yet, for all his spirit
| doctors.
Produces Fake Photographs
"The spirits guide me IN everything,
This house where we are living was
| I,x ha