Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-09
BY HOWARD H. KRUEGER


Throughout the recent spiritual ex-
pose have not had an opportunity
to have a round with the occult forces,
and after so much had been said upon
the subject l was inclined to con-
slider 1T in the light of ancient his
tory, but an address 1 had heard by
President Howe of the State Spirit
ualist association reused me to in
vestigate for myself Therefore 1 was
pleased to be assigned to go as the
''son" Of one John G.. Woolley, partic-
ularly when learned that the seeress
we We're to visit was approved by the
State Spiritualist association and was
a personal friend of President Howe,
1.-The most accomplished side-stepper
In the state"
I rather objected to assuming the
name John G. Woolley, but there was
no hope for it, so my father" for the
day and l went to the spook rooms
to be permitted to go into the chamber
together, but she would not allow
this, so dad braved the terrors of
the dark alone Following is his ac-
count of what happened:
Tells of Test
cat 2:30 p. m. wednesday afternoon,
November 28, took young man from
The Herald staff up to Mrs. J. ].
Whitney's "spook rooms at 415h
South Spring street and asked for a
reading. This young man was sup
posed to be my son, although I had
never seen him before in my life.
When we entered her apartments we
were told we could not get reading
together and my son said, I would
like to go in with dad That word
dad did the work. / was ushered
into dark room which was full of
screens and curtained closets for
spooks to be concealed If they We're
needed, but as / wanted only a test
reading, no one else was required.
"I was asked to be seated, given in
structions to put my mind on what
] wanted to know and with whom l
wished to communicate, and was told
to place my right hand in Mrs. Whit
ney's right hand.
when she was fully in her trance,
which she accomplished by closing her
eyes, giving several jerks, blowing a
lot of bad whisky fumes in my face,
she then proceeded to talk in a low
tone.
First she asked me in what day and
month was born, and when / told
her she said / was born under a very
lucky star and that by June of next
year my capital would be doubled. Il
had gone to her for advice on an in
vestment.) Then she said I had con-
siderable wealth, with which / agreed.
and she told me / had made it from
the soil. (She no doubt took me for
a farmer.) But I said No, so she
said, OF course don't mean to say
you are a farmer, but miner. prob
ably a coal miner / sighed and said
Yes I knew 1t all the time she
replied. Then she stopped for mo-
ment, had another fit of jerking, asked
where / hailed from. l told her. old
York, state SO she said, Right there
is where you have been engaged in
coal mining and have accumulated
considerable wealth. statements which
I affirmed.
icons" Medium a Little
You have one child living she
said "a beautiful son with blonde hair,
who will be with you forever. Who
is Fanny she said after several more
fits of jerkings and blowing some more
bad booze odor in my direction.
''rhen sighed and took long breaths
and began to get very nervous. She
wants to talk with you l was touched
to the quick and couldn't answer. but
began to sob.
Your dear wife. who passed out Of
this world three years ago, wants to
tell you that she is constantly with
you, and now comes a girl, splendid
and beautiful. Let me see-Anna- Is
that her name?
II nodded and sobbed Anna passed
away about the same time your dear
wife did, and she brings a message
saying you must not weep and worry.
She Is much better off than when she
was here on earth suffering with can
cer.'
"IIere / objected and told her she
had no cancer at all but l was told
she did have one. only II wasn't in
sight and all the doctors on earth
couldn't have saved her, The doctors
and thought she was dying from her