The Cairo bulletin., 1906-08-14
ADVENT URESS IS
FREED FROM
PRISON
AFTER CONFINEMENT FOR A
SERIES OF EscAPADEs THAT
RIVAL ALL FICTION.
HEAD OF IMMORAL. CULT
That Created An Obnoxious Sensation
in eland-Practieed Occult
Many Fortunes in Check
cred Career.

London, Avg. 13.--Ann o. Dilia Disc
Debar, who under the name Of Laura
Jackson was sentenced December 20,
1901, to seven years penal servitude
for connection with the immoral cult
/ known as The Ocratic Unity Of
which her reputed husband, Theodore
jackson was The head. has been liber-
ated from Augsburg prison under 4
ticket Of leave, having obtained the
maximum reduction Of sentence by
coed behavior
Nine Disc Debar has been known
under ma1y names in the United
States and Great Britain but her great
est notoriety was achieved as the per
petrator OF he socalled spiritualistic
deception by which Luther r. Marsh
.ol New York, was. in his old age
stripped Of his vast fortune he had
accumulated in the practice Of law
Though claiming to be daughter Of
King Louis t. OF Bavaria and Lola
Mcntez she was in fact the daughter
of Prof Joan c, F. Salomon, once of
Washington. but later Of Kentucky.
Separated Marsh From Fortune.
She became the wife Of Gen. JOS
eph H. Disc Debar in the seventies
and later Travelled about the country
representing herself as the personif,
cation of occult powers and revealer
+ hidden truths and in this way while
living in Washington Square, New
York she nteA Aa8ssh ana Jy nioaas Z
alleged spirit naturalization ana
spirit paintings SO infatuated him that
he gave her large sums of money and
decided to her his home in Madison
About this time General y Sc be
bar left the adventures, who went to
live AT the Marsh home and also hired
apartments where she officiated as
priestess Of spiritualism and won
greater notorety.
Suit was brought 10 show her up as
an imposler ana she was charged with
fraud against Marsh Her
rial resulted in conviction and she
vas sen enced to a term of imprison
ment n her release she went to
Europe. and then returned to this |
g,ing to the west
Did Time in Joliet.
Under the name Of Vera Ava. she |
'ell into the hands of the Chicago
oolice, who sent her 10 the pe1iien-
larry at Joliet for two years. Released
rom that institution she married VIII
lam j. McGown, in 1895. at Chicago.
dcGown. like Marsh, was a man OF
wealth but this didn't deter her from
he practice cf fraud.
In 1899 she was run out of New or
cans with Theodore Jackson whose
wife she then said she was. A year
ater they turned mp al Capetown.
'ruth Africa, where Nine Disc Delar
allied herself Helena and Jackson
allied himself Floros.
Occultism and hypnotic perform
noes were in order there. and one OF
er South African dupes. a wealthy
ontractor. gave his money To The wo.
IAN to establish a colony Of brotherly
we.
Scandals Led 70 Arrests.
Soon afterwards the pair went 20 =,
ondon. where they promoted the -
cratic Unity organization. scandals /,
connection with which led to their
rrest in September 1891. Their trial "a
hich wa continued al intervals a.
trough three months 9evelop fact 4
such loa,tao1lc character that ii
'yeral LONDON papers excluded from In
ieir col-Hns al reports Of the pro
'edings in ccc-
Justice Bieham summed uo eironeiy b.
'ih Of the prisoners saying that 81 ~
rs difficult to conceive of more re- i,
llt.ng and abominable conduct than N,
lat which has been attributed 90 I'm
em. The Jury quickly returned q
'rd' ct # guilty.. whereupon TIE ius-i
Pc sentenced Jacl-on TO 1c years
nal servitude and his repuled wife