Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-25
SPIRIT GUIDES ARE
OF LITTLE BENEFIT
TOELSIE REYNOLDS
SPOOK RAISER Is EASILY DECEIVED
Beldame Who Sings Little Effie Songs With
Cracked Voice Fails to Recognize Young
Woman Who Aided in Unmasking
Flimsy Fraud Few Weeks Ago

spiritual he brought out some alleged
spirit pictures which he said were
taken by Wiley, but when we imme-
diately wanted some spirit pictures
taken also he said he didn't remember
Wiley's address, and anyway If we
did find him we must not expect q
spirit picture at the first sitting. OF
course we knew that the photographer
has to get acquainted with the menu
bers of your family and procure 81
few of their pictures before he can
reproduce them, but we didn't tell DR..
Richmond that. These pictures he had
were photographs of himself and by
his side appeared supposed spirit
picture of his mother and one of his
sisters upside down. When we Won
dered at this phenomena he exclaimed:
"Yes, and do you know, the first
time my sister appeared to me from
spiritland she laughed and said, L am
upside down in the picture, am I not?'
Just think Of that" the doctor con-
cluded.
We asked him If he often talked
with the spirits and he said:
"Oh, yes oftenl and 1 also take
spirit pictures and heal. The spirits
are very good to me.'
Recognizes Little Effie's Voice
The doctor was drumming up trade
and despite Elsies signals to him to
quit talking he still persisted until
his wife said that she was ready to
go downtown and for him to come
along. The doctor was very cordial
and told us if we were still tired we
could stay as long as we liked, but
his wife had been better coached by
the suspicious Elsie and she interrupts
ed him to say that she was going to
lock up the house and we would have
to get out.
All this time Elsie in another room
had been singing in a cracked voice
that reminded me so much of little
Effie's of the cabinet that was
tempted to rush in and go into rap
lures as had seen the sitters of the
circle do on the night of the expose.
Effie is the guardian of Mrs. Rey-
nolds' cabinet and she always appears
at every circle. Her great forte is
singing and Mrs. Reynolds rasping
voice goes way up into it's thinnest
notes when she is impersonating little
Effie, who is always the favorite, al
though DR.. Monroe, also a habitue OF
Elsie's cabinet, is better singer for
Mrs Reynolds can better control her
voice in its lower ranges than in the
higher tones.
Spirit Guides Fail Her
I will not soon forget that night
, when mosquito netting figures waltzed
around the room and enraptured
watchers kissed in an ecstasy the
wrinkled face of Elsie Reynolds for
| those dear ones whom they had lost.
Mrs. Reynolds was clumsy enough
then in her handling of the seance-
even boy magician could have made
it more mysterious-but she talked to
me that night face to face and then
she didn't know me Tuesday. with all
her spirit guides and lore. The night
after the detective had grabbed the
spirit and it had turned out to be the
medium herself she came back into
the room where / was standing and
told me all about her troubles and
said
my God. now this will get into the
papers and 1 will be ruined" Her
spirit guide should have told her L
was reporter. One of her friends
standing near was condoling with her
and said:
"That was a mean shame. That
man that grabbed you might have
been detective, but he wasn't a gen.
tleman and with you in a trance, too.
Why, they might have killed you and
then you would have haunted them
forever afterward, wouldn't you?" and
Elsie acquiesced silently.
She certainly must get a great deal
of enjoyment out of people who be-
lieve in her like that.
I am still feeling badly because I
could not have reading from Elsie,
but If Dr. Richmond's prophecy comes
true and she gets license when the
new mayor is elected 1 will not have
long to wait for that entertainment.