The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-19
ARNOLD AND DICKSON
DISAPPEAR AS PREDICTED
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WISH llldL II you say AIly DIT iii
about this. that you would say that l am
certain that i got some truth there. L
communicated with my dead sister and re
She Could have given n me- These men pos
sessed the true spirituRlistic power, but
when they began to use Ii for false pur-
poses. TO make money, IL weakened anu
they substituted false or artificial spirits
After the winter had passed and spring
was coming we found that our daughter
was mediumistic. She developed an an
what was the matter. He said that she
was under the bad influence of evil spir-
it's.
{" How can she get such an influence?
1 asked him.
''He said that children get that way at
times.
What can we do for it?' 1 asked him.
I'VE have some charms we can sell:
and the children wear them and they ward
off the evil spirits n Dickson nb t9 fSeT me would
sell these charms for, because / wanted
the evil spirits driven away from my lit
tie girl At this time; you see. | tn1u an.9
true I looked upon these men as holy
men. / fully. believed all they. said.
Dickson did not know what to charge
for the charm. and called to. Arnold.
George he said. How. can. we sell
these charms against evil spirits?'
Discuss the Price.
ARNOLD said: They are so scarce. They
have sold rapidly, and do not know II
we have any left Then ] asked Dickson
what they were and where they came
from. Dickson told me that they were
picked up In Egypt. They were genuine
charms st ones that had been magnetlzcd
by some powerful Egyptian spirit: o,,-.a
"I thought that was all right, or course
and asked him how much they were,
George, do you think we can sell her
one for S15? Dickson asked.
80, my. [ don't think L can pay that
much j said
Then Arnold said;
1--we will let Mrs York have one cheap
because she has been good customer.
"'What do you call cheap?' L asked MN:
ct guess we can give you one for $lO.
at told him that was too much ana tileI
the price was too low. 1 bought It for >
and paid him the money. The charm was
| about as big as a pea. 1t was sewed w
| in red silk bag When l got IT, DICKSON
"sYou must never open this and look
| at IL and you must not let the person
wearing 1t know that he or she is wearing
it
''I was so anxious then that whenever
| I changed the childs underwear | ripped
a seam in the undergarment and seWeo
| the charm in II.
Tried to Become Medium.
.'Then after that we took developing
circle work me and the girl There were
such great things going on II would Tax 1rtt
a long time for me to tell about it. Tht
room was In absolute darkness. IheI
lights would flash and glimmer. and Their
! pillows would be flying through the an
and hit me. One night a ralncoat Iel
on me Then a blanket was thrown ovei
" What's this? I asked.
"'This is a physical manifestation, anC
the spirits say that they Will develop you
in this. Dickson told me.
ct carried on this business for months
| Finally I said to myself that l was SURE
that the thing was not exactly right
One night in the developing circle M
showed a cross of real lights They wer,
different from the true spirit lights. Al
ter this was all over I made up my mln'
to discover what it was and uncover TN
frauds ! carried a lot of matches, bu
no spirit lights were shown that night.
"One afternoon at a developing circle
when the music box was going, l planne'
to strike a match when the spirit ngnt
appeared, but Dickson suspected me AM
there were no lights. Then after Will
Dickson said: =,
well, Mrs. York, I think we vii
stop.
Charges Them With Fraud.
yes. I think we will ] said. wan
you to turn up those lights. | want I
find out how long you have swindled me
l want to see this fraud.
90. George Dickson cried to Arnold
Mrs. York has gone crazy.
Arnold asked what was the matter
, and I said:
" Nothing at all. 7 want you to Civ
back the money l paid for those charms
ARNOLD asked me to keep still, becaus
there were people there who wanted [
buy the house. IF you do not keep sti
| and hush up that racket i will throw IN
BLACK Magic" on you he threatened.
'I told him that he did not have enoug
p power over me TO do that, and then the
[ asked me to come up stairs, and L di
so and demanded my money again.
" you had better go and get her tn
= money so she will keep still Arnold sal
to Dickson. and I got my s. back.
r at paid 80 each for two spirit mirrors
in which they told me I could see m
/; spirit guides. They said that these mil
! rOrs would develop clairvoyant sight.
paid my "a for the two, one for m
, ! daughter and one for myself, but / hav
never seen any spirit faces i'm then
! They look like spoiled photograph mega
tives that have been used to make the
. | fake spirit photographs.
4 after 1 had been going for a long tim
4 and after they found that / was tryin
: to catch them i went to one meeting
Q and got in all right. Dickson gave II
t was there. l offered Arnold the 80 cent
T and he would not take it.
s We have no seat for you any NOR
. Mrs. York he said to me. l put n
e money in my pocket and left the ha
G They never got any more money fro
8 me-
. Threatened, Fearing Exposure.
$ Both Arnold and Dickson frighten,
Il me and my husband so that we did n
y dare to try to catch one of their spirit
3 They said that If any one touched spi
Il it, the medium who was in the tram
y would drop dead. We were afraid
q killing the medium.
/ Regardless of the fakes and frau,
. these men practiced on us, and regardle
Of the fact that we were victimiZed al
: gave them lots of money, we are spi
!, itualists. We do not believe in fake spi
q itualists. and were simply fooled. In o.
H own minds we are convinced of the tru
! of the religion of spiritualism, and wa
n you to say so,
''The National Spiritualists Associate,
n Of North America publishes the nam
and records of all fake sprtualists WI
al are exposed. They expose many eve
week. and when the right time comes &
Arnold-Dickson outfit will be expos
and they will be branded in every spi
itualistic home In the country as frau
\, and takers. And all true spiritualls
N will be glad OF it,"
Mr.. York asked that he be quoted
saying that he and his wife are co