The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-19

Without bidding their friends good
bye, the brothers" George ]. Arnold
and James J. Dickson, left yesterday
itors and to the sheriff's office. which
holds summons for Arnold.
Owing TO the expose of these graft
ers by The Herald, the notorious pair
who have dealt in spooks and husky
human ghosts fed about noon.
All callers were refused admittance
10 the spook mansion at 369 East Third
South. No telephone calls were an
swered
Shortly after noon Deputy Sheriff w.
r. Booth called at the house with
summons on George ]. Arnold This
summons is for civil action brought
against him by Mrs Mary NJ. Brandon.
the aged woman who was struck sew
eTal vicious blows by Arnold and
spirit which appeared before her
after she had paid SO to converse with
a dead relative. Suit for damages in a
sum between 81, 600 and $4,000 will be
started when Arnold is located. Depu-
~ Sheriff Booth was met at the door
Of the Arnold Dickson Brothers ="
house yesterday by a young woman.
who said she was a stranger and had
just been placed I'm charge of the house
the residence from the missing me-
diums. The young woman also asserted
that she did not know either Arnold or
Dickson and would not know them if
she saw them. This young woman an
swered the description of the one who
has been attending the doors for Ar
nold-Dickson for some time past.
House Is Searched.
Determined to solve the mystery.
Deputy Sheriff Booth again knocked at
the door. but this time in vain. Re-
peated knockings and ringings at the
door bell failed TO get any response
from within. The officer learned later
that this girl had left the keys with
woman rooming in the upper portion of
the house.
Keep these until the owner of the
house calls for them" she said, and
then she disappeared.
The officer. becoming more deter
mined TO get I'm the house with each
failure. found Earl Downing, son of DIR.
:. y. A. Downing, the purchaser of the
ArnOld-Dickson property, and at last
an entrance to the spirit factory was
thus obtained. The interior of the dis
tillery (see dictionary showed that the
departure of its former occupants was
sudden. The naturalization room, or
lecture room. where services were held.
was undisturbed. The platform with
its pulpit was there. so were the chairs
and the piano which ground out dole
full music during the proceedings, and
the photograph which contributed TO
the general hubbub.
The floors and ante rooms were Uttered
with papers. cast-off clothing and other
material which has been used in the
services. Hymnbooks and cards start
ing out with rs there not something
YOU would like to know" etc, were
scattered about the rooms. Mr.. Down
ing said all property belonging to the
mediums had been removed from the
living rooms. DR.. Downing is now a re-
sident of ogden.
search about the house convinced
Deputy SheTiffs Booth. Axtel and G. H.
Larson-the latter two having arrived
meantime-that Arnold Dickson were
not I'm the house. The officers returned
TO the county jail. and slowly the
crowd which had gathered around the
front of the building dispersed. disap-
pointed because they had expected to
see something sensational
The news that the swindlers had fled
was. not surprising.
Come on. Mary" said one man TO
his wi 'e.~who had left her bread TO
burn them Fellows amt here The
pHeral6 has played Ned with EN-"
Neighborhood Is Stirred.
There was a ripple of subdued excite
ment stirring in the neighborhood of
Third East and Third South yesterday.
Interest conferred around the preten-
tious building with 1859" tackled on its
doors and Arnold Dickson" chiseled i'm
a block above one of the windows. The
neighbors sat on their porches. peeped
through windows or stood boldly on
their lawns 10 watch the callers who
knocked in vain for admission at tho
doors Of the Arnold-Dickson spook
shop.
THESE callers did not want a seance.
'fhey weren't anxious to speak to their