The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-14
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Dfss de Ear Woman Who was Sentenced Iss London Tn 1901 For Connection
 With An Immoral

i psss de Ear wcman Who was Sentenced
 Iss London Tn 1901 For Connection
 With An Immoral
 Cult.
 London, Aug. i3--Ann odelia Diss de Bar who under the name of Laura Jack was sentenced December 20. 1901, tc years penal servitude for connection with an Immoral cult known as the Theocratic Unity. of which her reputed husband, Theodore Jackson. was the head, has been liberated form Ayles- bury prison under ticket o'leave. having obtained the maximum reduction of sentence by good behavior.
 Mn.. Eiss de bar has been known un- der many names in the United States and Great Britain, but her greatest mo- toriety was achieved as the perpetra- tor of a socalied spiritualistic, decept- ion by which Luther R. Marsh of New York was in his old age stripped of the fortune he had accumulated in the prac- tice of law Though claiming to be the daughter of King Louis of Bavaria. and Lola Montez.. she was in fact the daughter of Prof. c. F. Salcman. once of Washington. later of Louisville. Ky.
 She became the wife of General Jo- seph Dis de Bar in the 70's and later travelled about the country represent Ing herself as the personiflcation of occult powers and the revealer of hid- den truths, spirituaiistic and others Tn this way, while living in Washing ton Square. New York. she met Marsh, and by means of alleged spirit mater ializations and spirit painted pictures. so infatuated him that he gave her large sums of money and deeded her his home on Madison Avenue About this time General Diss de 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 noto- riety.
 Suit was brought to show her up as an impositor and she was charged with conspiring to defraud Marsh Her trial resulted in her convictiofA and she was sentenced to a term of Imprisonment On her release she went to Europe then returned to this country and going to the West, got into more difficulties through her representations of bogus spirituaiisn.
 Under the name of Vera P. Ava, she l fell into the hands of Chicago police who sent her to the penitentiary for 1 two years Released from that insti- tuition she married William ,. McGown in 1895, at Chicago. Mir. McGown. like Marsh, was man of wealth, but this did not deter nST ITOHl tue pfdttiSo VI fraud. Tn 1899 she was run out ot New Orleans with Theodore Jackson whose wife she then said she was A year later they turend up in Capetown South Africa. where Mme. piss de Bai called herself Helena and Jackson him. self Horos. Occultism and hypnotic performances were the order there. and one of her South African dupes. a wealthy contractor. gave his money tc 1 the woman to establish colony oi | hrotherly love. Soon afterward the pair went to London. where they pro- noted the Theocratfc Unity organiza- tion, scandals In connection with which led to her arrest in September 1901 The trial, which continued at intervals through three months. developed facts of such loathsome character that l several of the London papers excluded from their columns all reports Of the proceedings in court.
 MT. Justice Bingham, summed up strongly against the prisoners. saving Il was difficult to conceive of more re- voiting and abomniabie conduct than that which had been attributed to them The jury quickly returned a verdict oi guilty. whereupon the Justice sentence | ed Jackson to fifteen years penal ser vitude and his. reputed wife to seven years penal servitude.