Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-30
SPOOKSTERS IN
CONSERVATION
OVER ARRESTS
Mrs. Cora Moore Pays
Her Fine
Mazzini, Unable to Raise Bail, Lam
quishes in JaiI-PoIice Deter
mined to Rid City of Horde
of SWindlers

Forty dollars or forty days in the city
jail was the sentence meted out to Mrs.
Cora H. Moore, the woman arrested
Tuesday night by Detectives Ritch and
Roberts on a charge of practicing for
tune telling and mediumship without
license. The woman was arraigned in
Police Justice Austin's court yester-
day.
Convinced that the officers of the law
had obtained sufficient evidence to
easily convict her of the charge on
which she had been arrested, the wo-
man made no effort to fight the case,
but when taken to court at once pleaded
guilty and paid the fine assessed
against her She then left the building
accompanied by her husband, who had
been arrested at the same time but
against whom no complaint had been
issued.
Leo Mazzini, the little cockney who
was recently convicted of practicing
fortune telling without a license and
was sentenced to pay q fine of $3.50 or
pass 80 days on the chain gang and
who was again arrested on a similar
charge Tuesday night, is still confined
in the tanks as no one has come for
ward to put up his BAIL
Mazzi Is Deserted
All the former friends of the one
time leader of takers appear to have de-
serted his standard and he is left to-
day without support of any kind.
When arraigned in police court yester-
day Mazzini pleaded not guilty to
charge of practicing fortune telling
without license, and demanded jury
trial His bonds were fixed at S10O,
which he was unable to supply, and he
was sent back to the tanks to await
his trial June at 2 o'clock.
CONSERVATION spread rapidly in the
camps of the spooksters when the word
was passed that Mazzini and Mrs.
Moore were in the clutches of the law
and that positive evidence had been OBJ
tained against them.
The police believe the arrest of MAJ
zini is the beginning of the end Of the
reign of the unscrupulous swindlers
who work under the guise of spiritual
ist mediums.
To Break Up SwindIers
Robert T. Hale, president of the Anti
Fakers' society, said last night:
aside from the fact that much
money is taken from innocent gullibles
by these inhuman ghouls, untold men,
tai suffering is caused by their ne
farious methods
''In Los Angeles there are probably
a hundred so-called mediums who are
relying solely upon legerdemain and
chicanery of all sorts to eXtort money
from feeble minded persons who prefer
darkness to light.
Have Sound Financial Backing
"For several years we have fought
them. Our campaign has just begun.
Our society has recently received as re-
cruits prominent men and women.
They will, in a measure, keep in the
background. This is necessary be-
cause as soon as they become known by
sight their usefulness as active work.
ers become impaired.
1--WE now have fund of 100000 back
of us and it is our intention to devote
this money and our time to driving
these vandals from Southern Califor-
nia."
Name Bad for Asthmatics
That the Anti-Fakers' society is
making headway is proven by the de-
creasing number of charlatans in Los
Angeles. year ago it was their
paradise.
AT that time Mazzini, who adopted
the impressive but unpronounceable
name of Swami Etienne Seta Fran
cesca: Xaviere Ahmed Leodi Mazzini-
nanda. Swami is Hindoo and means
Reverend" The rest Of the name is
a mixture of French, italian and
Arabic. The "nanda" affixed to Max
zini has a Hindoo meaning. Mazzini
has committed it to memory and de-
lights in giving it in full on the wit
ness stand. He will be given that joy
June 4, when he goes on trial charged
with violating the city license ordi-
nances
A year ago the faker, who, the po-
lice say, was formerly a hostler for