Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-30
THREATEN LIFE OF
GENEVIEVE CLEVES
Woman Who Is to Expose Methods OF
Fake Mediums Receives Letters
of Warning-WiII Give
Exhibition

Spiritualists in Los Angeles were much
exercised yesterday when it was learned
threats had been made to do serious
personal injury to Miss GeneVleVe
Cleyes, who is to expose the work OF
takers and spook raisers at Simpson
auditorium tomorrow and Thursday
nights in her entertainment entitled
Death of Modern Spiritualism
The open challenges made by Miss
.Cleyes to all the so-called spirit mediums
in Los Angeles and also to Anna Eva
Fay whom the former declares posed
for thirty years as spirit medium all
over the country. to come TO Simp-
SON auditorium either tomorrow or
Thursday evening and prove any one of
them could do anything by spirit Or oc-
cult power, and if they could, Miss
CHkes would forfeit one thousand dol
la 5 to Anna Eva Fay and one thousand
dl Glars to each medium who could prove
tie possession of spirit power, brought
d smay to the hearts of the takers and
s ook raisers.
Anna Eva Fay denies she ever pre-
tended to be a spirit medium.
The spirit mediums in Los Angeles
viewed the challenges of Miss Cleves
with alarm, for they realized that with
the exposure of the cabinet work, slate
writing card reading and ballot tests, to
be made by Miss Cleves at Simp-
auditorium, the source of income to the
takers and spook raisers would be shut
off.
Finds Threatening Letters
Yesterday morning Miss Cleves found
two letters at the door Of her rooms, and
they contained the direst threats If Miss
Cieves publicly exposed the tricks of the
takers and spook raisers The letters
were anonymous, one being signed "A
Medium while the other was signed
Revenge.
Miss Cleves was not alarmed by the
threatening letters and declined to take
the advice of friends that she ask for
police protection.
This is nothing new to me-" said
Miss rCleves in speaking of the threats
made against her. II am not afraid in
the least, 'ishe continued Hand will give
my entertainments Tuesday and Thurs
hday nights as announced. l have been
Threatened before in other cities, and on
Gsne occasion in Chicago, a poisoned box
candy was sent me. l have only
nsented to give my entertainments
re at the urgent request of prominent
kple who are trying to stamp out the
=. inal work of the takers.
ike hundreds of thousands of spirit
It's, / want to see the takers put out
sness, for they work fearful harm
communities.
have been informed that in Los
,Angeles one hundred and seventy-two
! divorces have been filed in the past year,
due entirely to the evil advice of bogus
mediums
Cause Much Misery
'It is AWFUL to contemplate the misery
that is wrought by these mediums and
takers. Homes are wrecked, children
separated from their parents and mon
ey filched from those who have worked
hard to make competency for old age.
zone case occurred in Arizona recent
ly where woman left her husband on
the advice of swindling medium and
faker, and then she was induced by the
man to invest twelve thousand dollars
in bogus mine he owned. That woman
is now in Los Angeles trying to get a
divorce, and nothing one can tell her will
make her realize she has been duped
There are many cases also where
married people are leaving their lawful
mates to consort with 'affinities,' and do
so by the so-called spirit power of fax
ing mediums
II know of another case here in Los
Angeles where man was induced to get
a divorce from his wife and an affinity
was foisted upon him by the, aid of a
medium in order to get control of his
money.
ut is no use telling people who believe
In the takers tney are 'Delng dupeQ
They always say Give me the proofs
.'In my entertainment, Death of Mod
ern Spiritualism, / will duplicate all the
tricks performed by so-called mediums
and also by Anna Eva Fay, and will
then show my audiences and commit
tee how the tricks are done. When
persons who believe in the mediums see
how the tricks are accomplished, they
will at once realize how they have been
duped. My challenge to Anna Eva Fay
remains open for her to prove that she
is controlled by spirit power or disprove
that she ever posed as medium
throughout the country and made con-
siderable by it,"