Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-02
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BAD ADVICE
euLLIBLE TELLS OF ATTEMPT
TO swINDLE
FAkERs TRY TO FLEECE DUPE
AT EDENDALE
T. M. 1enricksen Tells of Action Of
HarpIes Who Are Gathered at
Camp Grounds, Awaiting
Simple Minded Victims

T. M Henricxsen of 612 East Twelfth
street said last night that he would apply
to the prosecuting attorneys office today
for warrant for the arrest of DR. l..
A. Roberts, pastor of the Church Of
the Soul" location not given.
Roberts and his wife run a spook fac
tory at Edendale. Mrs Roberts was
once exposed before an audience Of 300
persons in Los Angeles hall.
The story told by Henricksen was a
most pitiable one of a man made the
dupe of unscrupulous takers all over the
country.
Il have a spirit guide named Eliza
said Henricksen last night. "She gives
me lots of pointers and for years I have
never received bum steer from her.
1T was this way. In life her name was
Julia. 1 was engaged to marry her. She
died and came back through medium
who said her spirit name was Eliza
II have, received much consolation from
communications with her, though she
suffers strange lapses of memory about
the good old times we used to have.
Queer, amt it?
81 came here from Detroit five years
ago. Recently went to a spirit photo
grapher and got this
Here Henricksen drew from his pocket
a fake spook photograph which he de-
clared had been made by Wiley. 1t was
the same old simple. f1imsy palpable
fraud of a double exposure 1t was heart
sickening to see a man of Henricksen's
apparent intelligence taken in by such
an ancient. asinine deception, yet the
man believed Wiley when that faker
glibly told him the faces on the print
were "Redskin and his squaw and Eliza
Simpe-Minded Dupes
1t was this Eliza idiocy that led Roberts
into the attempt to pry Henricksoen loose
from his hard earned coin at Edendale
yesterday.
81 sold lot few wees ago and got
$3.50 for it. l suppose these Robertses
heard about it. They also probably heard
about my spirit guide Eliza, because she
comes to see me in open meetings here in
town. continued Henricksen.
"I strolled around at Glendale and
finally concluded to see what could get,
so I went to Roberts place.
,''They called up Eliza in spirit land
and she gave me message. asked her
If l should invest my money and she just
jumped at the chanst. She told me to go
into partnership with Roberts in NOV
ing picture scheme. She said it would
pay me big returns.
'sThen Mrs. Roberts came ort of her
trance and she and her husband got down
to business in quick time They showed
me machine and said my fortune was
made 1 was to pay them 5000 for an in
terest in the thing.
"I didn't have much money with me,
but Roberts he drawed up a paper and
didn't want to let no such a chanst get
by me, so I signed, specially when Eliza
had been so certain it was a winner.
IT paid them s. right on the spot
They've got that yet
when 1 got away from there it come
over mo all of s'idden that / was a
sucker.
ut tore me nearly to pieces. I guess it
was Julia or Elizas spirit come to me.
Anyway / run back there and told them
didn't want no picture machine and
wanted my money back. l didn't get 1t.
IF they try to collect that 5000 II have
them prosecuted for trying to swindle
me-
Henricksen. who is employed by the
Home Telephone company, is a mild
hammered little man and hearers of his
story were divided between disgust and
pity for one so simple and so gullible.