Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-29
BayIe's Lunch Herring &c
side where "Pansy" was ready to greet

side where "Pansy" was ready to greet
them.
Then "Pansy" disappeared and
"Lightfoot," with a frog in his throat
and a voice hoarse from long associa-
tion with the booze bottle, came on the
scene. "Lightfoot" went through the
same vocal gyrations as did "Pansy
and then "Pansy" came back, this time
with her mighty" on, and the people
were cautioned not to look, for she
was in undress.
Light Reveals All
Just about this time the unfeeling
and vulgar police officers flashed two
electric lights on little "Pansy" and
her mighty" and Faker Moore was
discovered in the act of dropping one
of the tin trumpets to the floor while
his eleven-year- daughter disap-
peared through a folding door at his
back.
The moment the denoument came
pandemonium reigned in the close
cursed and gathered in a threatening
manner about the two officers. 'Tll
knock your id block off," what the
HI is the meaning of this?" and sew
eral like choice expressions dropped
from the lips of some of Moore's ad-
herents, and two or three of them
made threatening demonstrations to-
ward the officers and declared that
Moore, who had been placed under
arrest, could not be taken out of the
room without bloodshed.
Cool, deadly determination exhib-
tied by the officers soon brought the
fanatical buffers to their senses and
they finally backed water and Moore
and his wife We're taken to the police
station, where they waited from $50
o'clock to midnight for one of their
dupes to gather up bail money for
them. At that hour they were released
and returned to their spook palace on
West Ninth street.
1t is probable that a number of ar
rests for disturbing the peace and in
terfering with an officer may grow
out of the arrest of the Moores. as
several of their dupes interfered with
and made as hard as possible the task
OF the police in executing their orders
Moore's Bad Record
"Rev. Dr." Hugh R. Moore, the new
leader of the Los Angeles fake spook-
sters and the man who was arrested
last night for obtaining money by false
pretenses, formerly worked the same
game in New York and other eastern
cities that he has been unloading on the
east was so raw and crude that he was
at last forced to leave that city and
seek new regions for gullibles.
Los Angeles was recommended to him
as city which contained many easy
marks and where a good live spookster
could easily build up a firm bank ac-
count by bringing back the departed
from the spirit world and exhibiting
them to their friends at four bits a
throw.
Confident that this was the place he
had long sought, Moore, his wife and
child, who aid him in his spirit work,
packed their grips and came westward.
News of his coming had preceded him,
however, and no sooner was he installed
in his lodgings at 816 West Ninth street
when word was passed to the police that
an arch faker was in the city and pre-
pairing to carry on his trade.
Moore was recently shown up in New
York, when Mrs. Harriet e. Strickland,
one of his assistants, sued him for $780,
900 for defamation of character. This
one was one of Moore's spirit friends" +"
and in her complaint Mrs. Strickland
told of ghostly visits to coal dark
rooms and how, garbed in cotton
gown, she would visit the seances and
press her cold hands on the feVerish
foreheads of the dupes who attended
and whisper cheering messages into
their ears.
All went we'll with her and she drew
down her weekly wages of $12 per
from the REV. Dr. until one night a
young man in the audience became
suspicious and grabbed her. Mrs
Strickland lost her gown in the get
away, and she also lost her job, as
Moore found it would be impossible
for him to continue to employ her when
she had been captured while carrying
off one of her stunts. She was dis
missed from his service, and according
to her complaint, Moore began to
spread stories detrimental to her
character.
Mrs. Strickland was willing to be
spirit-that did not phase her. But she