The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-30

court room be cleared II she were compelled
to give IL. Chairman Ketoham asked her
to answer Finally the witness spoke UP.
Il won't give my name she said.
Commissioner Ketcham told her she
could be punished for contempt Of court
IL she didn't obey instructions.
i am an American citizen, freeborn:
and I will not answer hat question until
l have consulted counsel, , said the witness.
Miss Darrell was told hat II she didn't
answer she would be adjudged In contempt.
She wanted to know h the penalty was
for contempt, and Lawyer Rosenberg said
$3.50 fine or imprisonment.
You are wrong" said Commissioner
ketcham. "She a be imprisoned until
she answers"
q low o Lawyer Griffng started out to
find out all about her. She spared with
him continually in her answers and many
times wouldn't reply until she had been
ordered to do 30 by Commissions ketcham.
frequently she remarked, What was that
impertinent question you asked mep'
Several times she said. when she was re-
quested TO repeat an answer, III you would
look at me when you question me you
wouldn't need to have my answers re-
peated."
Miss Darrell said she had lived in New
York for the last ten years. At present she
Is at 40 East Ninth street. She once lived
in Brooklyn, when she attended-Packer
Institute, and at that time stayed az the
boarding school connected with III insti-
tute.. At another time she lived at 100 East
Tenth street, Manhattan. She said she
hadn't been in any business for the last two
years. Before that she was In the publish
ing business at Thirteenth street and Fifth
avenue.
The witness baked when she was asked
who was associated with her, A when told
she would have TO answer said John
Anderson He published school books,
she said. Miss Darrell also said she spent
two years in Europe, about six years g
when did you first attend a spiritualist
meseting2, she was asked.
fence" she said.
The hearing adjourned before Lawyer
Grifing had finished with the witness, and
she then dropped her veil and sat down IN
a far corner OF the court room to wait until
the crowd had left.
There is a John Anderson who publishes
school books at Thirteenth street and Fifth
svenue. Mr.. Anderson said last night
that he had a clerk in his employ named
Darrell two year. ago, but never inquired
into her private affairs. He said her work
gave satisfaction.
A man who has been interested in expos
ing SOME Of the spiritualistic stunts of Mrs.
Pepper said last night that the description
of Miss Darrell answered perfectly that of a
young woman who came TO him two years
y anu piphueU W1tH MN 10 cease annoy
ing Mrs. Pepper. He said he had since
heard that this woman had fallen out with
Mrs. Pepper, and was willing to speak
against her. He said the young woman
who called on him old him she was in the
book publishing business.
A further investigation yesterday into
the past Of the little Indian spirit. Bright
Eyes, showed that Mrs. Pepper commenced
to Use her In about 1895, at which time she
made the acquaintance of A. q. Macdonald,
who has been u trustee Of her Brooklyn
church. Mr.. Macdonald used to be sseo-
ciated with Mrs. Minnie T.. Williams. the local
s~piritualist. who was exposed in Paris in
1894, and was with her M her business
manager at the time. Mrs. Williams didn't
nave much use for her star spook, Bright
Eyes, after she got into trouble. n the
fact that Mrs. Pepper met Macdonald in
1895 and made Bright Eyes her own par
ticular spoOk at about that time leads to
the conclusion that it ia the same Bright
Eyes OF a new job.
A man who has looked up the history Of
American spooks to some extent said last
night that indian spirits were the ~favorite
spooks for the members Of the Eddy family
OF Chittenden. VI, who were the pioneers
Of spiriiualism in this country. and that
their imitators have generally taken up
with the same kind Of spirits. He believes
that Bright Eyes, HI indian acrobat, got
her start as a spook ~ that time. for she
had died only a few years before the Eddy
family found need OF spirits. n had been
known throughout New England.