Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-11
But 1t Was the Clairvoyant Who
Protited by a Little Trans
action in Ottumwa
s,7s DIAMOND AND IS IN CASH
That is the Sum Total of the Price Of
/. Little Experience That BefeIl Miss
Kate Lewis in Having Her Fortune
Told - ciairvoyant and vaIuabIes
Sought by Police.
Special to Times-Repubucan.

Ottumwa, Sept. 11.-Poorer by the
loss of a diamond ring valued at s175
and a tive-dollar gold piece. and with
her trust in fortune tellers, clairvoy-
ants and the like sadly shattered, Miss
Kate Lewis, corner East Second and
Union streets has awakened to the be-
lief that she has been swindled by one
of this gentry a MADAME True
about whose coming to and going from
Ottumwa hangs a mystic shroud.
Fully convinced that she has been
terribly duped. Miss Lewis, who is
employed at Phillips Big Store, has
filed charges of grand larceny against
the dealer in mysteries but when the
officers attempted to apprehend the
woman they found the bird had
flown. Nothing definite about Madame
True can be learned. She came to
this city about ten days ago and Sc
cured rooms in the old Wolf property.
corner East Second and Green streets.
hung out her sign and did extensive
advertising as a fortune teller and
,prober of the unknown.
Her methods were original and
unique. The unsuspecting young wom-
en- who patronized her paid In one
dollar and received full and COM
plete history of their past, present and
future life - and then went away
providing they wore no handsome
and valuable jewelry. But the women
possessing diamonds and other jewel
nv were the recipients of more cour-
teous and studious attention. To
these Madame True RECALLED her su-
premacy as matchless counselor.
She stated that any obstacle that
should be removed from their paths
any great question that should be
solved. could satisfactorily be done
away with forever by herself and by
her alone But a charm" was
very necessary and by working this
Charm" game the woman showed the
keenest ingenuity.
Diamonds Necessary.
First of all a valuable diamond was
really essential to the proper work.
ings of the conjurer. This diamond
was placed, together with five dol
lar gold piece, in a. little channels
bag FURNISHED accommodatingiy by
Madame herself, who made up the
charm) and the whole was then depos-
tied in the purse owned by the seeker
of great truths and kept there for ten
days The purse was not to be opened
in the meantime. At the end of that
period another call was to be made
upon the clairvoyant at which time
the miracle would be worked and II
satisfactory, the Madame was to re-
ceive the five dollars as remuneration
for possessing the talent
Miss Lewis made call upon Mad
anne True and received her reading
several days ago. Noticing a valuable
diamond that Miss Lewis wore, the
clairvoyant suggested mildly that it
would be an excellent charm worker,
and Miss Lewis evidently decided that
it was worth trying as she Immediately
fixed up her little conjure bag. She
then proceeded with the routine of her
daily life, resolved not to open her
purse for ten days. But Madame True
had other plans. On the morning of the
second day Miss Lewis stated to the
authorities that she received tele-
phone call from the lady, requesting
her to call as the charm hal already
worked. Miss Lewis called and declares
that while in the clairvoyant's presence
her purse never was out of her hands.
But the next morning, when her cur
iosity gained the upper hand, she
opened her purse. There lay the
chamois bag but within reclined a
cheap brass ring and a five-cent piece.
Alarmed she hurried to Madame's
rooms, but the lady had flown over
night. The charges were then filed and
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