Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-26
CALL SPIRITS TO
AID IN SEARCH
FRANTIC HUSBAND HAS LAKE
DRAGGED
BRIDE OF TWO MONTHS MAY
HAVE DROWNED HERSELF
Talented Musician DIsappears-As-
troloeer Makes Futile Attempt to
Find Corpse by Super
natural Aid
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herself. She is suffering only from
nervousness. We want all the help we
can get to find her, and will appreciate
any efforts made In her behalf. Our
telephone number is Sunset West 5176.
Mrs. Taylor is said by all who know
her to be most talented musician.
She is described as a decided brunette
with black hair, weighing about lis
pounds, q years old next August and
5 feet s inches in height. She wore a
tourmaline wedding ring on her left
hand.
A woman answering this description
was seen Saturday afternoon, sometime
after she was reported to have been
sitting in the park on the top of the
hill, near a hay field, northeast of East
lake park.
A reporter of The Herald made a
thorough search of this vicinity, how
ever, and except for the information
given by number of boys playing ia
the road below to the effect that she
was seen standing at the hilltop no
other clew could be CLEANED.
May Have Wandered About
She evidently spent the most of
through Eastlake park, and whom she
may have met or to what place she
may have been lured afterward, can
only be conjectured. If out of her mind
she may have fallen a victim to the
plot of some interruptions scoundrel,
and may be, as the husband seemed in
clined yesterday to think, kept in some
road house or rooming place, unable TO
communicate with her friends. If liv-
ing and mentally deranged, 1t would
be hard to surmise what her fate
might be.
Where the woman could have spent
Friday night, If 1t was really Mrs.
Taylor who was seen Saturday, is an
other problem which so far cannot be
solved. Various theories are offered as
a solution of the mystery, but in the
absence of tangible proof none of them
is accepted by the husband, who still
continues his search for her, believing
he will yet find her living, even If she
may not be well and safe.
Launch Spirit Boat
Growing desperate in the long and
futile search c. c. Taylor, brother of
the womans husband, and F. R. Show
alter, her own brother, accepted almost
any offer of help made to them.
An astrologer and spiritualist, among
others, claimed to be able to locate
the body, and from a vision he de-
clares he had yesterday morning stated
he had seen the corpse in Eastlake,
about fifty feet from the three pepper
trees at the northeast corner of the
lake. He was emphatic in this state
ment and led the brother and brother
in-law to the scene, taking with him
a spfritualist chart of the lake. which,
although he said he had never before
visited the park, was an accurate map
of the lake and vicinity so far as the
contour of the lake, woods and topog-
raphy were concerned.
A dot on the lake indicated where
the BODY had been revealed to him,
and he asked that loaf of bread and
bottle of mercury be procured. When
these were sent to him the mercury
was placed in the center of the loaf
and the bread was carefully wrapped
and tied down in a small chewing gum
box.
Much curiosity was aroused among
the spectators at this proceeding all
the man in charge of the boathouse
interfered, believing the lake was about
to be dynamited. He was told, how
ever, that the box with the bread in
it constituted a spirit ship" that was
to be placed on the water and guided
by the spirits to the place where the
body was supposed to lie.
Astro!oger Begins Work
The astrologer, accompanied by E. c.
Taylor and two reporters of The Her.
aid, got into rowboat and the re-
porters were directed to row the vessel
to a certain spot, indicated by the mark
on the mediumistic map. This was
done and the "ship" was placed on the
water. A couple of swans became in
quisitive about this time and endeav-
ored to eat the bread, but were kept
away, while the ship was closely
watched by number of spectators.
The bread persisted in returning to
the shore, however. and the spiritualists
in the paraty claimed at first that the
woman had jumped in and climbed out
again. Later however, the spiritualists
became bit nervous at the number
of photographers and spectators who
were curiously watching the bread
boat" and taking pictures of it. The
astrologer asked that the boat be taken
out, and his request was complied with.
He placed the mercury in his pocket
and threw the bread away, declaring
positively the body was in the lake,
but that he would "wait until today
before repeating his test.
Meanwhile he insisted that the lake
be dragged at the place he had in
Dictated, to which spot the bread had
tioated just before it was taken from
the water
Up to a late hour last night that
portion of the lake had not been
dragged but the husband and his
brother and a number of others of the
family, besides several friends, were
still securing the vicinity. A search
of the roadhouse near the park and
elsewhere also was made, but without
results.
Friends of Mrs. Taylor, who describe
her as a beautiful and accomplished
woman, extremely fond of her husband,
but very nervous and al times peculiar,
insist her suicidal mania is strong, and
that she has killed herself, met with
foul play or is held a prisoner by some
unscrupulous person who has hidden
her away for ransom or other evil
purposes.