The evening world., 1909-02-25
yOODOO DOCTOR
EyENTUATED' HER
$4.35 FROM SIGHT
Mystic Passes Of Intruder Made
Money Fade Into
Red Cloth.
INSISTED ON SEANCE.
Soothsayer Is Held on Tragic
Story Of Mrs. Ella Simms,
Church Pillar.
INSISTED ON SEANCE.

Dtre0t, bTooklyn, ClotHeu III d o'aeh uhu
white checked silk dress, a green and
yellow shawl and an air Of militant re-
speota bllity. stood before Magistrate
Steers, in Adams Street Court, Brook
lyn, today. and stated her case thus:
I'm reclining at my kitchen table.
under the light. Washinston's Birthday
evening. spelling out few words from
the Holy Book. I'm a member OF Fleet
Street Methodist Church and one OF the
pillars, to say nothing OF being chair
lady OF the Pastors Auxiliary Sister
hood Of ReGenerators. And I'm Just
getting on into Revelations, when this
hsre upp!sh, lght-colored man yonder,
which the policeman has sot. walks In
on me He amt never so much as
knocked
"Vosdoo," She Calls Him.
~ know him for the fortune-teler
and the voodoo man which he Is. My
Me Is been so ordered that got no use
for that sort OF person II ia known
h. was ou. there. I'd have shut tho
door and lock 1t. I suspects that's why
he come In so orash As he did.
Now there's lots Of people talks
about v,odoo people like they was
trifl!ng parcel OF good-tor-nothing no.
counts. There are those which say
that yoodoo doctors and witch doctors
is all superstition. Not me. reads
my Bible ! shouts and ! prays and
sings hymns, and I'm as active a mem
ber as any In the church, which leave
It to anybody In Flee, street to say.
I'm a poor. ignorant old woman. but
there's one thing do know. and
know II good: A voodoo Is voodoo.
And Amt taking no chances. No.
Lord. Elias too old.
II see HIN come in that way, and l
make out like aint scared. But l
got 4 trembling In dIl my limbs when
SEQ the look In mis- wicked eyes. lie
sets down on the other side Of :he
table, hat on and = sa,gyar in his
mouth, imperdent as "ou nlease. Amt
20, so much manner, as poor white
trash brought up under = t,'dge
She Wanted No Secrets.
Where's Ella Wheelee.' he .nlnires
of me.
~ don't know no Ella Wheeler, and
I done tell him so. He ailo" that's very
strange, well as | know the nclghb,r-
hood, ask him hoS I'm gong TO
know anybody that ain I've here. he
smiles In a super''uois kind OF way
and say. Sister, can YOU Keep a secre'
"'Noss!r,' answer him back, l can !;
I aln't one OF them secret Keeping KIND.
Because | don't want nothing 10 DO
with any strangers secrets, more espe'
Cially A voodoo PERSONS. But he say.
never mind. he's going to tell me, any
YOU got any siiver?' he asks me.
I say. ro, there amt no silver In the
house. He take out d long knife and
lay It on the table. and ne say: Now
you find some silver
so | scra,cd around and find IS cents
In change He tell me to hold It In my
hand. I'm obliged TO do what he says.
| don't know what got over me, but he
certain had power on me. Then he tells
me 10 open my hands, and he takes
the. Is cents and puts, ii In his pocket
and says that II is all right Which
don't rightly understand. but | amt in
no mood 10 make protest,
Now he says. get ten dollars
aint got ten dollars, hut scrape around
and find four Then he takes a nair OF
shears from my wOrkbasket, and lie
LAYS the knife down on the table, and
tnen the money. and then the shears, on
the other side.
II Was Gong to Eventuate.
Then lie calls for piece OF red fan
rel-red flannel. And by this time I'm
so scared I'm near 10 faint. | tell him
take red table cloth, lying on the
cupboard shelf, and cut three big pieces
out of Il. He wraps the four dollars up
In the .ed clOth and puts II back twiNt
the knife and the scissors and he makes
some passes Every pass | feel myself
cozirg away into suhchnsciousness and
his power on mo ing and growing.
lie takes tie four dollars out and puts
them Ia his clothes aud then he says
IN n great big voice: NOW IT'S GOING
TO EvENTrATEi'
Ind with that got my facilities
back and lets out my voice good and
plenty.
Don't make no commotion like that.
SAYS he to ne, or I'll Kill YOU But |
got my voice back. praise the Lord. ard
/ keep right on a-noller!ng. Then he
makes hjsself real sweet and says;
'DtT hO.ier-hlE> me, SlsteT. Me- go
ing on seventy years old, and him Young
enough to he my grandson, And I amt
done nothing scandalous like that since
my husband lied ~.
'TheN tn. neighbors, they come. and
the police they come. and | certainly
Was thankful
Magistrate Steers, after hearing John
Jackson, VINO has NJ home, explain that
he was merely trying to give a salts
factory seance. ard had not stolen any
money, held the soOthsayer In g. 600 bail
for the Grand Jury for larceny and en-