Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-24
DIVINE HEALER IS
JAILED As FRAUD
New York CuItiSt Arrested for
PractiCing Medicine With
out License
WOMAN SECURES EVIDENCE
Gives Spiritual Diagnosis and
Does Not Require Pres
enCe of Patients
WOMAN SECURES EVIDENCE

NEW YORK, July 23.-From Iuxur-
iously furnished apartments at 10 West
One Hundred and Twenty-fourth
street central office detectives arrest
ed and arraigned before Magistrate
Steinert in the Harlem police court
yesterday John William Mcclure, a
tall, stately man, IS years Old who
brushed back his silver locks and
looked at his surroundings with scorn.
a good looking young woman Miss
Belle Holmes who is an investigator
of the County Medical society, ap-
pcared as complainant against Me-
CURE.
Her charge against Mcclure is that
of practicinE medicine without a Ii
cense, and the story she told of her
experience as his patient was interest,"
ing and amusing. In the end the mag
istrate held Mcclure in $500 bail for
an examination on Saturday. The bail
was promptly furnished.
An advertisement in an evening
newspaper asserting that DR." Nc
Guire could cure consumption by the
use of metaphysics started the young
woman on her Investigation. Miss
Holmes said that she told him she had
suffered from pains in her chest and
limbs and that she had sister at a
health resort who was very i'll with
consumption. She asked him if he
could offer any aid. She says Nc
Guire said:
Yes, l can cure. I do not give any
medicine. | give spiritual diagnosis l
can tell all. IT you will sit on chair
for fifteen minutes you will feel
changes sweeping through your body.
| am doing now what Christ did in his
time-curing with divine power. 1
cure for from SO TO So, depending on
the means of my patients. treat
patients all over the world. Time and
space count for nothing. | can treat
your sister without seeing her. sit
ting right here in my home"
Then you are Christian Scientist?"
the young woman says she asked.
No" was the reply, for the Chris
tian Scientists deny the existence of
disease, l admit its existence. but l
have the power to drive it away"
That same evening Miss Holmes re-
turned with a man detective, whom
she introduced as her husband. He
was made to sit outside while Nc
Guire escorted the young woman into
dimly lighted bacl; parlor. There
he asked her to fix her gaze on
canvas painting of Romeo and Juliet
hanging on the wall. He told her to
throw herself easily in the chair in a
an opposite chair. Then he crossed
his hands over his breast and swayed
slightly, leaving the young woman to
sit there in a dead silence for about
fifteen minutes Then he asked:
DO you feel anvthing?"
We'll, yes" she replied vaguely.
"Ah-that's right" Miss Holmes goes
on to say in her affidavit. Then Nc
Guire said to her: That's the rebel
lion In your system starting in. The
Standardization is now going on within
you. Be very careful and keep your
mind right when you get home. Do
nothing wrong. Space and distance
are nothing to me. At 10 o'clock to-
night I'll give you another treatment
If you have not retired by that time
all you have to remember to do is to
loosen your clothing and my absent
treatment will go on just as effective
ly."
Then Miss Holmes said he charged
her SO, which she paid him.
MCGUIRE said yesterday that he was
member of the association of physi-
clans and surgeons and Of the Ameri-
can society of psychicdl research.