The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-11-11
BY PROF" soorHsAYER.

want a fortune teller 10 remove their
husbands.
You'd be surprised TO know how
many women there are who are paying
money 10 fortune tellers every day IN
the belief that the fortune teller can
cause the evil spirits &c remove their
husbands from the world. This Kind
Of business is the best paying business
for fortune tellers. After a woman Is
completely in their grasp and tells
them everything she Nants-how she
wants ner husband to die, for instance,
so that she can marry another man
the fortune teller gets her TO put her
statement down in writing. IL Will
read something like this;
| hereby agree 10 pay Prof so
and-So $40 a week until be gets
the evil spirits 10 kill my husband.
and when my husband dies | prom
ise TO pay him $500 OF the life In
surance money Signed, Etc.
Now, you wouldn' sthink many wo-
men would write a thing like that,
would you? Well, piles OF them do.
I've had scores Of such papers In my
hands, as every fortune teller has
After he gets a paper like that, signed
by a woman. It's case OF bleeding
She can't squeal, and she turns over To
him money which her husband thinks
goes for meat and groceries. There $
many a man paying money to fortune
tellers who doesn't know a thing
about IT,
You know | told you that when |
started out in Minneapolis | tried TO
live on the 25 and 50-cent readings.
Well / found out from some other for
tune tellers that IL wasn't the read
ings. but the confidential graft that
came after a reading that paid the
rent and bought the diamonds and the
newspaper advertising space. So
started out TO work the thing right.
married a pretty girl, and we TOOK
a French name and went to NJ,
Mimi. | taught her a lot OF stun from
the palmistry book, and | borrowed
some money and took some OF hers
aud bought a part Of fortune teller s
plant. A plant is made up OF old city
directories and newspaper clippings
about people.
I've got a plant now that's worth
$1,000 I've got old city directories
running back many years, from all the
prominent cities in the country. You
see. as soon as my wife, by the ell
velope trick that told you about, IND
out the name of the customer and
where she was born. ! run out into
another room and look in the city oil
rectory for that city and that year
There I find 1t all-the name OF he
father. her mother, her sisters an
brothers and whether they were brake
men or clerks. and the address OF theii
home. | slip this information to my
wife. as she's reading the palm or IN
cards. and it helps TO gain the Gu
toners confidence. II does more tina
that: II nearly knocks her over with
surprise as my wife doles II out 10 her
with a worried scowl on her face,
II II were hard work She makes be
heve the work is hard because the Gus
toner hasn't given her complete trust
and confidence.
Well. the FIRST case of real graft We
got was corker. II scared US out OF
town VIC hadn't been in M more
than two weeks before an elderly wo.
man came to use. My wife handled
her, with my aid. We gained her con
fdence and then she told us that her
husband was an invalid and had been
bedridden for many years. She want
ed TO marry a childhood sweetheart
Believe me. we hear some fine love
stories. II her husband would die ne
would not only be out OF his suffering
but she would get $4,000 In life insur-
ance and could marry the man she
wanted. She was ignorant and u
wasn't hard to prove 10 her that we
could PUT the evil spirits TO work.
She gave me $3.50 and signed paper
saying that when her husband died
she would give me $3.50 more.
She used 10 come 10 see us every
day, and we used TO cell her 10 repeat
such phrases as Hi diddledick. ana
other things we made up.
This went on about two weeks and
I kept assuring her that the evil spirits
would do the work / really was
ashamed OF myself and so was Belle,
but we've got out of that stage now.
All OF us do. in time.
One morning at 4 o'clock our door
bell rang ! lighted the gas and went
10 the door and the old woman dashed
In past me to the table and slammed
roll OF bills down.
There's your money" she yelled.
Hes dead He died an hour ago.
I've murdered him. I've murdered MY
dear old Jim..-I4 give you a thousand
dollars. all the money Jim and have
saved u you'll only bring him back.
Wei. II ! had known as much about
fortune telling then az ] do now
suppose I'd have taken her thousand
dollars and strung her along. making
Der believe that | could bring the old