The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-11
End OF A FAMOUS MEDIUM
MARGARET CAME DIES N 4
HOSPITAL HERE.
she C0Adueted = salon In WAshlnEioa IN
liaFTlsoRs Time Made Many Tea
Nerts and Worked WITH lIyslSp's
NoeleU To Have a Ghurch Funeral,

she Ondueted \ salon In NANhlnGtou w
HaFFlsoR's Time Made Nany Tea
Neris and Worked MIN llyslSp'a
EOrIeIy To Have u Ghurch Funeral.
! Margaret Gaule. the medium who
during President Harrison's AdIninistra-
ton conducted salon in Washington
where many Of the hest known politicians
% that day met either as believers In her
powers Or amusement seeking sosptiCs
and who ia recent years was we'll known
% most believers and investigators Of
psychic pllsnOmsna In New York. died
on Thursday at the WOman's Hospital
/ IN West IOIst street. following an operation
Tor tumOrs Of the stomach.
Margaret Gaule. Or Mrs. August 7.
Riedinger she did not uzs her husbands
name ia her work was born in Baltimore
forty-eight years ago. She went To a
convent school for time and then
worked in shop In Baltimore, where
she tirs, discovered her supposed powers
a. a medium.
Her fir, test WIS given N the shop.
and when the things that rhs tOretoid
soon iacams mora than local She was
about . years old when shs went ~
Washington IN play a M incunslderabie
t,art In a certain side Ut the life ot the
Capitol
About seventeen wears ago Margaret
Gaule came 10 New York By that time
her following had greatly increased ani
her services were IN demand nv peOpe
IT all classes Her alleged powers were
brought into prominence bv the inNes'i.
gators of the psychic. and for a year and
a hall she worked under the supervision
OG Prof James II. Hyslop's American
Society FOR P-vChcal Research Ut
Isaac X Funk. Dr. Helier Newton ana
Others paid a good deal ot attention 10
Margaret Gaule = eXp1sitions. Her home
AT PSI Nest IIa;h street became a meeting
place for perzons who believed and who
didn't lelieve in her pOwers. ana ~ ~
SAID that many prominent people Neh'
there in disguise to consult the famous
medium. Miss Gaule = rooms were nearly
always crowded on the nights when she
gave public readings oT tests, aud she y
supposed Ia have made a great deal OF
money. One Of her friends said yester-
day that while Margaret Gaules lees
were large her generosity kept hsr
comparatively poor.
O the gAtherlngA Az Miss Naute "'''A'
a friend and follower u hers said yesIer-
day
Thousands Of people who. Ike Moo
demus OF old would visit a psychic secretly
as we'll a. thousands who did not hesitate,
to give her their allegiance publicly VIII
mourn her
During the last wear Miss GauIe as
the psychic ~ the First Ethical Society
held regular sunday services IN Elks Nan
AZ Columbus Circle.
Six years ago Miss Gaule married
August r. Rledinger president OF the
Nehicle Power Company. She met Mr
Riedinger az a seance where he had gone
10 seek an interview With his first vile.
who was dead
Miss Gaules specially was spirit
MESA ge- and those who believed IN her
powers wer,. convinced that she was abie
hy holding IN her hand an article which
had belonged 20 one who was lie al 10 tell
all about the Decreased. giving accurately
names. dates aud events "a the life OF the
departed
Miss Gaule or MIR Riedinger j. sur
viyed by her husband two sisters aud a
brother
DR. Rotert Colyer of the Church ~ the
Nesstah will conduct the funeral services.
which will ~ held ON sunday