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WIDOW MARRY
THE REV. G. TABOR THOMPSON
MARRIEs QUIETLY AT SPRING.
FIELD, MAss-HE IS "a YEARS
HER JUNIOR.
special to The Journal.


Philadelphia, June 29.-The Rev. g.
Tabor Thompson has added another
chapter to his picturesque career as
minister spiritualist- hypnotist- He has
married Mrs Almira e. Wheeler, Of
Springfield. Mass, widow of the mil
lionaire sewing machine manufactures,
who is twenty four years his senior.
Members of Mr.. Thompson's church
the Spiritualist Temple, at Twelfth
and Thompson streets and his
friends yesterday received announce
ments OF the wedding, which took
place quietly in Springfield. The an
nouncements were the first intimation
his friends had of his intention to
marry. though his intimates knew that
he was treasuring a romance and that
his frequent disappearances to Boston
were In some way connected with It
Mr.. Thompson met the widow last
summer at Lake Pleasant. a. spiritual
ist camp near Boston. She was living
in retirement after her husbands death
two years ago, but when she met the
minister she began taking an interest
IN the hypnotic experiments carried
on at the camp and evinced a notable
interest In him. Once last winter Mrs
Wheeler made flying automobile trip
to this city, stopping at the minister's
home, 526 Spruce street. and several
times he has visited at her beautiful
home at Lake Pleasant.
Conjecture Is rife among Mr.
Thompson's followers as to what use
he and his wife will make Of the for
tune left by the manufacturer. II is
the belief Of many that II will be
utilized to further the spiritualist doc
trines and to carry on various expert
ments in psycho-therapeutics and
mental suggestions that have always
exerted strange influence over the
minister.
Mr.. Thompson came to this city
twelve years ago from Apollo. near
Pittsburgh, where he had established
hourishing Baptist church. He took
charge of the Spruce Street Baptist
church in 1900, and soon attracted at
tention by his unorthodox pulpit utter
ances. He was always keenly inter-
ested In hypnotism and occult mani
festations, and at one time astonished
his vestry oy giving hypnotic display
In connection with church entertain
ment at Musical Fund Hall. putting an
oyster opener into a trance and max
ing him reel around as II he were
drunk and doing various other undig-
nified things.
Later his tendency toward spiritual
ism urged him to accept the pulnit
OF the Temple, at Twelfth and Thomp-
son streets, where no has been preach
ing eye opening sermons for more than
i've years. At one time he declared
that Roosevelt's theory of big Families
was all rot, and that at least 10 0OO
families in the United States should be
entirely wiped out. At another time he
declared poverty and disease could be
cured by hypnotic suggestion.
me appearance OF Mr.. Thompson Is
picturesque In the extreme. He has !
Plentiful crop Of white hair, which he
wears pushed back from his forehead
ana his face has many OF the hall
marks OF the actor. He is loved bv hi.
followers, who assert that no one has
bigger heart or more human gvm-
patny He is SO years old, ana his
Drloe Is %. They VIII live at Lake