The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-12-19
PAYS$lOO,OOOT TO
TALK AGAIN WITH
FATHERS SPIRIT
Millionaire Alonzo Thompson
Pays That ssm to Wife as :
the Price of Coming Home
VISIT TO SECRET ROOM
PROVES HIS UNDOING
Aged Man Had Been Wandering
From State to State to Es-
cape Service in Suit

DENVER, Dec. 1.-THE long legal
battle which has ragged. between Alon
20 Thompson, 1.-The S0-year-old million
aire spiritualist, author and philan
thropist and his wife, Annie l.
Thompson, involving the property OF
the octogenarian, has reached final
settlement by a divorce granted Mrs
Thompson on the charge of non.sup-
port.
Charges and counter charges came
rapidly on top OF one another after
Thompson filed suit last July 10 dis.
inherit his wife and son. alleging that
they were trying TO rob him OF his
wealth by having him declared la,
sane.
Mrs. Thompson charged, soon after
ward, In suit for separate main
tenance that her aged husband had
maintained improper relations with
two women spiritualists.
Thompson, until few weeks ago
had persisted in remaining away from
Denver to keep from being summoned
In the case, but the desire to visit
once more the secret room in the
family mansion here, where he de
clares the spirit OF his dead father
has often appeared 10 him and ;old
him how TO make the investments
that made him a millionaire. caused
him TO submit 10 the divorce proceed.
ings,
In his suit of last July. Thompson
declared that his wife's detectives fol-
lowed him for months and from one
state 10 another in an effort TO have
him declared insane. He said he was
In constant touch with the spirit OF
his father and he knew what was be.
ing done against him.
Once in the middle OF the night he
fed in an automobile from the home
OF his son.in-law in Nevada. Mo-, and
the next heard OF him he was camped
in the wilds of the mountains at the
state line between West Virginia and
Tennessee ready 10 flee in either
direction.
Mrs. Thompson is now allowed 20
keep about 100000 in her possession
and to remove from the Thompson
home her furniture and paintings
Thompson refused TO part with IA
painting of Napoleon Bonaparte,
which he says was painted by the
spirit OF his dead rather.
Thompson will now be able to pur-
sue his way unmolested. He said Of
his son Alonzo Jr., called the best
dressed man in Denver:
Il want TO see my son, who has
posed as a fashion plate for years, at
my expense. earn his own living"
Nothing in fiction could be more re.
markable than Thompson's rise. AT
go he was a poor man. At so he was
a millionaire.
And he ascribes his whole success
TO communications from the spirit
world. He has maintained that all
his profitable movements were dictat.
cd by his fathers spirit
Moreover for "a long while he had
affinities OF historical Dote such as
Marie Antoinette. Queen Elizabeth,
Cleopatra and other charmers long
since dead.
Mrs. Thompson accused her husband
OF maintaining affinities, mentionins
names and places, and these affinities,
unlike Cleopatra and Queen Elizabeth,
clamored for cash and got It,
The odd part of II all is that Mrs.
Thompson Is also spiritualist. She
was married. to Thompson 80 years
ago and is his third wife His SOS,
Alonzo Jr.. Is 2S His daughter, by a
former wife lives at Nevada. Mo. She
married f. p. Indy millionaire,
also a spiritualist
The handsome Thompson home IS
known far and wide as the rendezvous
Tor spirits. Mrs. Thompsons seances
are usually held In her boudoir,
where she spends hours at time com
muning with the aUTas OF her rela-
tiyes and friends.
Thompson holds his seances in his
late fathers room, into which no hui
man but himself has entered since his
fathers death. There, Thompson de-
clares, he holds communion with his
fathers spirit each day, and IL Is
through the adyice-of this-spirft that
he has made his fortune
He disobeyed IL only once. he says.
and that was when he attended a.
seance in another spiritualiSts home,
80 years ago, and met his present
wife.