The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-11-26
WEALTHY WIDOW
SET TRAP TO CATCH
MED|UM-PROMOTER.
She's Really a Police Matron,
but the Rev. Rufus Macurda
Didn't Know It.
SPIRITS DIDN'T WARM.
Voices From Beyond the Grave
Urged Investment IN
=. "Dawning Light"
SPIRITS DIDN'T WARM.

n 0pook JMAterfA19DoP Rvfoo \.
MAOurda got any transhminai tip that
h was 10 DO arrested to-day on .
uhaeSs o6 fortune telling hds spirit
mssssnC~s had failed to name the
ttms end paaoe. wherefore he walked
right into the arms Of two Of Deputy
Commissioner Doucherty's men and
wUs halted By them to the West Side
Pesics Court
The Rev. Macurda, - he oails him
~. mikes spirituaiism with stock sell
ias, and II was his big hiiiings Ia the
la<tsr sntsrpriss whtch led TO his
arreGG
Many oompiaints came to the police.
ell charging Maourda with using spirit
messages to convince women dupss that
nvestmsnt in the Dawnins Light Print
inS ana Publishing Company was q par
tioulAriy dns thing. Following his Gus
ten. Il waS said. Macurda. who Ia q
drsamy.syed blond, we'll Get Up and
locking - if hs nurssd some great nys-
tsrsous sosrow, hrst compromised his
wou,sot victims and then cold them the
stock. Prone sense Of shame many Of
the women refused 10 prosecute, runs
Ne charge.
! 0eiRIr OF DEAD HVeBANo
COMES TO MEDIUMS AID.
DawninS Light WAS . magazine de-
voted to things mediumistic. It lived
three Issues and. like false dawn, faded.
MAcurda had capitalized Dawning
Iigasts good will for 10000 His middle
name - Atwood, SO he called the presses
the Atwood Press Company. Those who
bought Dawning Light we're shown the
bulky presses whirling away. ptiing up
nice fat dividends.
One suoh was Mrs. John Donald of
No. .lbs Van Dyke street. Brooklyn. At
the. time Of the purchase she was Mrs.
Emma Stanton and lived on Eleventh
street, Brooklyn. From the 100000 es-
$4,000 and was living comfortably
when she attended one OF Macurda's
ssances. The spirit Of her dead hus-
band spoke to her through Macurda
and she bought DaWninG Light-S1.160
worth of Il.
Mrs. Donald declares Macurda told
her the stock would earn 80 week.
or about 80 per cent. a year. When no
reproachsd Macurda- Then, she says.
- save her $40 al the hrst dividend.
Sut she received no more and soon Ma
surda Informed her the magazine had
ceased to publish. The presses be-
came the property Of the Atwood Press.
POLICE MATRoN SETS A TRAP
80. FOR THE MEDIUM.
Al Macurda's seance Sunday we're two
police matrons. Mrs. Adele F. Preiss.
who bought q private reading from the
medium, and Mrs. Hattie Young. who
wished the spirits advice on how to
,uvest her dead husbands money.
MrA Young was told many things by
MscuTda, including the interesting fact
that she had Indian blood In her veins.
she Agreed that Macurda was certainly
. wonderfully gifted man, and It only
too,s ten minutes for Macurda to get her
across the street to the Atwood Press In
the Miller Building. Here she could
invest E,000 with amazing result But
that was not what the widow wanted
90 much. There was u little cripple In
Maryland whose birthday comes to-day
and the widow thought II would he a
nice thing for her 10 have Q little present
Of stock which would bring In a little
dividend every quarter. say. about 500
worth. just as a present for the little
cripple. Macurda thought so too. and
to-day was set for the sale of the stock
Nacurda was arrested a year ago by
Mr.. Isabella Goodwin and was put on
probation for q year. 1t was during the
year Of good behavior that he began the
Dawning Light affair and started his
seancss ageAn.