The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
Witnesses in Will Fight
Tell More About AL
legged Clairvoyant's
Methods
POWER BALKED
WITHOUT PAY
sister OF the Late Mrs. Adams Testitics
Certain Hour Each Friday Was
Set Aside to Transmit Treatment b.
Air Route

The proceedings in the will fight in.
volving Harrison Seiford, 1901 South
cameron street, this city, alleged clair.
Voyant and spiritualst, the man whose
right to lay claim to the bulk of the
$4,000 estate left by Martha Adams.
late of PETER street, is being question
eu nN other heirs, was continued this
morning before Roy c. banner. Register
OF wills. Witnesses for those attack.
ing the validity of the Adams will
testified that Seiferd represented he
possessed superhuman powers bv which
he could treat his patients even though
they were hundreds of miles from him.
Further than that Mrs. Rachel Crom
lelgh, testified that her sister, the late
Mrs. Adams, believed Seiferd had sucD
powers and that on occasions when
Mrs. Adams went out of the city ON =
visit she governed her times for re.
creation so that they would not conaic;
with certain hour on Fridays. the
time she believed Seiferd was trans
mittlng-presumably by wireless-the
powers that aided her to be about in
her weakened physical condition.
The hour in which Seiferd was sun.
posed to be transmitting the "healtA
restoring powers" Mrs. Cromlei,h
Said, her sister would express a desire
to be alone, saying that was one of tho
essential things for the success OF the
treatment. Mrs. Adams would then re-
tire by herself to an unoccupied room
and lock the door.
Paid 81 for Treatment
While on visit to Atlantic Citv.
Mrs. Cromeigh said, her sister fire.
quently talked of making preparations
for the "Seiferd treatment and early
in the week would send on the neces
sary 81, the price of each "spell bind. -
She added that her sister frequently
told her that if Seiferd did not ge5
the 81 in his pocket at that certain
hour on Friday the treatment would bc
useless.
Seiferd to-day sat at the counsel ia.
BILE in Judge McCarrell's IS court room.
Just back of the Register, and spoke not
a word. Yesterday he got into an ar
gument with James G. Hiatt, the attor
ney representing those contesting the
Will. Occasionally to-day, however.
statements of the witnesses made him
smile
John X. Berger. a Chambersburr
monument dealer, told the Register that
Mrs. Adams for more than four years
considered the question of marking the
grave of her husband, the late William
Adams, with a monument. Berger said
he several times talked to her on the
subject of a monument on which occa.
slons, he said, she told me that she
hrst would have to consult Seiferd. "
81 did not know Seiferd until short
y after Mrs. Adams told me she in
tended getting monument prices from
me, as well as Harrisburg and a
Steelton firm. - continued Berger.
"When [ got the contract she told
me that she knew long before that date
that | would get it, When | ques-
toned her about that she said Seiferd
told her ! would get the work.
Mrs. Albright Saw Force Bags
After the monument had been
erected | asked Mrs. Adams to accom-
pany me to the cemetery to inspect il
and Seiferd went along. He said he
thought it was a splendid piece of work
and then he remarked to Mrs. Adams:
See, didn t | tell you,' it. would be like
thati'
''When Mrs. Adams came to pay me
for the monument she said she could
tell exactly what the stone cost me and
what profit | made on it. She said she
could easily find that out from Seiferd.
She remarked that it took her long