Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-01-21


stery and misfortune, self named by
the ironic whim Of fate, "Good Luck, =
will have final hearing before Judge
Costello to determine whether she is
as she claims, a creature, of Occclt
powers or the. poor victim of a de.
ranged mind.
Twice in a little more than two
weeks since her arrival in Bismarck,
she has been picked up by the police,
apparently demented and as many
. +jmes ~release4 when her responses
to questions seemed to indicate that
she was not only, sane but of far
above the ordinary intelligence.
Once before she has been in the
custody o fthe sheriff here but was re.
leased after the county authorities
had made provision for her board and
lodging. Once she was cared for in a
local hospital but was released from
there when physicians could discover
no malady.
Each time her peculiar actions have
caused the authorities again to take
her in custody and attempt to solve
the puzzle OF her condition.
Six times in the last two weeks the
police have had calls from various
parts Of town late at night, that a
strange woman was wandering about
the streets. Each time she was des-
cribed as walking aimlessly and talk.
ing in a low monotone as though
communing with unseen beings.
Women and children have been
frightened when returning home late
at night they have met the strange
being bearing over the appearance of
one half earthly and half etheral,
speaking ever TO- the strange invisi.
BILE spirits with her eyes fixed and
intent as on vision afar off.
From belongings discovered in her
trunk and by her responses to cross
examination by Judge Costello Mon
day, the authorities have learned in
a garbled way all that can be cleaned
of her past.
Born in Illinois letters in her pos
session indicate that the woman has
travelled over the entire continent. A
decade ago she was known, accord
ing to newspaper clippings found in
her trunk, all over the western Unit
ed States as celebrated clairvoyant;
and a medium with the power to
wiring from the spirits of the other
world the secrets that the future held
in store
Business cards styling her as Ma.
dame Darrell, with an address in a
fashionable part Of Los Angeles, were
found among her belongings. In. her
time she practised fortune telling
through the medium of the. spirit
world, clairvoyance and palmistry.
Testimonials from her patrons show
that she was an oracle almost infail.
able. ..,s
Her maiden name was Wheeler.
Marriage certificates she still keeps,
shows that the woman was married
three times, the first time early in
life to a man named Fulkerson, who
died after few years Of married life,
and she remarked a man named Oar
rell. Later after a divorce action.
she was married to man named
Boustoy, in Thief River Falls. Minn. A
divorce action is now pending, she
says brought; by the third husband
She has one child girl born some.
thing over five years ago. The child
is now staying with relatives of Mr..
Darrell in Minnesota. According to
the divorce decree it is said that the
mother was denied the right to see
her child again. The ruling is ex-
planned by the fact that the husbands
relatives disapproved Of the spiritua.
listic teachings of the mother. 1t is
believed by the authorities that grief
over the separation from her child
caused the mental arrangement that
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