Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-24


serve Jail sentence and move on to the
next town and begin new operations.
Braun declared since serving thirty
seven months OF the four years term at
TT. Leavenworth he had tried in every
way to lead an honest life and that dur
ing the time he has been working on a
device to protect bank safes from rob
berg.
Evidence pointed to the fact that the
safe protection is also another defrauding
scheme.
COURT TAKES HAND
IN THE QUESTIONING.
What did you do for a living while
you were living as an honest man7" the
court asked Braun.
He replied he had been a travelling
salesman, photographer and shoe safes
man before he began the study Of ab-
sent healing more than twenty years ago
1t was following a question by the
court Of how she came to take up the
art or healing that Mrs. Braun told Of
her spiritual visions and conversations
with her dead father.
She said she was I when he died and
that while walking home from milking
one evening on q farm home In Illinois
shortly after her fathers death, her
father appeared in a vision and spoke
to her
She would not tell the court the nature
Of the conversation at that time
Some years later" she said, after
had been firmly convinced Of my heal
Ing power, my father again appeared to
me and told me I was doing a great
work and for me TO continue it,"
did you tell him that the practice
was against the law and that il was a
farce Z" asked the court.
NO, sir" Mrs. Braun replied.
SHE BELIEVES
IN 1T FIRMLY.
"It is my sincere belief" she added.
%whom did you ever cure?" asked
Judge Anderson.
From what people tell me. believe
/ have healed thousands" Mrs. Braun
/ replied.
She then gave the court the names Of
several persons, but could not say posi-
! lively she had healed them.
/ Mrs. Braun told the court she was
now IS and the mother of eleven chill
dren
The court ordered the woman to be ex
amined by a physician.
| So far Mrs. Braun has never been
caught by the dragnet OF the federal law,
although she was a defendant with her
husband when he was sentenced to prison
/ for four years, and would have been sen
fenced, too, had 1t not been for her physi-
/ cal state.
In an explanation Of the process OF
I healing without treatm snt, Braun told the
court the psychological basis Of the
/ theory" lay in thouE 1T force.
When asked to explain the meaning Of
! that psychological term, he said II
would be as difficult to do as to ex-
| plain electricity.
Thought force is something that we
/ know exists, but that nobody can ex-
! plain" he told the court.
I'VE know IL is here and that is ALL
! STUDIED THOUGHT
FORCE 20 YEARS.
Braun said he had had no medical ed
ucation, but that be had studied the
theory of thought force for twenty
/ years.
No explanation could be given by
either Of the defendants as to the prin-
/ ciples involved in the healing method Of
1.-THE laying on of hands"
| Miss Braun said she did not believe
in the theory deeply, but that she had
| healed paralysis by laying her hand on
the solar plexis," which she defined as
the nerve center"
Floyd Mattice, assistant district at
torney. told the court that that was the
portion Of the anatomy where Bob Fitz-
simmons gave Corbett the laying on
Of the hand treatment"
And" the court orined, che effected
cure"
All three Of the defendants changed
their pleas from mot guilty" to guilty"
When Braun made an appeal to the
court in the behalf of his wife, after she
refused to promise to discontinue her
''practicing," the court told Braun they
were frauds.
You are family of frauds" the judge
said.
Don't you think you are fraud 2" the
judge asked Braun.
mo" answered Braun. 81 do not"
'I viii think it for you, them" said
the court