Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1922-11-02
DETECTIVES CATCH
FAKE CLAIRVOYAAIS
$4,000 OBTAINED BY ARTISTS OF
THE DARK ARTS.
WORKED PINE BLUFF SOCIETY
Pine Bluff Detectives Takes Man and
Woman Back to Home City.
Scores of Persons Were
Defrauded.

Memphis.-The palm reading ability
Boswell and the gentle art of clairvoy.
ancy TO separate gullible men and wo'
men of Pine Bluff from more than
$4,000 in cash and jewelry, was re,
lealed m the arrests here of couple
said to be Mr.. and Mrs. John Lowell
1874 Calhoun avenue. The two were
located through the efforts of w. 7.
Pate, chief inspector of Pine Bluff and
]. f. Stewart, chief of police of the
same city. Mrs Lowell waived extra.
dition. The man firmly declared that
he would not go to Arkansas, but after
learning that his wife had agreed to
make the trip, changed his mind The
two accompanied Mr.. Pate back to the
Arkansas city, leaving Memphis on
the Cotton Belt train. The couple will
face charges of grand larceny
wo other persons sought by the de
tectives and VINO ar SAID to have
worked under the name of Mr.. and
Mrs. Nathan Boswell made good their
escape.
Four persons, according to Mr.. Pate,
worked" Pine Bluff Society,
They announced that in the person
of Mrs. Boswell they had woman
OF mysterious gifts, seer OF the past
present and future. To her every wo.
mans doings were as an open book,
Many walked in fear and trembling.
Working among only the elite of
Pine Bluff the four obtained introduc'
tons to the wealthy. who We're easily
influenced to allow their new-found &C.
quaintances to foretell their future.
The soothsayer told the women
women were their chief prey-that it
was necessary first that the curious
sleep upon some article of worth, fins
jewelry or sum OF money. After that
the mystic would sleep with the same
object or roll of greenbacks under her
pillow and the future would be laid
UdtS. III OOllC Sdoto lllt pdAlOho itAh
no funds vailble. The second sighter
in such cses would lend the near vic.
IL sum of money as much as $500
in some cases, to cast her enchantment
over. But when the money was re-
turned it perforce must be supple.
mented with sum- the property of the
pat. n, in order that the telepathic cir
cult hooked up with the infinite might
be completed.
Nearly so Pine Bluff women took
the bait. There were some men, too
Diamonds, rings and other valuable
jewelry and bank rolls poured in. The
day Of revelation was at hand. But the
qurtette was not.
Reports began to drift into Pine
Bluff police headquarters. Chief Stew
art was loathe to believe them at first,
But the number and standing of the
people who came to headquarters and
admitted that they had been fleeced
quickly dissipated any question as to
the amount of losses that had been
sustained.
Two allege dvictims who came to
Memphis with Chief Pate were taken
&c the cell occupied by Mrs. Lowell and
quickly and positively identified her.
The woman haG steadily maintained
that she was not the person sought,
and when questioned at the Calhoun
avenue address stoutly told members
of the Memphis police force that she
was not the person they sought She
persisted in her protests when Chief
Pate visited her at the police station.