Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-10-20
DETECTIVES CATCH
FAKE CLA|RVOYANTS
$4,000 OBTAINED BY ARTISTS or
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
of a woman who used the name of Mrs.
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,
yealed in the arrests. here of couple
said to be Mr.. and Mrs. John Lowell,
157k Calhoun avenue. The two were
located through the efforts OF w. T.
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.
Two other persons sought by the de-
tectives and VINO are 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 piaff the four obtained introduce
tions to the wealthy. who were easily
influenced to allow their new-found ac-
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. fine
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
bare. In some cases the patrons had
no funds vailble. The second sighter
in such cses would lend the near vic
In sum of money, as much as $500
in some cases, to cast her enchantment
over. But when the money was re-
turned 1t perforce must be supple
mented with sum, the property of the
patton, in order that the telepathic cir
cult hooked up with the infinite might
be completed,
Nearly so Pine Bluff women took
TIE bait There were some men, too
Hamonds, rings and other valuable
jewelry and bank rolls poured in. The
d;y Of revelation was at hand. But the
qrtette was not
Reports began to drift into Pine |
Bhff police headquarters. Chief Stew
ar was loathe to believe them at first |
Bt the number and standing of the
p$ple who came to headquarters and |
admitted that they had been fleeced
quickly dissipated any question as to |
th amount o. losses that had been
sutained
Mmphis with Chief Pate we're taken
tdhe cell occupied by Mrs. Lowell and
qJckly and positively identified her.
he woman had steadily maintained
Tit she was not the person sought,
all when questioned at. the Calhoun
aenue address stoutly told members
the Memphis police force that she
| WIS not the person they sought She
pfsisted in her protests when Chief
Fte visited her at the police station.
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