The Washington times., 1922-08-22
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SPIRIT WOMAN
To COME HERE
Daughter Says Husband viii
Guard Mothers Rights in
Insanity Hearing.

Mrs. Catherine Jacoby. vito Of
H. M. Jacoby. wealthy New York
banker, will not come 70 Wash
ington to aid her mother, Mrs
Gladys Murray, whose alleged OBJ
session over spirit messages re.
suited in her being taken last
Saturday to Washington Asylum
Hospital, for observation az to her
mental condition.
This news came from the Jacoby
home, 533 West 112th street, where
the daughter was interviewed. hold.
ing her infant OF few months
in her arms.
- "It will be impossible for me to
make the trip" she declared, ex-
pressing surprise at Mrs. Murray's
predicament. She then got in touch
with Jacoby at his office and he
said he probably would come to
the Capital in his motherin-laws
interests today.
II had no idea anything was
Jacoby. II received a letter from
her only last Wednesday in which
she said she was In good health,
but that business was poor and
that she might have to ask aid of
my husband" (.
In Trance on r Street.
This letter, evidently written on
Tuesday. August 16. must have
been the last penned by Mrs. Muir.
ray before she was found in an
ostensib.e condition of trance on
street and taken to Emergency
Hospital.
There she insistently demanded
In notes to physicians that a jury
OF scientists be called in to decide
whether or not messages from
the spirits Of the great departed,
written through her hand while
she was unconscious of her sur.
roundings, were or were not authen.
tic. Her removal to the psyche
pathic ward of Washington Asy-
lum followed. $50 :,
Mrs. Jacoby disclosed that while
her mother was ON the stage, where
until about two years ago she met
with success. she used the name
gladys Fairbanks. In. Washington
she has been known as Mrs. Gladys
Fairbanks Murray. During the past
year, while Mrs. Murray had been on
and off in Washington, the daugh.
ter had corresponded with her
through. friend, she said.
physicians in the psychopathic
ward expect to complete their OBJ
servations OF the strange case with.
in twenty-four hours. Unless they
decide on expiration OF that period 70
set the woman at liberty, she must
appear in court after papers setting
forth the belief OF the doctors that
she is not herself have been filed
with the District sanitary officer
and a date assigned for her appear.
ance before jury sitting In lunatico
inquirendo.
According to accounts Of those with
whom Mrs. Murray had contact, she
was wont to be seized by, or affect.
trance state under the most In.
formal conditions. She didn't need
dimmed lights. incense-laden airs and
slow, grave music to become a sound.
ing board or amanuensis for such
celebrities as Buddha, Confucius,
George Washington and Benjamin
Franklin.
Pulled Trance In Park.
the congregation Of the Spiritual
Science Church Of Christ, at one Of
whose seances she appeared, Mrs.
Murray was walking near Scott cir
Gle when she announced In q Sc
pulchral tone:
The medium is controlled" and
Immediately started to address the
empty park benches, that Is the ad-
dress was supposed to come through
her volitionless brain from a great
spirit. ...-.... 49,. ...-.. -.
When she went to a Sunday eye-
ring meeting at this church, tenn
pie Of spiritualism and theosophy.
she made the same announcement ms
soon as the lights had been dimrned,
and the voice coming from her was
imposed to be that Of the Nazarene.
This so provoked Mrs. Jane b. Coates,
pastor Of the church, that she order
ed the hall re-illuminated. and upon
Mrs. Murray's asking her whether
she did not believe It had been the
Saviour who spoke, responded crisp
ly: II, 4, .....
IT certainly do not" Later, says
Mrs. Coates, Mrs. Murray denounced
A. Na