RAID AT A SEANCE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, 21 January 1908, Page 3

RAID AT A SEANCE.

h i A police raid on a spiritualistic I ■oeting inlToronto resulted in the r f; posnre of the “ ministers’ * as a set '.j, humbugs, [after a free fight, in vbich the scantily clothed lady fr-rhost” was arrested The latter Wned out to be the “Rev” Elizarhh Howland, an American lady of ue 84 years of age and she was fisted by the “Rev. ” Clarence O. Rowland. Both described them-/|C;-,;es as “ministers of the gospel Pn Spiritualism,” and carried on p jir practices at the house of Mr % -nuel Eynen, in Bathurst street. astables Brisbane and Hogue were if-, ed by Mrs Lowe, a local Spirituaif,:, who had made up her mind that a pair were achieving their results tricks. Some difficulty was ex“rienced by the officers in .getting 'to the seance, as, in addition to a ‘.yment of a dollar, {visitors were Ejected to close scrutiny. *'lllrs Howland went into a cabinet \:}<i divested herself of clothing to - : , satisfaction of a jury of ladies. , ar the lights were turned gout i ‘ ions so-called spirit materialisaE f- : ;s were performed. When the |'■ tof a child called Mrs Lowe I i i< went forward, and a moment thrust her hands into the > ret and dragged this spirit out. was Mrs Howland, clad in very : n gauze. Great confusion folS: red. A burly woman in the audi»Jf;e dragged Mrs Lowe back by the ■Mr, while Constable Brisbane fc hold of the male prisoner, H;;was advancing to his wife’s as■Cance. Brisbane turned on an ■rctric torch, and called out that Bo was a police officer. He was'imHrdiately borne down by a number B men, who flung themselves upon and his torch was broken. K:officer drew his truncheon and H; ;ht the crowd. In the meantime K.stable Hogue had seized the HtJ.ale prisoner and placed her back the cabinet, from which emerged later clothed. The Hisoners, attended by an excited ■Lip of their followers, were conto the police station, where Hrh- were charged with fraud, Hl-ng released later on £BO bail ■U>. :