A MAD SPIRITUALIST.
An employe of the Davenport Brothers, styling himself the Rev. Elisha F. Minier, . was recently charged at Boston with embezzling 150 dols,, the proceeds of a dark seance. When arrested he declared that the whole establishment, Davenports and all, belonged to him, and he proposed to run it until he had raised ten millions of dollars, which he declared his intention of devoting to the publication of forty-eight thousand pages of manuscript that he had been ordered to write on the subject of the birth of Christ, whose near kinsman be was. Minier wes very indignant towards the Davenport Brothers for their attempt to regain the 150 dollars, and talked to them only as an insane person could. He has for some time carried with him a huge dirk-knife, because, as he said, the spirits had told him Borne one wa» going to take his life. His arrest, be contended, was part of a plot looking to that end. Medical evidence having been given to prove hi 6 insanity, he was taken to the asylum at Taunton, not, however, j until he had promised to visit Boston with a big earthquake and shake it all to pieces.
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Southland Times, Issue 1127, 10 September 1869, Page 2
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200A MAD SPIRITUALIST. Southland Times, Issue 1127, 10 September 1869, Page 2
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