SPIRITUALISTIC FRAUDS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2000, 27 May 1885, Page 2

SPIRITUALISTIC FRAUDS.

A sensational exposure of a spiritualistic fraud occurred at St. Louis recently. Mrs Nannie Miller, a medium well known in New York, Chicago, and Denver, has given some wonderful seances. Her manifestations had been the talk of the town, and enlisted the attention of a score of scientific men, who had attended seances, paying an exceedingly high price for the privilege, The phenomena nonplussed the gentlemen, who took up much space in the papers to explain it. Professor Johnson, of Washington University, and Professor Madden, of Johnson's Commercial College, were sceptical of Mrs Miller's powers, and to test her they went to a seance with a number of well-known persons. When the lights were turned down the audience began singing "The Sweet By-and-bye." Suddenly out from the cabinet came a young man with a pale face and ghostly appearance, fle beckoned to Professor Madden, and said he was his brother who died a number of years ago. The Professor immediately grabbed the ghost, and Professor Johnson struck a light and rushed for the cabinet. Meanwhile the ghost set up a terrible shrieking, and Mr Miller rushed in and was promptly knocked down and sat upon, The light was turned up, and the ghost was found to be Mrs Miller in man's clothes, The sceptics ransacked the* cabinet, and brought out two armsful of costumes. "Oh, this is too bad," screamed the ghost, struggling in the aims of the Professor. The whole room was by this time in an uproar, and the sceptics sent for two policemen, who placed the medium and her husband under arrest, The paraphernalia was confiscated and taken to the police head quarters, where warrants, charging Nannie Miller, and her husband, Thomas Miller, with fraud were sworn out.