Bureaucrats, Interface administrators, Administrators (Semantic MediaWiki), Curators (Semantic MediaWiki), Editors (Semantic MediaWiki), Suppressors, Administrators, trusted
15,689
edits
m
+mistypes corrected
mNo edit summary |
m (+mistypes corrected) |
||
| Line 27: | Line 27: | ||
Various recent numbers of The Boston Herald contain details about the prosecution of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Fletcher, by Mrs. Juliet A. J. Heurtley (Hart Davies). The journal just mentioned alleges that Mrs. Davies’ version of the way in which she lost her property is substantially as follows: Two years ago she met Fletcher and his wife in England and became very much interested in their belief and “power to control her”— whatever that may mean. While in England Mrs. Fletcher went into a trance (?) and communed with the spirit of her (Mrs. Hunt Davies’) mother. The spirit, so said Mrs. Fletcher, was very anxious for her daughter to place herself under the Fletchers’ guardianship, and make over to them for safe keeping, all of her property. The deluded woman did as she was requested, and the result was the Fletchers were given the control of property valued at many thousands of dollars. The two finally came to America and proceeded to the Spiritualist camp meeting then in progress at Lake Pleasant. While at the camp meeting Mrs. Davies had her eyes opened to the manner in which she had been induced to part with her property, and demanded its return. The demand, so the story goes, was at first refused, but after insisting and receiving the assistance of Dr. Mack, mesmeric healer, Mrs. Davies succeeded in recovering about 10,000 dollars’ worth of goods. She insisted upon the rest being restored to her, but her demand was not heeded. She then came to Boston and placed the case in the hands of Mr. S. B. Ives, a well-known lawyer. Mr. Ives secured the services of Detective James R. Wood, who traced the Fletchers to a house in Washington Street, near Davis, Boston, and procured a search-warrant, and accompanied by Constable William S. Post, of the municipal court, and Police Inspectors Gorraughty and Mahoney, made a thorough search of the premises, which resulted in the discovery and reclamation of female wearing apparel, jewellery, &c. When the officers entered the house they were confronted by a member of the Royal Swedish Engineers, who made an assault upon Dr. Mack, for which he was locked up at the 4th police station. After finding the property, the officers also took Mrs. Fletcher to the Tombs for safe keeping. | Various recent numbers of The Boston Herald contain details about the prosecution of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Fletcher, by Mrs. Juliet A. J. Heurtley (Hart Davies). The journal just mentioned alleges that Mrs. Davies’ version of the way in which she lost her property is substantially as follows: Two years ago she met Fletcher and his wife in England and became very much interested in their belief and “power to control her”— whatever that may mean. While in England Mrs. Fletcher went into a trance (?) and communed with the spirit of her (Mrs. Hunt Davies’) mother. The spirit, so said Mrs. Fletcher, was very anxious for her daughter to place herself under the Fletchers’ guardianship, and make over to them for safe keeping, all of her property. The deluded woman did as she was requested, and the result was the Fletchers were given the control of property valued at many thousands of dollars. The two finally came to America and proceeded to the Spiritualist camp meeting then in progress at Lake Pleasant. While at the camp meeting Mrs. Davies had her eyes opened to the manner in which she had been induced to part with her property, and demanded its return. The demand, so the story goes, was at first refused, but after insisting and receiving the assistance of Dr. Mack, mesmeric healer, Mrs. Davies succeeded in recovering about 10,000 dollars’ worth of goods. She insisted upon the rest being restored to her, but her demand was not heeded. She then came to Boston and placed the case in the hands of Mr. S. B. Ives, a well-known lawyer. Mr. Ives secured the services of Detective James R. Wood, who traced the Fletchers to a house in Washington Street, near Davis, Boston, and procured a search-warrant, and accompanied by Constable William S. Post, of the municipal court, and Police Inspectors Gorraughty and Mahoney, made a thorough search of the premises, which resulted in the discovery and reclamation of female wearing apparel, jewellery, &c. When the officers entered the house they were confronted by a member of the Royal Swedish Engineers, who made an assault upon Dr. Mack, for which he was locked up at the 4th police station. After finding the property, the officers also took Mrs. Fletcher to the Tombs for safe keeping. | ||
Subsequently, according to ''The Herald'', Mr. Fletcher | Subsequently, according to ''The Herald'', Mr. Fletcher was found by the police at the house of his mother, where they went with a search-warrant, and he promised to give up all the rest of the property. This however, so a correspondent informs us, had not been done up to Sept. 10th, the day on which the case stood for trial, and when by consent of the solicitors on both sides, an adjournment took place to the 16th, the same bail being accepted. | ||
''The Herald'' states that the Swedish gentleman was fined ten dollars, without costs, for assaulting Dr. Mack. His defence was that the latter entered Mrs. Fletcher’s apartments with his hat on his head, which he considered an insult, so struck the offender. | ''The Herald'' states that the Swedish gentleman was fined ten dollars, without costs, for assaulting Dr. Mack. His defence was that the latter entered Mrs. Fletcher’s apartments with his hat on his head, which he considered an insult, so struck the offender. | ||