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book that he nowhere endorses the moral character of the Holmeses, nor neglects one opportunity to show that his sole object was to discover if spirit-materialization occurred in his presence. Indeed, he distinctly says that he took it for granted that they had the disposition to cheat if they found it necessary; that they were clever enough to do it if they would; and that they might do it at any moment when his attention was relaxed. This is the attitude the Brooklyn people ought to have sustained.
Mrs. Holmes may say what she likes hereafter, and her effusive whitewashes may cover more columns with this thin but rosy Kalsomine wash. She cannot regain public confidence. The mere fact she went to Brooklyn with her prepared bag seems to indicate that her mediumship has left her, or at any rate, is so much impaired that she has no longer confidence in it.
This exposure warrants our stating the fact that the spirit John King, in a recent letter to an eminent literary gentleman of this State, repudiates all connection with the Holmeses. Can it be that his abandonment of them has made it necessary for her to resort to trickery?
Mrs. Guppy`s Flight
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Not all the Spirits from the Summer Land the testimony of old Jehrred himself came to see ... the above. Fraud, fraud and ...
Our French Martyr
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