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WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 4, 1925 Famous Slate Writer Is Un masked By Womans Wit HOUDINI TRAPS MASTER MEDIUM i WITH WOMAN P. L. O. A. Keeler Exposed By Huodini With Aid of Ethel and Julia Lockwood By GEORGE BRITT LILY DALE, N. Y., Nov. 4. “Well, Houdini, we’re all in the same business anyhow.” These words take on astounding significance when you get the pic ture, as I did, standing beside the speaker in the snow of this obscure village street. They were spoken by P. L. 0. A. Keeler, for 40 years an active and extremely successful “spiritualist medium,” to Houdini, the stage ma gician, just after the latter had ex posed Keeler in a seance fraud. Houdini regarded this admission as an abject admission of trickery and as the crowning reward of the efforts of himself and two clever women helpers. 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Below, left, Ethel Lockwood; right, Julia Lockwood, Houdini’s aids in the exposure. dante of departed spirits, a veritable high, priest of the cult, stammering before an avowed sleight-of-hand ar tist who fools people for their en tertaining and admitting, “Houdini, we’re in the same business.” The exposure of Keeler, Houdini believes, is the proudest exploit of his long war on fake mediums. No less an authority than Dr. Walter Franklin Prince, chief investigator for the American Society for Psy chical Research, distinguishes Keel er by calling him, “the arch deceiver whio has beguiled more thousands than any other American slate-writ ing medium of our day.” Keeler has been denounced often, but never be fore has he been compelled to ac knowledge being caught in trickery. The campaign began a few weeks ago when Houdini sent to Keeler a youyng woman who used the name, Ethel Lockwood. 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The two girls went again to the; medium’s home, and for the cus j tomary $3 he gave Julia a seance I They sat at a table upon whc'ih lay ' a slate, she says. The girl wrote I questions upon paper which she fold ed and placed before her, and after' a time the medium produced from under the slate cards bearing spirit' replies. One such message, printed with yellow crayon, purported to I come from the girl’s deceased child' sister. It says: “Dear Julie, Dear Mamma: I am happy. I have all I want. Papa got me two new skates. I have fun. I am your best girl and sister. Eve lyn.” Houdini himself with a flare for the theatrical had intended to ask for a seance. He colored his hair gray with some stage whitewash and wore long tinted glasses. He pro posed, also, to put on false whiskers, but in the hurry of the trip he failed to bring them. While the girls visited Keeler, Houdini and I waited. They had just joined us and we were prepar ing to go to the medium’s home when he came down the street. Keeler l wa s a large old man with quite an I air of reverence. Houdini here dropped his nervous ness and almost comic heroics and became a really impressive crusader. He accused tHe medium of being a charlatan who took money from wid ows and orphans for false spirit mes sages and then revealed his own identity. “I’ve tried to get you for a long time, Keeler,” he said, “and now I’ve got you 100 per cent. I am . Houdini.” f From this point on Keeler was a » beaten man. He stood frozen in his . tracks, helpless distress betrayed in his stolid smile. “If you want a chance now, I’d ; like a seance,” said Houdini. ‘T’ve posted a guarantee of SIO,OOO that I can duplicate any manifestation any) medium produces, ana t: < offer is open to you.” “Why, Houdini, you know 1 won’tl try any seance with you,” said the white-haired medium. “You’re getting careless, too,” I taunted Houdini. “These girls don’t. 1 look dangerous, but they have been; watching me do your kind of 'for months. Thtey tell me you are i ! terribly-crude and raw. This litfte ' | one says she had a laugh at you. You i I actually dropped your cards.” I “Yes, now j remember, I did let, some cards fall,” said Keeler. “It was cold today, and the little girl did not look suspicious so I didn’t take pains to put over the work slick. I “I have wanted to see you, Hou dini. Really, I have. I’d Have sentl you word to come here, but I didn’t 1 want to write anything. 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