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
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Houdini, the magician, right, with
P. L. O. A. Keeler, exposed medium.
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. That was just after
the summer assembly of spiritualists
here, when the medium had been do
ing a wholesale business in messages
from the dead. Mrs. Lockwood, a
weeping widow, implored him so?
words of consolation from eight de
parted friends—a husband and child,
whom she never had, and others who
were either fictitious or still alive in
the flesh.
Keeler obtained messages from
each one she named and charged her
$3 for the lot. Then on the day of
thte exposure Houdini himself came
here, accompanied by Mrs. Lock
wood, Julia Lockwood and myself.
Julia actually is Houdini’s secretary,
but she is quite small and was made
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iup in juvenile costume so she looked,
. the part of a 15-year-o' l girl, the
I “widow's” daughter.
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. If I could |
have been sure of it benig confiden-1
tial. I’d have written you that I nev-I
er would try to put over any spirit'
messages on you. After all, Hou
dini, we are all in the same busi-'
ness.
Keeler besought the girls to take
back thfe money they had paid for
their seances. “It’s all in the busi-
I ness, now, and I can’t take money
from you, he said. But they refused
it.
' I hey shook hands at parting like
brothers in a lodge; Houdini, the
showman, exulting at his unmasking
of pompous deceit, and Keeler- the
' medium, cast down by the failure of
his spirits to warn him of the nemesis
which overtook him.
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