THE NOTORIOUS "SWAMI,”

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2092, 29 May 1907, Page 1

THE NOTORIOUS "SWAMI,”

NEW IMPOSTURE.

Madame Horos,' better known as “Tlio Swami,” whose hideous practices obtained for her seven years’ penal servitude in Lqndo.h in' Deceiiiber, lOOij has just been heard of again.

There is a religious sect in Detroit, TJ.S.A., called the “Flying Rollers,” who form practically the American branch of tlio Jezreelitc-s, At their head for- some time past has been a wofnan known as “Mother Elinor.” Recently somebody recognised “Mother Elinor” as none other than the notorious Swami, and exposed lier and her career. Her followers clamored for ail explanation, and the impostor, with the astuteness, that has marked all her doing, promised them a full and satisfactory one. The date of this explanation she fixed, possibly with

ilior tongue in her cheek at her dupes, for April 1. Tho night before, however, she suddenly disappeared from Detroit. Nobody has seen her since, and tho “Flying Hollers” now repudiate her and all her works.

Tho • “Swaini Horos,” of, to give hor hor correct name, Ma.dame Diss do Bar, has thus added one more to tho long list of impostures with which she has gulled tho ,credulous, impostures that stamp her as being the most notorious and dangerous ‘ adventuress of the age.

J An American by birth, for she is the daughter of a German musician who settled in Louisville, Kentucky, the Swam i began young. At tho age of 15 Ann O’Delia Salomons —for that was her maiden name —reloped with a young Frenchman to Paris. This was in 1871. A year later sho married an American officer, General Biss de J3ar, who divorced -.IOS l! JO pOJOIAUOD SB.ll Ot[S .lOJJB ,TOt| ■ios of spiritualistic frauds, in which she pretended to obtain paintings from tho spirits of tho great masters for a wealthy old imbecile named Marsh.

When sho came out of prison she travelled for a time with the Hermans, the magicians, doing a spiritualistic show. Leaving them she went to Now York,' where, for purposes of hor own, she spread the story that she had committed suicido. Some three years later, however, she was in Chicago, where sho married a Mr. Gavin, who, like her first husband, divorced her after a conviction for fraud.

Then she joined the man Jackson, who was connected with several spiritualistic circles. The pair, as M. and Madame Horos,, came to Europe, and wore charged at Rome with “devil-worship and immorality.” They, however, escaped prosecution, and after travelling in various parts came to London, where they fell into the hands of the police, and were convicted, Horos, or Jackson, getting 15 years’ penal servitude as being the worse offender of the two.