Two spiritualists get married. Sounds like the start of a joke, doesn’t it? Except the article below really isn’t a joke. The problem is that the husband wanted to leave everything he had to spiritualism, a move that would have made his wife destitute in a time when women relied on their husband’s monetary value. She also claims that he has been hanging around quite a few naughty, female spirits. All in all, just your normal, everyday break-up with a few spirits thrown in for good measure and entertainment.
To Be Some Ghost Story
Denver, Colorado, July 22. — One of the funniest cases ever put up to a court of law is on file here.
It is that of Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Thompson, spiritualist, and it is chock full of spooks from beginning to end.
A few days ago, Thompson, who is a millionaire, filed a suit to disinherit his wife and her son, and to put his entire property in trust for the advancement of spiritualism.
In filing the suit, Thompson explained that he had made his fortune through following the advice of spooks, and that it was only fair he should leave his property to them.
When Mrs. Thompson heard about this, she went right up in the air, and said a few harsh things about her hubby’s spooks.
Mrs. Thompson is a spiritualist, too, you must remember. She believes in spiritualism, but she says that her husband has been following advice of a lot of bad, wicked, naughty spooks.
Hubby came right back at her. He said that he had followed the advice of a bad spook only once. That, he said, was the time he followed the advice of a spook he was not well acquainted with, and married Mrs. Thompson.
Mrs. Thompson had a comeback on this, too. She said that since her husband felt that way about it, she would tell the world of the kind of spooks he was blowing around the spirit land with. Then she gave a list.
The list included Cleopatra, Sappho, Nell Gwyn, Mme. Recamier, and a lot of other spooks of women, whom history has dubbed as very wicked, indeed.
Hubby was not moved by this at all, so Mrs. Thompson has decided to file a cross petition, and prove, in a court of law, what kind of spooks her aged — he is 82 — Lothario of a husband has been flirting around with in the astral spaces.
The trial promises to be quite interesting.
Source: The Day Book (Chicago, Illinois newspaper). July 22, 1912.
