Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1895 — A BELIEVER OF NOTE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A BELIEVER OF NOTE.

The Widow of V ce President Herrt r eki. Those who are sceptical of spiritual manifestations in Indianapolis know that Mrs. Hendricks, widow of Vice President Hendricks, and some leading Democrats who believe in spiritual phenomena profess to have received on the slate of a medium messages from the spirit land and signed by the Vice President. Mr. Hendricks died Thanksgiving eve, 1885. He had no time for the arrangement of his earthly affairs or his political business. He was in an upper chamber of his Indianapolis home preparing for dinner. His wife heard a heavy fall on the floor above, and when she reached his side found her husband dead with a peaceful smile on his face.

Gradually it became known to a select and chosen few that Mrs. Hendricks was receiving messages from her departed husband—messages mainly on topics concerning themselves alone, but occasionally referring to political conditions and events most interesting at the time. Lottie (ireenrod, as a child of twelve knew nothing of Mrs. Hendricks and had no conception of the high place in polities held by her husband. Evidently her first slate writing must have been of satisfactory tenor to Mrs. Hendricks, for in ten years she has been a constant visitor to this same medium’s house.

Many of the faithful in Indianapolis declare that the successful business ventures made by Mrs. Hendricks since her husband’s death have been due to his spiritual advice on the Herbine slate. They claim that she has increased her fortune only through the advices and prophetic instruction which could only come from an all seeing sbul in the spirit land. Whatever may be the belief, it is a fact that Mrs. Hendricks has in ten years doubled the property left by her husband, and meantime she has dispensed, it is said, in charity or in aid of relatives nearly $70,000. Not only has she attended to her own charities, but she has carried on her roll of pensioners all the needy relatives and impoverished political friends that her husband was in the habit of aiding at the time of his death. Vice President Hendricks was in his life charitable almost to a fault.

MRS. HENDRICKS.

MRS. HERBINE, THE MEDIUM.