The mother reported to affiant that, within the last few years, six of her children had died of various diseases here in the same place."
"White Slaves"
Louis A Banks
Ascertaining that Lyon's counsel had secured damaging evidence against her in those sections of country where she had previously been the spiritualistic harlot that she was, she rapidly followed Mr. Bangs and his companion, and through her wonderful personal magnetism, physical force, consummate bravado, and skilful manipulations, succeeded in securing numberless affidavits-not that she was a pure woman, but that as far as the affiant knew, she was not a bad woman.
"The Spiritualists and the Detectives"
Allan Pinkerton