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“The spiritualist periodicals themselves recorded how Herne and Williams had faked spirit photographs in 1872, how Florence Cook was grabbed while dressed as a spirit in 1873, how Rosina Showers was caught cheating by Cox in 1874, and confessed to Crookes in 1875, and both Henry Slade and Dr. Monck were convicted of fraud in 1876” (915). (For an additional reference to the Showers case see chapter 5).
Mr. Monck was accused not only of fraud but also condemned for taking advantage of emotionally fragile clients (a common fear associated with mediums). Beyond revealing this concern though the date of the piece indicates that despite the ‘debunking’ of famous mediums spiritualism continued to thrive in England, just as in America after the Fox sisters were revealed to be frauds in 1888.