Joseph Wilhoff of Chicago is in custody charged with obtaining money under false pretenses. He posed as a "Doctor," claiming to cure by the aid of the devil, his silent but active partner. Like all other supernatural healers, including the followers of "Mother" Eddy and "Father" Dowie, no ailment was too serious for his skill, provided there was money forthcoming, but it had to be "down on the nail,"—no pay, no cure. The trouble with Wilhoff, however, was that he went out of the beaten path; so long as he only swindled people out of their money with his pretense of healing, all went well, but when he began to fling around incantations, spells, and hoodoos among the superstitious Germans who composed his clientèle, the trouble began to brew. He, it appeared, not only convinced his dupes that he could cure diseases with the aid of the devil, but that