Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Bangs sisters" in English language version.
Lizzie Bangs blamed the police for the death of her daughter Maude, explaining she got a cold when taken to the police station and passed it onto Maude. In the child it developed into diphtheria and she was dead within a week.
May Bangs, attired in the garb of a Russian princess, caught while exhibiting herself as a spirit at an opening in the cabinet.
The bond of W.B. Bangs (their embarrassed brother) was accepted for the appearance of the sisters, who passed ghost-like, out the door.
On his return in that state Miss Bangs told him she had had a communication with his wife, who had requested that to please her he would marry the medium.
The evidence against this gang was no more complete and not as full and picturesque as that which we presented to the grande jury against the Bangs sisters. We failed to secure their indictment, but this through no flaw in the evidence.
Col. John C. Bundy, who edits a paper in the interest of spiritualism, is pleased at the passage by the Illinois Senate of a bill prohibiting any one from personating the spirits of the dead, commonly known as medium séances, on penalty of fine and imprisonment.
The Rev. Dr. Isaac Funk of the publishing house of Funk & Wagnalls of New York has just paid the Bangs sisters $1,500 for 'spirit paintings,' according to declarations of a Chicago medium.
Business tips from the spirit world are blamed for the failure of Jacob H. Lecher, formerly rated a millionaire, and husband of May Bangs, a spirit painter who was arraigned in the Desplaines street Municipal court yesterday.
Elmer D. Brothers, representing Mrs. May Bangs-Causden-Graham-Charter-Lesher, spiritualist, yesterday paid the fine of $25 and costs which recently was imposed upon her by Municipal Judge Scovel for violation of an ordinance governing clairvoyants and fortune tellers.
Mrs. DeWolf, Mrs. Bangs and Miss May Bangs, mediums, were arrested at the Otis House this morning by the Marshal for doing business without a license. They claim that the Marshal might as well arrest a Methodist minister on a similar charge, as they are evangelists. The case will be heard tomorrow. Mrs. and Miss Bangs were formerly residents of Atchison, the husband and father having carried on the tin and stove business here thirteen years ago, but we believe they are now residents of Chicago."
...the Bangs spiritual jugglers, giving shows without license, $5.
Maude, the seven-year-old daughter of Lizzie Bangs, of spiritualistic Bangs sisters, now out on bail in Chicago on the charge of fraud, died Friday and was buried Sunday with Spiritualistic services. Mrs. Cora L. V. Richmond going into a trance state and delivering a discourse.
When visiting the word's fair in Chicago some acquaintances told Mr. Yost that they knew of a young girl named Lizzie Bangs, who was able to secure the most remarkable statements from dead worthies by means of an ancient and very decrepit typewriting machine. Mr. Yost visited the medium and found that pieces of paper were apparently taken from the drum of the machine signed with all the names of history from Moses to Garfield.
