C. C. Braddon

C. C. Braddon was a purportedly English psychical demonstrator and touring lecturer who performed with Anna Eva Fay from 1879 through the 1880s across North America. It is generally supposed that Braddon was an alias used by H. Melville Fay, the former husband of Anna Eva Fay, which is entirely plausible.

Press Coverage

 * &mdash; in which C. H. Read is revealed to have revealed that he taught H. Melville and Anna Eva Fay everything they know, that H. Meville Fay was C. C. Braddon, and was married to Carrie Sawyer.
 * "Prof. C. C. Braddon, alias Harry Morton, the fraudulent spiritualist, who advertised an exhibition at Belle City hall, with Annie Eva Fay as the leading medium, but who, after the audience had assembled, slipped out with the door receipts, was arrested on charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. He was discharged, however, and re-arrested on the charge of giving a public show without a license and fined $20 and costs, which he paid. He belongs at Fond du Lac."
 * "Prof. C. C. Braddon, alias Harry Morton, the fraudulent spiritualist, who advertised an exhibition at Belle City hall, with Annie Eva Fay as the leading medium, but who, after the audience had assembled, slipped out with the door receipts, was arrested on charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. He was discharged, however, and re-arrested on the charge of giving a public show without a license and fined $20 and costs, which he paid. He belongs at Fond du Lac."