Barry and Carroll planned to effect an entrance to the "seance."
Inspector Revere was informed and asked to give a detail of six
officers, who, headed by Detective Wooldridge, went to the hall on
Sebor street. Barry and Carroll had preceded them and succeeded in
convincing Jennie Nichols, who was the master of ceremonies, that
they were interested in spiritualism and desired to witness the
materializations.
When they went to the hall, Detective Barry walked in and found
twenty-eight or thirty others there before him. Jennie Nichols was
busy arranging the spectators in seats. She took a great deal of care
about placing them. Carroll and Barry entered and signed their names
on the register. This was a book in which everyone who is admitted to
a seance is requested to place his name and place of residence. Barry
signed as "John Woods"; address, 142 Ashland boulevard.