The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-06-15 00:00:00

The neat 'Meese entered on a different kind of mani-
festation ; but having once been mentooed in • leerier
In the &nerds, &viten he did not wish to me his
name in print. Producing • crystal ball larger than the
egg of a duck, this gentleman told most extraordinary
stories alit. appliestlon. More than 45 years ago he
began the study of Spiritualism, and became perfectly
tooriaced of its truth. About 27 years ago be became
acquainted with a young lady who, for seven years, was
a seeress. The crystal, to be properly tie 4 must bo
dedicated to a spirit; the 'plat is tailed in and asked
whether be will or will not answer say questions for
yoa. He dedicated his crystal to • spirit that would
answer. The lady could me in it passing events whet,
ever they might be happeaing. She desorioed them to
him itl bauble] language, and be wrote it down.
Sometimes writing appeared, and she read it off.
Witness related that Liens. 8., who also had • avast,
left England, to travel incognito among Mumulmans.
During his abeeeee, witness wishing to know his position
called him into the crystal. The seeress deseribed
landscape of mends and trees, She said she saw • dark-
looking man, dressed is shawls and turbans. smoking •
pipe. Another o•nie up from a disarms. They began
quarreling. Then she saw that the first one was Lieut.
B. They got to high words in Arabic. The newcomer
took out his dagger, Lieut. B. his revolver, when a third
mao, on horsebeck, came up and separated them, and
they went away. Lieut. B. retained to London, was
shown the copy of the story thus read off, and, dm:aer-
ie( it to be true in every partiouLcr, signed his name to
the statement in witness's book. He bad known the
crystal or • mirror read children of seven for old women
of 70, by ladies of sylph like form, by ladies who weighed
19 stone. (laughter.) He hod gooe into it, end into
, another room where no one oould read it. He admitted
I that he himself could never see anything in it, but
be had volumes of matter that had been revealed to
seas.
In reply to Serjeant Cox, witness said undoubtedly
two persons had seen the same things in the glue at the
sone time. He had not tried whether similar effmta
woad be produeed by looking at a halfpenny. He did not
think the crystal acted se a mesmeriser.
In angrier to Mr. Gannon, witness said he had never
trod whether if one seer left the glass the story could be
taken up by another at the same point.
Ha tweed with much of Swedenborg's theory,
believed he had an atmospheric spirit, as well aa soul

and hod). . .
Mr. Serjeant Col : Revs you any impression as to
whether the visions are in the mirror or in the mind?
Witness believed they were seen in the mirror,
bemuse sometimes the small writing was not very dia
Gnat. In one instance there was • man with a book
containing writing too small to be read by the naked eye,
but by the use of the glass the seer read it. Be believcd
the phenomena to be spiritual.
Witness produced several ancient books on the sub-
ject of Spiritualism, and the practice of prophetic
foresight through the invocation of spirits and use of
mirrors. . . . .