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London, England, 1869-05-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 12, 1.869..

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SPIRITUAL PHOTOGRAPHS.

A trial of a very remarkable character nas been going
on for some days in the police•court in New York, in
which the knavery and delusion of modern spiritualism
have been manifested in an extraordinary light. One
Mumler, a New York photographer, has been driving a
very "lucrative business for some time past in taking
spiritual likenesses. The humbug had been pushed
so far that the authorites deemed it worthy of notice,
and Mumler was accordingly arrested and charged
with obtaining money by trick and fraud. Large
numbers of persons have crowded the courtroom
where the trial is in progress. The device of the
charlatan consisted in his executing photographs of living
sitters, who paid an extra price for the portrait of some
lost relative or friend which should appear plainly recog-
nisable, though in ghostly presence, on the same picture.
Many specimens were produced in court. Sorrowing
widows, in decorous mourning garb, were taken with the
simulacra of their lamented husband's rising over
them. Mothers, with the apparitions of departed
children in their laps, looked at the court from
cartes de visite of the customary pattern. Mumler's
defence is bold enough. Re insists upon the super-
natural character of his photographs. lie asserts that the
disembodied spirit takes its place by the side of the sitter
of flesh and blood, or hovers in dim angelic outline over-
hcad, as represented by his mysterious art. Very many
witnesses were examined whose testimony was favourable
to the photographer. It was of no importance that
believers in spiritualism, like Judge Edmonds,
deposed that they believed in the deception, and
found in the phantom features the exact linea-
ments of their lost ones. But it was startling
enough when experts in photography, who had no
faith whatever in spiritualism, swore that they had
themselves prepared the plates and adjusted the camera
when Aftmler took the living likeness, and 'that, never-
theless, the spectre came out from the negative, vague
and yet palpable to vision. The question was, indeed,
puzzling how the attenuated shadow of a shade, invisible
to mortal eye, should chemically affect the collodion on
the plate of glass. But at last the delightful
mystery was cleared up, to the satisfaction of all but
confirmed spiritualists, by the production, on the part
of the prosecution, of other photographers, who
chewed that Mumler's ghosts could be evoked in many
ways, by a lens introduced into the camera, by the impo-
sition of a positive plate upon the negative and the trans-
mission of light through it in the bath, &c. Pictures were
exhibited in court in all respects as curious as Mumler's
which bad been produced by these methods. The decision
has not as yet been rendered in the trial, but whether the
police commissioner will succeed in putting a stop to this
miserable mode of swindling or not, he deserves the thanks
of the community for the exposure he has made of it, and
the rational explanation he has given of a trick well calcu-
lated to unsettle weak minds.