Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-12-06

sor,o sornd ros booyd -, hind or doubIe ran
ns.iro s,rolo and ,ehound were dis,inpuishnble
Wbo, tho ladies' ware sennroted a, a distance
no sound WINS heord. bu, when third was inter.
,aosod ho,voon ,bnp Tho sounds wore hoard.
'rho iodios scomeJ ready IN rive every onnnrtu-
n;,v io Tho Commi,,eo IN inyes,ippte the cause
civ and would eubmit IN n ibor0uoh nveslga
lion nv commi,tee of ladies if desired. They
oil oroed that tho sounds were heard but entire
Il, G,;jsd In J;Sco,er nm, means In ,rLrh il could
he 1ope
Amer this roport and some discussion on The
subicct. The audience selected another commit.
Tee composed of the following persons-Dr. II.
II. Ianrworlhy. Hon. Frederick Whitesey D.
G. McCalmm. William Fisher of Rochester, and
Hon. A. p. UTascgll of LEROY. AT the next lee.
lure this committee reported that they went into
the investigation at the office Of Chancellor
Whittlesey. and they heard the sound on the
floor. ON the wall and loor,-,hat lhaladies were
placed in different positions, and, like the other
Committee, they we're wholly unable TO tell from
what the sounds proceeded or how it was made,
that Dr. l.angworlhy made observations with
stethescope to osceriaia whether there was any
movement Of the lungs, aud foubd.not the least
difference when the sounds we're made and that
there was no kind of probability or possibility of
their being mndo by ventrioquisn as some had
supposcd-and they could not have been made
BY machinery.
Again, after this report, another Committee
was formed, from persons who had opposed in
the meeting all prelensiuns to there being any
thing bit trick
This C>mnttee was COMPOSED of Dr.. f. p.
Langworlhy, DR.. J. Gates, WIN. Fizhugh, Esq.
w. l.. Burtis, and L. Kenyon. This committee
met at the rooms oil DR.. Gales, at the Rochester
House, and appointed a Committee OF Ladies,
who took the young women into room, disrobed
them and examined their persons and clothing,
10 be sure that there was no fixtures about them
that could produce the sounds, When satisfied
on this point the Committee OF Ladies' tired some
other experiments, and gave the young ladies
the following certificate:
" When they were Standing on pillows with a
handkerchief tied around the bottom OF Their
drcss, tight 10 the ankles we all heard the rap
ping on the wal and floor distinctly" (Signed)
MRS. ONE, MRS. }. GATES,
MISS VI. L. LAW RENCE.
In the evening the Committee, through their
Chairnnn, DIR. Lrngworihy, made very Iu re-
port Of their examinations during the day. Ihcy
\ reported That they had excluded all friends OF
the two Indies from the COmmiitee room and had
the examination only'ln presence OF the Com
nlttee Of gentlemen, and ladies chosen by them
Notwithstanding all This precautlon, these sounds
were heard when the ladies' stood on large iealIl-
er pillows, without shoes, and IN various other
positions, both on the floor and on the WALL
That nu nber of questions were asked which
when answered, were generally correct. Each
member OF the COMMITTEE reported separately
agreeing with aud coroboratIng the frs. state
mcnts
Thus, by three DAYS Of the strctest scrntinV
b. means Of mlc,liaence candor and science
were the persons ~ whose presence these sound:
arc heard, ACQUITTED of all fraud
On Friuav evening, after the lecture, three Of
Yhe Committee VIZ: Hon A. y, llascall. ID, C.