New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-05

feet teeye not sred there as disacf sv faS feor
On The Pasesnt and the 0roaS, The SANE ''und 'sT'
hcar6."
The second Committee reported, through DR..
Langworthy, their Chairman,
that Dr. LsngworhY mede observations with stethe-
scope TO ascertain whether there any movement ofhe
lungs and found not the least difference when The sounds
made and that ihers was no kind Of probability
possbiy Of their bcng nude By reatgDq had
spDosed and her could noe haze been made BY machinery"
The third Committee reported that they had
eTcladed all friends of the ladies from the Com.
mittee room. L would ask The Express who the
confederates were
and had the examination only pyessnce Of hs Committee
II gentlemen, and ladies' chosen b. them Notwithstanding
ali this prscautOn, thee sounds were heard when the
aeies stood on large feather pilos cifhof aoes and IN
various other POSITIONS both the door and on he wall
ard number Of questions were asked which, when sn-
swered, were generally correct
Each member Of the Committee reported sepa.
rately, agreeing with and corroborsting the first
statements.
This Committee appointed a Committee Of Ia
dies, strangers to the suspected Foxes who dss-
rolled them, and reported that they then heard the
sounds on the floor and on the wall, and when
they were standing on pillows.
have deemed il necessary to state these old
facts here, because it was the most severe test
that could be instituted and because it was the
two sisters now at Buffalo, who were the sub.
iects Of that examination; the younger sister be-
ing then at Auburn, seventy miles distant, and
because all the committees were skeptics. The
conn ittee of ladies also reported that they tried
the experiment Of tying their dresses close 10
their ankles, rith0ut shoes, lately suggested by
the Erpress) and that the sounds rere the same.
even when they stood on the pillows. Here it
appears that the feet were held, the bodies 81 p-
ped, the clothes tied to the ankles and no desec'
tion was made, and it was positive that no move
ments were made by toes and ankles, although
some itinerant gas bags have asserted that the
one here so closely examined did it with her taco
middle toes.
To leave the Committee, | have myself seen
these persons sit in positions II mean not the one
at Buffalo, where their feet could ROt touch the
floor, and still the sounds were the same. have
seen them without shoes and heard the same, and
the same when standing on benches answering
the same purpose as the tables suggested by the
EZpreSs,) and when they were Ga sofas, without
the feet touching the floor
The younger sister, now in New.York spent
several weeks in my own house IN Auburn, New
York, and while there witnessed the following
among other:experiments. | have, in presence OF
witnesses, seen her sit on the edge OF feather
bed where her feet could not touch Tie floor, held
my hands firmly on each knee so that there could
be no movement without my knowing 1t, and the
sounds were the same on the floor, being no more
muffled, but as full round and rolling, or single,
as we desired, as il her feet were on the floor |
have, in company with my wife, seen her in
that she could touch nothing bat bed clothes with
her feet or limbs, and then heard the sounds on
the floor as plainly and distinctly as before.
What becomes of Dr.. Lees theory Of soundll
/ have heard the sounds in the same manner
whea she was asleep, and also when she was
magnetized and limbs paralyzed. have seen
each of these sisters in presence of Investigators,
and heard the sounds for at least stg hours With
very little intermission. At the Rochester lnyes-
tgation they had little chance TO rest which IS
decidedly against the "getting tired theory OF
Dr. Lee have heard sounds made loud &c the
rate Of 100 per minute, at least and that Tor more
than one minute, and have heard tune alter tune
beat with most exact time Could joints do 1t
To turn to other mediums, | have, heard the
sounds in presence of Mrs. Sarah A. TOmlin OF Au.
burn-tshe will not be impeached by those who
know herr when she lay, to all appearance dead,
having tainted and remained so long so, as 20 be
matter of doubt whether she would recover The
sounds then gave directions how to proceed with
her. These fits were repeated frequently 10;
twelve hours When on a feather bed the sounds
were on the floor and on stand near by the bed
| have seen this person magnetised and made SO
rigid that she could not move muscle and heard
the sounds as freely as ever. On this point will
introduce the following testimony which comes
from an unimpeachable source and in manner not
TO be called in question. have the original In my
possession
Copy. SYRACUSE, N. T., Mondsy,lFeb
hereby certify that waG present al The house OF Mr. g.
B Bennei. in Auburn. ~ Y, on the 10th day OF FEB 1882
for the purpose of investigating the "rsppng and the
phenomena connected herewith that Mrs sarah Tam
1 the medium that was IN doubt about the source
Of the sour d. might add that addition TO what there
the Doctor held her feet and sncle. with his hends
that msgDezed the medium, Mrs H. placed her feet ono
chair pRfayZed her limbs 20 thar she could not more or
make shy effort do without observing H. even II they
had been parsyzed that then heard the sounds loud
and distinct table al least ngeive feet from the medium
any other person. the wall near the table on the chair
in hch sat producing evident the back OF the
chair in which The medium Mrs T. sal and In other places
shout the room and that she could not have made them
b. any increment Of her body or O'"r FOR SHE COULD NOT
MOVE.
Subscribed and sworn to betoreme lls Feb 3; 1851.
(sguedj HEZEKIAH JOSLYN, NJ. ID.
J. Hunt, Commissioner Of Deeds.
Believing that | have stated positive facts, to
offset all the negative testimony that has been
brought on knee-paR ology, teology, ankle-olOgy
md much similar nonsenEe. | leave the ubiecs