New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-12
4" SPIRITUAL PHENOMENA.
LET OFT OF JAIL BY THE ANGELS.

LET OFT OF JAIL By TIE ANGELS.
Some days since We copied from me SPrnHdi rec
era1h the announcement that one Mr.. Rand had been
released from the Oswego Jail by the sprIts. The
same paper of this week contains the statement OF Mr.
Ran and Mr. j. l.. Pool another spirtuaist; also, OF
j. W. Perkins the TAILOR.
travelling with the Davenport boys, giving spiritual
lectures and exhibitions. In the Town OF Mexico,
Oswego County, they held circle in school-house
one Sunday night and the next day were prosecuted
for trespass in going TO the house without consent of
the trustees and treadng down the grass OF the COM
mon on which il was situated. The prosecution cost
them about go, aud they got OF by appealing TO
higher Court. -.
a few weeks later they were prosecuted for holding
circles IN the town of PhGDlX, Oswego County, snd
fined $40 and costs. The spirits commanded them not
10 paw cent but to 60 TO JAIL the authorities c1ose
10 seid them there. The authorities did choose TO
send them for thirty days. After they had nearly
served their time, the spirits inmated that they would
be delivered and these inmations were told TO some
friends and finally reached the alcr. The ador was
quite willing TO have the experiment tried Ile MIRA
Gle was TO be performed on certain night and on that
day the tailor took the precautlon to change the oo
lock for complicated one from felons cell. Ihis
the spirits did not Open and the aor iounu MS prison
ers all safe in the morning The reason assigned Dy
Mr. Rand for the failure of the miracle was that the
Davenport boys bad told beforehand that the thing
was TO be DONE and for that reason the ruling spl1t
declined 10 open the door.
The TAILOR then took of the complicated lock, but
put on another strong mot the original and at
night locked il with his own hand. The next morning
be went 10 the cell and found the Davenport boys
there with the door locked but Mr.. Rand was miss
ing and the boys asserted that he had been let ont by
the spirits. Mr.. Rand himself declares that II was not
thirty minutes after the door locked before the an
gels unlocked H. and commanded him 10 escape through
the attic window.
Such is the miracle as related by Mr.. Rand. But
the alors statement puts the matter in very differ
cut hight. He SAYS:
a little past 10 O'Clock p. IN. Thursday night,
went M 10 lock their door. had not been IN the habit
of keenpg their d,or locked in the daytime, they oc
cnnvirg de btors room in the third story. lpuIed
onen their door, and there srge blanket hung up
AGAINST Il ON the inside. As this the non prsc
ice when they held their circles thought nothing OF
Il and William Davenport said from inside, Mr.
Perkins il is all right, having little CONVEX.
ss,;on with the spirits. Supposing i was all night,
dd no, move the blanket 10 look H. but shut the door
and Locked IT, and went 10 bed. In the morning, the
first thing after rising went TO the head OF the s,au
to Iook AZ the lock and found Il just as had ef'
but when the turnkey went up TO hand IN thef oesk
lat The hons told him that Mr. Rand was gone inst
tba n;ri,s unlocked the door and let hum out then
Went mn ard unlocked the door, and found o0tn the
bovs in the room, but Mr.. Rand was gone HOW ne
escaped satisfied myself in q very ie" minutes. N
the hall adjoining their room IS door eadiss 10 .ne
sarret, Previous to my going to lock thef door a,'
Rand had slipped out and passed up 'nlI sre 30. The
while the boys had put up the blanket oSnn ~,
Tebt ard formed circle to cover ms ieueH''
Knowing the, had never intySdea II'9 'asa e"e''