The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1864-11-25
THE DAVENPORT BROTHERS.
Their Performances in England---Letter
.ni from Dion Boucicault, &c.

cault, describing the performances of the
Davenport Brothers at his house in Lon
don, appears in the London Daily News o
October 49,
To the Editors Of the Daily News:
1.i SIR,-A sednce by the Brothers Daven'
po,t and Mr. w. Fay took place in my house
yesterday, in the presenc, of Lord Bury
Sir Charles Nicholson, Sir John Gardiner
Sir G. Lsnnox Wyke, Rev. f. H Newep.
ham, Rev. W Ellis, Capt. L. A. lnglefeld
Messrs Charles Reade, Matthews, Agernon
Bouhwick, |. Willes, H., E, Ormerod j. w
Kaye, A. Bostock, Fl. ], Rideout, Robert
Bell, ]. N. Mangles, H NJ Dunphy, W
Tyler Smith, Nj. d., r. L. Coward, John
Brown, NJ. d., Robert Chambers, and Dion
Bouccaut. th8
The room in which the meeting was held
isa large drawing room, from which all The
furniture had been previous removed, ex-
cepting the carpet, chandelier, small
table, sofa, pedestal, and twenty six
cane -bottomed chairs
At two o'clock six of the above party
arrived, and the com was subjected to care
full scrutiny 1t was suggested that cahi-
net to be used by the Brothers Davenport
but then erected in An adjacent room, should
be removed into the front room and placed
in spot selected by ourselves. This was
done by our party, but in the process We
displaced portion Of this piece of furniture,
thus enabling US to examine its material
and structure before we mended it.
AT three O'Clock our party was fully as
sembled, and continued the scrutiny. We
sent to a neighboring mrsie-seller for six
guitars and Two tamborines, 50 that the i'm
plements to he used should not be those
with which the operators were familiar. A
half.past three the Brothers Davenport and
Fay arrived, and found that we had altered
their arrangements, BY changing the room
which they had previously selected for their
manifestations. The sednce then began by
an examination of the dress and persons of
the BlotLers Davenport. and it was certified
that no apparatus or other contrivauce was
concealed on or about their persons. They
entered the cabinet, and sat facing each
other. Captain Ing Iefpd then, with new
rope provided by ourselves, tied Mr.. w,
Davenport hand and foot with his hands
behind lis back, and then bound him firml, |
TO the seat where he sat. Lord Bury, 10
like manner, secured Mr., Davenport.
The knots of these ligatures were then fast
ened with sealing wax, and seal was
affixed A guitar, violin, tamborine, two
bells. and a brass trumpet, we're placed on
the floor of the cabinet. The doors were
then closed, and sufficient light WAS per-
mitted in the room to enable us to see what
followed. shall omit any detailed account
of the Babel of sounds which arose in the
cabinet. and the violence with which the
doors were repeatedly ourst opened and the
instrument expelled; the hands appearing,
as usual, at q lozenge shaped 2Fifce in the
centre door of the cabinet
The following incidents seem to us parti
culaily worth; of note:
While Lord Bury was STOPPING inside the
cabinet, the door being open, and the two
operators seem to be sealed and bound, a
detached hand was clearly observed to de-
scend upon him, and he started back, re
marking that hand had struck h;m'1
Again, in the full light of the gas chandelier,
and during an interval in the Seance, the
doors of the cabinet being open, and while
the ligatu,es of the Brothers Davenport
we're being examined, very white, thin '
female hand and wrist quivered for several ,
seconds in the air above. Thsappesranae S
drew a general exclamation from all the
party. Sir Charles Wyke now entered the
cabinet, and sat between the two young I
men-bis hands being right and left on /
each, and secured to them. The doors were t
then closed aud the Babel Of sounds recon 4
menced. Several hands appeared at the i
orifce-among them the hands of a child. /
After space Sir Charles returned amongst =
US and, stated, that while be held the two $
brothers several hands touched his face and o
pulled his hair; the Instruments at his feel Ii
crept up. played found his body aud over d
bis hesd--one of them lodging eventually a
On bis shoulders, During the foregoing ip-
'ideus che hands which appeared we're =,