The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23
KATIE KING, THE MYTH.

The sensation for some time since in
London has been the "Katie King" al.
luded to as the spirit test that convinced
Mr.. Wallace, the naturalist. How spirit
came to revisit the glimpses of twi-
light room is thus told;
Among the persons in Eogland pos
sessing mediumistic powers is II young
girl of fifteen years of age, Miss Flor
ence Cook. Mr.. Crookes vouches en-
phatically for her responsibility and
her righteousness. Her powers have
been submitted to the scverest tests at
Mr.. Crookes' own house, and under
conditions which he has himself die
tated, aud he does not seem to have Il
doubt that they are genuine. While in
the trance state about three years ago,
Il luminous form began to appear near
her person This has in the course of
time developed into full grown woman,
and not merely the form of a woman,
but flesh and blood one, which appears
suddenly, walks, talks, permits itself
to be touched and embraced, and melts
away into nothingness before the eyes
of the company. This Esprit says
that her name is Annie Owen, that she
died hundred years ago in Wales, and
that her nickgame is "Katie King"
She is described as very beautiful in
face and figure, wearing long hair of
light auburn, which hangs in ringlets
down her back and each side of her
head, reaching nearly to her waist. On
the occasion of her later appearances
she was dressed in pure white, with
low neck and short sleeves. She wore
long white veil, bat this was drawn
over her foce but seldom.
After the testimony of Mr.. Wallace
aud Mr.. Crookes, the next witness must
be Mrs. Ross. Church, the novelist
ON the evening of the 9th of May,
Katie King led me, at my own request,
into the room with her beyond the cur
tain, which was not so dark but that !
could distinguish surrounding objects,
and then made me kneel down by Miss
Cooks PROSTATE form and feel her
her hands and face and head of curls,
while she (the spirit held my shoulder,
with one arm around my neck. | have
not the slightest doubt that upon that
occasion there were present with me
two living, breathing intelligences, per-
pectly distinct from each other, so far
at least as their bodies were concerned.
IT my senses deceived me, if | was le |
by Imagination or mesmeric influence
into believing that | touched and felt
two bodies instead of one if Katie
King" who grasped and embraced and
spoke to me, is projection of thought
only-a will power, an instance of nm
known force-then it will be no longer
possible to know "whOs who in 1874"
and we should hesitate to turn up the
gas incautiously, lest half or friends
should be but projections of thought
and melt away beneath its glare.
Whatever Katie King was on the
evening of the 9th of May she was not
Miss Cook. To that fact am ready to
take my most solemn oath. Katie was
very busy that evening. To each of
her friends assembled to say good by
she gave bouquet of flowers tied up
with ribbon, piece of her dress aud
veil, and lock of her hair, aud a note,
which she wrote with her pencil before
us. Mine was as follows: From An
ME Owen de NJ rgan (aliaS Katie Kmg)
to her Friend, Florence Marryatt Ross
Church, with love. Pensc= q moi.
May q, 1874 | must not forget to
relate what appeared to me one of the
most convincing pr, offs of Katie's more
than natural power, namely, that when
she had cut, before our eyes, twelve or
fifteen pieces of cloth from the front of
her white tnnic as souvenirs for her
friends, there was not hole to be seen
in it, examine it which way you would.
II was the same with her veil, and
have seen her do the same thing several
times.