The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-16

Miss COOK. FOr SeVcfal mlluCcS Vic
two were conversing with each other,
till at last Miss Cook tears prevented
her speaking. Following Katie's in
structions Mr.. Crookes then came for
ward to support Miss Cook, who was
falling to the floor, sobbing Historically.
He looked round, but the white-robed
Katie had gone. AS soon as Miss Cook
was sufficiently Gained a light was pro-
cured, and he led her out Of the cabinet.
In concluding this account, which is
communicated to the London Spirit
atalist, Mr.. Crookes says:
''The almost daily seances with which
Miss Cook has lately favored me have
proved a severe tax upon her strength,
and wish to make the most public
acknowledgment Of the obligations l
am under to her for her readiness to as
sist me in my experiments. Every test
that have proposed she has at once
agreed to with the utmost willingness.
She is open and straightforward in
speech, and have never seen anything
approaching the slightest wish to de-
ceive. Indeed, don't believe she could
carry on deception if she we're to try,
and if she did she would certainly be
found out very quickly, for such line
Of action is altogether foreign to her
nature. And to imagine that an inno-
cent school girl Of fifteen should be able
to conceive and carry out for three
years so gigantic an imposture as this,
and IN that time should submit to any
test which might be imposed on her,
should bear the strictest scrutiny,
should be willing to be searched at any
time, either before or after seance, and
should meet with even better success in
my own house than that of her parents,
knowing that she visited me with the
express object of submitting to strict
scientific tests-to imagine, say, the
Katie King of the last few years to be
the result of imposture-doesm more vio-
lence to ones reason and common sense
than to believe her to be what she her
self affirms.''
The letter written by Mrs. Ross
Church is even more circumstantial,
and. as it gives better idea of the al
legged phenomena than either Mr.. Har-
'rison's or Mr.. Crookes' accounts, we re-
print it entire:
To the Editor of the Spiritualist
SIR-As the commences Of Miss
Cooks mediumship has been so pub
liciy called in question lately, think it
ibut Just return for the kindness which
enabled me to be present at three of her
last seances to bear witness to what | |
experienced there. These scances took |
place on the 9th, 18th, and 2lst Of the
present month.
/ will not rccapitulate what so many
have told of the appearance of the
spirit Of katie King nor of the
means taken to prevent any imposition
On the part of her medium. This has
all been repeated again and again, and
as often disbelieved. But I find Ser
geant Cox, in his letter on the subject
Of Miss Showers mcdiumship, say that
could such an end be attained as a sim
ultaneeus sight Of the apparition out
side the curtain and the medium within.
1.-THE most wonderful fact the world has
ever witnessed would be established be-
You'd controversy. Perhaps Sergeant
Cox would consider a sight of both
medium and spirit in the same room
and at the same time as convincing a
proof of stern truth. l have seen that
sight
On the evening Of the 9th of May,
Katie King led me, at my own request,
INTO the room with her beyond the cur
ain, (which was not so dark but that
'ould distinguish surrounding objects,
md then made me kneel down by Miss
Jocks PROSTATE form and feel her
lands and face and head Of cnrls, whilst
he 1.-THE spirit held my other hand in
lers and leaned against my shoulder,
With one arm around my neck. / have
lot the slightest doubt that upon
hat occasion there were present !;
nth me two living, breathing intelli- !,
ences, perfectly distinct from each q
ther. so FAR at least, as their bodies a
Tere concerned. If my senses deceived /
he, if was nisled by imagination or I
influence into believing that I I
ouched two bodies instead of one: if &
Katie King who grasped and en- Il
raced and spoke to me, is projection
thought only-a will-power, an in
;ance of unknown force-then it will be
longer possible to know 'swho's who 81
1874" and we should hesitate to turn 81
the gas incantiOusly lest half our Il
lends should be but projections of %
fought and melt away beneath its :,
are. "
Whatever Katie King was on the y
ening Of the 9th Of May, she was not u
ISIS Cook. To that fact I am la
ady to take my most solemn oath. DE-
he repeated the same experiment with tn
e on the 18th, and on that occasion ~
; had the benefit of mutual sight also. -
the whole company were invited to -
ovid round the door, whilst the cur or
in was withdrawn and the gas turned hi
} to the full, in order that we might co
the medium, in her blue dress and 81
arlet shawl, lying in a trance on the tb,
or, while the white-robed spirit stood -,
side her. GU
On the 2lst, however, the occasion of -,
ties last appearance among us, she de-
s good enough to give me what / con- ms
er still more infallible proof IF one au
I'D be needed) of the distinction of her We