Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-01-31
Lendon Phantouns.
THx sPTRiTxD SPIRITS OF TIE sg<-tsH NE
TROrn-IS.


THX SPIRITED SPIRITS OF TIE sE<-,sH ME-
TRoFOLIs.
cincinnati Commercial London Lestsrl
Since the great trial in which MIR. Home was
deprived of the large sam of MONEY which the
spirit of an old lady's husband persuaded her.
through Home, to coHfide to the SAID Home :
keeping and use, that Individual has not been a
prominent figure in London. when engage
ments are made for him, or Invita- .ons to pre-
side at seances sent him, he has such & tendency
to be i'll that one must tear the SPIRITS are not
left before the London public just now are Mrs.
Guppy and Miss Florence Cooke. 9f seance
at Ars. Guppy's lately wrote yor an account.
AS Miss Florence is sid to enjoy sr American
seputation, il may be interesting Is state the
result of two OF the most recent seances at her
house. Miss Florence's special performance Is
to be bound secursly in cabinet to which
there IL a window. Immediately after the cab
met door is closed ghost appeaGa- at the win
dow, sad talks with easy omniscisnee about the
universe. The ghosS--in the very dim twilight
bears a strong resemblance to Hiss Florence;
tor this tie sprituclists account by saying that
similar souls have similar phys-ogremies, and
II IL only spirits related to Miss Cooke that at
tend her. Now, on a recent occasion, Lord and
Lady Arthur Russell were present and witness
ed this pertormar oe. When, afbeI it, the lights
were raised, the rSopened cabioeS door revealed
Miss Cooke IN a trance and with the cords still
around her-seais unbroken- In wandering
around the cabinet with expressions of astonish-
ment, Lady Arthur Russell suddenly dashed
forward and picked up the cass-Otf cord. Trac-
ing this from point TO poinS, she came upon
"A point where 4 had been severed and then
sewed together hastily with one or two stitches.
family. The father of NJ IS Cooke became an
gTv, and asked IL they meant to suspect his
daughter, &c, Inc brother OF Miss Cooke be-
came enraged, and askecif they meant to sus-
pect his sister, &c. The mother and daughts ar
grew byste-!cal. Finally, as the Russells re-
manned cool and quiet, enc of the family de-
manded the cord; but this Lady X. declined 70
give up, and despite the many efforts which
have been made to geo from her this cord, she
still retsias it as a souvenir of her last seauce
The other seance al Miss Florence Cooke 2
occurred about two weeks ago. The party was
distinguished. 1t comprised the Earl and CoLn-
tess Caithness, the Count de Medina PomRr,
and nine other per sons. Among these persons
was MT. Nolckman, man of considerable
ability, who has written an anthropolCgica
work, and who (it Is Important TO say is friend
of the Guppys, and has been hitherto a Spirit
ualist. Nolcknan has been indeed one OF the
trophies of Spin tualism. He is German in ap-
pearaace as well as name; ana has evidently an
inquiriDg mind. When Miss Florence is sur
rounded by especially favorable conditions
that is, wheE al present are supposed by her to
be believers---the ghost attending her does not
E2eTely appear at the window of the cabinet
bat even walks q little way out at The door, en-
Veloped In q STROUD On the present occasiC..
the unsuspeeting ghost (called EKatie'') did
this, when Mr.. Nolckman darteG forward aIai
graSped II the ghost firmly around the waist.
OF course, the ghost melted away into air from
his grasp On the contrary, paradOxical as il
NAV seem, there ensued a fierce struggle, and
the gh0sI was only eNtrlcateu from 0lckHian's
arms By the assistance of two men present.. Nay
and this is i'm Dortant as saOwing that spirits
carry their finger nails with them in the ethere-
al Tealm-the ghost scratched NolckmaIis nose
When the ghost had got back into tEa cabinet
there proceeded therefroa speech. when the
speaking had gone on tor about tho time re-
quire to arrange a cord, there caIGe shrieks
Then the mother began TO faint, the children to
cry, vet 80 Understanding was all shis emotion
that only after Mis- Cooke had boon shrieking
near five minutes was the cabinet opened, when
she was found with the cords al, on. The suf-
tering medium was carried TO her bedroom
the rash Nolckman was put out of the houses
/ wiser, though somewhat more bruised, mar
| than when he entered it. Nolokman probably
| never encountered so spirited spirit before
| and will probably not "break the conditions
again until he is satisfied that the ghost will &c
/ its spiriting gently.