Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-12-25
Katie Wing" .n PHILADELPHIA.

\ writer in the Philadelphia Telegraph
describing a seance at Mr.. and Mrs. Holmes
in that city, says:
" hat had gone before was mere side-sh0I
business. The real thing was vet to come
Katie King, While Miss King does not in
sist upon absolute darkness, as the othe
spirits do, she is particular to and for
shade as to the amount Of darkness esscntia
to her for making proper appearance. .Th
seance was called light one, bat the "a.
was turned completely out, and in the north
west corner of the room, as far distant a!
possible from the cabinet, and directly be
hind the company, candle was placed il
a box, the latter being higher than tn,
| flame in front Of the box and candle ther,
was placed a stuffed semi-circuiar chair, anC
over the chair was hung a heavy shawl, the
result Of which was room 50 dark that the
features Of the most intimate acquaintance
could not be recognized at the distance Of a
| yard. No person was permitted 10 sit within
two yards Of the cabinet, and were Obliged
to keep their seats and join hands, and to
| sing dOeful songs, which most every one did,
square through his or her nose.
Mrs. Holmes informed Mr.. Holmes that
Katie desired him to take seat in the
| cabinet, which he did. and closed the door
upon himself. In two or three minutes
there were gentle raps heard upon the door,
from inside. This meant that Katie wanted
the hurdy-gurly played and wanted the com
pany to sing; that Is, She wanted all the
noise possible, in order to hide her tricks
The hurdy-guriy was wound up and set 20
ing, the company sang, and then there
appeared at one Of the little apertureS in the
cabinet what seemed to he the gho>tly face
of o woman. Il stayed at each aperture by
turns for from one TO two seconds. 1t did
not slowly form itself into being, as it was
reuuted to do, bat it was clearly and plainly
showed up from below, and it did not dis
solve away, but was drawn down precisely
after the manner it as.shoycd up. Being
asked to fade away before our sight, the
medium said it could not do It.
The next face that appeared at the aucr-
turc was apparently that Of an old man,
laid as to head and bearded as to chin. Il
was also shovel up from below, not forming
it~ell ONT of thin air nor disappearing into
thin air. Twas CHASTITY corp,real face.
Both these faces came and went, never stay
Ing more than TWO second at a time
The next face showed was said t. b, that
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