The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-24
THE fNDIANA STATE SENTINEL TUESDAY, FEBRUARY q 1874
SPIRIT HANDS.

Tttls lo SPIRIT AM nlf
TIE ERowNsrowN sPIRTTs-wHAT AN EDITOR
SAW M NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. STATE
MENT.
Two towns of Indiana are specially favored
by the invincibles. Terre Haute gives a
good portion of time and attention to spirit
ualism, either for or against it, and Browns
town. IN Jackson county, Is a rlcn spirit
show ground. The editor of the Browns
town Banner is evidently softening. This
week he soberIy publishes the following:
During the past few weeks, Miss Lizzie
Winscott, a little girl about IL years of age,
daughter of Richard j. Winscott, of this
place, has displayed remarkable Mediums
tic powers, both in slate writing and visible
manifestations of various kinds As usual,
we had heard much and believed but little
of that much. We regarded nearly all
as wild COMPUTATIONS eminating from i'm
aginations exceedingly fertile in that par.
ticular. A few morning since. we were in
vited to Mr.. Winscottis residence, to expert
ment and investigate at our leisure-an in
vitation that we accepted. A small, oblong
table, without drawers, and entirely open
from the floor to the single thickness of
wood that covered the top, was
set out and covered with a wool
cover. Little Lizzie, the medium,
sat beside the table, her whole person
in full view. Holding a slate in her right
hand, it was put under the table, and writ
ing commenced Immediately. We submit
ted a question in writing, and were answered
that spirits preferred TO answer questions
propounded orally. The spirit of a Ger
man having appeared, we asked a mum
Der of questions in the German language,
to all of which we received appropriate,
though not always correct, answe
written in English. No developments
worth relating were obtained through the
u-rsts~ -. A-DlaL1-~ 80 Ehr
absence of communicative spirits. The
MOST MANIFESTATIONS
/ consisted in the visible appearance of spirits
I hands and their performances. The hands
) would reach entirely across underneath TIT
: table and cover, and take a tobacco box o.
goblet from the top of the table. In this
r the land itself was not visible, but ever,
motion of the fingers could easily be seen
o We asked one spirit-that of the German
n alluded to-if he would take a slate pencil
from our hand. He replied that we woult
catch his hand, and therefore declined. w
then promised not to grasp his hand, but I.
o hold steadily if he wonld take the pencil
He agreed TO do so. Laying a piece OF slat
pencil upon our open hand, we extendes
e our hand a short distance below the lowe
edge of the table cover, in plain view of on
eyes. The fingers OF a hand, in shape an
IF appearance exactly resembling a human
hand of good size, plump and fair as an.
hand unused 20 labor could be, appeared il
l. full view, and by repeated efforts drew tn
re pencil from the palm of our hand. We the
n informed the spirit that that wouldn't do
,e that we desired the pencil picked up tror
4 our hand and laid upon the slate which tn
1t medium held. We replaced the pencil an
s. our hand in the same position as befor,
Id Again the hand appeared, and, in plat
Is view, we saw the fingers, and felt then
K grasping for the pencil, which they picked u
and dropped upon the slate, as requested
Is The fingers felt moist and warm. not esseI
III tally dissimilar from those of a huma
i hand. Even supposing that the little gi
could have released her hapd from I'll
es slate, which was utterly impossible withoI
letting the slate drop to the floor, the di
lance that interviewed between her should
and our hand would have endered it b
yond her power to reach the pencil wit
III ner hand. Nor could she aid with her lie
hand, because it was resting upon her Ii
On in full view of all, outside from the tab
cover. Similar manifestations were realiz'
by senegal others during our stay, includil
u S. B.. Voyles, Esq, circuit prosecutor. t
above statement we give as the cand
truth, free from all establishment or exs
ON Grafton, and as such we ask our readers
receive it.