Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-02-19
SPIRITUALISM.


NEW YoRK-sPoNTANEOUs ACcoR-
DEONs-sPIRiT wRITING-REMARK-
ABLE WRITING ExPERIENcE-THE
STORY AS ToLD.BY A BELIEVER,
&c. &c NC.
Correspondence of the Staunton V1NDIgAToRl
Providence, r. l., Feb. 18th, 1875.
Ipromised you some time ago that if
came across anything worthy of note
would give you communication for your
paper. The Katie King fiasco in Philadel-
phia has recently attracted a good deal of
public attention and led to a good deal of
| discussion on the subject of the delusion,
fraud or truth of Spiritualism in general
and presume some late experience Of my
own may interest your readers.
On the 18th of January, of this year, be-
| ing in New York city, concluded to visit
! DR.. Henry Slade. ID Noted medium, Of whom
had heard much, but never seen. On en-
tering l found lliln alone IN the sceance
| room. a
LARGE PARLoR WELL LIGHTED
with a gas chandelier of three burners. l
was careful to c. nctal,m my name, and any i'll
formation from him. told him supposed
he knew he was open to suspicion IN his
calling, and desired to examine the room
and its contents. Full liberty was grant
I'd which 1 used literally, examining the
floor, walls furniture, and particularly the
sceance table, which was an old-faShlOned
falling leaf table If small size and light
frame, the top and leaves being only I inch
walnut.
We sat down, he at the end and on the
side, in full light which was not darkened
during the sceance. 1t would require too
much space to detail the manifestations,
so must sum them up: First, the
PHYSICAL MANIFESTATIONS,
which occurred, were the lifting of the
; table more than IL foot high, while our
hands were held over it-nOt touching it,
and my feet being placed on his to see that
he did not move them lat all other times
he sat with his side to the table and with
/. his feet in full view Of mel; large oak
, cushioned chair, on castors, was Jerked
rapidly about the room and whirled round
on its castors; another chair was drawn
slowly along the carpet for several feet.
While 1 was watching it, my own chair
was glasped with a strong grip by the top
!, of the back, which both heard and felt
> plainly, and | was drawn, with the chair,
e three feet from the table. During the
. movement had full opportunity to see
|
| An accordion was played upon while
> held by the thumb and finger across the
I, bottom, the bellows making the regular
j., movement and the keys working-this in
, full light, held near my face l also ex-
amined the inside of the accordion to see
. that it contained no machinery.
}, DIR. Slade asked me to hold one corner OF
J. slate while he held the other under the
4 corner of the table. Isoon felt hand grasI
| mil md a "a
l. sired me 20 let go. l knew DR.. Slade
g. could not reach my hand from the position
OF his own. While attentively regarding
the sensation of the hand contact, DR.
IA Slade suddenly jerked his hand out with
,, the exclamation, ''Good gracious! they
caught me by the hand.'' SWell'' said
what of that, they have had hold Of my
?, hand for some time. trying to make me lei
l. 60" Just as l said this the slate wa!
J, snatched from my hand and carried to thu
a far side of the table and
e RAISED IN THE AIR IN FULL VIEW
=, and waved backwards and forwards ant
10 then returned to me. A hand came VI
20 from under the table and patted me on th'
=, breast saw it plainly; it was a large
- | dark hands looked like an Indians ant
- had no arms attached. l was repeated,
W struck and pressed upon different parts o
! the body, where | could see there was N
Il
m material object, and once grasped Tight
t round The knee 10y large muscular haho
But must hurry on 10 othef features Vi
the sceance. :.
h. Dr. Slade having asked II the splEl
would write any communication for us,
louu anu ittels ,, ,% w ~. o'io taDlo
,s Ipo niece Of Mcneil abont Is inch lone
1.1s vida and 1Ea2 thick laid # on til
ID Slate wbic,, ! examiued to see that it wa
H. ~ 80 and tban held # us1der fhe tahl
ne oa ,inst the table leaf AZ fi's cnrrpr esher
a, tSa frame was in nv sieht ali the time.
. Snon heard the sound of writing an,
III nm TAKING if ont a friendly message q
id ora Ting was written il plain bold hand
in End si1ned stAjlv which the medium
70 said was has deceased wife. He the
> said that probably they goul,
write IN ton Of tLa table as The intIuenc
seemed to be strong. We cleaned the slat
r. Lid the hit of Mcneil on the table and lai,
n the slate aver #. we then laid our hand
an tba table near the slate. NV hands be
III inaIsn Dr SHADES Some time eiapsed wbe]
j. nI Slade asked whether was medium
It immediately the pencil commenced Wri
II ting and when Il finished took the slat,
;. and fond wrote on It. ssHe has a grea
III r,edium;stic mayer but. cannot he CONTROL
is al ), N7'F
d Dr s,a6o tbao sa;d thai there was
+ spirit present That wished to comnlunicat
;. with me but could not through him, blu
l. thought it could through me, He the
told me to write name On the slate no