The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-11-29
What a BazoO Reporter Saw
at a "Seance" in this City
on Thursday Evening.
The Medium Removed a I.adys
Hat and Placed it on the
Head Of a Little Boy.
He Also Removed q Mans Watch
From His Pocket and Gave
II to q Lady.

on thursday evening = preventative
Of the RAzpp sc'ept-l III inv itat;oI Ia b.
pr-,.-nt al a .'-aance" held at he office 81
4 weil-kn"wn Young attorney oil this city
and presided over by Mr. 4. H. Phillip.
at New York, a prominent Di.-iium. The
invitation va acc~i.t,d mere III spirit al
curiosity, hing al unt-licyrr. AMI thi>
promised Il n.w and novel SENSATION, being
the inst one Of the kind h. over ATTENDED
Upon arriving az The place designated, tn.
REPORTER n,e, a small party oi ladies and
gentlemen on = like mission, every one n.
ADca we'll. \ fa~ niinui.- elapsed. when
Mr. Phillips, the medium. Wa brought In
AMI introduced To- the party. Thu. door
were then l.-'ks,l, and i'm -bnrt ,iu, ,ae
medium, who ha.; formed = .ircl.. ~, If
the chaIrs IN the rr,.il. asked the com
paBy io L.. .ea,.-i.
There were three new ordinary states
without, pencil. also violin and guitar in
the room. These were placed oI Ih. laps
OF some al IN. company. 7 medium.
placed his chair IN the ring Immediately
IN front q one of the gentlemen ~ ia,
party, whom lee asked to pla,e his let un
his the Diedium'si ~ he could not M.
without his knowledge. He then asked
The lights 10 be put ont ami III. companv
Z" hold each other by their wrists, iorni.
ing sn unbroken circle. The place being
in uttr darkness, what he represented a.
-pifits began To manifest themselves. I'll,
medium ask.i -"nI. ci The COMPANY %
ing, when the sony W. a~comyari,,i ~
sounds IN III. guitar an6 vi"lin. Hover
ing about the ro1H. -ciuetini.- un ii =
hc:i,t- 81 >cuns 81 the li.ii.> and gentlemen.
bysplrit hands, as IL we've. Questions wer,
asked at friends IN the spirit land an!
answered through the msdiuD, who
then apparently went irto q iraI.c-.
and ia that state ior-told the iuIure oi
-oiH. I'N~cDi. This, 90 cOUrss, hal no a.
iect upon the reporter, who IL an unbcIiey-
IL, nuI things hapI-ne: fo: which he dur>
not pretend 10 :..,cJurt AMI no aScYmplic.
could have been present. Those prese, {,
were plainly touched simultaneously on
th. head AID shoulder. spark of rir. wrr,
LUlIing above their heads Upon ask
Ing Tor messages all The -!aG,. ia, slate,
were placed ia the lap vi I-r-on- a.kins
II AMI the r.'r, ch al the I--.I"i! MAS plainly
heard thereon. III. wafct-chair: II q ger
t!snian was manipulated anJ ID. watch
ait.r~ ards taken cat III az ~: pix; AMI
Pi2o.d i'll The lap oi lady scEo>, the rSom.
She afterwards Tel; it taking leav, aud an
other gentleman revived II. The lady
si-'y. mentioned hda h.- hat gently n
m"v,.; irom t,r head. III. ruJls - Kidding
l; being loo>,-,..i uni, r Tn. hair. Soon ait.r
= rpami comb ~, CAREFULLY removed from
her neal in the way she Is Ia IL, habit al
taking i, 1T. her--Ii. \ little h"y -itrin.
on the lap 81 "ne III the party ia IA. circle
said that Somebody was putting q hat op
HI. heal. which r-mSin,-i until the ''-.-s,uNe'
"a, over, ah,u the lights w,r Ii, Tb,
hat ii. little boy -p"k- 81, was Il,., uns ~
moved from the lady, il, al, the rubber
l-in. places: und,- hi> back hair AMI IL
carefully adjusted - ih"ugh his mother
had done IL ior him. Th,--,. asking im
message found IiiCm WRITTEN. though icv
lligabie xoris m4rTt., TN. mcaniu.
pi IN. Seut-ucf.
The reader NAV draw Ms "r her OWE
the writer Va, - much my
tilted as any one in the r,,DnI AMI simply
gives this - hi- experience Of an hour
v it'll sp;rituaiist medium.