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a Trance.
"Great God, but it's all so plain! He
Is choking her! Now he hurls her
from him! Backward she falls into
the lake! How horrible it all ISL
After discussing the tragic death of
Sophie Kloeckler at Lakewood. near
Atlanta, for two hours with a repre-
sentative of the Morning News, and
talking of things spiritualistic, Mrs. r.
P. Ward, an Augusta spirit medium
with something of a national reputa-
ton, who lie visiting in Savannah, went
into a trance yesterday and said she
saw Miss Kloeckler murdered on the
bank of the lake at Atlanta's suburb.
No claim is made by Mrs. Ward that
she talked with the spirit of the dead
girl. Indeed she says she did nothing
of the sort. 1t was the mediums own
guiding spirit" that unfolded the
vision she so plainly saw when she
went into her trance. Miss Kloeckler's
spirit was never in evidence. but Mrs.
Ward is as certain that what she saw
really happened as she is that the
slayer of the Atlanta girl will be finally
brought to justice.
He will be arrested and he will be
punished for his foul crime" she said
dramatically after she had recovered
from the trance.
Medium Well Known Here.
Mrs. Ward secured considerable no.
toriety by predicting the assassination
of President Mckinley. When two
Atlanta mediums came forward with
stories of the death of Miss Kloeckler
a representative of the Morning News
| called on Mrs. Ward at her boarding
| house.
When shown the revelations" from
the Atlanta spirit mediums, bearing
| upon the Kloeckler case, Mrs. Ward
said she had intended writing one OF
the Atlanta papers that she had re-
| ceived a communication from her
guiding spirit" showing that the girl
had been murdered, but that she had
| neglected to do so. Since, however
| the matter had been brought to her
| attention, she would willingly discuss
| it. She said she had no mercenary
motive in talking about the case, as
| she was not acting as public medium
in Savannah, the license required by
the city being prohibitory.
other Spirits at Work.
Mr. Ledford, who is quoted as hav-
ing received a communication from the
shade of Miss Kloeckler is a medium
| in sweet accord with the spirit world,
said Mrs. Ward. II know him, and
| know that his revelations have often
| been unquestionable. l do not think,
| however, that he could have received
| this communication from the spirit of
the murdered girl. She would not have
said that she committed suicide.
| II think that the spirits of some of
| the friends of the murderer must have
! spoken to Mr.. Ledford, pretending to
| be the shade of the girl. In that case
they could have made him believe that
| the girls spirit was speaking. Their
| object would have been to induce the
| officers of the law to abandon their
| quest and thus gain immunity for their
| friend, the murderer. The friends of
| the murderer in the spirit world may
| have been stronger than the dead girl
| and she may have been prevented from
| holding communication with Mr.. Led
| ford.
| Medium Becomes illogical"
1.-THE statement of Mr.. Morrow, the
other spiritualist is manifestly incor-
rect If, as he states. the girl had
been killed by the man she loved, and
she desired to shield that man, she
would not have communicated with
Mr.. Morrow at all.
"She would not have come forward
to say that she had been murdered
| when she knew that the theory was
that she had committed suicide She
would have known that such an ad-
| mission would serve only to put the
officers more keenly upon the track
of her lover.
IF she was murdered, she would
not hesitate to state that such was
the case. provided she did not wish
to shield the murderer. Wishing to
nothing. Therefore, I say that the
statement of Mr.. Morrow is unten-
able.
"Truth Is My IdeaI.v
81 am very sorry that two spiritual
lists should take these divergent views
of the case.
yes, I know that my communication
is also at variance with theirs, but
then, truth is my ideal, and in it's in
terest I am impelled to tell what I
know of the case.
Il am certain that the girl was muir
| dered, and l am equally as certain
| that her murderer will be apprehended
and brought to justice. This is as
sure to happen as that the sun will
rise tomorrow, as sure as there is
God in heaven
| AHC SIR was HluruereQ, declared
! Mrs ward. There is no doubt in nv
mind about that. The shade of the
| girl did not tell me; 1 have had no
| communication with her. l was told
by my guiding spirit. which sees all
things, past, present and future Yes
! she was murdered, and man did the
| dark deed, man who is now missing
| from Atlanta. He is one of those who
have disappeared since the discovery
! of the crime that came to light when
| the lake gave up it's dead
Pictures the Tragedy,
This man was the lover of the sirI
He had wronged her. She met him at
Lakewood by appointment, and 1t was
to plead with him to right the wrong
that he had done her that she met him.
| He, however. would not do the girl
justice and make the reparation he
| should.
"She pleaded with him: he was obdu-
rate. Her tears and entreaties did net
| move him. He glanced furtively about
There were none in sight to see the evil
deed he was meditating. He saw his
victim before him, helpless, and he saw
the lake. whose waters might, he
thought, forever hide the poor victim
OF his love. Then swiftly he acted, and
the act was done"
Medium i'm "a Trance.
Mrs. Ward had been discussing the
Kloeckler case and spiritualism for two
house before her head fell back her
body twitched. her hands sought her
face and she squirmed and twisted in
her chair. For perhaps two minutes
her eyelids fiuttered and her teeth re-