The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-02

be saw her do, but what he thinks he saw
her do He Is good old gentleman HI
Is perfectly honest but he is the most in
competent observer Of so-caled psychic
phenomena that ever met, and I've met
great many in my time
Here is Mrs. Peppers chance This IL
the time for her IL she has any occult power
TO prove 1t. Just fair even break between
US. That is all ask.
I'd like to answer few Of the remarks
in that letter l said nothing about DR..
Funk's spirit paintings until the rews-
papers had printed the story. After that
| told what l knew.
was not at the meeting Sunday night,
but my friends have given me a minute
account of everything that happened.
she simply forced malobservation, az they
say IN the profession, on DR. Funk /
told him once that when a medium dropped
her handkerchief or tipped over a vase
during sitting she did It 10 force malob-
servation In the face OF that he lot Mrs
Pepper fool him during the reading of that
| tirst letter last Sunday night by spiling
them up-and, prestol change He says
! that he noted the mark on every letter before
Mrs. Pepper read it, and noted the same
mark when she handed il back TO him after
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out that first letter from the pile He says
that DR.. Funk handed 1t straight over with
| out looking at Il. This is one Of the things
| he thinks he saw
Let me stnighten out that e1 -medium
| business. wasn't in 1t for money. | was
simply proving the fallibility OF human
testimony. During the last months of my
work was cooperating with DR.. Hodg-
son Of the Society for Psychical Research.
on toward the last when Anna Eva Fay
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| took dressmaker, developed her, hired
a hall, and duplicated every one Of Mrs.
fay's tricks charged admission to that
show and gave the profits to the dressmaker
That ia the only money | ever took, even
indirectly.
never said that was medium either.
| let the spiritualists do II for me-
81 can't explain it. 1t may be some
mysterious force which we don't under
stand. Somehow | hardly think it's spir-
it's I'd say.
"'oh yes. it is" they'd say II is spirits.
You're new to it all you're Just developed.
You'll learn in time Then they'd come
back and show me long articles about
the wonderful newly developed medium
in the spiritualist papers.
i said to a true believer once; ] must
be in a state Of coma when ] make these
answers am never aware OF the presence
of spirits
Now let's go into history on the men
whom DR.. Funk quotes as indorsinR spiritu
alism He mentions Crookes, Wallace.
Richet Lodge and James.
-Crookes made himself ridiculous by
indorsing Anna Eva Fay who has been
exposed so many times that she almost
likes it, The last exposure WAS in Pitts
burg last December. At that time her
manager admitted that she was fake
Kelar, the conjurer told me that Crookes
1nglrv,, tlnl t,NtxN Il To-
l have had that confirmed on even better
authority.
Alfred Russell Wallace. the authority |
on organic evolution was taken in by Davey |
the slate writer Al that time DR. Hodgson |
was exhibiting Davey in Europe just to |
prove the fallibility of human testimony. !
a favorite contention of his. Wallace |
indorssd Davey as proving immortality |
TO him. Later, Hodgson and Davey came
out and admitted the fraud. Wallace
stuck 20 his belief oven after the exposure.
Sir Oliver Lodge and Richet, the French
scientist. were taken in by Eusapia Pala-
dino, an Italian peasant woman. who pro-
duced spirit rappings and spirit touches
in a dark room. She lasted long time
before she was caught and utterly ex-
posed. I'm not sure what is the matter
with James.
'I've nothing against DR.. Funk, but
believe that the use OF a man Of his stand
ing to indorse and bolster a fake ia
menace 10 society.
Il got some fine evidence on Mrs. Pepper
to-day. man sat last Sunday night
beside an old woman who got test. Be-
fore the meeting he saw her speak with
Mrs. Pepper.
When the old woman came down after
the meeting with the letter which Mrs
Pepper had read 80 marvellously he talked
With her
1t was very marvellous she said
Mrs Pepper simply told me everything
hat was In this LET ter
let's see how you marked IT,, he said
She gave 1t up. Without a word he tore
I open and read il. The contents did
lot gibe in the remotest degree with the
eading OF Mrs. Pepper.
Instead of getting an CRY. the old woman
urned pale.
g Oh that's not my letter. It's just one
I'M bringing down for friend, she said
Another OF the medium smashers pointed
nut the peculiar conditions Of DR.. Funk's
He challenges Mr.. Davis TO do the very
hing which Mrs. Pepper has refused to
% again and again. said this man We've Z
hallenged. begged, implored her 20 sub
nit to a test before an impartial jury. and
he has crawed out of it. Now DR.. Funk ,
ANTS Mr.. Davis to reproduce her tests }
OF in big church, before large crowd. l
18th hymns and anthems before the per-
but under the strictest
,st conditions. or course that IL unfair. {
ut we would welcome contest under
le same conditions for both
SO il the great unpaoed spook raising
ontest is arranged, and Mr.. DAVIS expects a
go into training again after rest of t
wen years. Mrs Pepper will make no special O.
reparations. She is always in condition.
II has been suggested that as Manager '
unk makes no mention OF referee in the !,
-ticles. and as human referees are fallible. y
spirit be selected as the third man in the y
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