Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-03-04
Or. FUNK ON PSYcHICS
Cites Ex-Governor Who Talked
With Daughters Spirit.
LENGTHY CONVERSATION KEPT UP

LENGTHY CONVERSATION KEPT UP
Expert on spirituaIiss, Tells Congre-
Eationai Ministers or Caxea of Spirit
Communication to Indicate Lava
Not Yet Recognized by Science.
How a Safe Was Opened.
DR.. |. X. Funk, the. investigator of
psychic phenomena, who recently read
paper on "Spiritualism" TO sixty
members OF the New York Congrega.
tionalist ministers meeting. said. The
time has come to dismiss from our
minds once and for all the thoughtt that
there is nothing in it," The paper
contained Instances OF what purporrel
TO be spirit communication. including
one between former governor of d
state. whose name was withheld. and
his wife and their dead daughter, says
the New York Herald.
DIR. Funk cited these cases TO show
that there are psychic conditions and
laws which science does not vet rec.
ognize.
AS u test of spirit photography he
related the experience OF Or. Veeder
Of Lyons. y. Y. DR.. Veeder he said,
had each of several persons of tested
psychic power place one hand above
and the other hand below u sensltized
Photographic plate and had all concens
trate their thoughts on q silver dollar.
When. the plate was developed Dr.
Needer found the form Of silver dol.
lar on the plate.
George l.. Seahury Of Brooklyn, Dir.
Funk said, went TO a medium with q
written note. sealed and in his pocket,
containing two questions addressed to
his dead father. In seance the me-
dunn Informed the audience that
spirit was present. gave the correct
name of Mr.. Seabury's father and an
swered the two questions
Another case was that OF Mrs. L.,
widow of ali army officer. When her
husband died. II ran. lie left important
papers in Il safe. but left no memoran.
dun Of the combination She called In
q safe expert who was a medium. He
sat before the ,sare while she prayed
earnestly in her own room. and the safe
was opened. The man said his hand
had been guided by the spirit OF her
dead husband. but Mrs. L.. who is not
a spirItualist. declared the safe had
been opened by prayer.
DR.. Funk told of having communica.
ton with the same spirit through diff.
ferent mediums, but on each occasion.
he said. the spirit has stourly denied
any previous communication. Profess
or Hyslop. he said. got an intelligence.
which asserted II was that of his ia
Their, To give him privately pass word.
so that At subsequent sittings he might
Identify his father. Professor Hyslop
was sure that lie had obtained such an
Identification through another medium
Coming TO the case OF the former gov
ernor. DR.. Funk said this man had
written to him about his experience
and had asked that his name be with
held, as he did not wish TO set going
The funny man of the press" Six
months after their daughters death the
former governor and his wife. who in
sist they are not spiritualists, heard of
medium who was visiting u neighbor-
Ing city and summoned her or what
followed he wrote to DR.. Funk:
1t was 10 o'clock in Tie morning.
and daylight was full in thu. room The
medium had with her what she called a
trumpet aud which was of eonsidera BILE
length when jOlnted together. This was
laid on the table with the large end 10.
ward my wife. who was told to put
this end to her ear. The Medium did
not Sit near the trumpet or table In Il
Few moments we henrd voice in the
trumpet which sounded, 10 our amaze
ment, like the voice of our dead daugh.
ter, 1t said 1t was our daughter.
She told us the particulars of her
death, including some incidents which
we felt sure no mortal knew but our.
selves. ] watched the mediums lips
clotely. They did not seem to move in
the slightest. requested her TO hold
Her lips tightly together. She offered
to fill her mouth with water. This
seemed to Inc cruelty suspicious and
unnecessary. and did not insist upon
1t. For Il long time the conversation
was Kept up"
DR.. Funk said close cross examina.
tion OF this statement had not shaken It.
I'm the governors case" he snid.
what was said is not OF so much i'm
portance, for tricky medium may get
hold Of facts which will puzzle any OF
us II they are sprung upon us. especial.
ly In very mysterious, CHASTITY SUI
roundings The puzzling thing is that
independent voice in what seemed To
be strictly test Conditions