The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-11
Ezuyy N By Ssciql Gable From the Cqbiq Of the old Word
SCIENTISTS STILL PUZZLED
BY lIYSIER Y or II RELIC
Finder Belicses tic Holy Grail and Tells Extraordinary
Story to Distinguished audience

friends house, and had never had pri-
vate conversation or spoken at all about
Glastonbury.
Knowing DR.. Goodchlld's reputation ms
an antiquary, Mr. Tudor Poles sister and
the other two women wentNto Bath to
show him the cross and jewel. 1Ie came
to the conclusion that they were articles
which few years before had been placed
in the well. which is apparently n mys-
teal shrine known to q small body, Of re-
lisious persons,
The women then described to DIR. Good-
child the glass cup which they also
found, and DR.. Goodchild at once recog-
nized 1t as one which he himself had
placed in the we'll in the year 1898, or
eight years before
DR.. Goodchild then Invited Mr. Tudor
Pole over to Bath to see him, and told
him tho circumstances in which he placed
the vessel in the we'll at Glastonbury,
These circumstances were of a kind
which many persons will probably regard
as incredible.
DR.. Goodchild has written an account
of them which Is now in the possession
list and past president OF the British AS
sociation, who has for many years taken
a deep interest in psychological matters.
and who has agreed to investigate the
present strange story as far as possible
For many years DIR. Goodchlld has spent
part Of the year at Bordighera. on the
Italian RIVERA. In 1885, twenty-five years
ago, while he was at Bordghera, a friend
of his told him of a curious glass vessel
u oh ps1s ~, Is ,l,.
tailor DR.. Goodchld went and saw 1t,
was surprised to find that it was ap-
parently a rarity, and bought 1t for $50
lie believed at the time that it was a for
gerry. although he does not claim to be
a specialist in glass.
When he returned to England he showed
1t to his father, who took possession of
1t. Some time later DR.. Goodchild had
an astonishing experience of a psychical
nature
Prophetic Woman.
While he was staying at the Hotel st.
Petersburg, in Paris, in 1896, he states
that he fell into q trance; that a figure
appeared before him and told him that
he was in great danger; that the cup
which he found at Bordighera was the
Cup of Our Lord" used at the Last
supper; that when his father died he
must take 1t to the ''woman's quarter"
at Glastonbury; that subsequently
woman would arise and prophesy, and
that the cup would be brought forth with
in ten years, and would be a means Of
moulding Christian thought
In the following year, 1897 his father,
when dying sent the cup by messenger
to DR.. Goodchild, who was abroad. DR.
Goodchld returned with 1t to England
went to Glastonbury, discovered the an
~ orte nd s,,
structions of "clairaudiant voices" de-
posted the cup in the shallow we'll or
spring.
In 1900 DR.. Goodchild went to the well
again, but found that it had apparently
J been cleared. He could not find the cup
and concluded that it had been taken
away.
He visited the we'll again, generally
ONCE a year but neither saw nor heard
any more of the cup until it was dis
covered by Tudor Poles sister.
DIR. Goodchild states most emphatically
that the only person to whom he ever
| mentioned the placing Of the cup in tile
we'll was the late William Sharp, whose
death in 1905 led to the discovery by his
friends that he was Fiona Mcleod
the author of several remarkable mysti-
cal books.
The Seer's Trance.
Tudor Pole told an equally astonishing
story concerning his experience with the
cup in London, where he brought 1t in
December last to submit to the author-
ties of the British and South kensington
Museums. After visiting the museums
he went to recv ption, where there was a
Celtic seer" an Irish "clairvoyante. !"
This woman, on seeing Tudor Pole, said:
you are connected with a very holy
relic - AT that moment Tudor Pole WAS
holding the vessel wrapped in a silk
handkerchief. In his hand. The room was
| not we'll lighted. The woman lightly
touched the relic, and, he says, immedi-
ately the room was filled with a strange
radiance. Then, according to MIR. Pole,
an amazing thing happened. The woman
went into Il trance and described infinitely
| the Last Supper and the Crucitixion. At a
later stage in the trance she described a
Very large church, in the center of the
altar of which, she SAID was at one time
placed this sacred relic, Then she de-
scribed the scene at Brides Hill.
| Tudor Pole declares that on severa
occasions he and his friends have seen g
vision of a woman holding the cup ir
her outstretched hands. which DIR. Good.
child was told about in his Paris trance.
/ So far none OF the experts who have
seen the strange cup have been able t
say when or where it was made. There
is nothing to compare 1t with. The carlies
date assigned TO il Is the time of thu
Phencans-250O years ago. The atcs
date Is thirty years ago, when some Gun
: ming Venetian forgers of antiquities wer
at work. But it Is said to be acknowl
edged that 1t belongs to n class of war,
of which there Is no other known exam
pie, and that If it were forgery It mus
nave been copied from something in ex