The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-02-07
GHOSTS WALK AND TABLES
DANCE JIcS
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POUNDS Audience-creepy Sensa-
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Happenings


G. M. Sawyer, the noted medium,
felepathist and mind reader, gave a
performance last night TO an audience
that packed the Mary Anderson the
zter until there was no more standing
nom on the lower floor. The audi
'ence was apparently thoroughly enter
tanned during the two and a half
hours OF the performance. In the be-
ginning Professor Sawyer talked at
length on what had recently been an
alleged exposure Of his powers and
performances, published in a New
York paper. He declared that moth
ing had been exposed, but on account
Of the attack on him he now used the
plainest materials and furniture in IL
Illustrating his powers.
A committee OF four was called TO
the stage TO examine every article
used by the medium before be began
any particular feat. His first feat was
the lifting of a plain stand-table by
the palms of his hands lying fat on
the table. It was carried az over the
stage.
The slate-wTiting feat was done in
the audience. Two small states were
tied securely together, a small piece
Of chalk being left between the states.
He laid the states on the shoulder Of
q young man, who said he heard writ
ing. When the states were united
and exposed, on one of them was the
sentence, My soul goes marching
on" signed John Brown, Of Harper's
Ferry fame.
Prof. Sawyer then gave an illustra-
ton in telepathy. Persons in the au-
dience wrote certain figures down and
his assistant on the stage also wrote
the sum OF the figures as they were
added out in the audience. Prof.
Sawyer also tied himself hand and
foot and would throw bells and things
from his cabinet, Yet instantly the cur
tain would be removed, and he would
be securely tied, apparently. While
lied in this position a member of the
committee sat directly in front of him,
with his back TO the professor, but
his hands on his knees. Suddenly the
curtain closed and within a few sec
Onds the coat OF the committeeman
had been taken on and was on the
medium with the rope still tied about
him. The committeeman said he did
not know how the coat was taken
from his baCA 4.
One Of the men on the stage was
put in an ordinary English bath chair,
over which was a cloth cover, pre-
Tiousiy examined by members of the
committee. The cover was fastened
down with hooks and eyes, and laced
with a cord. The cord was sealed and
the seal examined by the committee.
A member of the committee was
placed behind the cabinet and within
a few inches Of the man in the bath
chair 10 see that no one entered or
left the cabinet. The curtains were
then raised, and a figure draped in
white appeared in the cabinet and
rang a bell
Il viii make the figure disappear
and reappear," said DR.. Sawyer. The
curtains were dropped and immediate
" raised. The figure had vanished
The member OF the committee who
had guarded the cabinet said that no
one had left or entered it. The seal
on the bath chair covering was exam
ined and found UnbrOken. The cover
ing was then removed and the man
who had been in the cabinet was not
there. He was pointed out by the
medium sitting i'm the center OF the
audience
The last test was made with a com
mon kitchen table. Members of the
committee. with the medium, sat
around the table with their thumbs
Iouching-their hands fat upon the
table floor. II rose two or three feet
and followed the medium about the
stage One OF the committeeman
climbed upon 1t. but it remained in
the air. The table. previous TO the
test, had been carried about the
stage and examined by the commit
teemen.