Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-19

every step, think I am justified in con-
tending that the slate writings obtained
through the mediumship of Keeler were
fraudulent throughout at least so far
as my sittings were concerned"
Next the investigator hied himself to
Mrs. M. T. Mccoy, a trumpet medium
He was ushered into a darkened room
A lamp was lighted and he was put
into dark cabinet. In a few minutes
he felt the touch of a trumpet on his
head and the medium began giving
messages purporting to come from his
father.
"The messages and the language were
absolutely inappropriate to my father"
Mr.. Darlington reports. "They could
not have been more so. For instance,
in answering a question of mine, my
father replied. Yes. sir!' with very
American accent. may say that my
father was a very conservative Eng
lishman. almost classical in his speech,
and disliked most things American
particularly the manner of speaking
and the slang. 1t may be imagined
how appropriate this was. The voice
also said that my father had been Ill
many months before he died; while
the truth is that he died as suddenly
as the snuffing out of a candle, and
was dead before any of us could reach
him by train, in reply to kilograms.
Intelligent Force Is Felt
"The next spirit was a supposed sis
ter of mine, who also promised to assist
me in my development. At this point
the medium asserted that she saw q
slit OF light coming from beneath the
curtain and stopped down and adjusted
the curtain of the cabinet.
"a few moments later an intelligent
force began to manifest in the room
outside the misunderstanding a bell and
tambourine on the table close to the
mediums left hand. 1t claimed to. be
the spirit of an Indian. Finally the bell
and tambourine fell off the table on to
the floor and came inside the cabinet
of their own accord. The medium took
the tambourine upon her lap, but soon
placed it upon the floor again. 1t
ratified with her movements SO as to
escape a hasty examination, and it is
quite useless to look for them in the
cabinet. So proved because of it's pos
sibility. Proof would have to come
later, If it came at ALL 1t will be OBJ
served that one door practically touches
the curtains of the cabinet-a most sus-
picious fact
medium and manager both stood
close to this door by the cabinet pre-
paratory to extinguishing the lamp.
This was suddenly blown out, and
then there came a hunt Of table upon
which to stand it. None was to be
found The medium and her manager
fused in and out of the door several
times, completely darkening and block
ing the entrance. l am convinced that
young girl slipped through this door
and into the cabinet the moment the
lamp was blown out-when the medium
and the manager were standing in the
doorway and when the eyes of the sit
ters were not in a condition to see
anything in the intense darkness fol-
lowing Immediately upon the extin-
gushing of this lamp. Even were no
trap doors employed it would have
been quite possible for one or two con-
federates to have entered the cabinet
in this manner at that time The ac-
tions of the medium and her manager
were certainly fiurried and anxious at
that moment-more so than at any
other time.
All Working Together
ST noticed one or two interesting
things in connection with the seance.
One was that the little girl who played
the part of the junior spooks was the
very same little girl who played SINH
lar parts at the materializing seance