Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-14
deception and the resort TO sptr-
It's Is absurd.
SIata.WrifinU In pIanfv

Mr. harrington mad various Slttlnss
with Pierre l.. o. A. Keller of Wash
ington, d. c., one OF the most re-
markable slate-writing mediums In
the country. Keller informed Car
rington that he had visited Lily Dale
every summer for 20 years, and
had taken away $4,000 on each oc-
casion. Many evidences convinced
Mr. Darlington that Keeler pro-
duced his writings fraudulently. One
OF many proofs was, according to
Mr. Darlington, that states In which
he, Darlington, had imprinted his
| thumb-nails were not the ones re-
turned with the spirit messages. :"
There is conclusive proof" says Mr.
Darlington, that the two original
states had been substituted for 9TH
ers. Since | had been enabled to
follow the whole process through
out and had seen every STEP think
l am JUS flied in contending that
the slate-writings obtained through
fraudulent throughout--at least so
far as my sittings were concerned"
Next the investigator hied HIM
self to Mrs NJ. #. Mccoy, trum-
pet medium. He was ushered into
darkened room. A lamp was
lighted and he was put into dark
cabinet. In few minutes he felt
| the touch of trumpet on his head
and the medium began giving mes
sages 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 ques-
ton of mine, my father replied,
Yes, Sir! with a very American
accent. may say that my father
was a very conservative English
| man, almost classical in his speech,
| and disliked most things American
particularly the manner of speak
ing and the slang. 1t may be i'm
agined how appropriate this was.
The voice also said that my father
had been i'll many months before
! he died; while the truth is that he
died as suddenly as the snuf1ng 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 supposed
sister of mine, who also promised
to assist me in my development. At
this point the medium asserted that
she saw slit of light coming from
beneath the curtain, and stopped
down and adjusted the curtain Of
the cabinet.
"A few moments later an in
telligent force began to manifest
in the room outside the cabinet
shaking 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 ia
BILE on to the floor. and came in
side 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 hasty
examination, and it is quite useless
to look for them in the cabinet. So
proved because of its possibility.
Proof would have to come later, if
it came at all. 1t will be observed
that one door practically touches
the curtains of the cabinet--a most
suspicious fact.
Medium and manager both
stood close to this door by the
cabinet preparatory to extinguish-
ing the lamp. This was suddenly
blown out, and then there came
hunt for 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 blocking
the entrance. am convinced that a
young girl slipped through this door
and into the cabinet the moment the
lamp was blown out-when the me-
dunn and the manager were stand
ing in the doorway and when the
eyes of the sitters were not in
condition to see anything in the in
tense darkness following immedi-
ately upon the extinguishing of this
lamp. Even were no trap doors EN-
ployed, ii would have been quite pos
sible for one or two confederates to
have entered the cabinet In this
manner at that time. The actions
of the medium and her manager
were certainly furried and anxious
at that moment-more so than at
any other time.
All Working Together.
II noticed one or two inter-
esting 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
similar parts at the materializ-
ing seance the evening before.
Her speech, her language, her
mannerisms, were all the same;
and l have no doubt whatever
that both mediums hired the
same little girl-who went from
one circle TO the other. And what
makes this all the more prob
able is the fact that these ma
terializing mediums held Sc
ances on alternate nights--on
different evenings; and the
same confederate would there
fore 'spook' for both mediums