The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-29
ITALIAN MEDIUM
IS A FAKER
Nine. PaIladino Fooled the
World for Nineteen
Years.
SHE IS EXPOSED AT LAST
FINDING OF COMMITTEE OF
AMERICAN MEN OF SCIENCE.

| New York, May 2S.-The fullest
publicity should be given as possible
to the finding of the committee Of
American men of science in the case
of Eusaipia Palladino.
| The subtle Italian medium we have
! been studying is a kind Of incarna-
| ton Of speciouS evidence, a symbol Of
| sophistry. Her art is to obtain Gre
| dence under false pretenses. She has
| succeeded Readers here have already
realized the serious interest that she
has sustained for nineteen years.
| Group after group has sat with her
and published results. Imposing COM
mittees have issued elaborate reports
in her favor No other medium has
ever absorbed SO much and so pro-
lOnged a scientific attention Those
learned patrons have inflated her rep
utation and exalted her praises.
As the case stood in January last
there had been no real progress re-
garding it since 1895. It was then
proved in Cambridge. England. (what
had been suspected before) that Eusai-
pia would sometimes deceive the hold
ers If she could free hand or foot
and get into the cabinet behind her.
Last December this was once more
confirmed by Edgar T. Scott OF Phila-
delphia, who at one of Mr.. Caring
tons seances put his hand under the
curtain Of the cabinet and came in
contact with her stockinged foot.
Tricks of Watchers
After fifteen years it was time to
take step forward.
She was watched by one scientist
from q tiny window opened in the
panels of the wall on the left, near
the floor, and near her chair, at
seance.
She was watched by another scier-
fist from a large chest of drawers on
her right, the lower drawers of which
were taken out A comfortable re-
posing place for a man was prepared |
IN 1t, and small window made in the !
front of the drawers. which were left |
10 Keep natural appearance.
She was watched from hole in the /
top of the cabinet" An investigat u. !
instrument case, kent his eyes at the |
hole, awaiting the appearance Of her /
arm or foot in the calEnet below.
Finally (for l must report besides
our official sitting to which the report /
above refers, six other sittings held /
before and after by more or less diff /
ferent groups), she was watched from /
the space under the chairs on the right /
and left sides of the table. the watch
ers having their eyes within about
eight inches of her feet And care
was taken To bring these observations
together afterward with those of che
sitters.
She Controls"
The truth is, you cannot take a II
large step forward with Eusaipia with
out unobserved observers. When YOU II
go 70 see her she really sees you to II
Detter purpose. When. you want to II
Ear-
Where her hands and feet are. she II
controls you. That is. she gets you to II
SIT IN the circle at the table. touching Il
your >nelghbors' hands and thus form /
ing what she called "the chain" IT is
wei called the chain, for by il the
sitter is bound. BY dint of ''substit1I-
tlon her own hand soon is free and
you do not know where it is. but she
knows very well that your hands are
in full view of the table. You cannot
De exploring in awkward places The
reason she gives for the chain is. of
course, that it enables the current to
flow round the circle.
her greatest ACCOMPLISHMENT Of al
IS TINS, that she knows where eyerv
one is putting his attention. If Won
snouId look ct the critical place moth
ny would happen there. But she is
:onsunmate mistress Of ali arts 70
11rect your attention away from the
critical place. If she wants TO do 4.
with the hands. she bi1e
you be careful that you have good
control of the feet. If she wants 70
'hp her foot on yours so as to get the
leei where the toe has been ana nut
ne toe on another foot, she win make
mystic passages in the air in front of
our eyes and at each stroke of her
ianu, sup goes the foOt-a slight mo-
ION which il is virtuaIl1y oa,+3; -
7ou will not notice. A Jerk IN 90
pace covers lesser jerk in another
She is a supreme eluder.