Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-15
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Spritualsm and Magic-IV. Rope-Tying and Rappinos

box, in which he had, been placed by a
! committee, after having been handcuffed
with a pair of regulation police handouts
A curtain was drawn. the spectators held
their breath for a few minutes and then
the signal was given that all was in readl-
ness for the opening of the box. manifesto
tons of spritualistDc power having taken
place i'm the meantime. When the box was
| opened by the committee there was found
| in 1t, handcuffed, young woman who
bore no resemblance whatever TO the orig
iEal occupant While everyone was in
/ terested in her. The medium who had been
locked in the packing case in the first in
stance, made his appearance on the stage
The explanation of this escape is very
simple, when one understands. The pack
] ing box had two handles. BY turning one
! of the screws 40 one of these handles one
end of this box was released and taken
out! The imprisoned medium then crawled
out, secured a key to the handouts from
a confederate, ana unlocked them. He then
placed them on the wrists of his fair con-
fedtrate, she crawled into the packing box
and replaced the screw in its original po-
sition To this day that committee does not
know how the exchange of occupants was
effected.
| In another case the medium and all
| his sitters gathered around a large table
and placed their hands toward the center
as the spOkes run towards the hub OF a
wheel, and through holes in the table they
were all tightly interlaced and bound to-
/ gether and to the table by the weaving of
copper wire through the oies and around
their arms. Yet when the lights We're put
out the manifestations appeared. The
secret of this was that medium had a set
OF false sleeves out OF which his hands
could readily be slipped. When through
with his performance all he had TO do was
10 place mis- hands back in the sleeves
and call for the lights 10 be turned on.
II is said that nothing in the whole
category of binding materials has such
terroTs for the medium as a piece of or
binary white thread A large or stiff rope
Agill permit Of manipulation quite readily
but it is impossible to manipulate white
thread without the manipulation being az
terward discovered.
/ One readily may infer how difficult it is
! to tell what actually does happen In the
darkness OF a seance room when the fol-
( lowing experience OF a trained magician
and medium is told: a medium aud her
husband came to the magician's town and
} We're invited to spend sunday with him
at his nome. They accepted the Invitation
] Ii did not take much cOnveFsa ton to re
veal 10 the medium and her husband that
their host well understood the art OF
-neeromsncy. But the husband OF the
medium insisted that his wife could do
many thugs OF medlumlstic nature that
were not tainted with fraud In order 20
prove this she gave private seance for
I the benefit OF the host When this began
she told the host TO place his hands, palms
down upon the table Then she placed
her palms upon the back of his hands
She then lifted one hand and asked him
I II ne could feel IL when she lifted one Of
her hands. He replied that he could Then
she lifted the other, asked the same ques-
tion and received the same reply. After
Two or three maneuvers Of this kind all,