Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-23
REAL PALADlNO TEST.
Skeptics and Believers Reach Basis
for Decisive Joint Verdict.

For the first time during the presence
in this country of Eusapia Paladino.
something resembling an entente cordiale
was established last evening at a con-
ference in the Times tower between re-
representatives. of those who believe from
actual experience that the Neapoitan
medium produces all her phenomena by
fraud, and representatives of those who
believe that certain of her phenomena
are the result of supernormal or. super
natural force or manifestation. The for
mer party was composed of Joseph f.
Rim, w. S. Davis, and James l.. KEEL
logg; the latter of Hereward Darlington
and Howard Thurston.
Mr.. Rim. it will be recalled. offered La
Paladino 81 900 if she would produce SUI
pernormal phenomena under certain con-
ditions, while Mr.. Thurston, a wellknown
stage magician, offered similar amount
to charity IF it can be proved that Nine.
Paladino cannot levitate a table without
resort to trickery or fraud
simultaneously with Mr.. Rims offer in
the Times there was published a counter
offer by La Paladino, which Mr.. Rim
accepted last evening. contingent. how
ever, upon certain details, such as the
manner in which the medium shall be
bound, who shah do the binding, candle
power of lights, &c. These supplement
tary conditions are now being considered
by La Paladino. Meantime. the general
terms of her offer which have been ac-
cepted are as follows:
That the test take place on the twenty
second floor of the Times tower: that her
laUc Ia 70 nj,ai in m
which she sits. her upper arms bound to
her body. and that her wrists be attached
with cord to the wrists of sitters on her
right and left.
But the most important feature of last
evenings meeting was the fact that a
certain method of procedure was agreed
upon between those who believe in her
and those who do not.
Mr.. Rim and his friends have agreed
to acknowledge in writing over their
signatures that they are beaten if Pa
ladino produces phenomena under the
conditions they have agreed to, and for
formally to define such phenomena as
supernormal or supernatural.
On the other hand, Mr.. Darlington is
ready to throw over his belief in the SUI
pernormal or supernatural powers of the
medium if in three sttings under the
prescribed conditions every phenomenon
produced by La Paladino be proved to
be the result of fraud.
In other words, neither party seems
disposed to allow La Paladino to escape
to her Neapolitan home without some
thing definite In the shape of indorse-
ment or condemnation of her being sub
scribed to by all concerned
At the conference the technical Ian
guage of the spiritualistic seance and
of the psychological laboratory, of the
magician's cabinet, and the sleight-of-
hand man was exchanged with all pro-
per amenities. Messrs. Rim. Davis, and
Kellogg repeated the story of exposures
as observed by them and published by
Prof. Dickinson Miller in the Times of
last Thursday. Messrs. Darlington and
Thurston related their experiences with
the medium in which things happened
which they could ascribe to no unknown
methods of the prestidgitateur's art.
New York Times