The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-21

persons were doing and saying hun
drcds of miles away.
That queen of mystcs. Mime Bla :
ratSky, is alleged TO have been OK
posed in India by strenuous
Australian investigator. Richard Hods-
son. who afterward settled down in
Boston, where he became head of tho
old American branch OF the British
Society of Psychical Research, and
where he met Professor James, who
took him TO sec Mrs. Piper. DR.. Dodg-
son studied this woman for eighteen
years. and she convinced him that
telepathy. automatic writing and COM
inunication with tho dead were bona
iide phenomena. To give her special
test. DR.. Hodgson arranged a unique
course of experiments, in which he
was aided by DIR. uyslop, then pre-
fcssor a Columbia.
Professor Hyslop masked himself
and disguised his voice during his
visits To her. and while she Law I'M
conscious, with her head upun n pillow
resting on a table, her hand wrote
out messages alleged TO come from his
father. She converted IIysiop 10 the
spiritistic hypothesis. and his an
nounccmcnts OF the fact made % stir IL,
the scientific world. lie and Hodgson
formed compact that whoever died
first should communicate with the
othc:, and Professor Hyslop expressed
TO me some time ago his satisfaction
that he has received messages from
liodGson since the lattcrs death in
1905.
through Mrs. Piper, Professor James
and his wife also cndcavorcd to get in
touch with the deceased lIcdgson, and
Few months before the noted osy-
cholosists death he contributed an
exhaustive report on these expert
ments, concerning which he said:
But II asked whether the will to
communicate be lIodgson's or be some
mere spirit counterfeit of lIodSson, T
remain uncertain and await more
Facts, Facts which may not point clear
~ TO conclusion for fifty or one
hundred years"
In the course of his experiments
with Mrs. Piper Il secret password
from his dead father was given 10
Professor Hyslop by her. it is claimed,
before she had ever seen him in her
conscious state. When later he got
the same password from an orthodox
minister's wife. who had also de-
veloped trance mcdiuinsh!p and auto
matte writing Professor Hyslop com
mcnccd Experimenting with this now
subject, who. to protect her from the
annoyance OF publicity, is referred TO
under the pseudonym Mrs. Smead
In the reports of the American Society
for Psychic Research
The Woman of Mystery.
She Is a woman Of mystery, and ali,
that has been revealed about her of a
personal nature is that she is a blue
eyed young woman of modest and re-
firing tempcra ment, who lives about
twenty-four hours off from New York
in town which is surrounded by an
evergreen forest and In which her
husband enjoys good standing as rec
tor of an orthodox church surmountcd
by cross,
While shn Is in trance her head is
held in IL special hcadrcst, which Or.
lIyslop exhibited to me, and her NOV
ing finger writes upon paper sprca d
on n sowing table at her side. Sho
was. studicd-also by DIR. HodgsSr, and
on the nigh. that he dropped dead
while playing handball she Is said to
have seen his apparition, which report
ed to her: TT is better here than 7
had hoped for"
Another noted savant who made n
compact to thus communicate after
death was the great criminologist and
alienist OF international renown. Pro
fessor Cesare Lombroso. of Italy.
Until he was ffty-ive years old
Lombroso believed spirtualism and all
that pcrtained thereao to be low
tomfoolery." Then he was taken off
unwillingly to attend the scancc OF
some spiritualist medium, and at the
age Of scrcntythrcc he died firmly
believing in the survival of human
personality after bodily death.
1t was to prove this to tho hundreds
OF his brother savants, some OF whom,
because of hia spiritialistiC views.