The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1913-02-27
MANUSCRIPT ATH|EF
Professor James Declared to
Have Robbed a Guest.
Research Leader Tells Of
Weird Conference With Departed
Thinker-Boy Medium 10 Cut
by Razor Blade.

by Razor Blade. =
New York.-William James, who was
professor of philosophy at Harvard
when he died, August 26. 1910, and
who, before his death, promised his
friend, DR.. James H. Hyslop of the
American Society for Psychical Re-
search, that he would strive to send
such messages from the spirit world
as would demonstrate indubitably the
truth Of spiritualism, has been try.
ing once more, according to DR.. n.y.
slop. to communicate with Hyslop
and others.
Prof. James has been communicate
ing lately through the medium Of a
n1teen-year-old boy. who, as DR.. Hy.
!slop says, is the son of a clergyman
known on both sides of the Atlantic,
and who is apparently normal In
every other way, except for the psy-
chical control under which he falls
when the light is turned OIL.
DIR. Hyslop began his experimental
with the boy on November 20, 1911.
There was violent table tipping and
deviation, In which the table rose two
feet from the floor. Then an attempt
was made for the translation of OBJ
%jects;" that is, to see whether the
spirits would move objects from one
room to another.
Doors were closed again and the
lights turned out" DR.. Hyslop re-
ported. I'm a few moments something
fell, sounding like two objects. Up
went the lights. and within two feet
OF each other were two pairs of scis-
sors which belonged in another room.
The next were a nail cleaner and
the boys knife, both from the room
upstairs. Then a drinking cup
struck the boy on the head, and seem.
ed to have hurt him.
In the next experiment the boy
suddenly exclaimed that he was cut.
The light was turned up and his right
thumb was bleeding at the root of
the nail, and the chair on which he
was sitting was found to have a neat
slit In the leather covering"
Presently razor blades were thrown
into the room, the electric light bulbs
were smashed with a violently thrown
stone and a book was hurled against
the boys head. At a similar seance
later a man with DR.. Hyslop com
planned that his pocket had been
picked.
A spirit had distracted a two-bit
piece.
DR.. Hyslop asked Prof. James to
give a distinct proof of his identity.
James replied:
i took you to paradise and you
(Pause.) Hang 1t all! TOOK you
to lots of places. l took OF once
into my study and We agreed on a
sign: You remember" Hyslop did
not remember, and the spirit of
James, apparently. vexed, answered
excitedly:
"Hyslop, Hyslop! Your undivided
attention, undivided! Hands off the
tablet"
The spirit continued rapidly: Bet
ter summon friends to make an agree
ment and not follow my example lock.
Ing up my papers on which all hangs.
Now that | am dead l can not de-
scribe it.. Wait till l can find It.
If you find the paper, on top you
will find my sign. at the bottom a
coat of arms Of the duke of Fairfax
with two swords crossed above a he'll
met, and an arm holding another like
my sign, picture to the left myself,
wife to right, mother in the middle.
Ready?"
At the time of the death of Prof.
James there was a story current to
the effect that he had left with some
member of his family or some friends
a sealed message. The report went
that Prof. James told the one with
whom he had left this message that
after his death he would report the
message from the spirit land. When
the envelope was opened and was
found to contain the message as was
sent by the dead professor it would
forever establish the proof of the spir-
itualists' claim.
Throughout the various seances the
spirit of Prof. James caused the boy
to write or express a secret sign
the greek letter omega-that had
been arranged between James and
Hyslop, and the spirit made other al
lus1ons, which. says DR.. Hyslop, could
not possibly have been made by the
boy medium.