The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-04-21
UNUSUAL power
HELD BY CHILD
Denver Case Arouses Inter
est-She Has an 1mag-
mary Playmate.

Denver, Colo. April 21.-''Margie."
the little spirit playmate Of Corinne
Alberta Maytield, 5~-year-old daughter
of A. l.. Maytield. a newspaper man
of this city. concerning which an ar
ticle appeared in this paper a few
weeks ago, has created Il wide inter-
est among people who h story
and want to know more about the
TRANCE visitation of the spirit-com-
panion of the little Denver girl. Hum
dreds of letters have poured into the
Maytield residence. at 1863 Josephine
street, and dozens of persons have
called, either out Of curiosity or sin
Certify.
The article which brought about
this Hood of inquiries told of the mNs-
FERROUS psychic powers of the little
girl, and of how she daily played with
an Imaginary or spiritual playmate
she always calls by the name of MAR
gle" This little invisible companion.
which Corinne Alberta describes as be
ing a mere child like herself, has
been the constant playmate of the
Denver girl since she was one Year
old, at which time she first began to
lisp the name of "Margie." The par
ents make no attempt at solving the
mystery. but manN students in psNch-
ology have ventured the assertion that
the playmate is Il reality and not
mere imagination.
Accounts of some of the strangest
coincidentS in connection With the
mysterious appearance OF the spirit
child, have come in h mail. One
letter. written by a Very earnest and
Intelligent from Rochester, y.
Y, recounts a story that is even more
strange than that which is old of the
little Denver girl.
A Strange Story.
The letter is directed to Mrs. May
field. and in part is as follows:
Dear Mrs. Maytield: a few days
ago 1 read about Your little girl. CO.
rhine Alberta. Who has an invisible
little playmate called Margie.
II could not forget it: it is so
strange. The picture of u little
girl which appeared in the newspaper
looks like a little girl We had whose
name was Margie. with beautiful yell
low curls and eyes the color of violet.
She died in June. 1911. She, too. had
q great talent for drawing and had
she lived, we believe, would have made
an artist.
When Margie was first taken sick
she used to say a little girl was in the
roo with her. dressed in white with
HUG aih SSSSn1II6S. IL AoPl'tiI-
ed to he a Sunday when she began
saving she wanted white shoes and
stockings like that other little girl.
She called for them all day and we
could not get them tit being Sunday
and when Monday came and We could
get them for her. she knew it.
Dear little Margie, when we laid
her away she had on her last pair of
white shoes and stockings.
lat the time Margie was sick our
other little. child, seven months old,
whom Margie loved dearly, was very
i'll, and We did not expect him to re-
cover. I was sitting alone in the room
with baby in my arms and though
Margie had been buried two days, l
heard her call out to me:
"'Baby's better, mamma
ut was Just dawn, and 7 heard her
speak plainly as I eve did when she
was here.
II am not a spiritualist, but I
know Margie's spirit came back then.
and ! cannot help but wonder does
that little spirit visit Your Corinnec
She was such a dear, and strang-