New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-29
SPIRITS CAUGHT
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HYSLOP ASSERTS
Mrs. du Pont Lee Shows
Photos Of Pastor Taken
Long After Death.
OUIJA BOARD WARNED
OF WAR IN BALKANS
DR.. Stead Tells Of Upper Land
and His Death on Titanic
Hypnotic Cure Told.

ouijs board foretold the last Bal
kan war. doctor cured a man suf-
fering with very painful chronic
silment for years by hypnotizing him
into the belief that he was some one
else. Spirit voices gave detailed de-
scriptions Of spirits, spirit life and
spirit land and among them came the
voice Of William T. Stead, telling how
he met death or the Titanic. And
spirit pictures were taken by a woman
member Of the du Pont powdermak-
ing family BY the simple process Of
tying Photographic plates TO her fore
head; these are only few OF the
eerie ingredients that make up
series Of wonder tales set forth in the
just issued Proceedings of the Amer
lean Society for Psychical Research
The volume is prepared under the
supervision of Dr. James II. Hyslop,
secretary Of the society. II is the
doctor himself who tells about the
spirit photographs, under the conser-
vative title. "Some Unusual Phenomena
in Photography" He made many per
sonal tests Of Mrs. Marguerite du
Pont Lee. the woman VINO felt she was
endowed with supernatural photo
graphic powers, and submits the re-
suits of his Investigations 10 the
public
Spirit photography" he says, has
been a claim for more than half
century. A psychic researcher can
hardly announce any unusual incident
without being involved in the sus,
picions which have centred around
that subject for this whole period But
readers would be hasty If they take
the title of this paper 70 imply any.
thing assertively or even doubtfully OF
a spiritisti, nature"
Photos Become Mystic.
After which unassertive opening he
states tina. Mrs. Lee, sister Of Maui
rice du Pont, and d woman of some
means. has built an institution for
charity work TO which she devotes her
self, and that she had known Mr..
Bocock, an Episcopal clergyman, who
was interested in her work.
"He died few years ago" the doc
tor says. land apparently gave rise 10
automatic writing by Mrs. Lee. This
automatic writing one day told her she
could take photographs"
So she bought camera and took pic
lures Of paintings of herself and Mr..
Bocock. For three months nothing
happened But then things began to
get mysterious. White balls of light
appeared in the photographs, the chair
became visible through the image Of
the paintings, a lamp, not in focus Of
the camera. and unaccounted for faces
showed in the pictures. Many such
phenomena occurred which Philistine,
as DR.. Hyslop calls unbelievers, would
attribute 10 light struck films, double
exposures and reflected lights.
But not so Mrs. Lee. She was sure
she was mediumistic with photo
graphic powers. She was sure the un-
usual features in her pictures were
simply spiritual manifestations from
Mr.. Bocock. She took every precau-
ton, she said. 10 prevent anything like
natural causes being responsible for
the phenomena. She wrote her expert
ences 10 DR.. Hyslop and asked him to
come and investigate them.
"Of course, 20 a person like myself
who has had, along other lines, a great
many wonderful psychic experiences,
and who is. moreover, quite clairvoy-
ant. the photographs present no diff
culties," she wrote to DR.. HyslOp.
She had taken all the pictures her