Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-06
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

of the medium was increased on the
scales by the weight of the table. His
experiments into the means used for
lifting the table convinced him that
cantilever of palpable psychic force
extended from the body of the medium
to the table and that this lever did the
| l1fting. The table was connected by
the lever with the body of the medium
and accordingly increased her weight
! when it was suspended in the air.
Professor Crawford confesses that on
/ more than one occa sion he touched the
lever with his hand. 1t was not solid.
! for he could pass his hand through
1t, but 1t felt clammy and 'reptilian.'
He says that when one has once felt
| this emanation from a medium he can
never mistake it for anything else. In
order to find out what the lever looked
! like he asked the spirits that manipu-
lated it to stick the end of it in
saucer of soft putty. They complied
and he found it made an impression
something like that which would have
been made by the ball of foot. He
admits that the spirits do not work
we'll in the light and when he wanted
to take flashlight photograph of the
psychic cantilever the spirits would
not consent"
DO you believe all that" asked
Owen.
II hope you will not press me for
an answer" I replied. "If it is not
true. Professor Crawford is liar or
! has hallucinations, or the medium and
her family are conscious or uncon-
scious impostors. You might think,
Owen, that the book itself provides
evidence enough for forming an opin-
ion on these matters, but I am not a
lawyer and I want to be charitable. "
well. / don't believe it," Owen de,
clared with some emphasis.
Then you would not believe the
stories told by J. Arthur Hill In Man
is a Spirit 1t is a collection of cases
of dream, vision and ecstasy. Mr..
tigations,' is one of those which was
influential in converting Conan Doyle.
The cases which he reports lack the
necessary verification required by the
Society for Psychical Research. Per.
haps they are more interesting on that
account. There is one splendid ghost
story in the lot The ghost is an
officer killed in France. who appeared
a number of times to a woman with
whom he had friendship before he
died. When he first appeared he was
haggard and wore "A soiled uniform
but in later visits he was dressed In
new uniform, his boots were pol
ished. the lines had disappeared from
his face and he looked several years
younger than when he was killed
to whom he had appeared saw him
he stopped coming. Now this is the
kind of evidence that convinces those
willing to be convinced that the dead
do communicate with the living"
TT would not be accepted in court
said Owen.
mo, and | do not think any one
would accept it who was not con
WINGED of it's truth in advance. Camille
Marbo, the wife of a distinguished
Frenchman, has put one phase of the
spiritualists' theories to what seems
to me a very proper use. You know
they say that men have died and left
their bodies and returned to them
again. Madame Mario has used g
variation of this interesting theory
as the motive of romantic novel, 1.-The
Man Who Survived She has two
French officers, friends, killed with the
same bullet. Some time later one OF
the officers returns to consciousness
in a hospital, reads his wife's letters
with delight and longs for the time
when she may visit him. One day he
looks in a mirror and discovers thai
II is not he at all. but his friend whom
he sees. Then he learns that he Is In
the hospital under the name of his
friend and he remembers that when hs
went into battle he had asked his
friend to take care of his wife's letters
in case anything happened to him
His friend was to remain behind, but
he disobeyed orders and went along
He learned that his body has beer
buried and that his wife was mourn
ing him. We must assume that wher
4 the two men died the body of one o.
them revived. with the spirit OF thu
other inhabiting Il, The widow finali,