New-York tribune., 1920-06-23
Hyslop Messages
Are Expected Only
Through Friends
Research Society but Little
Interested in Report Of
Late Psychist's Spirit Talk
With Canadian Medium

DR.. Walter +. Prince, acting director
Of the Society of Psychical Research,
does not believe that Or. James H.
Hyslop would talk from ihe spirit world
to anybody but his friends That is
why the report yesterday that Ca
madam medium had received message
from the dead psychst was heard with
indifference at DR.. Hys.cps old head
quarters. at IA East Twenty third
Street.
I'VE are not saying that the pur-
ported communication from DR.. Hyslop
given to Canadian medium is not
genuine said DR.. Prince, but we do
say that it has no evidence Of genuine
ness. Some expressions used in the
communication are wholly uncharacter-
lstlc Of the doctor. This. Of course.
might be traced to the language of the
medium, provided there we're other
evidence of genuineness, such as the
correctness of facts not normally
known 10 the medium"
Questions Passage in Message
DR.. Prince referred TO one passaye
from the alleged communication. in
which DR.. Hyslop is reported to have
said:
81 did not lose certain form Of con
sciousness during the death experience
and with the exception of momcntary
lapses was conscious of all that ensued.
o the dear ones around nv bedside
dellcacy PROHIBITS the mention. Of their
namea-1 give specific denial to anv
lllusory symptoms Of suffering in the
process of physical death"
Dr. Prince remarked that the "deli
cacy which prohibited the use Of the
names OF his family was quite foreign
70 70 Dr. Hyslop's methods when alive.
ne mad used the names of his family
frequently in his writings and when,
ever he felt it necessary for purposes
c1 scientific record, believing the cause
~ which ne was embarked was i'm
portant enough to justify overriding
Ordinary conventions of dolicacy.
beg the public to suspend iude.
ment IN the case Of all purported co9.
munications of which they may hear
untll TINS society makes its official re-
port said DR.. Prince. "If we divulee
pfcmaturely any communications We
receive we may ruin. the whole course
1l ,he experiments Dr. Hyslcp may
be making from the other side. You
can readily understand that is we a.
lowed the newspapers to print com
munlcatlon from him it would invalj
Date the receipt of similar MESSAGES
by other mediums.
May Find 1t Hard to Communicate
at may be some time before wc hear
from DR.. Hyslop in way to iustif,y
our making public any reports. He
may be difficult man to receive mes
sages from. Sometimes the highest
ana most sensitively organized minds
lind 1t harder to send messages than
simpler minds. The one track mind
Is the best for communications. and
DR.. Hyslop's was not one track
mind. He might be so concerned in
graphing with the scientific phenom-
cna controlling his message that he
would not make the message itself
sufficiently forceful."
DR.. Prince added that the work of
the society would be continued along
the lines designated by DR.. Hyslop be-.
fore his death
Or. Albert Durrant Watson and his
medium, Luis Benjamin, who told the
story of the Canadian message. were
said at the Hotel Vanderbilt to have
returned to Toronto
DR.. Hyslop's will was filed in the
Surrogate's Court yesterday. He lef.
no real estate and not more than $1,000
N personal property. To his brother,
Francis f. Hyslop, the testator left
al royalties from his scientific works.
All his books labeled "American lnsti.
tute for Psychical Research of
which Dr. Hyslop was secretary, are
left TO that organization, which also
receives all the testator's Thompson
Clifford pictures.
Dr. Hyslop left the residue of his
estate to his son, George H. Hyslop,
and his daughters, Mary Winifrcd
Hyslop and Beatrice +. Hyslop.