The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-02-07
EXPOSES SPIRITUALISTIC FEATS

made trickery absolutely impossible,
His first work was simple mind read
ing tricks in which he allowed the
audience to write and add I'D figures
while he gave the totals, and in which
he produced messages from the other
world in reply to letters written bv
the audience and supposedly unseen
by him.
BY complaining in the professional
manner of 'antagonistic influence"
and "inharmonious conditions and
skepticism, he kept the audience un-
der the impression that he intended
MS work to- be accepted as supernat-
ural and they began to make harder
and harder conditions, which he cas-
lily met, thus demolishing skeptic after
skeptic. In the early stages he en-
ployed confederates, men with the
astonishing appearance of trust
Worthiness, who came forward as if
ordinary members of the audience to
corroborate by telephone the fact that
he had shot telepathic messages to
persons miles away and prove other
miracles.
Rim Exposes Tricks.
MI. Rlnn faced a believing audience
when he approached the higher mvs-
teries and undid his own work. The
chef doeuvre of the evening was slate
writing. He called for volunteer and
Edmund Goldberger, an insurance
OF his own for the writing. Goldberg
er was blindfolded to simulate for him
the darkness in which the tricks of
MEDIUMS are performed. while the
llShts were kept on so that the audi
ence could see the manner in which
the conjuror fooled his victim.
~IOu be Sir Oliver Lodge said
Rim, "and I'll be the medium. You
want messages from your son, RAY
mond'
Goldberger held one of Rims hands
in each Of his and placed his two feet
separately on Rims, to make sure
that Rim could not do the slate writ
ing himself. Rim moaned, groaned.
wrestled in agony as the spirits took
control, gradually got both of the
hands Of the blindfolded youth into
one of his, and with his free hand
wrote On the slate:
Il am we'll and fine. Raymond,
Much mystified, but still uncon.
WINGED, the youth proposed a new con-
d1tion-that the writing should be on
the bottom of the slate. In the
professional manner Rim COM
planned that this was unheard of. that
no medium had ever been asked such
a thing, that it was quite impossible.
Finally he said:
will you be convinced that my con-
trolls are genuine if do?"
Il sure will"
Rlnn repeated the performance, with
the addition, however, of using his
teeth to drag the slate to the edge of
the table, biting the edge, and SLOWLY
and quietly turning it over. COLDER
ger started away believer, but turned
and said:
Il would like to have the slate on
the floor and then see the writing on
it,"
'Then will you believer"
"Tll say | will I
How Fake Slate Writers Work.
The dupe again placed both hands
and both feet on those of the adept.
Rim writhed apparently in frightful
agony. Gradually he slipped his right
foot out OF its slipper, a reinforced
article, which remained under Gold
bergers foot. The stocking was cut
off at the instep. With, his highly
trained big and second toe Rim
picked up the chalk and, stretching
his leg far to the side, scrawled a
| message on the slate. He dragged
the slate back with his toes until he
| balanced it against the leg of the
table and then quietly turned it over
until the surface with the writing was
next the floor
| The condition that the writing
should be on the bottom had not been
made by Goldberger When he
turned it over he found on the bot
tom the message:
! Believe in Rim"
Bound with ropes, carrying mouth
full of water, which bulged his cheeks,
R1nn then went into tiny closet
formed by drawing curtains around a
space formed by the walls of the Cafe
! boulevard. This closet had been pre-
@viously investigated by many in the
audience and found to contain nothing
| but an accordion which had been tied
with many ropes in the sight of the
! audience. ~
A Startling Demonstration.
F. Amid continual handclapping inside
the closet, the accordion played, and
Rims three spirits, Little Bright
Eyes" Mrs. O'Sullivan" and IAN old
colored man. carried on an animated
conversation in three dialects. Rim
came out with his mouth full of water,
which he emptied into a glass in sight
OF the audience. He repeated this
when challenged by persons bent on
showing there was nothing he could
not do, only the second time he went
in with mOuthful of milk and came
out with mouthful of coffee.
Isn't there any truth in spiritual.
ism at alp asked a young girl being
undeceived much against her will.
Every article of it Is fraud. 1t is