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

SAGE WITH HIS TOES-RlNN
BACKS WITH CASH CLAIM
THAT, BY TRlckERY, HE CAN
DUPLICATE ANY MEDIUMS
FEATs.
Joseph F. Rim, a former member
of the Society of Psychical Research
who took part in the exposure of Pal
ladino and has made a hobby for
years OF exposing so-called supernat
ural phenomena, is standing by his
offer to give $4,000 to that society as
part of its endowment, if the society
| or Sir Oliver Lodge or anyone else
can produce a medium who can offer
est tenable evidence of communica
tlon with the spirit world or super
natural feats of any kind To date
there have been no takers, says the
Minneapolis Journal of February 1.
And I will offer another $4,000 fo1
| the endowment which the Society for
Psychical Research is asking as a
basis of having further frauds perpe
| trated on it, said Mr. Rim, IF the
society, Sir Oliver Lodge or anyone
else. will meet this simple test.
"They tell us that there are honest
mediums and Quacks. Dr. Hyslop
says he has been and now is in com
| munication, through mediums, with
l tho LOFT Dr ;,b ,J
gets spirit messages from DR.. Hodg
son all the time. Now, | used to be
a friend and co-worker of DR.. Hodg
son and DR.. Hyslop, and seven hours
| before his death DR.. Hodgson wrote
me a letter. which | have in my safe
l will give the $4,000, if they can find
a medium who can tell what is in that
! letter. These are almost the last
| words of Dr.. Hodgson. Now, if he
does communicate from the other
world, what would be simpler than
for him to tell it's contents?
Offers to Duplicate Feats.
Il will give $4,000, if they can pro
duce one of their honest mediums.
who will get any message from the
spirit world with any evidence of gen
uineness, or who can tell a single fact
under scientific conditions, about any
one Of five persons with whom I will
confront them. | will see to it that
they are persons concerning whom the
mediums get none of the advance
knowledge, on which they base theil
wonders. I will have them blind
folded, SO that no expression of theil
faces will betray a chance hit, when
the lady mentions Mary Susie,
Johnny Willie, or any other names
or common facts which they have the
Spirits recite for the purpose of get
ting reaction from their dupes
which gives the information for the
starting point.
| Il will give the $4,000 if they car
produce a medium whose tricks can
not be duplicated by myself and Other
conjurors. I will give $4,000 to any
one who will prove, under scientific
conditions, any violation of what We
call the laws of nature.
Savants Called Easy Marks.
The fact is that men of the type
of Sir Oliver Lodge and DR.. Hyslop are
the easiest marks in the world fol
these creatures. l can give Sir Oliver
Lodge slate messages or any othel
kind of messages from his son Ray
mond under the precise conditions un
der which he thinks he got them from
'psychics' in England.
1T is not an assertion, but a fac
of history, that these great men o
Iscience are the easiest dupes in tn,
world for clever takers. Palladint
came over here with the indorsemen
of Lombroso, Binet, Flammarion, Si
Igreatest eminence. We proved abso
Ilutely that she had nothing but a ba.
tOf tricks. Their attempted investiga
tion of facts, for which they were no
fitted to investigate, was ridiculous t,
any man who has a knowledge 0
these tricks.
| Learned volumes were written OF
the breeze that came out of the top o
her skull after the seances and wavet
the hair of the top of her head. Som,
of the greatest living scientists fel
for it. At a seance at Columbia Uni
versity, attended by many scientific
men, | put my hand as Windshield,
! I.across the bridge of her nose. Then
lasked them if the breeze was still
coming from the top of hei. head. Nc
lit had stopped. Everybody has .seel
little girls projecting the under Ii
and blowing their curls. That wa
exactly the trick which had amaze
the scientific world. And mind yor
Palladino, who never did anything bu
, fraud in her life, was one who helpe
to convert Sir Oliver
II Shows How It's Done.
r Mr.. Rims challenge is for publ
! demonstration, at which an unbiase
: committee can pass on the wor
Z (which any mediums selected by 81
IOliver Lodge, DR.. Hyslop, or any otl
Ter exponent of psychical researc
shall attempt to show their art unde
) conditions laid down by him, his TO
! lfeits to be posted publicly. Mr.. Rim
gave an exhibition at the Cafe Boul,
) ward, New York, at a meeting of th
: Sunrise Club, which lasted into earl
5 morning, in which he duplicated th
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