Putnam patriot., 1922-05-26
Pomfref Girls Spirit Picture"
 Is SholUn By Sir Conan Doyle
GABLE LIKENESS, TAKEN IN LONDON LAST SUM.
MER OF DAUGHTER OF DR AND MRS A. S. CUsHMAN WHO DIED IN FALL OF 1920
Father Describes Taking of Picture In Article Published In
 Psychical Research Magazine.-"Faking" Impossible

Much interest locally has been aroused among those who have heard Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the course of his recent lectures in spirit phe. nomena in this country in a spirit nbotegraph" which he has used on the screen in his talks and which is attest. ed as a remarkable likeness of little Miss Agnes Cushman, who died in the fall of 1920, and who was daughter Of Dr. Allerton s. Cushman and the late Mrs. Cushman of Pomfret and Washington, D. C.. and granddaugh- ter of Mrs. Courtland Hoppin. Sir Arthur declared this spirit photo graph" to be one of the best speei- mems that has ever been taken in the course of psychical research.
 The circumstances surrounding the taking of the photograph in London last summer, prior to the death of the young girls mother last autumn, has been most interestingly retold in a scientific article published by Dr. Cushman in the American Journal of Psychical Research and more recently issued by him privately in pamphlet form, and entitled .An Evidential Case of Spirit Photography.
 Dr. Cushman, who is one of the leading American authorities in chem istry, has now taken his place among the most active investigators of psy- ehical phenomena. This week at his home in Washington. D. C.. Miss Eva Bessinet of Toledo. Ohio, the mater ializing" medium who on last Satur- day night at a seanee given for Sir Arthur is said to have been able to cause the spirits of Sir Ernest Shackleton, as we'll as the son and parents of Sir Arthur and Lady Conan Doyle to appear, is giving un- der Dr cushman's direction, a series Of most successful sittingsa
 In order that every step of the cir eumstanees surrounding the taking of the spirit photograph of his daugh- ter might be made clear. Dr. eushman has given the story of the taking of the picture in every detail in his pub lished pamphlet. The Patriot reprints the story in part. Following brief summary of the scientific side of spirit photography Dr. Cushman writes:
 Letters From Daughter
 My young daughter, aged fifteen. left home on the goth of September, 1920, to go to boarding school. She was in bloom of health and vigor. On September 24th she suddenly passed into the higher life due to lightning like attack of cerebral meningitis, the pathology of which dread disease is almost unknown to modern medical science as it was to Indian medicine men two hundred years ago.
 1t was unthinkable to me that this young, vigorous, enthusiastic. loving personality had disappeared into an abyss of nothingness and that l should not ever again be able to reach it and converse with it. It must suffice here to say that inside of six weeks, with out the aid of any medium outside the family circle, we were getting char aeteristic cheery letters from our child. These letters, which came through by a process which has been misnamed automatic writing. contain ed evidence of identity that l consid- CT far stronger than much of the evi-