The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-26
Mrs. Mary Haug OF Newark
Believes Daughter lsa-
bella Is Mediumistic.
CHILD SPOOKY on FILM
Two Dollar Camera and Drug
Store Developer Combine to
Guido Doyle and Hope.

Mrs. Mary Haug Of S2s South Tenth
street, Newark, doesn't attempt TO ex-
plain it, All she can do is to show any
who are anxious a picture she took OF
her daughter Isabella on the latter's
NTH birthday, September ;, 1920,
The photograph is as remarkable as
any of those taken by the celebrated
spook photographer. William Hope of
Crewe, England, and exhibited to 2
palpitating audience in Carnegie Hall
last Friday night by Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle. .se
And naturally little Isabella canno,
explain it. She took to the darkest
corner df the Haug cellar yesterday
when reporters tried to have word
with her l.. J. Dingwall Of the Amer
lean Society of Psychical Research has
asked Mrs. Haug to let him investi-
gate. H
Mrs Haug. herself spiritualist,
says that all the scientists in the world
can investigate If they have mind to.
She says that she, like Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle and Sir Oliver Lodge,
looks on the photograph as thing not
to be explained, but merely accepted.
Film Developed by Drug store.
The camera with which the photo
grsph was taken cost Harry Schroeder
Of % Somerset street, Newark. just So.
He gave IL to Isabella as a birthday
present. Likewise he gave the child two
rolls of films. Mrs. Haig says she posed
lisa bella on the front porch The picture
was snapped. the rest of the roll con-
sumed i'm other snaps and the whole strip
OF film taken to neighborhood drug
store for developing and printing. She
then explained:
There was but one exposure OF lsa-
bella and here is the picture"
Isabella is shown standing on the
porch, arms akimbo and broad grin
nn her youthful face: The print suggests
double exposure 80 far as the figure of
Isabella is concerned, for the child APP
pears transparent. The capboards oil
The house are seen through her small
body.
In the lower left hand corner OF ths
photograph and occupying about guar
ter Of the picture area is clear picture
OF a bearded man. clad in the ordinary
night shirt OF the hospital wardrobe
dropped M in a hospital he'd. The man
appears to be about GO years old. The
right sleeve OF his night shirt Is rolled
back. exposing the bandaged stump OF
an arm. Mrs. Haug said
THAT man is my uncle. William Henry
vreeland who died ten years ago-three
wears before Isabella was born. More
over. he died in that very bed you see
him in there. That bed was In the Gay
Hospital here in Newark. A couple OF
weeks before he died he had his hand
and wrist mangled in a machine. He
was taken to the City Hospital. where
the hand and wrist were amputated
He died of gangrene.
Carried Picture In Mind.
Three days before he died | saw
him in the hospital in just that position
--propped UP in bed and the bandased
arm resting on a pillow was only
about twenty years old then ana
remember being rather faint when !
saw that bandaged stump. For long
time I carried the mental picture OF
my uncle in my mind.
Naturally we took no photographs ot
him as he lay there in bed Further-
more this small camera was given TO
us less than two years ago. That. my
,nclc's photograph could have been on
films that were never opened until we
got the camera Is, OF course, an absurd
ity. AS soon as l received the prints
took them to my uncle's widow. Mrs.
Mary vreeIand OF T3 Finlsy place. She
recognized her dead husband at once
Mrs Haug explained that she had
not made known the existence OF this
picture until Sir Arthur Conan Doy'e's
English pictures created such Juror.
Then she resolved to let the public Know
about it, She said she sought the opin-
ion Of John Hill, minister OF the Spir-
itualistic Church OF Advanced Thoughe.
foa West Ninety fourth street. Mr.. Hill
said last night:
,.The answer is simple. consider this
pcture the most remarkable OF It's sort
on record. II is far more convincing
than any taken by William Hope
Forecast Death Of Cousin.
Mr. Hill said the child Is real
psychic. Mrs. Haug cited an afternoon
when Isabella entered the house leading
AN imaginary child and said 70 her
mother:
"see this little girl? like her az 2
playmate
asut there IA no little girl there. Mrs.
Haug says she replied
ooh yes. there ~. She has a very
sore throat and must 80 to heaven to-
night. Her name is the same as mine.
The next day. said Mrs. TIaug. Isabel
las cousin Isabella. died Ia Cleve' and
OF diphtheria. The Haugs said they had
OF known that the child in Cleveland
had been III.
~ have been spiritualist for fifteen
years" said Mrs. Hang. but have no
psychic powers whatever. | have never
had any. Isabeila's father il a non-be-
lever in Spiritualism and his scoffing
seemed TO drive away whatever powers
the child had. However, DR.. elizabeth
Madison Of Orange has examined Isabel
Ia. She says such powers as the child
may have had will return
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