The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-04-14
STORY TOLD FROM
OVER RIVER STYX
CONAN DOYLE DESCRIBES
DEATHBED SENSATIONS
Vast New York Audience Listen
ed To Sir Arthur Last Night !;
Palsied Heads Shook With
Emotion As Words Fell From
Man Turned From Medicine
For Spiritual
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch. ]


New York, April 13.-Sir Arthur
Conan DayIe last night described
the sensations of the deathbed a:
he said they had been communicat
ed to him from beyond the styx.
Listening to him was a vast au
dlence, many of whose members
soon will board -Charon's craft fol
the voyage which all must take
Palsied heads shook with emotion
as the earnest words fell from the
lips of man who has turned from
medicine and letters to a search
for the spiritual
Death is not painful, but a pleas
ant process, said Sir Arthur. AS
death approaches, the soul-the
etheTic boay-fioats out from its
earthly shell and hovers above the
human CLAY, tethered only by tbs
silver cord of which ecciesiastes
speak. The only sensation is one
|of delicious langour
First Sight That Greets Eye
The first sight that greets the
eve is one OF smiling, loving faces
lending over the death bed, added
Proof9 he asked. Il have stood
ltfHt1zg c1la III death stretch out,
from lips that soon would move no
more. Delirium, say materialists
Me- 1t is not delirium"
"Prpof?" asked the preacher of
spiritualism again. The disengag-
ing of the etheric body can be, has
been photographed. | am fortunate
enough to have such a plate"
He described at length his con
version from a rank materialist to
such a faith in spiritualism that he
had decided that his wife, his fam
lily his reputation as a man of let
tiers were as mud in the gutter be-
side it. .
Describes His Qualifications
His qualifications, he said, were
scientific point of view, and was
deemed by some who had followed
the adventures of Sherlock Holmes
some slight knowledge of detective
work.
Then he proceeded with his de-
Tense of the hypothesis that physi-
cal phenomena exists. Table rap
ping, he said, could be proved by
such evidence as would carry a
point in a court of law Puerile
signals, he said, they were, CORES
ponding to the knock on a door
tere below. designed merely to
herald the approach of friend and
capture the attention of a skeptcal
world.
Spirits Can Present Themselves
Spirits not only can converse
~ ~ a
but they can present
themselves in material form. He
he declared, had gaZed on
The faces of his mother, son and
brother, and had talked with them.
He said an etheric body, the ex-
act duplicate of the living, could
De temporarily disassociated with
put death. This could be done, he
said, some times through the use
)f narcotics, though he added smil-
ngly that he did not advise this
method
He then described an experience
If his own, when sitting in a den
lists chair under the influence of
gas, he had seen his wife and chill
iren riding in a London cab sew
,ral blocks away. He later learn
ID they actually were riding in
,ab in the time.
What Sir Arthur said he consid-
cred was the most remarkable !
OF the power oil
spirits to Communicate with humans
lad been authenticity established
n Melbourne, Australia. There, he
aid. parents whose two sons had |
disappeared after they had put out |
o sea in a sail boat with one sailor |
lad traced their children through a
Medium.
Caught in Squal And Drowned
One son had told the father that |
hey all had been caught in a Squat !
md drowned. Then he asked that |
lis mother be taken out of the |
DOM. When she had left, he told |
lis father that his brother had been
aten by strange fish, which did |
lot resemble any shark he ever
lad seen. -.. ~4>
A few days later, Sir Arthur said |
strange species OF shark had |
'een captured in the 'harbor In. |
ide it wac found some human |
zones. and the boys watch, chain !
nd part of his vest.
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