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Who is william Hope?
the spirit photographer William Hope was a fraud.
How was he a fraud?
William Hope has been found guilty of deliberately substituting his own plates for those of a sitter ...
Why did William do this?
CANNOTANSWER.
How did people percieve him?
Doyle threatened to have Price evicted from his laboratory.
Why did he do this?
Due to the exposure of Hope and other fraudulent spiritualists, Arthur Conan Doyle led a mass resignation of eighty-four members of the Society for Psychical Research.
Are there any other interesting aspects of this article?
Price later re-published the Society's experiment in a pamphlet of his own called Cold Light on Spiritualistic "Phenomena" - An Experiment with the Crewe Circle.

Question: Was it popular?
Self-contained rewrite: Was Cold Light on Spiritualistic "Phenomena" - An Experiment with the Crewe Circle popular?