FAMOUS AUSTRIAN MEDIUM.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19813, 28 December 1929, Page 17

FAMOUS AUSTRIAN MEDIUM.

SCIENTISTS' TEST. <>ROM OCR OWN COHSKSPOKDEXTLONDON, November 21. A number of eminent scientists and doctors are holding a series of seances at the National Laboratory of Psychi- I cal Kesearch, South Kensington, for the ] purpose of testing the claims of Kudi j Schneider, the young Austrian motor ; mechanic who is reputed to be the I greatest male psychical medium in the j world. The names of the scientists have j not been disclosed, but doubtless when i they make a report later on it will be published over their names. .■ Kudi Schneider comes from a psyehi- I cal family. His father, Joseph Schneider, a typesetter in Braunau, Austria, | had 1- children and three of his sons ! were psychical. Willy, the greatest of J them, has given up his psychical life, | and taken up dentistry, and Eudi is I now carrying on in his footsteps. ; Rudi Schneider and the sitters at his i seances are controlled by an elaborate | electrical system which causes any j movement of a hand or foot to be re- i corded by one of six lamps on the wall i of the seaiK-e room. j It is said that Kudi goes into trances j and, from a curtained cabinet, produces I pseudopods—ghostly limbs, which are j made of a substance known as tele- j plasm. These limbs pick up articles I and lay them out on a table or they ] throw them about, or hand them round j the circle of sitters. IJudi's tranee-per- I sonality, who is responsible for these j strange happenings, is known as Olga, I and is supposed to be the spirit of Lola j Monte?, a notorious dancer in the last I century. Olga speaks German. | Lola Montes was born in Ireland in J ISIB, and her real name was Maria Dolores Eliza Gilbert. She went to Ger- | many, became the mistress of L-udwig i 1., of Bavaria, and for 12 months helped I to rule the country. In 1851 she died m I a New York apartment house. •