STEAD'S SPOOKS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 702, 30 December 1909, Page 2

STEAD'S SPOOKS.

JULIA BUREAU PROCEDURE. ITALIAN JOURNAL'S -ATTACK. 'Tho j'i'Courrioro dclla Serft" publishes ti • threetfjlumuexposure. of , tho working of . . ; Julnvs Hureliu.. . Signor. J3m- .■ . manuolr its- London - ropretentalivo, > r&-.. / ceivcdi-i 1 -joint-invitation from.Miss: Julia>,, and Mr.'-: Stead to Mowbray House for. noonday, interview with tho recently dc-? t . Censed: Professor Lombroso, who ■ had already honoured the bureau %vith glowing > v encomiums in messages: communicated ottr; October, 20 and November 3. ■ .'j.v'. i Mr.:. Stead took away the: correspondent's "breath by appearing in tho ..full'v\. : garb 'of an; English, convict. Ho ' ox- v.: plained tlmt ho was wearing . the,, stripes and arrowß becauso if tho anniversary* .■>. , of:his coinmital to prison,aquarter of a■■■> centurjl' agO> m defonco of social puntjv Mr.' - King, tho medium;: impressed the ~... Italmitivisitor very; unfavourably. Ho : v.stated at tho. outset .'that there was . an..'.;, astral totaflest - - 'prevailing whith-•vrtrnld':.:: • luakov: communication! ■: 'difficult:'^;Then;'^^■: Julia announced that' she '• was not: yet. able ito :buttohholo,Lombrdso,'; because heV,: -V. at. that moment was talking with >, i Shortly. after Lombroso • turned' up "yacu-, lating,.V'WilL: you ■ leave,', off; .. . inc.": But when Mri,Stead reminded the; .. illustrious criminologist that' ho had:him- v Self ftxed tho appointment with tho Ital- . lan journalist,■■ Jjomhroso became. calmer,-; • .- and said;; "Well, I am .taken: up With 1111portaut questions, but I will givo you fc. ■ v few minutes." . Bignor:Emmanuel' began in tho Italian . language asking Lombroso as a-guhran- 1 too of identityvto mention his- favourite littlo, nephew's •. Christian. name. : 'Don't: • botheruno with personal questions,"- re-. «... tortid Lombroso,'!newly.. Irritated... i"I.-: ■ have ur(snt work on hand. Now, quick.", .. Thii next qOestion was, "Have you left :. a,volume of ■ studies mi crime among your.' unedited - papers P" . 'Whereto : ' Lombroso, : or King,, returned tho -nonsensical, answer, "I atn still lhttrosted in that sub- .i,>. jocti and shall still , work at, it, but not/- - ftt present... It ib a project dehr, : to my heart, but it 16 necessary to wait." < Tho third question was, "tyhnt was the ' \ last 'book ■ you ■ wroto - upon a "-criminal ; trialf" : Signbr: Emmanuol,:of course,, had- > - in; mind tho famous 1 Olivo .oafco, but. the reply was; "Unablo to say nt tins- mo- - ■ ment, . hut. later oil light will comc—not off," before,. Mr. Stead, could: :, gel u word in edgewajs, 1 ■ Jitlia .camo to for. Lombroso s abrupt ietrcat, as' hd was duo t at,& vcry\: . - important reunion'.convoked in tho,.: as-... , tm'sphere? i that, day, ; whloh . appears ,to :-; , have been o. belated itf ass meeting of pro-,-J ~ ; test 'by. sntioks agMnet: the execution of. • : lVder. Mr. Stoad did not conceal his disffushat, tho: Sasco,: and ordered Julia; ito liring- aloug an Italian spook at all : costs, so- "that' mlingunV r experiments. : . milfht bo ; rentwed vbeforo Sign6r 'Eto-1 i - mnnuel lott. 1 • Garibaldi sent a message of admiration,;,, for-; his follow-coantryinan present,; beg- ~: ging; tliat lie. would ;devote himself to-, i, spiritualistic-study;..so that the great - r ; lfberator 'of iltaly could- avoil himself , of a?, his splendid, psychic- qualities and liter- , : ary gifts. . -'Among . other porsimagcii. who dropped in towards:: thte close of tho scartco wafi »j ,:. mysltrioits, lady who forgot- to pivolito i'.amo, imploring that - lung Alfonso ■of - ... Spain ihight- bo forthwith warned . that : -; lie was on the ovo of terrible-danger, . • Lombroso, also- requested that - a toiO* . k , . : urairt of "> greetings 'be iininodiatcly, >,■ dis-: „ :: patched'to his family; ; the- hurry. ho appears to havo forgotton that tliey.ro-.'.'i eido in Turin, for ho gavo tho.addross aa. Milan. __________ - ' •