TRAP FOR MEDIUM

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 36, 11 August 1923, Page 23

TRAP FOR MEDIUM

«,,ueW f York ?mile4 hroadly at the results of an investigation into psychic phenomena recently conducted by the Scientific American," which on the occasion of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's recent lecturing tour, offered prizes amounting to £1000 to mediums able to satisfy.certam tests'. The chief candidate ihl -«n' n" 2 ™ -(, s. avs the correspondent of ' «l\ MlllL Ws GeorSe Valentine, of Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, .who has' • frequently produced the "psychic lights" described by Sir Arthur X3on an Doyle. At the request of the medium; .tests were made anud darkness so intensn tw it .was impossible for th S e ° Tudgel eve n to see their own hands. Unknown to Valentine, however, the chair he occupied rested upon an electrical contrivance which i S n.ted a bulb in the adjoining room the moment it was -vacated By means of a dictaphone and a Ttop Watch an observer posted there w a6 able to re cord the exact time and the test of every utterance by the-"spirits" evoked by Valentine, The record' shows that conceded by darkness, Valentine vacated the chair IS times j n the course of the seance His chair was always' vacant when tlie pysciuc lights" appeared