MEDIUM EXPOSED

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 106, 1 November 1926, Page 9

MEDIUM EXPOSED

AT SPECIAL TEST SEANCE

FLASHLIGHTS ON ECTOPLASM.

(United Press Association.—Copyright.) (Sydney Sun Cable.) .(Received Ist November, noon.) LONDON, 31st October. The "Sunday Chronicle's" Committee, including Professors Julian Huxley and Low, and the X-ray expert, Mr. J. C. Wilson, who are investigating being suspicious of the behaviour of the medium Harold Evans at his seances, arranged a special seance at the home of Miss Estelle Stead. Professor Low and Mr. Wilson roped Evans in a chair. The room was darkened, and the committee heard a clucking sound which Miss Stead formerly ascribed to the spiirts drawing ectoplasm from Evans. After thatvoices spoke, bells tinkled, and a draped figure, purporting to be the materialised form of Sister Catharine, appeared. At a pre-arranged signal the committee flashed electric torches, disclosing Evans in his Bhirt sleeves and stockinged feet, draped in a flowing white overall. The ropes with which he had been bound were a tangled heap on the chair. Evans attempted to tear off the robes and swooned. The doctors, examined him and declared him to be shamming. He. offered to give up his mediumship if the "Chronicle" did not expose the matter, adding: "This is the end of the world for me." The "Chronicle" offers £1000 to any medium throughout the world satisfying the investigators that he can produce spiritualistically any form of substance capable of examination by physical apparatus.