AERIAL ABERRATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 116, 23 November 1928, Page 9

AERIAL ABERRATIONS

THE SPIRIT OP HINCHCLIFFE Australian Press Association. LONDON, 21st November. - Thoro were remarkable scenes at Caxton Hall, Westminster, whoa Mrs. Hinchcliffe mado her first appearance under Spiritualist auspices in tho W. T. Stead library, and spoke of her busbands' disappearance'in a trans-Atlan-tic flight with tho Hon. Elsie Maekay. Thousands of women 'besieged tho doors clamouring for admission. Tho police were called in to rogulate them. Mrs Hinchcliffe recounted how .when in touch with well-known mediums she became interested because of the truth of intimate details mentioned of her husband's life. Sho attended a soance, of tho London Spirtualistic Alliance, when sho heard a clear message from her husband. The message said ho flew 700 miles from the Irish coast northwards and north-west. He changed the course at 10 o'clock a little northward until midnight, when ho encountored a terrific gale. One strut of the machine broke and another was smashed, and one.spark plug was misfiring. The further they wont tho worse the storm became, and at midnight they knew it waa impossible to reach America. They deliberately changed the course for tho Leeward Islands and went southwards till 3 o'clock. Tossed in a terrible whirlwind, they were forced into the sea within sight of the Azores. . ■ In a later message Hinchcliffe said that by the Leeward Islands ho, meant the Azores, in trying to reach which they went 400 to 500 miles out of the j course. Mrs. Hinchcliffo added that she had received a letter from Sir Couau Doyle to the effect that Hinchcliffe had sent him a message thanking him for interesting his wife in spiritualism. She did not mention Miss Maekay, but on closing the lecture said: "I could give further messages relating to other things. I am sorry to say I was asked this morning to refrain from doing so." A course northwards and north-west from Ireland would take Hinchcliffe in the direction of Greenland, leaving the Azores over a thousand miles due south. The Leeward Islands of the West Indies are some two thousand miles to the south-west of the Azores, and probably over three thousand from the spot which Hinehcliffe in his story is supposed to have reached—truly a remarkablo case of aerial aberration.