PALLADINO DEAD.

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 July 1918, Page 7

PALLADINO DEAD.

MEDIUM WHO CONVERTED PROFESSOR LOMBROSO. The death is announced from Naples of the famous medium, Eusapia Palladino, at the age of GL Eusapia Palladino had been called ‘■’the despair of science.” She was unquestionably first among spiritualistic mediums!, and although there were those, including Mr Maskelyne, who bluntly declared her a. fraud, she was able to convince psychologists like Lombroso' and Morselli, and scientists like Schiaparelli, Flaiumarion, and M. and Mine. Curie that she was endowed with inexplicable powers. Sir Oliver Lodge was similarly deeply impressed with her performances. She herself, it should bo noted, claimed to be ‘’merely an instrument,” and not to be able to produce at will the phenomena which made her world-famous, but this statement was in contradiction of the feats of levitation, etc., which she has performed on request, and it isi beyond challenge that, occasonally, at aiiv rate, she resorted to trickery. Her name first came before the scientific world in 1888, hut she is stated to have discovered her mysterious gifts twenty years previously, when she was ouy fourteen. She visited England in 1895, and gave a number of seances at Cambridge, under the direction of Mr. Myers (secretary of the Society for Psychical Research). Professor and Mrs. Sidgvdek. Dr. Richard Hodgson, and ethers. Mr. Myers, at any rate, remained unconvinced. Professor Lomhroso. who began his investigations' in 1891. asserted positively that she caused fhc spint of hisi dead mother to appear and embrace him. Lombroso was definitely converted through her to a belief in spiritualism.