TRANCE LINGUIST

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12075, 14 October 1933, Page 9

TRANCE LINGUIST

MAN WHO ALSO CHANGES ■ - COLOURS.

A. young Manchester man .who gfiv° up a. prosperous business to .trine] the country as a spiritualist, “missionary.” .'is amazing ibo people "who go to his stances. • ■ H-e changes ibo colour and texture of his face, alters the ionM qualities of his ; voice, speaks Chinese, French,- Italian, German, arid even African dialects, although be knows only English. . -

He allows investigators, to drive a knife through his hands but- no blood is drawn.

Vet he himself knows nothing of the' striking phenomena. This man, who is puzzling oil p«y _ clue investigators is Mr. E. V. Gibson. He .told a. ‘‘/un-day Chronicle representative, in an . interview, 'bow ho took up his new career.

“T. have always been interested in spiritualism, but not seriously until a few years ago. A little hoy bad been knocked down by a car in tho street in front of me. 1 picked him up and took him to hospital. When tho doctors decided that, a blood transfusion was necessary I volunteered to be the donor.

“The i>oo7 boy died in spite of it, hut. shortly afterwards I was visited hv the spirit of the dead lad, and the message lie gave me made me ■decide to give up evrryt'hino tor spiritualism‘‘At- that time 1. had a i' s h aml chip shop in Manchester, and f "as making about £&> a week ; my fam'd V and friends were there too. hub | gave it all up. and now ! travel all over 'lie country. helping p>'opi ß through my seances. •’ At, Mi. Gibson’s seances. *1 is claimed, the spirit makes a “pbyrioal’ 1 appearance through his mediumship, changing iho colour and texture of hi* face u> resemble those of the various spirit entities with whom ho is in touch. To prove iliac his stale of trance is absolutely genuine .Mr. Gibson issues n challenge at all his meet jugs ro .scientific investigators. At a recent meeting at Lancaster that challenge was accepted and one of tlie audience drove a rn s tv knifeh'arle almost through his hands several times.

“There were no marks when 1 came out of {lie trance'* Mr. Gibson said, “and the wounds did not bleed. “One of my greatest friends is Mr. Walter Chadwick, of Thomson street, Manchester. .In 1021 hr was working at Trnfforrl Hark and through an 'accident lost tlie- sight of both, eyes. Operation alter operation failed to restore his vision, end then he came to cue of my meetings/’ Here the story was . taken un hy Mrs. A. Leo. Air. Gibson’s assist' ant. “Air. Gibson walked up in Mr. Chadwick, and called him hy name although lie had not known him previously. “Tie told Air. Chadwick to go hark to the hospital where the operations had been done and to insist that still another should he performedAt that time Air. Gibson was controlled hy iho spirit of n famous doctor, and the doctor -promised to superintend ilii' operation. ‘‘.Mr. Chadwick had another operation an ( | a piece of steel was discovered embedded m the nose pressing down on the nerves controlling sight. Th,? steel was removed and' Air. Cbnd'viek. recovered his sight/’