MEDIUM EXPOSED.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 29 March 1926, Page 6

MEDIUM EXPOSED.

SPIRITUALISTS HIS DUPES. SUDD MX EIGHT REVEALS ERA I'D. LONDON, March Id. "An electrician who was unexpectedly effecting repairs to the electric light in a private house in which F. T. Mannings, the ‘trumpet medium,’ was conducting a seance, was responsible for the latter’s exposure,” says Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. “A sudden light showed AI minings manipulating a trumpet with a long attachment. AVe* had thought the trumpet was travelling round the room of its own accord. AVe upbraided and ejected the blackguard and decided to expose him.” The Sketch says it must be hitter for Mr. Dennis Bradley, a, well-known spiritualist, to affix his name- to the document containing this exposure within three months of the publication of his book in which he defied any magician to imitate Manning's feats. The simple explanation that he was being duped never occurred to Mr. Bradley. Once after a puzzling seance he wrote that perhaps Munnitig’s echoplastic forces were of such a character that personal spirit-friends found difficulty in communicating with him.