SPIRITUALIST MEDIUM.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 26 July 1928, Page 6

SPIRITUALIST MEDIUM.

AN LNH’ORTANT CASE. SCIENTIST GIVES EVIDENCE. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegrapn Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) LONDON', July 24. The appearance of Sir Arthur Goman Ooyle and Sir Oliver Lodge is; the Westminister 'Police Court in delence of a medium, Mrs Clarke Caution, who declared she was dominated by the spirit of a great white chief of the American Red Indians who lived four hundred years ago, has arqumsed considerable interest. The Crown charges Mrs Caution with telling fortunes, basing the case on the evidence of four policewomen who visited her. Mis® Mercy PMlLimore, secretary of the London Spiritualist Alliance, was charged with, aiding. The alliance contains many prominent Londoners who regard the ca®e as being of tlxe utmost importance. “I have lived long enought to realise there are a great many things in the world of which we cannot be certain,’"' declared the magistrate when lie dismissed the charges. He ordered accused to pay £3O costs. Sir Arthur Cqnan D'oyl gave evidence that the alliance' did not. countenance fortune-telling, but existed to study the causes, facts and possibilities of receiving messages from the dead and to refute the idea that death ends all careers. Mediums were watched most carefully and undoubtedly most of them were genuine. The laws governing these tilings’ were beyond human comprehension. Mediums were unconscious during control. Sir Oliver Lodge said lie always approached the subject popularly described as spiritualism from a purely scientific viewpoint. He was positively satisfied many mediums were genuine. It was a kind of human faculty which was not understood, but which the alliance was striving to investigate. Mediums were instruments of that purpose. Dr. H. Mumro declared that a month before the war a medium, in his presence, for told; the catastrophe. Miss Phiiilimore gave evidence that she always told people mediums were not engaged for fortune-telling. If a medium were unable to go into a trance the sitting was cancelled and the money refunded. Mrs Caution had since been dismissed from the alliance because of incidents which had arisen since the case. ' . The imagistrate said lus mind had been changed a® a result of the evidence. He decided to give Mrs Oantlon the benefit of the doubt in his mind. He assumed that on _ the occasion of the policewomen’s visit Muss Oantlon believed she was under the control of the big white chief, his black dog and white rabbits, but he strongly advised her to rid herself of a disembodied spirit who wants to know the time for luncheon and tea.”