A SPIRITUALISTIC EXPOSURE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 10482, 20 October 1894, Page 5

A SPIRITUALISTIC EXPOSURE.

[Special to Press Association.! SYDNEY. Oct. 19. For some time past a sensation has been caused by spiritualistic stances conducted under the mediumship of Mrs Mellon, and the positions occupied by those engaged in investigating seemed to place the matter beyond any intention to deceive. Two gentlemen have now made a statutory declaration that at a materialisation stance at Mrs Mellon’s house, they captured the “ materialised ” form of a little girl, which was merely Mrs Mellon on her knees. They also found articles within a recess which were recognised as forming part of the attire of other “materialised” spirits. The discovery is creating a sensation. On the other hand, Dr Macarthy, under whose eye the previous stances were conducted, was not present at the discovery, but despite it, he does not believe the «manifestations ” he obtained were the results of fraud. If they were, then, he says, Mrs Mellon is the greatest conjuror he ever saw. Mrs Mellon gives an extraordinary explanation of how she was found to be in the place of the disembodied spirit, and says the latter drew its matter from the medium, and gave an instance that her weight diminished by half on such occasions, which she declared had been proved by an experiment when the charm was broken by capture the spirit fled, leaving an attenuated medium.