REMARKABLE VISION.
MERSTHAM TUNNEL TRAGEDY
SEEN IN A CRYSTAL
The story of a irt^st vivid and astonishing experiment, the vision of the Merstham^unriel murder, which was seen in the.crystal and described by two relatives of the victim, Miss May Money, is as follows:—On this occasion the writer accompanied the medium to the house of the relatives, and was present at the seance, a record of which, written by him, appeared on the same evening, September 30th, 1905, in the columns of the Pall Mall ■ Gazette. The medium took with him the identical crystal in whcih he had seen, five years before, the body,of Mr Foxwell, the missing stockbroker. He held it, as he sat in a corner of the room in an armchair, in both hands, half bending over it, and looking into its milky depths. After a moment or two I asked him whether he could see anything. "Yes; I can," he replied; ccbut before I say what it is I want to see. whether the friends can see it, too." There were in the room a young man and a young woman, close relatives of Mi,ss Money. Neither had ever looked into a crystal, nor had they any experience of the subject. To the man I said, "Look over Mr Yon Bourg's shoulder, and tell me what,', if anything, you can see." He stepped tip to the medium and, for a moment, gazed over his shoulder into the crystal steadily. Of a sudden he exclaimed in. tones of I swift and certain" conviction, "Yes, I do see something. I see a train moving through a tunnel, and in one of the carriages a man and a woman." i I beckoned to the lady, the other relative in the room. The vision was as clear to her as to th© other. And all the time the train, they told me, was moving. Like two persons looking at a picture-book, and describing each picture as they turned its leaves, so these two relatives of .the murdered girl gave me, without pause or hesitation, a vivid narrative of the vision they pw—the struggle in the train, the man's hand on the woman's shoulder, the carriage door flung open, and the woman thrust out.—F. A. H. Eyles, on "Crime and the Crystal," in the Strand Magazine for February.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 100, 26 April 1909, Page 6
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386REMARKABLE VISION. Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 100, 26 April 1909, Page 6
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