“CROOK” SPOOKS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 104, 1 April 1926, Page 2

“CROOK” SPOOKS.

MEDIUM EXPOSED

WHAT THE LIGHT REVEALED

LONDON, March 18

“It was an electrician, unexpectedly effecting repairs to the electric light in a private house, in which F. T. Muiinmgs, the ‘trumpet medium,’ was conducting a seance, who was responsible for the latter’s exposure,” says Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. . “A sudden light showed Munnings manipulating a trumpet with a long attachment when we thought -the trumpet was travelling round the room of its own accord. Wo upbraided and ejected the blackguard, and decided to expose him.”

The Sketch states that it must be bitter for Mr Dennis Bradley, a wellknown spiritualist, to affix his name to the exposure within three -.months of his publishing a book in which lie defied any magician to imitate Munning’s feats. The simple explanation that ho was being duped never occurred to Mr Bradley, when, after a puzzling seance, lie wrote that perhaps Munning’s ectoplastic forces were of such a character that personal spiritfriends found difficulty in communicating.”