MEDIUM EXPOSED

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 284, 1 November 1926, Page 7

MEDIUM EXPOSED

SPECIAL SEANCE ARRANGED. DRAMATIC EXPOSURE. MAN IN FLOWING WHITE. ' J ° ' & V (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received November 1, 12.5 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 31. The Sunday Chronicle’s committee, including Professors Julian, Husley and Low and the X-ray expert, Mr J. C. Wilson who are investigating spiritualism, being suspicious of the behaviour of the medium Harold Evans at former seances, arranged a special seance at the home of Mr Estelle Stead. Professor Low and Mr Wilson roped Evans in a chair, the room being darkened, The committee heard a clucking sound which Mr Stead formerly ascribed to the spirits drawing ectoplasm from Evans, after which voices spoke, bells tinkled and a draped figure purporting to be a materialised form of Sister Catharine appeared. At the prearranged signal the committee flashed electric torches disclosing Evans in his shirt sleeves and stockinged feet draped in a flowing white overall. The ropes with which he was bound lay in a tangled heap on a chair. Evans attempted to tear off the'-robes and swooned. Doctors who examined him declared that he was shamming. He offered to give up his mediumship if the Chronicle did not expose the n atter, adding: “This is the end of the world for me.”

The Chronicle offers £IOOO to any medium in any part of the world who satisfies investigators that he can produce spiritualistically in form a substance capable of , examination by physical apparatus.—Sydney Sun cable.