SPIRITUALIST FAKER EXPOSED

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3494, 2 November 1926, Page 9

SPIRITUALIST FAKER EXPOSED

At Specially Arranged Seance

A SUBSTANTIAL MANIFES-

TATION

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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 Haroiu Evans at former seances, 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, alter 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 closing 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 tho robes and swooned. Doctors who examined him declared that he was shamming. He offered to give up his mediumship if tho “Chronicle” did not expose the matter, 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 ho can produce spiritualistically in any form a substance capable of examination by physical apparatus.