TESTING MEDIUMS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 1 September 1923, Page 5

TESTING MEDIUMS

[To the Editor.] Sir,—ln your issue of Friday I , note fl at Sir* Conan Doyle is quoted as saying that what is wanted is some system by which fraudulent and genuine mediums could be separated. Test-/ iig of spiritualistic mediums is as easy as falling off a log. And Sir Conan knows it. He knows that Dr Grunswald lias fitted tip the most complete testing laboratory in the world and has been waiting for more than two years for mediums to come and be tested. But never a medium.. Sir Conan also knows that the Scientific American has offered 500 dollars for any physical phenomena produced to the" satisfaction of its committee C|f scientists .and investigators, and that so far there has only been a solitary applicant, who was speedily exposed as a, fraud. This pretended anxiety of Sir Conan Doyle’s about weeding j c’-t the fraudulent mediums is all 1 fudge. Ho has always supported the, • frauds. After Mrs Deane was caught I W'd-handcd in fraudulent ghost photo- | graphy he still exhibited at his le<St< res slides prepared from his work as genuine spirit photographs. And when Hope and Buxton were similarly exposed his only care was to endeavour to discredit the investigator, jVir T > rice. Sir Arthur artlessly that the churches should .issue',certificates to mediums. Why not the scientists instead of the churches, or, better still, a committee of electricians? But the mediums would never agree to that, for your medium hates electricity like the devil does holv water.

I am, etc.,

“K.”