EXPOSURE OP FRAUD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19474, 2 November 1926, Page 9

EXPOSURE OP FRAUD.

ALLEGED SPIRITUALISM. PROFESSORS AND A MEDIUM. SurL LONDON. Oct. 31. A committee set up by the Daily Chronicle is investigating members include three London University professors, Julian S. Huxley, D l . A. Low, an X-ray expert, and J. D. Wilson. The committee became suspicious of the behaviour of a medium, Harold! Evans, at former seances. They arranged for a special seance to te held at the home of Miss Estelle Stead, daughter of the late Mr. W. T. Stead. Professors Low and Wilson roped Evans in a chair in a room which was darkened. The committee heard a clucuing sound which Miss Stead had formerly ascribed to spirits drawing ectoplasm from Evans. After that voices spoke, bells tinkled and a draped figure purporting to be that of the materialised form of Miss Stead's late sister, Catharine, appeared. At a pre-arranged signal thu committee flashed on electric torches. The lights disclosed Evans in his shirt-sleeves and with stockinged feet draped in a flowing white overall. The ropes with which he had been bonnd lay in.a tangled heap on the chair. Evans attempted to tear off his robes and then swtioned. Doctors who examined him declared that he was malingering. The man offered to give up mediumship if the Chronicle did not expose the matter. He said: " This is the end of the world for me." The Chronicle offers £IOOO to any medium' in any part of the world who, satisfying its investigators, can produce by spiritualistic means in any forte, a substance capable of examination by physical apparatus