LOST ATLANTIC FLIERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20111, 23 November 1928, Page 13

LOST ATLANTIC FLIERS.

SPIRIT COMMUNICATIONS.

MRS. HINCHCLIFFE'S STORY.

MESSAGES FROM HUSBAND.

CONAN DOYLE IN SUPPORT. Austrnlian find N.Z. Tress Association. (Received November 22, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Nov 21. Remarkable scenes were witnessed at Caxton Hall, Westminster, last evening. Mrs. Ilinchcliffo, widow of Captain Ilinchcliffo, who was lost with tho lion. Elsie Mackay in an attempt to fly across the Atlantic last March, made her first appearance as a spiritualist under tho auspices of tho W. T. Stead Library, and spoke on tho subject of her husband's disappearance. Thousands of women besieged the doors of tho hall, and clamoured for admission. Tho police, had to bo called in to regulate tho crowd. Mrs. Ilinchcliffo said she came into touch with well-known mediums and became interested in spiritualism because of tho truth of tho mediums' revelations of intimato / details of her husband's life. She said she had attended a scance of tho London Spiritualistic Alliance. There she received a clear spirit message from her husband. This message, Mrs. Ilinchcliffo said, was as follows:—"We flew 700 miles from tho Irish coast toward tho north-north-west. I changed our course at 10 p.m. a little to the northward and kept on that until midnight. Then we encountered a terriblo gale. "first one strut of the machine broke and then another, and <sno of the sparkplugs misfired TJie further wo went the worse becamo tho storm. At midnight I knew it was impossible for us to reach America. "I deliberately changed our course over tho Leeward Islands and went southwards until, at 3 a.m., we were tossed about in a terrible whirlwind and forced down on to the sea within sight of tho Azores." Mrs. Hinchcliffo said a later spirit message from her husband said: "By Leeward Islands I meant the Azores, which I was trying to reach, but went 400 or 500 miles out of tho course." Tho speaker said she had received a letter from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the effect that Captain Ilinchcliffo had sent a message to him, thanking him for having interested Mrs. Hinchcliffo in spiritualism. Sho did not mention Miss Mackay. However, in closing her address sho said: "I could give you further messages I received relating to other things, but lam »sorry to say I was asked this morning to refrain from doing so.