MR STEAD'S SPIRIT?

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8740, 23 May 1914, Page 7

MR STEAD'S SPIRIT?

WITNESSES OF PSYCHICAL APPEARANCES. LONDON, April 9, Mr W. T, Stead, as everybody', known, wag. drowned ill the latajiiai disaster in Apriij 1912, hut neterthe- 1 less tv nxtinliEf of q"uite well-known. Triedivnd 'women, whose authority on. othen subjects is accepted without dispute,! allege that his Uneasy spirit ©till dXL lirUiTGet lit tho Gt’bomc ol tliiiife'i hero holow, In a little hook entitled “Has Mi< W. T. Stead Returned?” arc collected ibo statement!, of various persons who gay that they have actually scan tho Shade and heard tho Voice of the laid fc,liter of the '‘Review of Reviews, Not only that, hut his spirit lias hoed (to obliging as to materialiieo and posl for photographs, which are reproduced jn tho book. Their presence, it is dx- ; Plained, was rendered possible by tin) co-operation of the ''lntelligence in th« Invisible.” i As regards the messages from Mf Stead, it is carefully pointed out that Jiis stylo has in many cases noroowhat idtered. and approsunaLTs closely to that or tho earthly medium, hut p OT ’| haps this is duo to the difficulty of mw Ipanting definite ideas through a mo. Idium. Mr Stead, however, appear* ,to have shown himself to all kinds of (people in America, Austi alia, and [England, and his versatility seems to ‘he undiminished. For example, lift .discusses tho loss of the Titanic, deal* (with the groat mystery of so-calio! [death, . and discusses the merits of Ijolm Bright ns ad orator and qlj ■Carlyle as a writer. Ho retains h a iold prejudices against Chicago, and (regrets that his light against “entrenched vice” was an unequal one. ■ Miss Estelle Stead states that three [weeks after tho Titanic disaster she saw her father’s head and las plainly as when they last mot on earth. This was at a trumpet soanco at Julia’s Bureau. Sir Alfred Tumor Ws that at a small seance at h* house in 1912 Mr Stead’s voice was [heard and he described his transition from this world to the next. few davs later at another seance, Mr Stead [showed himself twice, for less than, a iminute each tame. “Ho looked peri feetlv composed and happy, and sank a; benignly at us, but apparently ho> iconld not raise his voice or reply to) iany of the questions we asked him.’’