DOYLE SURE OF ECTOPLASM.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16114, 1 May 1923, Page 8

DOYLE SURE OF ECTOPLASM.

23 AUSTRIAN PROFESSORS SAID TO HAVE BEEN CONVINCED. NEW YORK, March 3.—Sir Arthur Oonan Doyle, in a letter published today in the New York Times, tells of a demonstration of ectoplasm, the intangible substance said 1 by certain spiritualists to bo emitted' by mediums, before a group of 100 leading Austrian scientists. Thirteen seancW were held, Sir Arthur wrote, at which Dr. Schrenck Nothing, of Munich, demonstrated with Willy Eva, a young German medium, and 1 convinced skeptics and bitter opponents of his theory that the claims of spiritualists that ectoplasm exists fs true. Sir Arthur's letter, which was a reply to his critics, said in part: "I have received the report of the recent demonstration by Dr. Schrenck Notzing at Munich, which surely puts an end to the whole debate so that anyone who reopens it is inexcusably ignorant or wilfully perverse. "Of the 100 (who witnessed 1 the demonstration) twenty-three are university professors, including Zimmer, Beecner, Kalker, Freytag, Salzer, Caretz, Pauli, Vanino, Hube'r, Tuartogs, Heilncr and 1 Geiger, some of whom verified' their results in as many ns thirteen seances. A detailed account .of tho experiments is promised in the next number of the Rcvuo Mctaphysique of Paris. "So' that seems to settle the question as clearly as any matter can be settled, but we can hardly leave it without pointing tha moral. We were publicly assured by Proifes*)r Jastrow, Mr. Black, of Montreal, and, I am sorry to say, by my friend, Houdini, that this was all 'what they called "bunk,' and! that what we observed was really regurgitated food. In vain we pointed' out (on the occasion of demonstrations with the famous medium, Eva) thai, the substance was while, whereas the medium had' been made to swallow Chimin, My last mails from the United' States still bring me absurd assertions that it. war. regurgitated' food.

"Criticism is most welcome rind' help fill, but. f would! beg onr opponents to exercise same* restraint) in it, or they will make the subject and themselves rather ridiculous."