MYSTERY DRAWINGS
EX-N.Z. MAN'S DEATH INFLUENCE OF SPIRITUALISM? (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The, William Atkinson referred to in tho London, cable message as having been found dead, came to Wellington from Sheffield, England, where he was 'engaged in the works of Sir Robert Ifadfield. lie .had been a profession association football player in the -Sheffield United team. A big man physically, he had no interest in drawing, but while in Wellington suddenly developed a faculty for drawing extraordinary pictures. -Ho apparently drew automatically. Uv -would look at the ceiling, or elsewhere, and draw. He was advised to. go to England, and did »so. and was understood to have been engaged in commercial drawing. When in New Zealand, Atkinson rejected the idea that spiritualism was the cause of his drawings, and was inclined to be worried about it,-according to a friend. In Auckland he met Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who said that apparently he was under the spiritual thfhie'neo of sonic artist, but Atkinson was inclined to scoff at this.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17234, 14 April 1930, Page 13
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