“GUARD AGAINST TRICKERY.”

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18615, 10 July 1930, Page 9

“GUARD AGAINST TRICKERY.”

Passing Of Conan Doyle. SECRET CODE ARRANGED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, July 8. The “Daily Express” says that a point of remarkable interest attaches to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s spiritualistic belief. He and Lady Doyle had between them a secret code word, which it was agreed to use in any communication when one or the other had passed over. The code word will guarantee the genuineness of any message. The son said: “This will safeguard against trickery, because there are practical jokers on the other side, just as there are here. There are also other tests known by mother, which cannot be impersonated.” Lady Conan Doyle was constantly at the beside of her husband for two days and nights. At the moment before the end, Sir Arthur smiled at her and said: “You are wonderful.” All the members of the family are convinced that they will feel his presence and love just as before. [ After losing his son in the war the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle became an ardent spiritualist, and since 1918 devoted his life to writing and lecturing on behalf of his new faith, his books including “A New Revelation,” “The Vital Message,” “The Wanderings of a Spiritualist,” a novel, “ The Land of Mist,” and a “History of Spiritualism.” In 1925 he established a “Psychic Museum” containing spirit photographs and other “evidence” on behalf of spiritualism.] MEDIUM’S CLAIM. “TRUE—GLORIOUSLY TRUE!” By Telegraph—Press Association NAPIER July 9. Mrs V. May Cottrell, of Napier, a “clairaudient writing medium,” claims to have received a communication from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in the course of which the departed states:— “Words are totally inadequate to convey the true happiness and great joy one feels on beholding loved ones long lost sight of, and friends long removed from physical ken. As handclasp follows handclasp, I am overwhelmed with gladness, and my heart overflows with thankfulness, because now I know from wonderful personal experience that that which I so firmly believed, myself and expounded to others for so long is an actual marvellous fact. It is true, gloriously true, that there is no death, only transition from one state of being to another.”