A £1000 CHALLENGE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 425, 6 February 1909, Page 9

A £1000 CHALLENGE.

'. "SPIKITUALIST" LADY ACCEPTS '.A , ; v>: / ..cueious task... :. ; ;y. -, ;■■;'• The.; report having been circulated.. that a Plymouth lady spirituulist intended claiming 5000 dollars offered by the , American Psychical Society to. anyone- who can! prove having received a message irom, the dead.-.a correspondent of the "Daily News" interviewed tlie lady In question, .whose nanie is Martin. - "I have made no offer to prove that I have, received a -message; from the .dead;", she said, "but I am cap-, able of proving that." - •■• : -.■'■: "Then you have had messages from the dead?" ; '^--:.;'■',. ■~■.; : \.-.-■':'/'' ;-.-"■■ ■ ■ "Yes,"..was'the prompt replyj "very,.good., ones".on several, occasions.";. ;': '•'--■:'. . , .'■;■■.' ■ The. challenge of .the : New York .society- wasto.a'nyqne who would tell,.bj. the aid of. , a spirit, the humb.er. , of- oranges" , spiljed,'on, a ; table ,be- ; hind.him.'-,"l:wrote and accepted it,"'said thelady.;""• v ,; ;; .: ;; : .. ~.••,-; ■; ..-.,■.■ '"• In further conversation, she'stated, that about twelve months; ago a-friend of hers attended a dinner at Exeter. : Although she ■' herself remained at Plymouth, she. \vas;,able; to state what was said and ; what wine was drunk, and to give other details as to.what took place. She did this, she explained, with the. aid of ii spirit friend, and added, "I am a clairvoyaute." "To accept tnat offer with regard to the oranges you would havo.to go to New York?" "Oh, no," was the reply. "With my spirit friend Lean go there and return again." Then she made it clear that she meant to go: there and- return in the spirit sense.. She added: "Prom my own home here! could count the oranges-as they are spilled on the table in New York." Asked as to the identity of -her "spirit friend," she said,."l.would not like to'give the' nauie.' I never knew my "spirit friend when she was alive, but! have seen'her many, 'tinies." -' . To -an .inquiry as to the- nature qi "the'iiies"-" sages, she replied .that liot long ago'her friend told her to warn : someone that she'inust be f very careful of. her son, or-he would soon be with her in the spirit world. Shortly afterwards he was very ill. Asked in-what circumstances she usually received the messages, she' replied that ns a rule they came to her when she was in bed, and they were communicated in whispers. .'. ■ • ;,;.