TROUBLES OF A MEDIUM.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 871, 18 July 1910, Page 8

TROUBLES OF A MEDIUM.

Signora Palladmo, whose Teputatioa as the world's .j, . .itest spiritualistio medium has preo: i her to America, has been challen:. jy a committee of experts to subuni .-o scientific testa they suggest, and tarn £200, but she hai reliisej on ■ Miiv. ground that true tasts were ignominious, and that she is "No pig from a country fair.' , ' • it is alleged in iVew lork that Signora I'ailadino |iniflin:e>! her phenuin-ena ' at Columbia' University lately.by trifckory,iaml without supernormal'or supernatural iorcu,'nnd .the', teals now askud for are. as follow: — ' . Signora Palladino shall be placed'hi a. canvas sack, without any 'nicning except at the neck. This opening shallbe laond up the back) and this lacing shall bo.done m such a way that it cau he opened only by cutting. The sack' shall be lastcnwl tu tbe lloui, and at the end of the seance shall show no signs of having been tampered, with. Tho medium shall also submit to examination by a committee or ladies to prove that-she has no apparatus coilcealed about her. Sho shall sit in a corner of.the room, and in the uiauner usual at her seances. v The famous medium, however, ironlil . not entertain ,tlie idea of the sack. She' tried it once in Venice, and nearly died; but she niado n counter-proposal by offerintr to be tied band and foot.