SPOOKS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 924, 17 September 1910, Page 6

SPOOKS.

A FAMOUS SPIRIT MEDIUM EXPOSED.' Eusapia Palladino is the most talked-' of spirit'' medium in. tho. .world 'to-day,.-' Great-; professors®aycvibelieTOd,;iii ; ancl she has been hailed' in .Europe and America ,as thu greatest - spintuakstio' ;phOTpi)ienMof:tfo'last':;:d«c^e;;'>EuMpia' ; ''.. : '';'! is., a 'woman? of,: tho Latin -type, l - and ; -v . ivh'en' anyone jdoubts: her . genuineness, : sho shrieks ..and ' gets 'vory excited. It • ,'a^."faker,". : iftud.Vroceh!;;-.'myeatigatioiia; V.:' seein to' poiht. td the-'allegdtion»being: ..-. well founded (says the: "Weekly' Scots-:

:• Now. .York :is excit-od -about the mcdium,-.;and the. recent exposure of . iher> >tactics . at •> Columbia is:very much under discussion/ ; . . - , • -. - Ihc .'-table ron-this occasion, as - oa others rapped, - rocked, tilted oil :two'-,' : legs;;on. one, and. lefi the..floor complotely.- Tjndeiy -lowered "lights.;• (sig-;. ; nailed ior. by five, raps or'.the. table) tho- : - : curtains blew apart;'' a swelling appeared .- blinder v tho; ; left ; curtail#'jthiTcurkin^ blown over the itable; a .small, drum . ,omerged;ironi : tbe;cabinet,-.Was:bata^ for a 'moment, advanced'and retreated,!' 7 and was at last lifted and deposited on'; the. seance, table.' A hand -appeared against-the cabinet over. Eusapia's head,iuo're bulgings' of the . curtain, and -theu'. . seften:!raps,/indicatii^itbe;^ seanco.' Eusapia then- gave vent .to a - vi6lent - outburst., K&i'f-- V S- : :'S Whilst all .these-,things -were-happen-:c.; irig,--twp;men7wb^ liaht. - pieco' of -detective work. Before the seancc proper, opened- .the director', •• proposed' to test. the medium's force by' . ; means -of an electroscope. This ,- :ap-',- - paratus waa brought into the room ia. - its paper-: wrappings.':-:.' There,. '.was.' ; a r ■ screcn. covering tho entrance of tho- two . 'dctectives, .who .were'.clothed in tight-fitting-black suits and black stockings; •' ' Tljey wriggleditheir-'wiiy; along^^the ; ilbor; tiU.' llioy':, had _ reached their assigflod positions - oiv cither sido. of :, tho. seanoe table, uucler .the chairs of t-hs-; sitters.:,-.: • Oni uu.i\ head was withm -eight inches ',bf ; Eusapia!s feet throughout the. . seaucci.-On..'either siclg of tho medium - sat. a ."control;'' on. whose feet'-Eusa-:- .;* pia was'- supposed to res't her .own,- in proof i of tho contention that'she did ,• not use-'lier feet to,-make .'the'' table; wobble . This"'"'-is a 'what ono, of:the detectives • sa.vs:—For a.'few minutes :tho; .'medium : . ke'pt ;licr feet tapping .on the fc'eu: of , the controls. Then slie.placed her right '' foot cross-wise, so that tho lieel'rested • on the fcot of 0:10 .control'aiid the toe on the.foct of the'pther. ' To. these men ;• it: would seem' that' she had both feet 'on theirs. Presently aifoot. came from • beneatli her dress, aiid.; it, .was; placed under Ih'f' leg of the.tablo, which'was•' gently chucked into the air."- Then the foot '- withdrew V and",the'.:■ table to the floor. It was repeatedly ' after this, and every'time, whether .in i~ : a partial or complete levitation,'. the;,. medium?!! foot:was used as.:the compel•ling foroa'"At..different. times.thrbugh-; V.; out the seance' tho medium caused; rap- . ?■;, jiiiigs I 'upon- the .'t-ahlo;:.by the ' .;: free foot on the left leg of - tho tablo about three inches - from tlie floor. . :*l.} ' -Here"is' ail account-; of the same dotective' of tho cabinet manifestations :--r,: Shortly after the lights wero lowered' she kicked out backwards With her freo .-. ■ foot-, hitting the- curtain -at . her. back.\ This caused the, upper' part- of tho cur^ lain to bulge' outwardly. , This 'was nhvipiis that it seemed impossible;': that ; : tho 'peonlb';did, npt' observe her' action.--. . Later'she placed'her. freo:leg into tho ;. cabinet and. pulled , out i-'frpm, behind the >. curtain a small tabic containing sevc- ... ral articles; These she dashed to „tho .. floor and kicke<l several times: Onco , she balancetl, a table 011 her toe cleverly, .andVgav.O'.t.he. idea'that; it was floating, in tho air. .;/'... , : The liaht jwrmitted. thp; detective, at all times, oven when dimmest, to sea. . clearly .'the: actions pf the free foot. ' At; no-time was ho 111 the slightest .doubt. as to the . cause of any . movement that •. ocourroi ,■.>;" -' ; BV