A SPIRITUAL MEDIUM.
The New York Times says :— C. W. Jackson, who claims to be a- spiritual medium, has created quite a sensation in St. Louis in the tying-up business,. He was challenged to an exhibition of skill by Hartz, the magician, and on his first trial succeeded in freeing himself from his bonds in a few .moments, to the great delight of the spiritualists of that city. On Friday night last the trial was repeated, when the gentlemen selected to tie him insisted upon searching him before commencing operations. They found a sharp penknife concealed in one shoe and a coil bf rope wound round his body. His trick consisted simply in being tied with a rope similar to the one he hadcoir cealed, and then, when confined in his " cabinet," cutting the one with which he was tied and secreting the pieces, and substituting for it the one he had concealed on his bidy, which he exhibited to lm audience as having been untied by spirits. When the knife and cord were taken? Rom hini, the spirits failed to respond o his invocations,, and he was relieved rom his " cabinet" bound as securely when he went in.
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Grey River Argus, Volume VII, Issue 502, 3 April 1869, Page 3
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199A SPIRITUAL MEDIUM. Grey River Argus, Volume VII, Issue 502, 3 April 1869, Page 3
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