MURDER SEANCE
NEW YORK, Jan. 18
Spiritualists at Omaha, Nebraska, claim to have solved a baffling murder case by obtaining the name of the criminal from .the victim’s spirit. Tlie history of the crime begins three months ago, when the body of a girl was found at the roadside near tlie city. Thousands of persons saw the body in the mortuary after the police inserted advertisements in the newspapers, but nobody was able to identify it. Last night six prominent local spiritualists, headed hv Dr Thomas Margarrcll, secretary of the International Spiritualist Union, held a seance in the room where the dead girl’s hotly had lain for a week. “One of the six,” Airs Mary Munson, states that she obtained communication with tlie girl’s spirit, which informed her of the name of the murderer, adding that he was now at Tampico, Mexico. “At least three persons present agreed,” said Dr Margarrell after the seance, “that there were three men and one woman with the girl at the time she was killed. A motor-car could also he seen leaving Omaha going north.”
Tlie spiritualists have -communicated their discovery to the police, hut the name of the alleged murderer is not made public.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1920, Page 3
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