SPOOKS AND DIVORCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1094, 16 January 1912, Page 4

SPOOKS AND DIVORCE.

A message from New York to the Daily Express states that Adolph Schnell has filed a suit for divorce in Kanas City against bis wife, who is a trance medium, naming four spirits as the cause of his domestic troubles. These are Mike Conroy, whom Mrs Schnell calls her chief guide, and three Red Indians —Red Wing, Red Feather and High Horse. Schnell states that he is unhappy when the ghosts are around, and cannot sleep. “As soon as I get into my first sleep, ” he says, “ My wife begins to yell, and when I ask her what is the matter, she says, 1 Mike Conroy is here. He wants you to get up and talk to your grandfather.’ When Mike possesses her she talks with a brogue, and keeps asking me if I cannot see my grandfather standing over beside the dressing table. I strain my eyes, but never once catch a glimpse of the old gentleman. Wheu she wants to emerge from a trance, she sends me to the kitchen to get a drink of water for Mike. I cannot see Mike, but she says he is there all right. When I bring the water, she drinks it herself, but says that it has made Mike feel much better. It is too much for me, and I have lost so much rest entertaining Mike and the three Red Indians that I simply cannot stand it any longer.”