FIGHT AT SEANCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 178, 29 June 1937, Page 7

FIGHT AT SEANCE.

SEQUEL IN LAW COURTS. A Red Indian spirit named “White Moose,” conversations with the spirit of a naval officer, and a struggle between the officer’s son and a medium figured in evidence when Clive Holmes, aged 47, pleaded not guilty to a charge of obtaining four shillings by false pretences, in a London Court. The police stated that Mrs Violet Evens, wishing to communicate with the spirit of her husband, PaymasterLieutenant Evens, attended seances at Holmes’s house, where people sat before a cabinet, dimly lit with a red bull) in which Holmes sat handcuffed. The apparition of “AVhite Moose” appeared in a weird ray from luminous S ‘Mrs Evens’s son, aged 20, detected a coat sleeve under the spirit’s shroud and flashed a torch, whereupon a spirit, described as “Clive’s twin.” became, materalistic and knocked Mrs Evens down with a luminous slate. Her son defended himself with a chair. When the curtain was raised, Holmes was sitting in the cabinet, handcuffed and breathing heavily. During the struggle, young Evens secured part of the spirit s wrapping—a piece of white butter muslin. . The hearing was adjourned.