A £1000 CHALLENGE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9372, 15 February 1909, Page 6

A £IOOO CHALLENGE.

“SPIRITUALIST” LADY ACCENTS A CURIOUS TASK.

The report having been circulated that a Plymouth lady spiritualist intended claiming 5000 dollars offered, by the American Psychical Society to anyone who can prove having received a message from the dead, a correspondent of the Daily News interviewed the lady in question, whose name is Martin. “I have made no offer to prove that I have received a message from the dead,” she said, “but I am capable of proving that. ” “Then yon have had messages from the dead?”

“Yes,” was the prompt reply, “very good ones on several occasions.”

Thq challenge of the New York. Society was to anyone who would tell, by the aid of a spirit, the number of oranges spilled on a table beside him. “I wrote and accepted it,” said the lady. In further conversation she stated that about twelve ,months ago friend of hers attended a dinner at Exeter. Although she herself remained at Plymouth, she was able to state what was drunk, and to give other details as to what took place. She did this, she explained, with the aid of a spirit friend, and added, “I am a olairvoyante. ” ‘‘ To aoceptjjthat offer with regard to the oranges you would have to go to New York?”

“Oh, no,” was the reply. “With my spirit friend I can go there and return again.” Then she made it clear that she meant; to go there and return in the spirit sense. She added: “From my own home here I could count the oranges as they are spilled on the table in New York.” Asked as to the identity of her “spirit friend,” she said, “I would not like to give the name. I never knew my spirit friend when she was alive, but I have seen her many times.”

To an inquiry as to the nature o£ the messages, .she replied that not long ago her friend told her to warn someone that she must be very careful of her son, or he would soon be with her in the spirit world. Shortly afterwards he was very ;ill. Asked in what circumstances she usually received the messages, she replied that as a rule they came to her when she was in bed, and they were communicated in whispers.