FROM LOST HUSBAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 519, 23 November 1928, Page 9

FROM LOST HUSBAND

MRS. HINCHCLIFFE GETS SPIRIT MESSAGES TRAGIC ATLANTIC VENTURE {Australian and, 2T.Z. Press Association) LONDON, Wednesday. Remarkable scenes were witnessed at Caxton Hall, Westminster, last evening. Mrs. Hineheliffe, widow of

Captain Hineheliffe, who was lost with the Hon. Elsie Mackay in an attempt to fly across the Atlantic last March, made her first appearance as a spiritualist under the auspices of the W. T. Stead Library, and spoke on the subject of her husband’s disappearance. Thousands of women besieged the doors of the hall, and clamoured for admission. The police had to be called in to regulate the crowd. Mrs. Hineheliffe said she came into touch with well-known mediums and became interested in spiritualism because of the truth of the mediums’ revelations of intimate details of her husband’s life. She said she had attended a seance of the London Spiritualistic Alliance. There she received a clear spirit message from her husband. STORY OF THE FLIGHT This message, Mrs. Hineheliffe said, was as follows:—“We flew 700 miles from the Irish coast toward the north-north-west. I changed our course at 10 p.m. a little to the northward and kept on that until midnight. Then we encountered a terrible gale. “First one strut of the machine broke and then another, and one of the spark-plugs misfired. The further we went the worse became the storm. At midnight I knew it was impossible for us to reach America. “I deliberately changed our course over the Leeward Islands and went southwards until, at 3 a.m., we were tossed about .In a terrible whirlwind and forced down on to the sea within sight of the Azores.” A CORRECTION Mrs. Hineheliffe said a later spirit message from her husband said: “By Leeward Islands I meant the Azores, which I was trying to reach, but went 400 or 500 miles out of the course.” The speaker said she had received a letter from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle do the effect that Captain Hineheliffe had sent a message to him, thanking him for having interested Mrs. Hinclcliffe in spiritualism. She did not mention Miss Mackay. How .ver, in doting her address she said: “I could give you further messages I received relating to other things, but I am sorry to say I was asked this morning to re train from doing so.”