TEST FOR MEDIUM

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 857, 28 December 1929, Page 10

TEST FOR MEDIUM

CAMERAS TO SNAP “SPIRITS”

FRAUD-PROOF ROOM

A 21-vear-old Austrian motor-mech-anic named Rudi Schneider, who has been described as the greatest spiritualistic medium in the world, arrived in London recently, says the “Daily Mail.”

He has agreed to submit to a series of weekly seances, under the most exacting conditions, in the presence of a committee of distinguished scientists. The first of these will be conducted in the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, Queensberry Place, South Kensington.

A room has been specially fitted up with what are said to be fraud-proof scientific instruments. A series of six tell-tale electrical globes will register any breach of contact between the circle of inspectors, who will wear metal gloves and socks and rest their feet on metal- plates to ensure a perfect circuit. Hands to be Held The medium will wear a pyjama suit with metal-weave gloves stitched to the sleeves, and his hands will be held by one of the committee. All sounds will be recorded on a dictaphone and the door of the room will be secured by leaden seals A “thermograph” will record changes in temperature.

The director of the laboratory, Mr Harry Price, said: “It is an endeavour to apply scientific tests to psychic phenomena by the use of instruments or precision.

Schneider has given demonstrations in Vienna, Prague, Munich, Paris and London, but not under such perfeet conditions.”

A special feature will be a battery of special cameras which will record, by ultra-violet light, any physical maniTestations which may occur.