"CARTERISM" OR SPIRITUALISM?

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 65, 6 March 1908, Page 2

"CARTERISM" OR SPIRITUALISM?

TO-NIGHT. lhe Theatre lloyal "will be given over this evening to a series of mysterious demonstrations by -'Carter," the great American magician, assisted by that

strange phenomenon, .Miss Abigail Price, whose performances arc said to he indescribable, in that she has developed the sixth-sense. That she is a spiritualist she denies still more forcibly. Her work is above that. She has made a study of her science and has done everything in Iter power to make herself mis-

tress of the unknown forces which arc about her. She claims that deeds perpetrated are, as it were, photographed upon an imdfcveloped ]>lnte. and that she has merely reached the point where, to her. these pictures may he seen and understood. She says (hat when asked concerning a" crime the picture of the perpetration of that crime rises up hefore her clear and distinct in everv dj-

tad. "How long have f been studying? Ever since I was eleven years 'old." Personally. Miss Price is a pleasant as well as an entertaining woman. She meets one frankly and kindly. Miss Price says there is 110 mind so easilv read as that of a thief. TTc has himself been trained to a certain extent in this sixth sense, and. most of all, he is, generally speaking, superstitious. Miss Price has had packages of stolen goods sent lo her through the mail and by express. Often they arc brought to her hotel. Once a woman stalked into her room at the hotel and threw on the sofa a misshapen bundle of loose silver. '•There, take the stud and lei me alone." she exclaimed. She said that Mi-s Price had been after her. "11a ■•■ giio;" her lo return the silver. The box plan for to-night's performance is open nt the Dresden Pinno Company's agency.