CATCHING A SPIRIT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 224, 15 January 1880, Page 3

CATCHING A SPIRIT.

■. ~ . - -<» : ... f •|ljKL.,.i Wss '.' ..Himioon, sister o jpdji y'' pro! I)er&^;|lVo^'fan^ou'3- : m-a^oriaiising.. mediums, caino to grief at North 'Adams '. oii and- 'opal editor J. Hi..-; Matib'ett'ot the " Trariscript," played tho principal part in: tho, affair;. Mr Hun toon a nd her brother, Eddy came from ■Chittenden,, Vft,•;% ■ arrangement with !• local particsj on-'Friday; night, and took rooms oyot' Quackenbush's 'restaurant on State street. ,;Von'Saturday .evening they gavo their first seance, which about fifteen. attended, and. there was tho usual mani-.-> 'festationk : Am6ng- tKeaudienca was Rev; o Osborne.~ •he.' and < -Mrl-V3^fti>^t-'-l^'4''%4 r : h^tds' "Jogetlssr forthoex'poa/ure which-'worked so siieceVsMly ! bV-]^ was an ordinary sittin^-h : )6mjwJfcli a bodroom adjoining, and from jhe bed-room a.' doorled to a wardrobe. The bed-room was utilised as a cabinet, a dark, curtain •being hung up over the doorway, the door of which was pualied back. Colonel Potter and William Hodgskins examined s tho cabinet before tiie .seance, but no one in it when the manifestations began. <',jkn.audience of nearly 30 were present, including eight women. Mrs. Hunlpoh was bound by Colonel Potter ond sat alone in the cabinet' wheu the ■•manifestations took place.' The seance lasted about ah hour, •hurl a number of figures one; of them purporting.to bevthe grandmother of tlie Kov.'Dr. Osborne, Who vvas presented. Mrs. Hutitoon's closing materialisation is always that of an Indian chief, who bounds out with a yell into the dimly-lighted r obm, in'which nothing can be distinguished "save the " spirit forms." Mr. Mabbett; has attended several of • these seances at Mount Pleasant, and know just when the Indian would appear, so that when lie heard the whoop he sprang from the front seat, and caught the figure when about three feet from tho cabinoL curtain. At the same instant Webster Eddy jumped for Mubbett and the spirit fell to the floor, Eddy endeavoring to get holdjof Mabbett's throat, while the spirit' scratched his face vigorously. Rev. Dr. Osborne and Col. A. O. Potter, who had agreed' to assist Mabbett, at once hauled away Eddy, but the editor did not .relax..his hold on -.tho spirit, and -funally brought out before* the audienc§ the; Indian figure. At this junc,turo „hy > . preeoiic'eHed .;'asr,ang§nient> and ( peputy Sheriff Walden, who had been: w ; aitrugjin the haliAvajf for thfe'e qfwarters '.[piifya hpuiv ; krok&: : : fn the';9o6f; and when'ife? light 'Were 1 turned up the 'lndian %nrb;proved.~ to te -Mrs. Hun toon, her. skirts and dress -cunningly tucked up about her body, and her. white drawers showing plainly, while sh 0 ' kicked, screamed,, and cried to her assq-. ciates for a .pistol.;.. The scene was one of the highest .-excitement and confusion. ,Ohe_.wonian riished up: and denounced Mr Mabbett a* 5% "shameless thing," and entreated him to put down the medium's . dress ;-, while he, exr-ited by the confusion, cal'ed histf'y. " See her.legs. : l" " See her drawers-!"' " There's the Indian ma.teriali- : ; s ationforyou 1" After recovery from her hysterics, Jn which she prophesied her death before.moaning,, she, out of 6hee r bravado, explained that there was no deny-, if.g" tho faclt th;it Mabbett Indian.fjgi?*e, put that,"ijiaiehiueh as the fronvhpr, It likbwlae retumerj; to her, a»d ; flo," Instead of keeping tho materialisation, he found her in his. arms. , A few spiritualists present .swanowed.-this, aa truth. Mrs. Huntoon evening, and is.announced to go to' Lee> Tyringham, and other places in southern Berkshire soon. She was in S;mdiane)d and New Boston last winter, and hud a good many believers fln , re.--Springneld Republican. T?