MORE OF MR HOME.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 879, 26 October 1871, Page 3

MORE OF MR HOME.

Lord Lindsay, in a letter to the "Spiritualist," relates the following experiments with Mr Home, which he calls" Reichenbaeb's Magnetic Flames, and the Levitation of the Human Btdy'S—- " On the evening of the 11th July, I was showing some experiments in Tny laboratory to Lord Adare, Mr Bergheim, Mr Home, and my brother-in-law.

" It occurred to me to try if Home was able to see a magnet in the dark. This is an experiment which I believe was made by Keichenbach, and although-, like myself, he was never able to distinguish the light, yet he found a number of persons who did see it iinder test conditions.

" I asked Mr Homej and he expressed himself willing to try the experiment. I then took him into one of my rooms, which was totally dark, containing a large permanent magnet. Removing the armature, I placed it on the floor near the wall, at a considerable distance from the door.

"Mr Home was then brought into the room, and remained standing near the door for some moments. "He then said that he saw some sort of light on the floor iu a corner of the room, and immediately said to toe —' Give me your hand, and I will show you exactly where I see it.' He then led me straight across the room, and without the least hesitation stooped down and placed my hand on the magnet.

" I have been trying for more than two years to get a satisfactory result in this experiment, but hitherto with only doubtful success.

" The instrument used was a large compound magnet capable of sustaining a weight of about 201b.

" I may mention that on another occasion I was sitting with Mr Home and Lord Adare and a cousin of his. Duriig the sitting, Mr Home went into a trance, .'and in that state was carried dut of the window in the room next to where we were, and was brought in at oar window. The distance between the windows was about 7ft 6in, and there w«s not the slightest foothold between them, nor was there more than a 12-inch projection to each window, which served as a ledge to put flowers on.

"We heard the window in the next room lifted, and alißost immediately after we saw Home floating in the air outside our window.

"The lnoon Was shining full into the room; my back was to the light, and I saw the shadow on the wall of the window-sill, and Home's feet-about six inches above it. He remained in this position for a few seconds, then raised the window and glided into the room feet foremost, and sat down. "Lord Adafe then went into the next room to look at the window from >hich he bad been carried. It was raised about 18 inches, and he expressed his wonder how Mr Home had

been taken through a& narrow ah aperture. " Home said {still in a trance), *I will show you j'and then, with hia back to the window, ho leaned back, and was s'aot out of the aperture head first with the body rigid, and then returned quietly. "The window is about 20ft from the ground. I very much doubt whether any skilful tight-rope dancer would like to attempt a feat of this description, where the only means of crossing would be by a perilous leap, or being borne across in such a manner as 1 have described, placing the question Of the light aside. " 14th July. Lindsay.