A terrible tragedy oceured in Birmingham on a Sunday night recently. A seance, or spiritualistic service was being held, in the Athcnrcum Assembly Kooms, Temple Row, and most of the prominent believers in spiritualism were present. In the course of the service a medium, Mr Benjamin Hawks, toy dealer, of New Street, addressed tlie audience. He averred that at one seance he and Peter the Apostle had clasped hands, and that lie had felt the firm grasp of Peter's hand in his own. From this manifestation he went on to argue that it was quite possible to understand how Thomas, called Didymus thrust his hand into the side of' The Personification of Divine Love.' The instant theso words were uttered the speaker fell back on a chair behind him. dead.
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Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1155, 3 March 1874, Page 4
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