ROYAL SPIRITUALISTS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1951, 8 January 1885, Page 4

ROYAL SPIRITUALISTS.

A new spiritualistic " mcdmm " has, according to a contemporary, arisen, and numerous incmbeis of the royal family lias honoured him with their visits. The late Duke of Albany was so much nnpiessed with what he saw at one seance that he went to the trouble of having a special double slate made, framed with oak, mhl elaboiate brass mountings, and fitted with a patent Bramah lock. Armed with tlrs he presented himself one morning at the medium's apartments, and a small piece of pencil hating been dropped between the slates, they were duly locked (the key being attached to the Duke's watch chain), and under these conditions — conditions w Inch would appear to preclude all possibility of fraud — the pencil was soon hcaid grating over the surface of the slates ; and when the key was applied to the lock, and the bides opened, there was a long message. The late DuLe always considciul this a crucial test, and from that day was a firm believer in the truth of " direct spirit writing." His Royal Highness always maintainted that the majority of the writing messages he received came from his lamented and fdvouiito sister, Princess Alice of Hesse, and a man of the late Duke's abilities and attainments, was not at all a likely subject to bo easily imposed upon by a ' clever conjuror,' as suggested in some quarters. So convinced, indeed, was the Duke of Albany of the possibility of departed spirits communicating in this way with those on cjith, that before his dcpaiturc on that fatal journey to Cannes — with peihaps some foiebodmg of what was to happen — he deposited the slate he had made with the medium, promising, if anything happened, to communicate a written message on this particular slate, and thus establish direct pi oof of the coirectnr^s of the phenomena. For many days after his decease attempts were made to obtain the promised menage, but up to the present date none have been received ; and the believers iv spiritualism, for a reason well known among themselves, confidently osseit that none will be received until some long peuod has elapsed.

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