This he did, and declaredimposition on the part of
Parkes to be impossible. Also a big percentage of the spirit forms wererecognized.
Do you advertise or promise to get spirit faces, or something out ofthe ordinary for
your sitters? Some mention should be made of the remarkable results of Mr. What are
we to think of the reports that ancientstatues spoke?
But in saying this he is notexplaining
anything.
Blakes medical adviser, was convinced of her
powers. During the exposure of aplate he was said to be in partial trance. To save
himself heconfessed that all his results had been obtained by trickery. He states
that a considerable number of the photographs were recognizedby the
sitters.
Guthrie, superintendent of the West Virginia Asylum
atHuntingdon, Mrs. Other well-known sitters have described remarkable evidential
resultsobtained with Duguid.
An account of theseextraordinary sittings, which
were under the control of Mr.
He wassentenced to a fine of five hundred francs
and imprisonment for one year. Even to say spirits would not satisfy the
ordinaryscientific man.
Then Black went himself and personally performed
allthe manipulation of plates and development.
Warrick under every possible test condition,
andfully reported in PSYCHIC SCIENCE. He obtained six psychic resultsin eight
experiments.
Marshalland John King to speak at the same time, so
I was obliged to throw overthat theory. Wolfe in his book, Startling Facts in Modern
Spiritualism. John Beatties valuable and conclusive experiments, as Dr. French, in
his book The Dead Have Never Died.
Theevidence of professional photographers who were
not Spiritualists wasstrongly in Mumlers favour.
Stead persuaded him to allowhim to have sittings.
Most of the great physicalmediums, especially the materializing mediums, produced
voice phenomena. He obtained six psychic resultsin eight experiments.
Stead gives particulars of precautionsobserved in
marking plates, etc.
I thought this very strange, and it made me more
interested,and I went on with my experiments. Guthrie gives the following two cases
with Mrs. Individually we differ as to probable causes, but unanimouslyagree
concerning the palpable facts.
But in saying this he is notexplaining anything.
Lastly, I assumed that a concealed confederate did the voice, so attendedtwo seances
where Mrs. On one of the plates were two spiritpictures.
And theycan say this with the assurance of
conviction, after a series ofexhaustive tests. Do those who are Spiritualists get
better results than disbelievers? AlfredRussel Wallace calls them, can only be
referred to briefly.
The followingquestions which were asked, and
answered by Wyllie, are of historicalinterest:Q. Randall gives an account of another
good American voicemedium, Mrs. Thisoccurred so frequently that I am quite convinced
of the impossibility ofany fraud.
Marshall alone; John was there,and talked for an
hour.