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SPIRITUALIST'S WEIRD.
EXPERIENCES.
ELECTRICAL TESTS IN DARKENED STUDIO.
BASKET-ROLLING, TABLE-TIPPING, AND A MANIFESTATION."
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London. Twelve people, electri-¡ into each palm and connected to- sally connected hand to hand and gether by a wire, and a pair of foot to foot, sat in a darkened metal slipper-like things to slip room here recently and watched an over one's shoes.. Austrian medium produce startling phenomena. The medium was Rudi Schäcider and he was being tested under allegedly, fraud-proof com ditions by Mr. Harry Price, direc tor of the National Laboratory for Psychic Research.
Schoeider, when in a trance, is supposed to be under the control of Olga who speaks in a whisper in German through Rudi's mouth and apparently causes a wind to blow, a little table to trip over, and wastepaper basket to rise vertical by some four feet in the air. She also appears to materialize herself partly, though she says, through Rudi, that it is a great effort and very tiring.
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The row of observers hold hands and touched feet with their neigh bours on either side thus completing a circuit which lit a dia red lamp on the wall. If a sitter moved hand or foot, the light would go out. In the case of the medium, who was held firmly by Mr. Price, each hand and each foot was connected to a separate red lamp so that any move- ment would be at once detected.
Across one corner of the room hung a heavy red velvet curtain before which was suspended a red light globe swathed in red fannel. in front of the curtain stood a small table with an inverted waste- basket on top. Beneath the basket was a small hand bell. Inasmuch as the sitting was to take place in glow darkness save for the dim red of the suspended lamp, the corners of the table, the boll, the circular bindings of the wastebasket and the
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success of the sitting beyond pro-. riding the medium with conditions the genuineness of which he was willing to personally guarantee.
Next the wastebasket tipped over and fell to the floor, the Fuminous hoops rolling about uncannily. Then the bell fell with a clatter. the table tipped on to someone's feet. A sceptic asked to have the table righted and the wastebasket restored. This request was tran- slated into German and, within two o three minutes, the table stood upright and the wastebasket rose four or five feet in the air, bung suspended and, swaying a moment; fell again striking the corner of the table in its descent. The impres sion was as of not enough strength to support it longer or hold it long enough to lower it to the table.
The Manifestation.
Next a long, dead-white, arm-like thing came from betwen the eur- taias and wavered under the red- dish glow of the lamp. Someone soon & huddling white mass the size of a small squatting child appeared on the floor, swaying irregularly.
Spirit of a Dance, According to Rudi's companion, Kart Amere:ler of Munich, who has frequently sat with Schneider when entranced, "Olga is the spirit of a girl named Lola Montes who cugs of the curtain where it divid-asked for fuller materialisation and died in about 1861 in a poorhoused in the middle were luminously is under-painted. There was nothing behind in New York. "Olga stood to claim that she was a well the curtain which close inspection
could detect. known dancer under the name Lola Montez and that for a time she was the mistress of the mad King Leopold of Bavaria. Leopold is supposed to have lost his throne through a revolution occasioned by his people's dissatisfaction with the way he devoted himself to Loia.
Amereller asserts that these facts can be found in histories of the period and checked against "Olga'a” story.
Rudi has been holding sittings, he saya, for the past eight years. He came to England to be tested by Harry Price believing that Price a tests were the most exhaus tive obtainable. He is twenty years old and fond of sports.
"I am not a spiritualist," Rudi told the United Press correspon deat
Contact
The guests arranged themselves in a semi-circle facing the curtain and were joined together, electrically. Rudi, having substituted a pajama jacket for his coat, took his place facing Price at one end of the line. He was about five feet from the nearest corner of the curtain.
After this "Olga whispered through Rudi that she was tired and could not do more without a rest. She agreed to try fifteen minutes later but the second trance was resultiess save for a swaying of the curtains.
"Olga "appear- ed chiedy concerned with knowing it the sitters had been pleased with her efforts.
Her communications were always The door of the room was sealed preceded by a longer hissing and the lights were turned out ex- breath from Rudi which immediate cept for the red one. Silence pre-ly quieted the hubbub of highly vailed, broken only by increasingly forced, and artificial conversation hard and irregular breathing from between strangers. The whispered Rudi. Then Rudi began to shake communication was spoken in a and tremble and he settled into rapid burst of a few words, at a short, gasping breathing, the speed time in the dialect German exploy- of a ticking watch.
ed by Rudi when awake.
Afterwards, Mr. Price professed himself highly pleased with the sit
When entranced "Olga" whis- pared between gaps for everyone
and I can offer no explanato converse and later to sing, pro-ting and stated that he intended
ferrably Katherine." Both were dificult requests
tion of the phenomena which I nur told occur when I am entranced Myself, I remember nothing.",
Preparations.
The test sitting took place on the top floor of a South Kensington houm-one of a row of similar, highly respectable dwellings of prosperous Londoners. Bustle pre vailed as the ten guests assembled. Radi's friend and Price's secretary were busy completing the electrical devices. These consisted of a pair 1 gloves with metal discs sewn
to have nudi visit England for six His months in the near future. object is to see if he can gradually introduce more light into the pro- ceedings as well as train "Olga to perform more' varied feats.
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Lasted an Hour. The trance lasted an hour with phenomena opcurring at intervals. The luminous borders of the curtain Mr. Price refused to commit him- were scen to sway; the red self on the subject of Olga" for, lamp swung outward, while a dis- not being a spiritualist himself, he tinetly chili brecae struck the sit says he finds it difficult to accept. ters' faces. No amount of search-spiritualistic explanations. He in- ing afterward could discover any clines to a belief that Rudi's power mechanical blast contrivance behind is some" form of projected energy. the curtain. Moreover, Mr. Price operating, perhaps, through rays se claimed to have no interest in the far unclassified by science..
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