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SPIRITUALIST TEST

CASE.

DISMISSED

UNDER PROBATION ACT.

Sir Oliver Lodge and Sir Ar- thur Conan Doyle gave evidence in the spiritualist test case at the Westminster Police Court.

£10.

Sir Patrick Hastings, K.C., (for Miss Phillimore) said that the

What precautions do you take to prevent Mrs. Cantlon or any other medium from telling the future?

Sir Arthur replied that he did not know how a person could be prevented from doing such a thing unless it were by having a witness in the room while a sitting was in progress.

Mr. Roome-Have you had sitting with Mrs. Cantion?-No.

Have you taken any step your self to ascertain whether she is a person to be a fit and proper medium?Yes.

very pleasing.

offence.

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1928.

AMERICAN DIVORCE.

SCANDALS.

FRENCII JUDGE ON ABUSE OF PARIS COURTS.

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One of the officers of the Court accused was censured, the other

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GERMAN MOVE IN VIENNA.

BID FOR UNION WITHI AUSTRIA.

'Berlin, July 23, Germany is Jubilant over the success of the great four days' political demonstration which has just taken place at Vienna under the guise of a "musien!" fastival.

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Paris, July 23. Three Paris solicitors wore to day suspended for eight, four, and two months respectively, three Mrs. Cantlon, a medium em

were reprimanded and ordered to

At the concluding banquet in pay coats, and one was acquitted nloyed by the London Spiritualist

in the special trial of these seven the town hall Herr Lobe, Presi Alliance, Lid, South Kensington,

and of two officers of the Court dent of the German Reichstag, de- Since this case started?-Yes. was summoned for professing to

He added that the result was for malpractices in connexion livered a defiant speech which tell fortunes and Miss Phillimore, very reassuring. Captain Craw-with divorces of American citi was a fitting climax to the eight The secretary of the Alliance, was ford had told him of some very re-zens in France

hours' parade of 200,000 German summoned for aiding and abetting.markable results of Morse trans-

"musicians" from every clime, who exchanged with the hundreds The magistrate said he was of mission, a subject about which Mrs.

of thousands of Viennese specta- the opinion that both women were Cantlon knew nothing.

tors ceaseless cries of mutual ad- guilty, but the summonses would Mr. Roome-Supposing a journa-ccquitted. be dismissed under the Probation list went to a sitting to get some While some of those necused miration and solidarity,

admitted committing irregular!- South Tyrol alone was unrepre MORRISON of Offenders Act, Miss Phillimore "copy ?"-Well, such things have

to pay £20 costs and Mrs. Cantlon been done and the results have been ties, others vigorously protested,sented, except. by one man carry- PIANO.

You rather object to journalists? Defended by the flower of the ing the South Tyrolean banner be- him. Everyone road in Oh, no. In a small way I am a Paris Bar, their line in general foro

was to throw all the blame on to silence as he passed.

Amid vociferous applause Herr Summons against her was regard-journalist myself.

1 What Jeweas saved the life of Mr. Perey W. Bullock (for Mra, the firms of American lawyera ed as a matter of great import-

her people by marrying a king ance, because fortune telling was Cantlon) said that he understood who had instructed them and Lobe was lyrical on the subject of

and interceding in their behalf? one people and one nation, and wa

(Blb.) no part of the task of the London from counsel representing Miss furnished them with documentary Austro-Gorman reunion. "We are

Phillimore that there would be no evidence,

mean to be ono State too," he said.

6 Who was the author of "Little Spiritualist Alliance.

question as to Mrs. Canton's bona lie understood that the Alliances, and he was amazed that that

It was alleged that they had "I have often come to Vienna as Women" was a branch of a large body of had taken place. In those circum-eglected to test the evidence of unofficial Ambassador so to speak 12 A bitter crystalline substance. people who were studying earnest stances she wished him to withdraw domicile bilered them, and had to tell you what the German people 14 Inferior kind of binek tea. ly to arrive at real conclusions on her plea of "guilty to a technical bribed clerks of the Court to think about reunion. No Buch 16 Peasant or cultivator of the soll,

accelerate processes. In one case Ambassador is necessary after to-10 By. a matter in which most of them

that an day. made were already convicted; that, in

Sir Oliver Lodge next gave evi- the charge was

American was served with a peti- "Hundreds of thousands of am-19 Who is the most famous feminino wedence. their own words, "Life, as anderstand if, does not end with He said he was not a member of tlon for divorce two dove after bassadors have brought you the death, as we understand it." the Alliance, but had been a mem-landing in France, and that a message of the German people, 23 Yellow condiment.

A conviction against Misger of the Society for Psychical whole house of furnished flats and we Germans have to-day re- 24 You and I.

message near the Bols, de Boulogne was ceived the same Phillimore, he said, would sound Research since 1882.

lent of the English "R"? the death knell of the Alliance. Sir Patrick-The Society is in- occupied by American petitioners, two million Vienese, Can a 70-25 What Greek letter in the equiva

The whole iden of

phenomenon who would. go and live there toge million people for ever be denied 27 Sesume (plant). the quiring into the

overy | 28 A grave. Alliance, as I understand it," he generally know as spiritualismnther with their spouses until the right which belongs to said, "is that they are satisfied Popularly known by that term. that there are people who have a You have always approached this divorce was pronounced, when other people? This is the biggest 30 The affirmative side. power which is not understood, matter from a perfectly scientific they would return to America demonstration for reunion which 32 Lowest portion of window frame.

separately..

has, ever taken place."

Berlin Press Challenge. or some setife

understood, point of view From that stone.

"Marionette" Husbands,

Herr Lobe's words were re- This science necessitates the use They have the power, when in at

of the state of complete insensibility of media?-In my case it does, be-

The President of the Court, M. echoed in every section in a trance of conveying mess causo have no power myself.

comments Berlin Press, which hurts Sir Patrick-As far as the duties Wattine, made severe

of the trial. lenging rejoinders to Press ages, which those who study the

are enmeerhed, are during the course

43 One in cards. science, are satisfied are mess-of the media

Correspondents of German news-44 Toward, ages from people who are dead." they any more than to transmit the "French justice," he said to one ment from Paris..

messages received? It is a kind defendant, "has been reduced to a

from California? of human faculty we do not under-mockery, and it is you who have papers have lost no opportunity 45 Who is the "congresswoman" ' tand, but which we are trying to been the chief artisan of so de-of emphasising the "will to union" investigate.

plorable a result." To another, between Austria and Germany 40 Hastened. who attempted to shelter himself symbolished and expressed in the behind his. American correspon- festival

The Cologne Gazette, in an dents, he replied: "Their attitude was highly reprehenalble. They article which was one long glori contributed to deceive the Court fention of German solidarity, con- cluded: If this Deutschis Saen- and you helped them to do so."

gerbund Fest in Vienna is in ex- All the divorces in question had. ating circumstances a mighty been pronounced on the petition demonstration for the unity of

forcibly of the wives and the Procureur de the

divided German Have you ever heard fortunea Repubifque, in his address to people, that is certainly not the cold?-10 depends on what you the Court, suddenly trounced fault of the German singing socie- | HH-

can.base heard great events these lords of the dollar, these ties. The blame lies with those teshadowed. The Great War husbands who, like the murio was foretold to mu by a medium nettes of our childhood, come on turn round three month before it happened.

times and then go off," having thus satisfied a minimum demand tually fictitions.

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Sir. A. Conan Doyle.

the Assneiation belleved.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, giving evidence, said he was President of) Dr. Hector Munro, In answer to the Alliance, which was formed questions by Mr. Eustace Fulton for making Investigations, and with regard to the media employed forwarding the seice in which by the Alliance, said that before they were employed they were put Sir Patrick Hastings-Am through what practical tests were right in saying that this Associn- possible.

on is largely concerned in stądy- As fortune-telling any part of the ing the causes, facts, and pussi- burdings of spiritualism-No, I do bilities of receiving messages think it is." from the dead"-That, aminnst

other things, would be a fair

zlatement.

For the purpose of the study, is it necessary and desirable to have the

services of persons known as mediums?-It is quite essential.

Mr. Fulton- Did you helleve it? the stage, No, did not.

If you had believed if you might

from

33 What woman is one of America's Assistant attorney generals?

37 To blow na a horn.

18 Colour formed by blending

black and white (variant). chal-40 Part of the verb to be. com- 42 Grief.

who forcibly divided the German people in contravention of all international law and of their own principles,"

In some cases these media geb have let the War Office know? for an appearance that was vir-man Americans

into a state of trance?--Un- doubtedly.

Is there any question that they get into

a state of complete in sensibility?

Sir Arthur answered that there were all sorts of intermediate states.

What is the purpose of sitting with a medium, and what is it hoped to nehlera thereby-One purpose is to refute the lea that denth ends all. We wish to strengthen what we regarded as the central core of religion, which is that man carries pa after death, Another purpose

was to get in touch with those we had loved and who had passed over to the other side.

Is there any reason that you know of why Mrs. Cantion should

(Laughter.)-Yes.

Miss Phillimore said that when Mrs. Caution was first employed by the Alliance she (Miss Phill- more) was satisfied that she was a renmne medium and that her sit- tinge were given in

a genuine! Brit.

LETTER GOLF.

Want to be a prize fighter or a Sir Patrick Hastings-Did you letter golfer? Then do ROAD ever get people going to see you WORK! Par in four strokes. who wanted their future told and told you so?-Yea, and I said that our mediums did not do that kind of work.

Asked by Mr. Roome If she be lieved that the "White Chief" was indulging in vulgar fortune-telling, Miss Philllmore said she bad no knowledge of that.

Mr. Roome-Has Mrs. Cantlon been dismissed?-She has.

Was that because, she told far-

be dismissed? No. I have al-tunes?-No, it was he a consequence of incidents arising out of medium- ship.

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He was handed a copy of the Spring syllabus of the Alliance, and was asked if he saw there the name of a Mrs. Annie Brittain.

He replied in the affirmative. Do you know that Mrs. Annle Brittain was convicted of telling fortunes in 19101-No. I do not Mr. Roome asked Sir Arthur if he had written articles after a re port of Mrs. Britain's conviction had appeared in "Truth."

Sir Arthur agreed that he had written about the case, but not from the point of view of fortune telling.

The Magistrate said that he had lived long enough to know that there were a great many things in the world of which we could not be certain. He had a perfectly open mind.

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1-The idea of letter golf is to change one word to another and do it in par, a given number of strokes. Thus to change .COW to HEN, in three strokes, COW, HOW, HEW, HEN.

"I give Mrs. Cantlon the benefit of the doubt in my mind," he addel, 2-You can change only one "and I assume that on these three letter at a time,

You must have a complete occasions she did believe she was under the control of this Chief, his word, of common usage, for cach black dog and his white nabbits jump. Slang words and abbrevia and other things that belonged to tions don't count.

him. But I should strongly advise 4-The order of letters cannot her to get rid of a disembodied be changed.

One solution is printed on spirit who wants to know the time.

another page of this issue.. for lunch and tea."

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

The leaders of the 5,000 Ger- who attended stated that the understanding of the Austro-German wish for unity was gaining ground in the United States, and on their return they would see to it that it became complete.

DISASTROUS PARIS,

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TWO PERSONS LOSE THEIR LIVES.

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Vertical,

1 Who was the first woman to y7

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5 Half an em.

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7 Abbreviation for "pound." 8. Bed.

D From what U.S. state docs Cus. toms Judge Genoviere Clino conte from?

10 Tiny golf device.

11 Who is the author of "History

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12 To agitato,

16 Yellow matter from a soro.

17 Inlet

19 Billiard rod.

20 Unit of energy,

22 To display.

24 To droop.

20 To leave out.

27 Nent.

20 Inflated,

30 To become exhausted.

31 Largest wind Instrument.

32 To Jeer.

34 Card gamo.

85 Portion of a circle.

36 Tree which bears acorns.

39. Wooden mortar tray. 41 Mother.

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