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Show Spirit Message , Will 'Be Tested! KF.W YORK, Jan. 9 (UP' Mrs. Beatrice Houdini prepared today to prove to a skeptical world the authenticity of the message which she says came to her yesterday from her husband. Harry Houdini, in the spirit world. Sealed Knvelope From a safety deposit box Mrs. Houdini expects, as soon as she has recovered from a sprained back, to take the sealed envelope containing contain-ing the message placed there by Houdini in a pact with her before ho died, to test the validity of communication com-munication from beyond the grave. Mrs. Houdini declares that the message will be found to be identical identi-cal with that received through Arthur Ford, minister of the First Spiritualistic church, Carnegie hall, in a trance at her home yesterday afternoon. "My friends will call me mad, I know," 'Mrs. Houdini said. "I have received advice and warnings from many who are near to me not In go on with this. But it is what Harry asked me to do. He ordered me to do it. It was the arrangement arrange-ment we had before he passed on. 1 can do nothing else." ' i The widow of the later master magician was reared in the Roman Catholic faith, she explained, and was even more opposed mentally to the idea of spirit communication than her husband, who was known as the bitterest foe of spiritualism in the world before his death. He had exposed numerous fake med-! med-! iums and so called psychic phen-, phen-, omena. Code Is "Believe" : In the latter part of the purported pur-ported communication yesterday, after the code had been explained as, the single word "believe," the purported words of Houdini continued con-tinued to come through Ford and a "control" called "Fletcher" as follows: t "I shall now stay close to this instrument (medium) and will have many talks with you, Bess, (His pet name for his wife) I shall try to undo so much that was done by me." Houdini was represented as saying say-ing that "mother has been with me and has helped me to get this through.'-' |