Show COURT COliET TO DECIDE If SPIRITUALISTS CA CAN TALK TIK TO II DEAD Mrs May Pepper Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Vander- Vander bilt hilt Accused Medium Forces the Issue NEW YORK March 20 Mrs May Vanderbilt Pepper tho the spiritualist t bishop of Brooklyn asks in effect that tho Kings count county court ourt determine whether thero is such a n thing as communication com corn with tho the spirit world In a motion filed filc yesterday c y counsel for Mrs Vanderbilt a asks ks for tho the dismissal dismissal dis diR missal of or the indictment against the tho theme me medium ium which bich charged grand lar ar ceny It is alleged by Miss Misa Minerva iner Vanderbilt a daughter of the aged bus hus band of ot the medium that she sho caused Vanderbilt by fraud frau and aDd deceit to deed to her a hou house e in in Brooklyn Mrs attorney asks ask the tho court to ascertain by hv what def definite nite means the tho grand crand j jury ry decided that spiritualism sm was a sham and a fake Tho The lawyer thus puts up to tho court the tho rather puzzling question of deciding deciding de de- de- de how to prove whether tho medium medium me me- did or did not receive messages es from tho the dead Because of divided authority authority au au- au he argues no ono is competent to testify against her In support of ot this contention tho the attorney at at- tome torney attempts to show that spiritualism spiritual spiritual- I jell ism is 5 a ro recognized religion cion and to prove O this ho quotes Alfred Russell Sell Wallace Sir Will William am Crookes and other authorities and mentions Jules Verne Vcrne Marconi William Lloyd Garrison Garri sou son Salmon P P. Chase Bayard Taylor Talor n. n Robert bert Owen Parker l Pillsbury and anI others |