Show Does the tie Lod Lodge e Photo raph I ILife Prove Spirit Life Students Maintain That the Departed Spirit of Raymond i dge Described a Photograph Unknown to His Family in Order I I That His Father Might Show the I 4 World That the Dead Still Live Lioe I C A a book about it it about this r and a hu hundred other equally equal equal- r ly startling communications communications all seeming to come 4 from Raymond Lodge the ther r I scientists scientist's son SOD who was killed at Ypres Sept 4 1916 1915 r Th The book nook Raymond nd is a 11 li bulky volume of ot pages published by the George Gcorge H. H I D Doran gran Company and is J possibly the most sensational sensational sensa sensa- I authoritative study S of or spiritualism that has n f ever been given to the world ymond Lodge killed in in action at Ypres Septem Septem- Iber 1915 whose remarkable corroborated spirit Raymond Lodge volun- volun I e were communicated to his hi father and I tee re d for service in Sep Sep- r r. r rather other 1914 and was given I Bf Dy CHARLES CHAELES TY W. WOOD P F you should go to a spiritual medium mein meI me me- I in J 1 and a voice should tell you spirit of ot your our dead son eon was went i nt you Jou would not necessarily beto beTO be be- TO to it u would you Even ien 1 if ii th the voice olce should talk over 4 ot ot of intimate details of or your sons son's it things y things life life things the medium could i j U possibly have known you you you would I 11 be unconvinced There here is suchs such suell ping f s oring ing as mind reading mind reading you would Woul The medium didn't know these theses oga s but you ou did and even though y 7 were not In your our consciousness the time they existed in your su sub sub- memory and may have been i in some m mysterious manto manI manto man man- I to to the e mental apparatus if th the slum Almost all psychic I say objectors can bo be explained telepathy lut iut suppose the voice told you of a aI aup aup up photograph and gave you I some ot of it Suppose you ou had bad such ch photograph and knew of none I I suppose you went to other mema mems me me- ms ma and got more detailed U u. u Then suppose two months T r the unknown photograph should l le 10 to you yO in a roundabout way and aim t t tallied exactly with the i 1 u G that bat would you Jou think then Pos POSe Posy POSey y y you YO would think that the mens meas me me- meins ns as had seen the photograph or orf f at least sat with some one who seen it and received the imp res i 1 of it through thought transfer transfer- e. e But suppose you should dis dis- er later that the photograph was vas wasen en in a foreign country but hat had boon been been developed there and that I negative had bad not reached your youry try y and the mediums medium's until weeks er er the spirit voice had given en you description o ot of it Wouldn't t tills this m TO m to you real evidence that your Jour youri i t had spoken Us Ms Is exactly what happened to 1 Oliver Lodge one o ot of the worlds world's st scientists He has written a commission in the Third South Lan Lan- He old was twenty was years an export expert mechanic and engineer He was exceptionally likable and popular the kind of ot a son who is his fathers father's chum but not known to be bo particularly particularly interested in philosophy or psychical pay pay- chical research He wrote many letters from the front and sent some individual pho pho- He kept a diary On Au Aug 24 1915 this diary recorded the two words Photo taken but nd net mention of ot this was made in any of ot his let let- His last visit to his family was wason wason wason on July 20 more than a Q month be be- fore Ho He was as wounded on Sept 11 1 and died within a few lew hours The n news w of of- his of his Ms death first firsts reached his hb family three days das later On Sept 27 Lady Lodge Raymonds Raymond's mother arranged anonymously to see seea a spiritualist medium Vout Vont Peters by name Great care re was taken that the medium should not know her Identity It was not long ong however before the medium claiming to 10 be under the control of a a. spirit personality named Moonstone described Raymond and I delivered the following message i You have several severa portraits of this I bo boy Before he went away aay you had I got a good portrait of him two him two no three Two where he is alone and andone andone andone one where he is in a group of at other men He is particular that J 1 should tell you of this In one you see his walking stick Moonstone here put an imaginary stick sUck under his arm None of or the Lodges knew of the existence of a group photograph Lady Lodge thought Peters was guessing And yet He uHe is particular that I should tell you of this Sir Oliver was interested when besaw he be saw the record An And then two months mouths later Nov 29 this letter came from Cram the mother of a Capt Cheves who had known Dear Bear Lady Lodge My Iy son has bas hassent hassent sent us a a. group of officers taken In August and I wondered whether you knew of or this photo and had had bad a copy She gave n description of ot it and though Lady Lod Lodge wrote Immediately immediately Immedi immedi- asking for a a. copy it did not nett come until Dec 7 7 Jn In the tho mean time on Dec Dee 8 3 Sir Oliver went to another medium a Mrs Leonard and asked for lor more definite description of the photograph It should be noted that Sir Oliver was the tho one doe to introduce the subject Had the medIum volunteered the Information information information tion suspicion might arise that there thero was some collusion between her and Peters He said something about having a a photograph taken with some other men said Sir Oliver speaking of ofRa Ra Raymond who Was waa supposed to be present and in c communication with Feda Mrs rs Leonards Leonard's control Wo haven't seen that photograph yet ret D Docs ho he want to say ay anything more about It He thinks there were vere v ere several others taken with him said u Feda not not one or two but several Were they friends asked Sir 01 Ol iver Some of them them he the says He didn't know them all not very well But he knew same ho he heard of ot some they were not all friends Was he standing up No uNo he doesn't seem to think so Some were raised up around He was sitting down and some were raised up at at atthe the back of at rf him Some were standing and some were sitting he thinks Were they soldiers He says yes yes a a mixed lot Somebody Somebody Some Some- body called C was on oOn It with him and somebody called R not R not his own name but another R He says something something something some some- thing about abot t J K K He also mentions a aman man beginning with B He Ho has ihas the impression of about a dozen on it A dozen he says if ii not more Feda Fed a thinks It must be Tra a big photograph No he ho doesn't think sd set He says they were grouped together closely Did ho he have a 0 stick asked Sir Oliver He doesn't remember that He remembers remembers remembers re re- re- re members that somebody wanted to tolean tolean tolean lean on him but he ho is not sure if he was taken ken with somebody leaning on him The last what hat ho he gave you jou what were a B B will be rather prominent in that It wasn't taken in a photographers photographer's pl place ce Was Vas it ou out of doors Yes practically Feda Foda thinks he means yes because he says practically pracH cally Bally At the back he shows me lines going down It looks like a black background with lines at the back of them Feda here kept drawing vertical lines in the air It must be re remembered that this record was taken and typed before the arrival of the photograph The Lodges had no normal knowledge as yet that Raymond was in such a photograph at all aU But nut on Dec 6 one da day before It arrived Lady Lodge received Ray Ray- moods mood's diary from the front and found the entry Photo taken The next mon morning ng another note Dote came me from rom Mrs rs Cheves say saying ng that the photo was being sent Before It came SIr Oliver wrote and mailed the following following fol fol- lowing letter to Mr J. J A. A Hill Concerning that photograph which Raymond mentioned through Peters saying this One where he Is In a group of other men He Is particular lar ar that I should tell ten you sou of or this In A. A A Ik- Ik L Md t rr Y 1 r J r I Ij j Rr e 4 amous photograph described controls weeks week before ro its Its existence was known wn to the LO Lodge Je family R Raymond is ia r 0 In n the first row second from the tho right l He Ho fe remember that somebody wanted to Fean fenn can on Hm one you ou see his walking a stick sUck he has said some more about it through Mrs Leonard But he is 15 doubtful about the stick What ho no sars is that th there re Is s a 3 considerable number of ot men in the photograph 1 that 11 a t the front row is sitting and thero Is a a. back row or orsome soma some of ot tho th people grouped and set up at atthe atthe the thc iback back also that there thero are arc a dozen or more moio people people peo peo- pIe in the tho photograph and that some of or them ho he hardly knew that a a. aB aB B cD is prominent in the photograph and that there Is als also a C that he himself is sitting down and that there are arc people behind him one of whom either leant leanton on his shoulder er or tried to In ti the tale a afternoon the photograph game mc There were twenty-one twenty officers More oro than a dozen ozen Raymond was sitting down down in in the front row the second from the tho right The Tho man directly behind was waa leaning lean l In ing on him Raymond had his walking lIking stick It was outdoors practically Thero was as a a. black background with lines running down The officers were not all aU his friends but a a. mixed lot from different com com- panics The well lighted standing figure on the right is unquestionably the most prominent in the tho picture His name is B B Capt S. S T. T Boast Boas There is also a C and a R TV in the group but no K Sir Oliver says it is a very poor picture picture pic plc- ture of Raymond but brit even that seems evidential for the officers officer's head is not Dot erect and ibis his face faeo stems seems seems twisted with annoyance annoyance lt at the man who is trying to lean on him He Is the only victim of such treatment in the whole group Almost any military man would JI take this to heart But there was v still tIll moro more interesting evidence connected with the photo photo- graph The Tho first word of ot it it will be bo remembered came through Peters on S Sept pt 27 Sir Oliver inquired of Gale Galeand Galeand Gale and the London who had ad developed the negative and md found round that the tho negative aUTe was sent to them hem by Capt Roast Boast and not received in England until Oct 15 more than two weeks after Peters's reference to it it He He is particular that I should tell you of or this Inquiry directed to Capt Boast brought out the information that t the c photo phot was the thc work oik of a photographer whose studio had been shelled and that the tho negatives were sent to England England England Eng Eng- land because he could not develop them The photo was taken Aug 24 4 Being on other ollier duty Raymond it jt was learned did not go into the tho trenches after that until Sept 12 so it is more than probable that he saw tho the proofs but Capt Boast was sure that ho he did not see tho the negatives Feda it will be remembered said he be does docs not kno know about the walking talking stick It was waa now DOW learned that three pictures had been snapped and three Polders In negatives e sent to Gale and one of or them the walking s sticks had been discarded Raymond through Feda also e. e expressed ex- ex pi pressed some uncertainty as s to whether er his picture had bad actually been taken while hUe some one was leaning lennin on him In one of ol these pictures the tho man behind behind behind be be- hind had forsaken Raymonds Raymond's shoulder I and was supporting his arm norm with his walking stick In tho the other two tho the leaning was very much In evidence Our complete ignorance says Sir Oliver even of or the existence of at the photograph h in the first pla place e and secondly see sec the delayed manner in which knowledge of ot it came ame to us so that we were able to make mako provision for fOl forgetting forgetting getting the thc acquired details details details de de- de- de tails not noted d beforehand seem to make this a first class case While as to the tho amount of at coincidence between the description and tho the actual photograph that sure surely is quito quite beyond chance or guesswork For not only onh are ore many things t light fight but practically nothing is wrong I |