Show A L CURIOUS TRIAL sil sll lenit leniu PHOTO ONE of the most singular trials t to b be e found in the records ot of any cou country has just juat been brought to a close cloae in the cit city y of new york a brief allusion to whip was made in yesterdays telegram we refer to the case of th the spirit photographer this man professes to be able to furnish the likenesses of departed friends to those who may max ma wish to obtain the same but some who had applied to him and had not obtained satisfaction recently brought an action against him for obtaining their money under fraudulent pretences pretenses the trial has been somewhat lengthy has excited extraordinary interest and an d has terminated in favor of the deim dehm defendant the evidence offered both for and against the defendant was wag voluminous some of the former being startling and highly sensational several of the witnesses for the defence were not spir by profession or faith but skeptics and testified that they visited Mum lers gallery in the belief that lie he was a 4 cheat and with the determination to detect the fraud if possible among these witnesses witness ea was a mr WW silver of brooklyn a photographer by profession he testified v vib vis 18 cited Mum lers gallery a skeptic baving having no faith in his power powei to produce a jl keness likeness 0 of f the ue parted departed lie ho P prepared retired all the materials himself aud and tia ila the likeness with his own instrument ment BO so as to prevent the possibility efy fraud or deception and swore there was no mo collusion between himself and yet when the picture tife life was taken there was another portrait oo 00 the plate beside his own A mr R fanshaw a portrait painter residing in morrisania Morri sania examined for the defence tipe ripe said he went to Mum lers gallery about christmas last laba to test the matter il if r possible he did not believe in spirit photo photography raphy and told mum lers wifel bifi so and thal that his object was to detect the fraud if such existed he made every preparation in his power to accomplish this if possible but lie he was unable to do so ana and was furnished with a very true likeness of his mother wiio wilo had been dead twenty eight years many blany other witnesses of respectability not connected with the spiritualists gave evidence equally startling and and on these grounds the bult huit was decided in favor of the defendant fen dant this development of spiritualism is something remarkable and in a it day like this when signs slig 01 are so eagerly sought after will wil no doubt induce many who have been beer I 1 ac sceptics skeptics or un believers togi vein in their adherence to spiritualism this science system sy stern stera or pr sect or whatever everit it can pan be called I 1 has spread inore rapidly than anything ever yet intro deuced amon the human family by way of religion for although many of the blo lio called callea communications from the departed are ara utterly litterly useless and nonsensical a and many of ot the feats performed edin in their circles 10 as reported report ed cu cuu cun in the prees are equally 6 d they are still something that thit the profoundly scientific minds of the age are unable to for on natural principles orby or by human agency and hence u nce ace they gratify extent 9 that d desire e s lre ire inherent in the human mind to know something in xe relation lation to the future the evl evi evidence denceL given for the defense in the Nl case shows that something unheard of hitherto lir lif the photographic c art has bas been accomplished by him if f that sod sot Is the he result of im posture I 1 I 1 S I 1 u it loit at beast reath beath P that ile he Is no jno U n g t rr athis IM 1 businell husi busin nl ef elf ii af genuine it tte verifies the tho saying baying in dulet duiet about bere here there being more things in 14 heaven or in earth than is dreamt of in our philosophy f f I 1 T r 1 |