Show T Communication p of or Living With Dead pad p ad UT TT A A x f T 1 J N IN IN ever Accomplished ever Ai I I IS h e d Investigator for Scientific Journal Reports Report Astonishing Incidents But Claimants for 2500 Cash Prize for Psychic Phenomena Are Found to Be Hand of Sleight Hand Tricksters 11 By MALCOLM ELLIS ELUS Special Correspondent of The Standard-Examiner Standard Copyright 1923 N V EW YORK Oct Eleven 27 months of invest t 3 a- a from a scientific standpoint have convince convinced J Malcolm Bird editor of Scientific American and sec sec- secretary secretary ofa of a committee of eminent American scientists investigating psychic phenomena produced by medium that communication by living human beings with th the dead has not been ac accomplished His Investigation curled Mr Bird to all parts pans of Europe In with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ms m's chief defender he held with such famous European mediums as aa John Sloan Mrs Osborne Leonard Evan Ean Pow Pow- Powell Powell ell eli William Hope and ond Independently ho visited mediums In paris Berlin and Munich He lIe sat also albo alt with famous American mediums Including Mrs K IC Stewart ot of o Cle Cleveland eland George Valentine of o Barre Wilkes PA Pol P and Ada Des Des- sinet of Toledo Mr Bird explains that he does not lot mean that physical phenomena do 10 not occur Ho lie concedes that thai first what hat scientists call subject subject- lye he phenomena under the head of which come hypnotism and telepathy telepathy telepathy athy do occur and he cites Instances In- In Instances instances stances In support of ot tho the belief lIe He also that ho has been beer impressed 1 stilt lih objective or phys phys- phys phys- leal cal phenomena such as objects moving about a a high velocity weaving themselves In dark darl looms In and out of chandeliers chandelier and other furnishings without con con- con His Hia theory Is that with I the breaking off orr of other energy I with th other brains It Is pc possible elble alsoto alsoto also to reach the point of ot concentration Ion lion tion where abere ere physical objects may mai ao 00 alo be bo received and may be con- con controlled trolled trailed b by the brain If such Is I true he holds hold It Is an entirely human process and ond not spirits I through the medium In support of his admission that h Is existent eJ Mr Ir Bird pInts 1 to the case ease of ot a a Scottish woman oman Her husband hu band was a sea sea- sea seafaring tring man and ond at the time wasat was at sea and not expected home for foi forse I se eral w weeks eka She he was waa w s I to rush out of or the door of ot her herI house with aith Ith her arms extended and an i I salk alk thus a distance Q of f about a a hundred bundred yards on the moor In front of ot her cottage She sudden ly Iy folded her arm ami as It if about an ar ano o object and In it 1 faint revl cd sat sal l hus hus- husband hu huband band Is Ie dead dead dead- It was later that about that exact mo- mo moment mont ment her husband had been bee drowned at sea lea In one OM ot of his hia sittings with tl th clairvoyant medium Mrs Mu Leon Leon- Leonand Iud and she told him that he liu lied Iad booked 1 passage on two separate thipa when he left America for England ingland nd Mr irr Bird had told no noone noone one In England England of ot this but as a nutter r of fact he had h d done doo so BO as asa asa a a precaution Through her hel- control the spir pir- pir t C n oa OIl 1 Rae will Two I SPIRITS NEVER NE VER TALK IS CLAI CLAIM From Page Pao One It working through the mediums medium's mouth the She told hint him also ot of o the of ot a 0 picture of ot three wom women n taken by the seashore One of o th the women now a spIrit I supposed to be communicating with him through the medium Mr Bird recalled no such picture at the atthe time but upon his hia rot return urn to America ht his bin mother Its ex- ex I ex exI tence It Iti was n a n picture of ot his and CLod two of o his wom- wom ra fU U relatives tak taken n by the seashore Be attributed this to the tho workIngs ot of telepathy the tha explanation ho- ho being bo ing that tho the medium had taken In trough this source the workings ot of his subconscious mind As A far tar as ph physical phenomena I ii the result of o spirit action Is la con con con- corned con corned he hold holdi a different rent view J I he Scientific American offered to the first medium ho ho produced psychic phenomena Only andI to t hivo lve claimed tho reward ard and andI I I Mr lr Bird rail both hive o been Timed Io d il to have hae worked fraud In I their Bounces before the tho the commit tee te Ono One was as Valentine n to him bin the tho committee Installed an electric apparatus under his chair chairAs Ab ts long as the I seat scat tho the contact lias nas unbroken I and a light In the tha next n room ho did not flOt know naj sas there there ns as burning burning- A dictaphone alio AIMI w WAS WM Installed Checking up the records of ot the tho Mr Bird found that v hen the medium pro pro- pro pro-d-ced psychic phenomena orl inart- Invariably ably he was out of ot his s seat ot The other medium was WI Mrs Stewart She camo came to New Now York list week to demonstrate spirit w V She plo placed ed a lover floer flo f er be- be between be between tween two cards ad aid when they thoy wre unfolded the nan of the I late William T or Stead famous tal Brit Crit- Ish editor appear appeared d with Ith the le- le legend le legend gend ics es cc Me e C have no bananas eral Se eral of these experiments were conducted Each time the medium wore wre a big coat Each time she also that the same cards be used After Atter ono one sitting sitting- Mr Bird found that five live of ot the plain cards were ere missing from the pack He had bad a stationer shave oft off a traction fraction of at each card and he heu used ed them again the next day doy When hen Mrs Stewart produced writ writing ing tog on five cards It was found she sho had substituted the th the fise e longer cl cards for five shorter cards cords In Oll t words she he had used sleight Bleight ot of hand Her performance wa duplicated by a II sleight of ot hand per per- performer per performer former The medium Mr Bird visited In arid and Mis Miss In I America were not subjected to the scientific test He lie explained ho was waa merely a tolerated guest at these His conclusion lOt of these theRe experiments which he ho a ill III publish shortlY In a 0 book Is that many of ot them were nero ere fraud froud others might be bo fraud while still others him to the I that some psychic forc force orco Voas n as at ot work He lIe does not believe bellevo however tha that produced them but con con- con contends tends t that the tho sub-conscious sub mind or telepathy was WILS responsible |