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Show GONAN DOYLE HOLDS FIRST AMERICAN SEANCE AUTHOR SAYS I GHOST PARTY WAS SUCCESS Voice of Famous Medium, Dead Three Years, Heard at Seance SOUNDS ARE WEIRD Sir Arthur Sends Love to Denizens of Spirit World Bj EDWARD M THEIRRY m opjnighti 1982, i v Service, inc. ' All Rights Reserved Rc-Publlrution Prohibited VOyhero in the World by i Sen lc Inc.) NEW YORK. April 21. Sir Arthur C-Onan Doyle has attended his first ghost party in America. Ghostly voices and spirit noises were i heard and he talked with the shade ! nt Mfiri.-imn -n I hi rl ! n rv World-famoUS 'medium, dead three yere The exclusive M,.rv l given here of Igir Vrthur's first contact with iipirits -In e his arrival in America. The se-'ance. se-'ance. which Sir Arthur described as highly successful, took place at the American Physical Institute and laboratory lab-oratory in this city. The dead Palladino apparently talked through the Hps of Nino Be-Icoraro, Be-Icoraro, a young Italian medium Spoc-tatorS Spoc-tatorS included Sir Arthur and Lady Doyle and a party of members of th'1 j Institute, headed by Dr Hereward Car-irlngton. Car-irlngton. research officer and secretary of the Institute, who arranged the se-tance se-tance for Sir Arthur. I Twelve persons, Including the boy medium, sat around the table In tho j ghostly glow of a single dim red light, of four candlepower To woo th" splr-!lt splr-!lt of Ihe famous deal medium the game table was used that Madame Pal-ladlno Pal-ladlno had used when she visited America It Is all metal, weighing only 12 pounds. INSTRUMENTS OV T.BLE The table vvns ploced directly in front of a black curtain co ering an alcove, the tbre.i natural walls of which had been lined with blaok, co eilng three doors thai were securely I locked. Within the cabinet was n small tabli on which had been placed a boll. la tambourine and a to piano Outside, at the head of the large table, the boy medium sat with his back against th. curtain All 12 persons per-sons put their hands on the table, their lingers touching. The) sang hymns. "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "Neari r My God to Thee." and a phon Ograph Intermittent played "'Ave Maria." Ma-ria." The table moved1 It tilted back : id fcrth for several minutes. The medium was slowly sinking Into In-to a trance. His face was very pale and his breathing verj deep. Sir Arthur Ar-thur found his pulse slow and regular regu-lar A coll of pocture wire was produced and Dr. Carrington and tho medium's Instructor, who also acted as Interpreter, Interpre-ter, bound the medium's legs to his chali and tied his hands at the wrists Then he was moved Into the cabinet behind tbe curtain Sir Arthur and Lady Doyle sat at, ;he l.iw'ei etui of the tat.'e their hands .still on it, jo'nlng the others WEIRD SONNETS t ncanny sounds issued from liie darkness of the cabinet -a low moaning, moan-ing, punctuated sharply by violent snorts. Then came a creepy sound like the rustling of cloth or silken draperies. draper-ies. Faint whispers in Italian were hen rd "Aide! Aula " murmered the medium, me-dium, pronouncing the name of a dead relative Suddenly the curtain was blown f Continued on P re rw DOYLE ATTENDS SEANCE IN N. Y. Converses With Spirit of Medium, Dead for Three Years DM (i r.ntlnucd From Iis One) V .utwftM a if hv a Ptronr (tuft ,.f air -" An, the table move. I violently und'.-r III Jthe hnnds of the spectator I feel cold air on my hands. said i 1 . " Sir Arthur Lady Doyle said "he too felt the cool breene. which Dr. Carrlngton later l' TT scribed as a ghostly herald eharacter- :io of a sconce. Now cirtic a curlou" rattllnc ns o. I tingling handcuff. Then a scratching sound, nice a spirit flnfer faintly mov- Wiil lng against tho curtain. Explosively came a terrific s-hrlek -..no Italian" word, tndlstingn I HI ieven t the Interpreter. The rnedi-tjft rnedi-tjft um'a slstcr-ln-law, who sat next to X l.ady Ioy!e. cowered In her chair. In Jihc "dimly lighted room the far,- .f I tQ people there were mere white blobs in the ilark C Silence for a moment. Then the. tambourine played and suddenly it J was thrown out of the slit In the cur-Stain cur-Stain and clattered on the outer table. nifti tA was hf;irJ' nni' lnn sevcral K.n'i notes on the toy plnno. I Again something came hurtling ou'. ' for the cabinet. It WOS the medium's S-X ",,t: And then a white strip his col- Hh jj' And suddcnlv the llttl- lablc Cam J J. J rolling out and fell on it- -!! n : lr. Carrington's chair. Some of the HH a spectators later said they saw 'J J specks of light against the somber 3 I i urtain I "Palladino! Palladlno" came the I murmuring voice from the cabinet I J.. It was a whispering voice Vgaln M Z spoke: "Palladlno Is here, she 1 hero. 1H I She will try to show her hands her J J face " Tho voice trailed off. r. And now the spirit .-(puke' I "I, who used to call back the spirit. now come bad; as a spirit mya If " To the people sitting there In the ' ilim light the murmuring voice was i ihat of the great Palladlno herself. spoken through the lips of the Italian R'VtjI - boy. "VL SEND VH I K I1-." "Is that you, Madame Palladlno?' , - asked Dr. Carrlngton. "Yes. " came the whispering reply. Sir Arthur spoke "The power is get. ting stronger. Palladlno. w . send ..u our love and our best encouragement "We are glad to meet you again.' said Dr. Carrlngton. "You used to produce wonderful phenomena and I hope you will try to help us tonight " "X will." said the tnurtnurlng vol But no face appeared, nor hands.' Instead, the curtain was blown out I again and Sir Arthur and several I others put their hands against tho; cloth, where they said they felt the impact of a mysterious bod , and even u grip. The medium now was calling again j r for Alda." Palladlno had gone, it was believed. The slow moving seance had lasted liS 'two hours, and now gradually th" lights were turned on. Sir Arthur and Dr. Carrlngton went into the cabinet and found the medium me-dium slowly coming out of hi trance. The wire around his wrlstfl v.-as twisted ai if ho had writhed In his bonds. Ills legB were Still tied tightly After he was released it required 15 minutes for him to become normal sir Arthur again felt his pulse and found It slow and regular. i "It was very good for a spirit sit-J ting." said sir Arthur afterward. TO Dr. Carrlngton he added: "I hope you will follow this up with more experiments." experi-ments." Dr. Carrlngton said It was the boy medium's first public seance. "It was very Interesting," he said "hut I do not consider It strictly evidential from a scientific point of view ' Other experiments aro to be made nt the American Psychical Institute and laboratory, recently established to study psychic phenomena before Sir wthur and Lady Doyle complete their American tour. |