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Grabbing a Ghost.Another Materialized Spook Suddenly Resuming* Flesh and Blood.George W. Tonics of No. cl Broadway, had under his charge yesterday a friewl from Pittsburg named F. A. Tremaine and desired to show him a spiritualistic seance. lie found one advertised to occur in the evening up town. The two friends went to this number, which they describe as a brown-stone houso well furnished. They were met by an old man at the door, who, after consulting a memorandum-book to see if the seats were all taken, admitted them on payment of §1 each—walking-match piices. Tiie front parlor, was dimly lighted, and in the back parlor which was dark, there was a small cabinet fixed against the wall. There were three rows of chairs in the room, and there were about fifty persent, of whom four or five were women At the beginning of the seance the old man who had acted as treasurer announced that the medium and her company would not be responsible for the manifestations of the spirits, and he then requested the audience to sing some familiar air. such as the Sweet Bv-and-Iiy.” The greater purl of the front of the cabinet was concealed jy a curtain but there was room at one side Tor asiuall window. When the seance began, the medium, a stout woman, entered the cabinet and immediately afterwards a hand was shown at the window, and a foot at the bottom of the curtain. Then a youth about the size of the medium, who was designated as .Jimmy the Newsboy, stej ped from the cabinet into the room and began to dance. At this moment the two friends agreed with each other to seize the next spirit that should appear. In a few minutes there was a loud knocking, and the spirits were asked if they wanted to see any one. They answered “Yes’ , and one of the two young men was called, but not chosen. Then the old man said the spirits were confused and the person who was wanted was found and had a conversation with the spirit, who was familiarly called -Mary. The subsequent proceedings are best described in Mr. Tomes’s own language. Ho says: “I moved towards the old man who admitted me, and who was standing at the far end of the room. He told me f had better tike my seat; but 1 said I’d stay where I was. He repeated his admonition and I went to t ho other side of the room and stood in front of a woman. The spirit Mary then came out into the room about eight feet from the cabinet. The passage was clear in front of mu, and I went for her like a streak of lightning and threw my arms about her. She screamod and struggled and several ot the men ran to her assistance. My friend ran to help me, but lie fell over the seats and the spirit got away from me. That ghost* weighed 150 pounds if she weighed an ounce, and I fully identified her as the medium. The woman who had been sitting liehind where 1 stood cried out: ‘You nearly killed my daughter and you ought to be shot with a pistol, and I’ve a good mind to shoot you for treating a spirit in that way.’ The spirit had very little clothing on and her face was whitened to give her a ghostly look. After the confusion caused by my catching her the seance was declared at an end, and the believers and unbelievers were dismissed.—N. Y. World.
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Portland Daily Press
Portland, Maine, US
Mon, Sep 29, 1879
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