herself personally and be firmly con-
vinced of its truth.

Most convincing would be mes-
sages brought on the anniversary of
a death.

“There is a Mrs. Smith in the

audience,’ he would say. ‘Your

husband John has a message for you.
He asks you if you recall it is five
years ago since he passed away.”
Then he would supply a few per-
sonal details.

The lady was probably not in the
audience but who was to know that.

“How could he know all that?”
they would say, “if his messages
weren t genuine.”

They could, of course, come from
the “In Memoriam” columns of The
Chronicle or The Echo but his audi-
ence was anxious to prove to them-
selves he was right, rather than to
prove he was wrong,—a happy state
of affairs for any charlatan.

It was over-confidence, however,
that led to his downfall just as he
was riding the crest of the wave.

With the adulation of a large and
growing audience spurring him he
sought bigger and greater effects.

He started to tell where lost arti-
cles could be found. Shrewd enough
not to particularize where any one
person might find one of the articles,
he nevertheless left the impression

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that he had told some individual
where a lost diamond ring, or some-
thing else could be recovered.

His fame spread and he relished it.
It fed the love of showmanship in
his nature. The one floor of a fac-
tory became too small for his meet-
ings but his vanity led him into a
trap that toppled his world about
his ears in quick order.

It was believed by the public that
one of the pieces of evidence the
police were anxiously seeking to help
solve the Peeping Tom murder mys-
tery was a knife with which the
killing had been done.

The Singing Spiritualist’s fol-
lowers besought the police to call in
his services.

The police would have no part in
such hocus pocus.

The followers carried the issue to
the newspapers who took no side in
the issue beyond publishing their
claims that the Singing Spiritualist
would not only find the knife but
solve the crime too.

What the Singing Spiritualist
thought at the time of the situation
into which his trustful flock were
leading him is not known but he
committed himself to find the
slayer’s knife.

Without police approval, but also
without police interference, a date

was set on which he would go to
the neighborhood of the crime and
find the weapon.

Cameramen and newspapermen
from London joined local reporters
in recording the event.

Ever the showman, the Singing
Spiritualist put on a wonderful act.
For half an hour with an audience
similar to that which follows a star
golfer around a course he hovered
around the woods in one of his
realistic trances. He glided in one
direction, then another with his cus-
tomary glazed eyes seeming to see
nothing.

Several times it appeared as if he
would stoop to pick up the knife.

Then suddenly he shuddered as
if awakening from a bad dream;
looked at the crowd as if surprised,
walked briskly to a car in which he
had been driven to the wood.

To newspapermen who rushed to
question him before he left the scene
he made a brief but momentous
statement:

“When I awake from a trance I
know little and frequently nothing
of what has transpired, but this I do
know of this one, J found the knife.”

“Why didn’t you pick it up
then?’ was the quick and natural
question.

“That is a question I can not

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