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162 Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research.
America and afterwards in England. Her reputation for accuracy
of statement is so well and soundly established that she
may well afford to smile at these public fulminations, as she has
no doubt been doing the past two months. ' She has never promoted
a lie or supported a lie in all the work she has done.
A newspaper, in 1901, secured a statement from her of her
understanding of her own mediumship. It then garbled her own
statement to suit itself; brought it to her to sign; she refused. It
, then rewrote, or claimed to rewrite the article; brought her the
last two pages for signature in such shape that she was willing to
sign, maintaining that the first part of the article had not
been changed and therefore was not resubmitted. However,
when the statement finally appeared it so thoroughly displeased
Mrs. Piper that she refused the payment for it. The newspaper
then approached her with the offer of a life pension if she would
agree to discontinue her work. This she also refused. The
documents in these matters were duly filed with Dr. Hodgson, of
the S. P. R., who wrote to the newspaper to ask its explanation
of the whole affair. Up to this time no reply has ever been
received.
As to Mme. Palladino to whom Prof. Jastrow has recently
alluded in public statements: the present writer has long been
possessed of the testimony of an eye-witness, entirely disinterested,
who saw Prof. Muensterberg start with amazement and
tum pale at a Palladino seance, one Thursday or Friday night.
when nothing apparent had touched him at all. In reply to
inunediate questioning by those in the circle he asserted that
something had poked him in the ribs! Yet he was in plain sight
of all and nothing visible had touched him. He was still pale
as he left, on the same elevator that carried my friend down.
He never explained the phenomenon, but came out with his
denial of anything'supemormal in the next Sunday's papers.
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