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Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Blake.
Survey and Comment. 319
Mrs. Elizabeth Blake of Coryville, Ohio, whose phenomena
were reported at length in Vol. VII. Part 3, of the Proceedings
( 1913) died in April. It appears that four hours after she was
first pronounced dead by a physician she revived and that she
continued to live for several days. It is said that during her
profound coma the usual signs of death including rigor mortis
appeared and an undertaker was summoned. Sometimes in these
rare cases of seeming death there has ensued recollection of a
vivid stream of consciousness during the interval but nothin_g of
the kind was reported in this instance.
Mrs. Blake was the woman who held to her ear or in her
hand at some distance from her mouth a trumpet from which
whispers and voices issued giving evidential statements to strangers
which convinced many that they were from the dead. This
took place in the broad daylight with Dr. Hyslop, David P.
Abbot an expe·rt conjurer-detector of fraud, and a third person
who was a business man, minutely scrutinizing the phenomenon.
A number of reports of sittings with her have since come to this
office, including one from an intelligent Roman Catholic lawyer,
who orally stated the reasons for his astonished conviction that
the messages received in the manner stated were from no other
than deceased relatives.
It is a pity that funds were not in hand to send an agent to
study the phenomena of Mrs. Blake for months.
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