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344 ADDITIONAL CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCEwas called to a pamplilet^ (Capron and liarron'S;) giving a Listory of the'mysterious noises' at lloclicster and Auburn. Several persons who hadread the same proposed to question the agents of these disturbances in themanner there recorded, and see if they could get answers to questions. Tothis the doctor objected, for reasons known to himself, but which mayreadily be imagined by those knowing his position in life, and his generalopinions of such phenomena.1687. '^Oa the 26th of March Anna left Stratford, and on the 3d ofApril Harry also left. No manifestations took place while both wereaway. Harry was absent a week, and Anna three weeks ; but the very daythat Harry returned, the manifestations commenced with greater powerthan ever.Even before he arrived at the house, a paper with some mysteriouscharacters was dropped near the front door. These characters wereinterpreted by a clairvoyant* to read as follows1688. "'Fear not wlicn he returns; all danger is o'er.AVe came, Ave disturbed thy house ;but shall no more.Believo us not evil or good, till we proveOur speech to humanity, our language of love.'1689. " This was supposed to indicate that no further disturbance wouldbe made ;but in the course of two or three hours another paper was foundin the boy's hat, in these words1690. "'The good ones say that all is done,But the wicked ones say it has just begun.'1691. "The ^wicked ones,' in this case, seemed to come nearer thetruth tlian the 'good ones;' for, on the afternoon of the eighth of April,the breaking of glass commenced for the first time, by the breaking of apane in a mysterious manner. In the evening of the same day anotherwas broken during family prayers, some of the pieces falling inside andsome outside. There were no indications of any thing being throwna2;ainst it.1692. ^' From this time forward for several weeks glass was brokenalmost daily, until the whole number of panes broken amounted to seventyonein the house and out-buildings. Most of them were broken bysomething being thrown against them; among the articles were a brush,a shoe, a poker, a fire-shovel, a candlestick, a pair of snuffers, books, andnumerous other things ;the outside.occasionally a stone or piece of brick, thrown from1693. ''Dr. P. thinks it would have been possible, but not probable, that,in some of these cases, they might have beenbroken by human agency;but he was an eye-witness in some twenty or thirty cases, and knows thatthey could not have been so done. He saw a brush, which he knewto have been on a certain shelf but a moment before, and no person near* Andrew Jackson Davis.