New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 16, 1922, Page 3

DR. PRINCE, GHOST KILLER, LAYS LOW THE FAMOUS SPOOKS 0F ANTIGON]SH Believes Mary Ellen Started | Strange Fires—Found In- flammable Fluid at Farm ~—Reporter Did Adtoma- tic Writing. Halitax, N, 8, March 16.Dr. \\‘nnor. Franklin Prince of the Amer. ican Research Soclety of New York, who has been investigating stories of Rhostly manifestations at the home of Alexander MacDonald at Caledonia Mills, N. 8., made public last night his report on the subject His conclusion is that there was no ghost, but that the mysterious starting of fires in the house was due to hu- man agency. He thinks that they were the work' of 1 y Ellen, the young adopted daughter of the MacDonalds but says she is not mentally culpable being “exceedingly young for ‘her years"” in development of mind. Girl Had Dreams Mary FEllen has had dream states and may have been in an “altered state of consciousness’” when’the acts were committed, Dr. Prince says. He indicates that this condition may have been the cause also of the braiding of the cows' tails and the shifting of livestock. It is possible, he says, that a discarnate intelligence impelled her, . The girl is not held responsible for the slapping of Harold McWhidden, a reporter of The Halifax Herald, and P. C. Carroll, a detective, which they say took place in the house. Dr. Prince’s report is taken to suggest they may have only thought they were slapped or may have slapped each other. Fires in Mary Ellen's Reach The report reads in part: “My visit of six nights and five days at the house in the vicinity of Antigo- nish, Nova Scotia, which has attracted so much attention, ended Monday morning. ““Apart from the statements of Sig- nor Marconi and other¥experts, T have proved that the wireless waves theory cannot be true unless the waves are sendowed with intelligence to know just when people are in the house, with a dislike for the upper part of the room walls, with a repugnance tb having persons see them break out into flames, and with ability to trans- port cushions froms one room to an- other, and the like. Humans Set Fire “The fires were undoubtedly set by human hands, judging by the unmis- takable signs left in the house. The burns are never found on the wall pa- per higher than the reach of a person five feet tall, which is the height of a girl in the family over the bed which fills one end of the room. They are nevery higher than such a person kneeling could reach, and in muddy or dewy weather one would not wish to stand on the bed. “Other slightly higher places on the woodwork were always set on fire by pieces of cloth, which could easily have heen tossed. “In a recess over a door where a fire occurred were found the frag- ments of a glove, undisturbed, and in the midst of them a match, where it could not have been prior to the fire, nor could it have been placed there after its extinguishment. The fires avoided starting before witnesses, and there was no occult reason for so do- ing—-and avoided all parts of the din- ing room and parlor visible from the meeting place in the kitchen. An odor- less, inflammable liquid was found in a bottle on a beam,, which produced the described effects on wet paper. Other indicia were found pointing to the same conclusion, namely, that a person five feet tall secretively per- formed the acts as opportunity offer- ed., Had Chance to Move Cushion “The various witnesses were un- doubtedly honest in believing that the acts could not have been thus per- formed, but my acquaintance with er- rors of observation and of memory on the part of intelligent persons dealing with a large number of details in a matter quite new to them has often demonstrated that such testimony may be vitally in error. For example it was though that a cushion which ‘some time before' had been put up- stairs was placed on the bedstead downstairs by occult agency. But it appears that the next preceding fire was upstairs, making it likely that an apportunity was found in the inter- . val to bring the cushion dewn. “But 1 am emphatically of the opinion that the girl was not mentally culpable. She is mentally exceedingly young for her years and within the past year has had singular ‘dream’ states, from which it was difficult to ‘ rouse her. It is very probable that she was the victim of altered states. “There was wind during the night which I passed alone in the house and T examined the loose board which someone suggested vibrated, and there was no movement nor sound. My own personal studies of a series of raps and other sounds which lasted for months in my own house makes the testimony of Messrs. Whidden and Carroll quite credible, to the effect that the sounds werenot from or- dinary causes. For reasons which T cannot here give in detail. 1 regard the tactual sensations which both had an effect upon their consciousness, not of the usual kind, and due to causes little understood. Automatic Writing by Reporter ““This new outbreak would be con- stent with the theory that the girl was prompted by a discarnate agency which now found a new outlet owing to peculiar quality residing in one of the men, probably Mr. Whidden, which quality has been given the psychic. In that case Mr. Carroll also heard and felt it because he was with Mr. Whidden, who was the human wire, so to speak, through which the forces or influence, whether an un- known physical one or some other passed. 1 have known other cases where persons shared in the witness- ing of phenomena only when a par- ticular person was, present.” Automatic Writing “1 am not arguing for this theory; only stating it as it is intelligently held. But consistent with it would be \he fact that during my stay at the ¥ . house an experiment which T per formed partly to pass away the time, resulted in a sudden and voleanic outbreak of All'nmu“r/\\ riting on the| part of Mr, Whidden," during which ! an ordinarily mild gentlernan bhecame strangely imperative and like another person, the writing claiming that the communicator caused the fires, which, of course, he might havedone through th egirl, acording to the theory of oh- session, “The fact of the automatic writing and its contents also are not evi- dence for or against the theory, but it is a fact that many such®writings of spirit communication or of tele- pathy, which embraces the world like a system of telegraph wires, This is a plain statement of the logical issue, but it is interesting to note that while this writing came unexpectedly to Mr. Whidden, four succeeding at- pectation, resulted in not® a single word, which is not quite what he would expect of the subconscious." The slapping experiences, Dr. Prince says, were “probably of a su- pernatural character, which does not necessarily imply that the superna- tural cause was spiritualistic.” They may have been due to a ‘“psycho- physiological cause, which is perfect- ly natural though imperfectly nor- mal."” Thinks Girl Released Cattle “To sum up, in my judgment the fires were caused by the hands of the girl in the family, and presumably also the loosening of cattle, etc., were performed by her at unnoticed op- portunities, although I do not expect the neighborhood ever to credit this. “The acts were, however, almost certainly without culpability on her part, owing to her having been tem- porarily in abnormal states of con- sciousness. Possibly, but not probably, there was instigation through telepa- thic contact upon her mind.” SOVIET RUSSIA HAS TYPHUS EPIDEMIG Distase Has Been S—preading Fast Since Last November Moscow, March 16.—Soviet Russia is once more under the shadow of an epidemic wave of typhus #ver and recurrent typhus which has been spreading since November last. The Volga famine area is chiefly affected. In the center of Russia the epidemic has invaded the big towns of the Moscow and Petrograd governmental districts and in the west the cities of Minsk, Smolensk, Witebsk and in the north Vologda. In Moscow itself the epidemic is growing rapidly and the toll which it is exacting from the Moscow popula- tion is already now seven to eight times larger than that of last season and it is feared that before the winter months ‘are over it might well over- grow the epidemic of 1919. In December over 4,000 cases of typhus were registered in Moscow, while during the first three weeks of January 4,783 cases were registered in hospitals. But the real number of cases is much higher than this figure. The epidemic shows nd decline and death casualties are not below 40 per cent. Hospitals and medicaments are very inadequate. The Moscow hospi- tals are overcrowded and the Moscow Soviet is trying to provide 3,000 pew beds in them to meet the epidemic. The railways are the channels by which the epidemic is carried from the famine stricken area into Moscow. Every train brings lice from the Vol- ga districts. To cope with the situation, the government stopped passenger traffic on the eastern railways for six weeks. Baths have been organized at Moscow railway terminals and all refugees and military detachments arriving here are compelled fo use them. Tn Mos- cow’ itself bathing facilities were af- forded in all districts. 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The method of operating is for a salesman to enter an office and rep- resent himself as being from *The Interstate Travelers' League, 80 Wall street, New York.” He introduces himself by stating that his organiza- tion has secured frfm two passenger railroad association§a 20 per cent re- duction in the price of mileage books. He then would solicit a $10 subscrip- tion from the firm he was approach- ing, adding the firm name to a long list of names he has secured in Vir- ginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Tennessee and Kentucky, and other nearby states, thus building a list of respon- sible business firms to exhibit as lla_(‘kflrs to the next "sucker."” Checked Him Up. W. W. Orr, assistant secretary of the National Association of Credit men, upon request of H. G. Barbee, president of the Norfolk-Tidewater Association of Credit men in Norfolk, Virginia, looked up the Wall street address and found no such firm \rep- resented. Henry B. 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