New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 5, 1927, Page 3

X-RAY TURNED O WYSTERIOLS BOX Prophetess’ Legacy Now Known| —To Be Opened London, May 5 (A—X-rays have succeeded where psychic power iailed, in revealing the secrets of the famous mystery box left by the Prophetess Joanna Southcott, who died in 1814, The rays showed the outlines of i skull, sclssors, a horse-pistol, a liead bag, rings, coins, pins, a roll , Of manuscript or a dice box, and tended by Harry Price, secretary of the national laboratory of psychical research, who has possession of the box. The contents of the box have been a matted of speculation for more than 100 years. According to tra- dition it was turned over, after Joan nas’ death, to Rebecca Pengrath, | her sole companign, who solmenly | promised it would never be opened | except in a national crisis and in the presence of 24 bishops. The box was passed from the Pengrath | | family some years ago and recently | was turned over to Mr. Price, who had it X-rayed. Joanna Southcott, a domestic | servant, born in Devonshire in 1750, | claimed supernatural powers and | dictated prophecies in-rhyme. Her | sect numbered over 100,000 at one time and was still in existence, al- though disappearing rapldly in | | mander-in-chief of the liberal forces NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1927. LIBERALS INSIST DIAZ BE OUSTED Moncado Ofiherwise Declines to Discuss Peace Terms Managua, Nic, May § (A—Gen- c¢ral Jose Maria Moncada, com- in their campaign against the con- servatives, reiterated today that the liberals were untilling to con- sider the proposal to retain Adolfo Diaz, conservative, as president of Nicaragua until the end of 1928. General Moncada came to Mana- | noon today, and General Concada declared the liberals were willing to treat further with Mr. Stimson it he desired, providing the Diaz troops were removed immediately from the Boaco and Teustepe re- gions, where the main bodies of liberals were concentrated. 'MAKES EXPERIMENT IN PSYCHOLOGY OF FRIGHT College Girl Tells of Attacks and Notes Reactions on Her Classmates Chicago, May 8§ (P—DMiss Ruth Rubin, 18, of Bismarck, N. D, has told Evanston police that her story tack, while the owner of the board- | ing house told of seeing a marauder in the corridor. The effect of the girl's stories of the two attacks was that the co-eds! |living at the boarding house were | | seized with fear so great that om at least one night they slept in two adjoining rooms with the door be- tween left open. Miss Rubin said she sought by the stories of the attacks to observe the effects of fear for information to be used in a theme. : The girl reported both attacks to the authorities—the first April 13— and it was the police investigation that finally brought her admission that the story of the incident was a lie. 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