The evening world. Newspaper, April 28, 1922, Page 32

os _THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, This photo of Sir Conan Doyle with a spirit head beside him is made by double exposures. fraud. The spiritualistic madame, however, was later convicted and sent to the penitentiary for a number of years. lee oo Years ago they were used to successfully fool'the public. Mme. Diss Debar a medium of Brooklyn took several hundred thousand dollars, from aged Luther Marsh, by producing Photographs of the old man, surrounded by dead members of his family. Marsh thought he took every scientific percaution to prevent pes seam Rat we 1922. A psychic cantilever of plasma. Another form of cantilever plasma. Photos reproduced by permission of EB. P. Dutten & Co. Ectoplasm Which Exudes From Bodies of Mediums in Spirit Trances By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World) by Press Publishing Co. You know that ectoplasm stuff, about which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has been telling um in his talks on spiritualism? He said, you remember, that it le a thick, sticky, whitish substance exuding from the raedium in trance, and strong enough to lift tables, perform spirit rappings and other weird stunts. Here is a page of flashlight pictures of ectoplasm in action, taken from a remarkable new book, “The Psychic Structures at the Goligher Circle,” by the late Dr. W. J. Crawford, a trained psychic investigator and writer of Belfast. The Sok is published by E. P. Dutton bd Co., through whose courtesy the pictures are reproduced. The ectoplasm, or “plasma,” as Dr. Crawfor® asity calls it,- came from Miss Kathleen Goligher, Dr. Crawford's medium, in seance. In ths pictures, you see it exuding from the legs and body of the medium and Mfting a table by a cantilever of the substance, fixed at one end to tho Side view of cantilever lifting table. medium’s body and with the free, or working, end gripping the under- urface of the table. Dr. Crawford explains: ‘The plasma is part of the medium’s body exteriorized in space, The muscles of the mediums feet and ankles are, during the occurrence of phenomena, in a state of much stress, There Ie no bodily movement of the foot, but there is a whirlpool of internal muscu- lar mdvement. The evolution of the plasma must be accompanted by much friction between stocking and leather of shoe or boot. At nearly all seances the noise accompanying the birth pangs of the plasma is distinctly audible. With thin silk stockings the friction of plasma on the threads as it dis- engages itself is unmistakable. “There is strong evidence of decrease in volume of tte fleshy parts o° the medium’s body, especially from the waist downward, while the plasma is extruded. Once extruded, the operators can mould it into the various shapes and forms required to produce the phenomen-phenomena.” Dr. Crawford worked for a year before he succeeded in taking these pictures. The chief difficulty was in preventing injury to the mediun through shock. Table tilted and held in position by plasma, RIT ECTOPLASM PHOTOS SIR CONAN DOYLE TALKS ABOUT - Twenty Years Ago, Mme. Diss Debar Used Spirit Photographs Like One Below to Take Thousands From Old poh Credulous Rich Men