Honest Medium?

The wife of a Boston professional man, as yet anonymous, is the most likely candidate for the $2500 prize offered by the Scientific American (TIME, June 4, 1923), for a demonstrated proof of genuine psychic phenomena. J. Malcolm Bird, Secretary of the Committee, says: "Her demonstrations are infinitely more convincing than any of the others were." Precautions have 'been taken to preserve her anonymity, for she is a woman of culture, position and means, has never given public exhibitions, and wishes no publicity.

The medium's "control" is her dead brother "Chester," who performs a great variety of activities, such as rapping, talking, juggling, whistling, singing, pinching, scratching, kissing, moving heavy objects, making visible clocks strike, playing victrolas, producing psychic photographs. No evidence of fraud was found, and the moral factors were all in favor of the medium, who has put every convenience at the disposal of the investigators. But elaborate objective tests are to be made by the scientists to preclude fraud or error.