much can be ascertained. Harry Fox was a cricket player, and lived in the Bowling district of Bradford, some two or three miles from the meeting-place. He went abroad somewhere.)

There is a gentleman right at the back, about 72 before passing into spirit life. Well built, and a gentleman who would have had a good deal of physical exercise when in earth life. Not been passed away so very long. Gives me rather a funny name. He is showing me a sporting paper, and on it a picture of this gentleman in cricket flannels, taken when he was very much younger. The name on the picture is Andrew Thackray. This gentleman, when younger, would have been very fond of cricket, and probably played in this town of yours a good many years ago.

It seems that he has been helping this Harry Fox to come forward.

With this lady here. A gentleman seems to be coming towards you. I would take him to be 63-4, but he might be older. Fairly well-built gentleman, one who would have been very active when in earth life. Wears a dark tweed suit, a regalia on it, a Rechabite's ragalia, so he was a gentleman connected with the Rechabites' movement. He gives me the name of Charles Benn of Eastbrook Lane. He had something to do with the Corporation. He is showing me a photograph, on which is written "Corporation Health Department." He was a very religiously disposed man, too.

(Oct. 27th, 1917. Not recognised. But there is a Corporation sub-office in Eastbrook Lane.)

There is a young man here, about 34-5. Been passed away about five years. He is looking round for some

one up here on the platform [the room was crowded and seats had been placed on the platform]. He passed away very suddenly. He is anxious for those he has left behind. He gives the name of Harry Smith. Somebody belonging to him lived in Wellington Street, No. 13. I am rather surprised that some of the Spiritualists should not know him. He wants his wife to know.

ANSWER. Our late President was Harry Smith. MEDIUM.-There is a Mr. Armitage with him. (Mr. Armitage and Wellington Street evidently not known.)

(Oct. 27th, 1917. A curious incident. The names of presidents of Spiritualist societies may be assumed to be known to mediums, but the "Wellington Street No. 13" seems possibly evidential. It will be noted that he was stated to be looking round for someone on the platform. I am to-day informed by the Secretary, Mr. Holden, who was not at the meeting, being unavoidably out of town, that he once had great difficulty in collecting a debt at 13 Wellington Street, for coal, on behalf of Mr. Smith. This was a matter not likely to be known to the medium or indeed to anyone present, and it seems probable that Mr. Smith was looking round for Mr. Holden in order to give him test evidence of his identity. The medium, being given an address, naturally thought that Mr. Smith or someone belonging to him lived there, which is not so.

The Mr. Armitage is unrecognised.)

A lady comes here in your surroundings [pointing] about 63-4. Been passed into spirit life a good number of years. Fairly well built. A jovial sort, and one that

would have been a very good judge of character. She places her hands on your shoulders. She comes very close in your life. Name-Amelia Murgatroyd. She has met her friend, Elizabeth Hale, who would live at No. 80, Cartwright Terrace.

(The person addressed did not recognise the people, but some one else said: "I know them, they were friends.")

MEDIUM.-They want to be remembered to Mr. and Mrs. C.

ANSWER.-Yes, that is all right.

MEDIUM. They don't forget, they don't forget. See, a boy comes in your surroundings. He looks to me to be about 17 or 18, and I think there will have been a good deal of sorrow over the passing away of this boy. A lady brings this boy, and she wants the parents to know about him. Whether he passed away in weakness or not, I don't know. He is a very beautiful boy; she is telling me that it is Herbert Ernest. There is somebody belonging to him called Seth. I cannot get along with it. Do you know anybody called Seth and Mary that had a boy called Herbert Ernest Hobson?

ANSWER. You are right, friend.

MEDIUM. They want you to know.

Right in the corner there [pointing]. I don't know what to make of this at all. It is a youth, I should take him to be about 18. There is a gentleman with this youth; and I have a very curious feeling. I rather think this youth will have been killed from the shock. Now he comes and shows me. He is without jacket, and his clothes are covered with colour. He is holding

out his hands, and there is a reddish dye on them. He may have worked in a dye works. I feel I would fall over. He may have met with his death in a dye works. It is Mrs. Miller's boy, William Henry Miller; lived in Valley Place, and I think he would be killed in a dye works. Not more than four or five years ago, as far as I can see in the surroundings. This gentleman comes with him. He is Henry Mitchell, and he used to belong to Yeadon. He is helping the boy forward.

(All correct, except that Henry Mitchell is unrecognised. Mr. Holden, my informant, knew William Henry Miller. Leg hurt at dye works, blood poisoning, died about 1911. Valley Dye Works.)

ANSWER. I know this man.

MEDIUM. He is glad he has met with his old friend, Mary Leach.

Perhaps now you will sing a verse. It is getting very hot.

(The following hymn was sung):

How pure in heart and sound in head,

With what divine affections bold,

Should be the man whose thought would hold
An hour's communion with the dead.

In vain shalt thou, or any, call

The spirits from their golden day,
Except, like them, thou too canst say,

My spirit is at peace with all.

They haunt the silence of the breast,
Imagination calm and fair,

The memory like a cloudless air,
The conscience as a sea at rest.

But when the heart is full of din,
And doubt beside the portal waits,
They can but listen at the gates,
And hear the household jar within.

-Tennyson.

MEDIUM.-A boy and a girl come here, boy about 24 and girl about 16, but I think you will have to carry your minds back over twenty years to find these two. He is a very beautiful young man, seems quite girlish in appearance, and I think he would pass away with a weakness. The girl has her hair flowing down, and is dressed in spirit robes. She passed away with a fever. They give me the names of Charlie Craven and Hilda Smith, and they passed away at Leeds over twenty years ago. She is telling me that his mother was Ann Craven.

(At first these were unrecognised, but afterwards some of the people from Leeds recollected the girl's mother, who lives at Blackpool, or used to.)

They have brought another little girl with them, called Annie Bentley. Somebody belonging to the girl has had something to do with gardening.

That is all I can get. I am afraid there will be some disappointment, but I have described things as best I can. It is not necessary to come here for evidence. Most of you have someone in your own home who is susceptible to spirit influences, and you can get better evidence at home. I thank you all very kindly for your attention.

Another hymn followed, then the Benediction and dismissal.

The evidential value of public clairvoyance incidents