(6) Another account to which I should like to refer is that of Rosamira Lancaster:-

"On February 28th, 1874, and following evening a spirit came by raps, and gave the name of 'Rosamira.' She said that she died at Torquay on January 10th, 1874, and that she had lived at Kilburn. She stated that her husband's name was 'Lancaster.' At this time I was troubled about details, and so I asked her husband's Christian name, and I got 'Ben,' and then the power failed. (The obituary showed that the full name was Benjamin.) I then passed under the control of 'Imperator,' and he said that he had tried as far as he could to bring this spirit to us. Afterwards the truth of the statements was verified by me, and they were found to be absolutely exact; and it is, perhaps, important to say in this connection that not only were they (i.e. the facts) literally true, but that nothing was said that was not true; nor was there any surplusage of detail - only plain, definite, positive facts".

[We have verified this death from an announcement in the Daily Telegraph of January 15th, 1874, of course published long before the name was given by raps at the stance. It is therefore quite possible that the name should have been unwittingly seen by Mr. Moses, and here reproduced from his subliminal memory. - F. W. H. M].

(7) I will now quote the case given in "Spirit Identity," p. 193 (Appendix III.), of a "Man Crushed by a Steam-roller," as contributed by an eye-witness of the seance [F. W. Percival] to the Spiritualist of March 27th, 1874.

"On the evening of Saturday, February 21st, a few friends met together at the house of Mrs. Makdougall Gregory, 21 Green Street, Grosvenor Square, W. The party numbered six in all, and included the Baron Du Potet, and the gentleman to whose mediumship we are indebted for the 'Spirit Teachings' which have appeared from time to time in your columns. There was no intention of having a seance, and ordinary topics were the subject of conversation, when suddenly, in the middle of dinner, this gentleman surprised us by saying that he felt a spirit standing near him between himself and the Baron (who sat on his right); whether good or bad he could not tell, but the influence was by no means pleasant. The spirit was also perceived by the Baron, to whom it conveyed the impression that it was in a state of great distress, and that it was the spirit of a person then alive. Nothing more was said at the time, but the medium continued to feel a disagreeable influence near him, and spoke of it to me when dinner was over.

As soon as we reached the drawing-room he was impelled to sit down and write; and when a pencil and paper had been brought, his hand was moved backwards and forwards with great rapidity, and an object was roughly drawn on the paper which resembled a horse fastened to a kind of cart or truck. Several attempts were made to depict it more clearly, and then the following sentences were written:- 'I killed myself - I killed myself to-day - Baker Street - medium passed.' Here the writing became unintelligible, as the medium grew more and more agitated, until at length he rose from his seat in a state of trance, and exclaimed in broken sentences: 'Yes, yes. Killed myself to-day, under a steam-roller. Yes, yes. Killed myself - blood, blood, blood.' The control then ceased, but the medium felt the same unpleasant influence for some hours afterwards, and could not entirely shake it off for some days. In reference to the communication, I may state that, although the medium had passed through Baker Street in the afternoon, neither he nor any one present was aware that a man had committed suicide there in the morning by throwing himself under a steam-roller. A brief notice of the occurrence appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette in the evening, but none of the party had seen that paper.

It is worth remarking that on the front of the steam-roller which was used in Baker Street a horse is represented in brass, and this, perhaps, may serve to account for its appearance in the medium's drawing where we should certainly not expect to find it".

[It appears that the deceased was a cab-driver, and the drawing more probably had reference to this, as Mr. Podmore suggests in Studies in Psychical Research, p. 131, footnote. See also the reference to this case in the entry connected with Blanche Abercromby, section 949. - F. W. H. M].

(8) Out of a profusion of cases here is one of a different kind. In the year 1880, one Thursday afternoon (date unknown), Dr. and Mrs. Speer and I had dined together, and the party included a lady who had been visiting a connection of Dr. Speer's family in that spring. There she had seen, and been much attracted to, a lovely little girl about seven months old. The child used to be brought in after dinner, and the lady in question grew very fond of her. Between the time of leaving her friends and coming to London the child passed away. It is important to notice that none of these points had ever been mentioned to, or were known by, myself. On the occasion to which I refer, this lady had risen from her seat and was about to place herself in another chair, when I suddenly called out, "Don't sit down on it, don't sit down on it. Little Baby Timmins." None of us knew its first name, and they asked me. I said "Marian; the grandmother has brought it." I then suddenly came out of the trance in which I had been, and in my own natural voice - so different to the voice in which I had been speaking - said, "Mrs. Speer, will you have some coffee?" quite ignorant of all that had passed.

We wrote, and then found out a fact unknown to any of us, - that the child's name was Marian. I do not put this forth as a complete piece of evidence, for the lady may have heard and forgotten the name.

[Mrs. Speer has described to me this incident, which is remarkable as the only observed case where Mr. Moses had a sudden access of unconsciousness during ordinary life, although he himself mentions others. - F. W. H. M].

As evidence from another point of view, I may mention that I have had repeated cases of signatures which are veritable fac-similes of those used by the persons in life; such, for example, are the signatures of Beethoven, Mozart, and of Swedenborg, in connection with Judge Edmonds. It is remarkable that his signature, or rather initials, in my book are those which he used, and that Swedenborg's signature, a very peculiar one, is a fac-simile of his known handwriting; quite unknown, however, to me.