The Death-Blow to Spiritualism Part 19

GARBLED testimony, 90, 94.

"G.o.d has not ordered it," 25, 37.

GOWNS (Long) put on the younger Fox girls on their first public appearance, to conceal manner of producing "raps," 123.

GREELEY (Horace) --Aids Katie, 19, 58, 129.

--Influence upon her life, 129.

GUERNILLAS (The) --Exposure of Spiritualism, 199.

"HERALD" (The N. Y.), 25, 28, 29, 32, 39, 42, 46, 62.

HISTORY of the "rappings," 79.

HARVARD professors investigate Spiritualism, 147.

HUMBUG (Spiritualism a,) according to Mrs. Kate Fox Jencken, 57.

HYDESVILLE, N. Y.

--When mysterious sounds were first heard in John D. Fox's house, 81.

--Digging in the creek, 95.

--Bones of a horse found, 118.

--Digging in the cellar, 117.

--Alleged finding of human bones, unconfirmed by any evidence, 117.

--House said to be haunted--an afterthought, 101.

--The "spirits" when asked tentatively say a murder was committed in the house and mention the name of the murderer, 119.

HYPOCRISY of professional spiritualists, 165.

--Dr. Kane characterizes, 214, 215.

INQUISITIVENESS as to spiritualistic methods prevents the "spirits" from acting, 146.

INSULATION --Experiments with Mrs. Kane while standing on gla.s.s tumblers, 185.

--The results negative, 188.

--Partial success when placed near a sideboard and wall, 189, 192.

INVESTIGATION --First farcical. 122, 124.

--By the "Buffalo doctors," 131, 134.

--By "Buffalo doctors" again, 131.

--By "Seybert Commission," 170.

--By Harvard professors and others, 147.

JENCKEN (Mrs. Catherine Fox) denounces Spiritualism, 62, 64.

JOINTS of the fingers.

--Children try to imitate sounds with them, 87.

JOINT of the knee used in the production of "raps," 133.

JOINTS of the toes used in producing the famous "rappings" of the Fox sisters, 139, 145.

JUGGLERY --Spiritualists attribute it to "mediums.h.i.+p," 198.

--Confess that "spiritualistic" effects are produced in the same way, 199.

--Older and more skillful than Spiritualism so-called, 150, 154.

KANE (Dr. Elisha Kent) --First meeting with Maggie Fox, 209.

--Influence upon her life, 129.

--Effect of his death on her career, 230, 231.

--Character of his interest in her, 213.

--Gloomy foresight, 213.

--Efforts to save her from a life of fraud, &c., 129, 228.

--Characterizes the deceit and hypocrisy of "mediums.h.i.+p," 214, 215, 216, 228.

--Never believed in a single pretense of Spiritualism, 217, 232.

--Knew from their first acquaintance that the "rappings" were fraudulent, 232.

--Repeatedly exacts her promise not to have anything more to do with Spiritualism, 223, 226.

--Solicitude lest she return to the practice of Spiritualism, 228.

--Fear lest the source of the "rappings" be discovered, 226.

--Places her at school, 226.

--Engagement broken off and renewed, 227.

--Secret marriage with her, 229.

--Death at Havana, 229.

KNEES --Seized by investigators to detect movement while "rappings" being produced, 143.

--When so seized, sounds arrested, and when released, renewed, 143.

LEE (Dr. Charles A.), one of the Buffalo investigators, 132.

LETTER of Mrs. Kane first publicly denouncing Spiritualism, 30.

LICENTIOUSNESS under the cloak of Spiritualism, 237, 238.

"MEDIUMS" (Well-known) --How they received the expose, 45, 46.

"MEDIUMs.h.i.+P"

--Mrs. Kane driven back to it, 37.

MESSAGES (Written) --How produced by Mrs. Kane, 172, 196.

MESSAGES ("Spirit") --Internal evidence sufficient to prove their falsity, 162.

MERCENARY campaign --Begins in Rochester, 121, 126.

--Tour of princ.i.p.al cities, 212, 222.