{"1": {"fulltext": "F 1272\\nD6\\nopy 1", "height": "4048", "width": "2756", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4040", "width": "2804", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "BF 1272 Price, 50 cents\\nD6\\nCopy 1\\nDotheDeadReturn?\\nA Startling Story from Life\\nCrown Publishing Company\\nSan Francisco\\n1900", "height": "4096", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4048", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4048", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "OR. LOUIS SCHLESINGER.", "height": "4052", "width": "2812", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN\\nA TRUE STORY\\nOF STARTLING SEANCES\\nIN SAN FRANCISCO\\nNOTICE\\nThis work is copyrighted. Editors are warned\\nnot to make unlawful abridgments.\\nCROWN PUBLISHING COMPANY\\nSAN FRANCISCO\\n1900", "height": "4036", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "Liorvry of Cangrmmm\\nOCT 3 1900\\nSECOND CCv.\\nUviivftWl t\u00c2\u00bb\\n0*018 O viSIOfc,\\n_0CT 19 1900\\nCOPYRIGHT, 1900\\nBY\\nCROWN PUBLISHING CO.", "height": "4024", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "I-\\nTABLE OF CONTENTS.\\nPass\\nIntroduction 5\\nThe Author s Story 7\\nThe Examiner m Seance 14\\nSome Startling Daylight Seances 19\\nCharacter of the Narrators. 55", "height": "4012", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4052", "width": "2812", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\nBefore this little volume is read a few\\nwords of explanation should be carefully\\nweighed, for otherwise the reader might\\ngo away with many false impressions.\\nThe author desires to say that every\\nword here printed is absolutely and liter-\\nally true. Nothing has been added or sup-\\npressed, but the entire truth has been\\nexpressed, usually in the exact language\\nof the distinguished gentlemen whose nar-\\nratives make the bulk of the book. In\\nmost instances the witnesses summoned\\nwrote their accounts with their own\\nhands, and the original manuscripts are\\nstill preserved.\\nThough many years have passed since\\nthe events recorded herein transpired,", "height": "4052", "width": "2736", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "6 INTRODUCTION.\\nall who witnessed the phenomena are\\nstill alive, and all are well-known and rep-\\nutable citizens of San Francisco. It\\nwas only a few days ago that the author\\nmet Captain W. S. Barnes, who was Dis-\\ntrict Attorney of the City and County of\\nSan Francisco in 1893 (the date of the oc-\\ncurrences with which the book deals),\\nand he said What I saw in the presence\\nof the medium has puzzled me all these\\nyears. I can truthfully say that the\\nthings that took place at Mayor Ellert s\\noffice are the most wonderful events that\\nI have ever come upon. They are abso-\\nlutely beyond my understanding.\\nThe circumstances with which the nar-\\nrative deals are an important contribu-\\ntion to the history of psychic research,\\nand they are presented for what they are\\nworth while the witnesses and actors in\\nthe story are alive. m A\\nJ The Author.\\nISan FranciscOy September, 1900,", "height": "4044", "width": "2820", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER I.\\nTHE AUTHOR S STOEY.\\nIn the autumn of 1891, the author of\\nthis narrative was business manager of\\nthe Modesto (California) Daily News.\\nOne afternoon while he was engaged in\\nan important consultation with the late\\nSenator J. D. Spencer, one of the owners\\nof the News, there was a knock at the door\\nof the editorial rooms. In a twinkling\\nan old gentleman entered he was a ven-\\nerable-looking, long-bearded man, with\\nHebraic features.\\nBefore Senator Spencer and I could\\nsay, Good day, sir the old man said\\nsomething like this Gentlemen, I am\\nDr. Louis Schlesinger, the famous Spirit-\\nualist medium. It is well known that I", "height": "4052", "width": "2752", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "8 DO THE DEAD RETURN t\\ncan talk with the good angels, and I desire\\nto have a series of seances here in Mo-\\ndesto.\\nOur advertising columns are open,\\nI said, and we shall be pleased to an-\\nnounce your meetings at the regular\\nrates.\\nI have no money to spare, he replied\\nbut I think you will say something about\\nme when I show you that man lives after\\ndeath.\\nThe Senator whispered to me (on dis-\\ncovering that the old gentleman was quite\\ndeaf), I guess he s escaped from the\\nStockton Lunatic Asylum.\\nStockton was but twenty miles away,\\nand I assented, but said, Suppose we\\nsound him before we send for an officer.\\nSo we agreed to give Dr. Schlesinger an\\nopportunity to convince us that he was a\\nman of rare endowments, as he pretended\\nto be.\\nComing to the point, it was arranged", "height": "4104", "width": "2812", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN? 9\\nthat the Senator should retire to the press-\\nroom while I remained with the aged\\nsuspect.\\nTake eight or ten slips of paper, said\\nDr. Schlesinger, and write one name on\\neach some of living, some of dead per-\\nsons; and don t tell me or anybody on\\nearth what names you have written on the\\nslips. Roll them into little pellets and\\ncome back here with your mind at rest,\\nfor I am not insane, as you think.\\nWe were somewhat surprised, for both\\nwere certain that the old gentleman\\ncould not have heard Senator Spencer s\\nwhispered doubt concerning our visitor s\\nsanity.\\nIn a few minutes Senator Spencer re-\\nturned, bearing a number of paper pellets\\nwhich he held in his clenched right hand.\\nDoors were closed and a table was\\nrolled to the center of the room. Dr.\\nSchlesinger closed his eyes and appeared\\nto fall into a light slumber. At once there", "height": "4036", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "10 DO THE DEAD RETURN t\\nwere many distinct raps on the table, as\\nif some one had thumped upon it with a\\nfinger. This was rather singular, as we\\ncould see that our visitor s hands in no\\nmanner touched the table.\\nSuddenly the old man opened his eyes\\nand said Gentlemen, are you satisfied\\nthat I do not know any of the names on\\nthose papers?\\nAs Senator Spencer was as truthful\\nand honorable a man as ever lived, one\\nwhose word was better than most men s\\nbonds, I replied I am sure you have not\\nseen the names and that you do not know\\none of them.\\nAnd some of the names are not known\\nto anybody in California, added the\\nSenator.\\nThen I 11 have to show you that I can\\ntalk with the spirits of the departed,\\nsaid Dr. Schlesinger.\\nWithout further delay he said I see\\nthe spirit of your mother standing over", "height": "4088", "width": "2820", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN? 11\\nyou. She calls you Dillard, which is your\\nmiddle name, and she says she died in\\nKansas City, and was buried in the old\\ncemetery at Westport. Am I right?\\nSenator Spencer turned pale and said\\nThat is absolutely correct. Which one\\nof the pellets bears her name?\\nHe then held the bits of paper between\\nhis right finger and thumb, and when he\\nhad picked up three or four of them, the\\nmedium said, That is the one which con-\\ntains your mother s maiden name.\\nI have now forgotten the maiden name\\nof the Senator s mother, though I think it\\nwas Dillard. The answer, however, was\\ncorrect.\\nNext, without asking me to write any-\\nthing down, the medium thus addressed\\nme I see the spirit of your mother s\\nmother. Her name was Eliza Johnson,\\nand she calls you my son, and says,\\n1 Tell Anne that immortality is the glori-\\nous truth of human life. Anne was the\\nname of her eldest child your mother.", "height": "4052", "width": "2732", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12 DO THE DEAD RETURN t\\nIf Senator Spencer was convinced that\\nDr. Schlesinger had told him the truth, I\\nhad the same kind of conviction in my\\ncase; for every word uttered was correct.\\nI have never understood how this old man\\ncame to the results announced, nor have\\nI ever seen any one who was able to ex-\\nplain his power.\\nWith the memory of my Modesto ex-\\nperiences fresh in mind, I decided, when\\n1 came upon Dr. Schlesinger in San Fran-\\ncisco, in 1893, to institute a series of day-\\nlight seances in the presence of some of\\nthe most distinguished citizens of San\\nFrancisco. As I was then a writer of the\\nSan Francisco Daily Examiner staff I\\nfound rare opportunities for enlisting the\\nmen desired in the experiments. I was\\nnot then, nor am I now, in any manner\\naffiliated with Spiritualists, nor do I set\\nforth the facts of this narrative for the\\npurpose of making converts to any theory\\nof mind or matter.", "height": "4092", "width": "2824", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN? 13\\nThe manuscript from which this work\\nis printed was written at the time of the\\nmatters recorded, on an order from the\\nExaminer. Owing to the fact that Mayor\\nEllert afterwards regretted that he had\\nallowed a seance to be held in his office,\\nthe Examiner was induced to suppress the\\nstory, which now appears in detail for the\\nfirst time. It should be borne in mind\\nthat all that follows was written at the\\ntime of the events described.", "height": "4044", "width": "2680", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER II.\\nTHE EXAMINEE SEANCE.\\nThat the reader may fully understand\\nthe origin of the experiments recorded\\nin the narrative that follows, it is neces-\\nsary to state again that I was a writer for\\nthe Examiner in the autumn of 1893, and\\nthat I was on the alert for what news-\\npaper men call stories, or special arti-\\ncles things a little outside of the ordi-\\nnary run of news.\\nAmbitious to arrange something of un-\\nusual interest, I approached Mr. Hearst\\nand S. S. Chamberlain, who were in\\ncharge of the news department of the\\npaper. I told them what I had seen Dr.\\nSchlesinger do in Modesto, and outlined\\nthe plans that were afterwards carried out", "height": "4044", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN? 15\\nseances at the office of Mayor Ellert and\\nthe Chief of Police, in the presence of\\nprominent citizens. First, however, it was\\nnecessary for the editors to see the\\nmedium at their offices; for they feared\\nthere would be some failure, and that the\\ncitizens invited would be disgusted be-\\ncause of their loss of time in useless ex-\\nperiments.\\nFor these reasons, therefore, the first\\nsittings were at the editorial offices of the\\nExaminer, where the editors were as\\nmuch puzzled as anybody else. They were\\nat once convinced that, however he per-\\nformed his feats, Dr. Schlesinger was at\\nleast not a bungling master of the black\\nart. Several intelligent observers were\\npresent, among them one or two of the\\nbrightest newspaper men in the city. The\\nexperiments were not only carefully\\nnoted, but they were viewed with grave\\nsuspicion. They were, however, wholly\\ninformal and merely preliminary to the", "height": "4052", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "16 DO THE DEAD RETURN t\\nmore important and prolonged seances\\nthat followed at the office of the Mayor\\nof the city, and later at the office of and in\\nthe presence of the city s Chief of Police.\\nA few facts concerning the occurrences at\\nthe Examiner office are given that the\\nreader may have the full benefit of the\\nstory.\\nOne of the investigators (Managing\\nEditor A. B. Henderson) wrote a number\\nof names on slips of paper, before Dr.\\nSchlesinger arrived. They were not seen\\nor known to any one save the person that\\nprepared them, and the slips on which\\nthey were written were carefully folded\\nand clasped in a bundle, by a rubber band\\nor elastic. Great pains was taken by Mr.\\nHenderson to prevent the medium from\\nhandling or seeing the slips. Without\\nseeing the writing, Dr. Schlesinger at\\nonce gave the names correctly. One of\\nthem was that of Thaddeus Stevens, the\\neminent Pennsylvanian and when the", "height": "4072", "width": "2816", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN? 17\\nfolded slip on which his name was written\\nwas touched by Mr. Henderson, the\\nmedium said That is the name of\\nThaddeus Stevens, who knew you well.\\nHe calls you Alexander, and sends you his\\nlove.\\nThen the name of the sitter s deceased\\nuncle was properly announced, though it\\nhad not been written on any of the slips.\\nCorrect information was also given con-\\ncerning the uncle s religion while in the\\nflesh.\\nS. S. Chamberlain, now Managing Edi-\\ntor of the Philadelphia North American,\\n(then News Editor of the Examiner)\\nwas one of the investigators. He wrote\\ndown, on separate slips of paper, the\\nnames of many living and dead persons,\\nbut, contrary to the medium s request, he\\ndid not write the names of persons he had\\never known. In a few moments Dr.\\nSchlesinger read the names correctly\\nwhile the slips were beyond his reach, and", "height": "4048", "width": "2732", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "18 DO THE DEAD RETURN t\\nfirmly clasped in Chamberlain s hand.\\nThey were of such persons as John Rus-\\nkin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Shakespeare,\\nLongfellow, etc.\\nA faithful report of all that occurred\\nwas submitted to the managing editor of\\nthe paper, who at once decided that a\\nseries of similar experiments, conducted\\nat the office of the Mayor of the city and\\nothers, in broad daylight, would make the\\nbasis for some interesting Sunday\\nspecials. Under his instructions I ar-\\nranged the seances, and was present at all\\nof them. I subsequently wrote a faithful\\naccount of what occurred, but the articles\\nwere rejected by the editor of the Sunday\\nExaminer for personal reasons. This\\nvolume embraces the substance of what\\nwas then prepared.", "height": "4052", "width": "2820", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "CHAPTEK III.\\nSOME STARTLING DAYLIGHT SEANCES.\\nIt was on September 4, 1893, that a\\nnumber of the most prominent citizens of\\nSan Francisco held a daylight seance (at\\nhigh noon) at the office of Mayor Ellert.\\nThe company had assembled in response\\nto the Examiner s invitation, and all of\\nthe witnesses had agreed in advance to\\nobserve everything closely and write an\\nabsolutely fair account of what they saw,\\nadding any theory or explanation that\\nseemed sufficient to account for the phe-\\nnomena.\\nIt is as well to say that is was a mirth-\\nful assembly at the outset, and the news-\\npaper man who had arranged for the\\nexperiments was the butt of many little", "height": "4116", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20 DO THE DEAD RETURN f\\njokes. The idea that the medium could\\ndo anything more than a little clever\\njuggling seemed farthest from anybody s\\nthoughts.\\nDr. Louis Schlesinger, then a man\\nabout sixty-one years of age, was the\\nspiritualist medium who said he could\\nconvince all present that the dead return,\\nand that he could hold communion with\\nthe living. The following spectators were\\npresent, and the written reports of some\\nof them are given in full in the subjoined\\nnarrative Mayor Levi R. Ellert, District\\nAttorney W. S. Barnes, President Theo-\\ndore F. Bonnet, of the San Francisco\\nPress Club, Ex-President Grant Carpen-\\nter, of the same club, H. H. McCloskey,\\nthen a State Central Committeeman of\\nthe Republican party, and many other\\ncasual observers.\\nAt another seance Chief of Police\\nCrowley, Judge Robert Ferral, Dr. R. E.\\nBunker, and Attorney Charles L. Patton", "height": "4044", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN t 21\\nwere the principal investigators, though\\nCaptain Wright and many others saw all\\nthat was done. At this seance the obser-\\nvations were conducted under the test\\nconditions arranged by Chief Crowley,\\nDr. Bunker, and Attorney Patton.\\nThe reader should satisfy himself con-\\ncerning the mental and moral qualifica-\\ntions of all the witnesses named by glanc-\\ning at the biographical sketches elsewhere\\nin this volume.\\nAt the Mayor s office Dr. Schlesinger\\nwas announced as a resident of No. 1 Polk\\nStreet. He said he knew none of the com-\\nmittee, and nobody present except the\\nExaminer s representative knew the Doc-\\ntor.*\\nI can converse with the spirits of your\\ndeceased friends/ said the medium, and\\nI am giving my life to this work. I gave\\nup a great tea business to teach my fellow\\nmen that life does not end at the grave.\\n*He now lives in Boston.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Editor.", "height": "4072", "width": "2564", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "innioi-r rT-in-fihi i Mj;g *j\\n22 DO THE DEAD RETURN?\\nMy home is constantly filled with bands\\nof angels from the celestial depths, but I\\nam able to call a few spirits around any\\nbox, table, or desk. I want you to satisfy\\nyourself that all that is done here is ab-\\nsolutely honest.\\nBefore proceeding further the Doctor\\nproduced a testimonial from Editor Will\\nS. Green, of the Colusa Sun (afterwards\\nState Treasurer), which explained that\\nDr. Schlesinger s performances could not\\nbe explained on the theory of trickery. A\\nclipping from the Sun of September 5,\\n1890, gave an account of matters that had\\npuzzled the people of Colusa. The in-\\nvestigations began, therefore, with a great\\ndeal of interest, and before their conclu-\\nsion the old Doctor had greatly puzzled\\nall present. They could not tell whether\\nit was some psychic power by which he\\noperated, or whether they had been basely\\ndeceived.\\nAt his own request, Dr. Schlesinger was", "height": "4048", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN t 23\\nnot introduced to any of the persons pres-\\nent. He soon called their names, however,\\nand said they were given to him by the\\nspirits in the raps that all could hear on\\nthe desk.\\nThe Doctor s favorite method of com-\\nmunicating startling information was to\\nhave the sitters write, before they came\\ninto his presence, fifteen or twenty names\\nof living and dead friends. Each name\\nbeing on a separate piece of paper, the\\nvisitors were requested to fold each slip\\ntightly, so as to preclude any possibility\\nof its being read by the medium. This\\ndone, the slips, all of equal size, were put\\ninto a hat and thoroughly shuffled. The\\nDoctor would then say Pick out any\\nslip yourself, and I will read it without\\nlooking and before you yourself know\\nwhat the name is. There would then be\\nraps, and in a few seconds the Doctor\\nwould give the name correctly. These\\nnames were written and folded in a room\\napart from the Doctor.", "height": "4044", "width": "2604", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24 DO THE DEAD RETURN?\\nGranting that there is such a thing as\\nmind-reading, said Chief Crowley, I\\ndo not think mind-reading would account\\nfor what was done for me, because he read\\nthings that were not in my mind, telling\\nme my mother s maiden name and where\\nshe died.\\nDr. Schlesinger calls his gift clairau-\\ndient mediumship, and says his right ear\\nis deaf to all terrestrial sounds, but\\nquickened, as with a sixth sense, for com-\\nmunications from the other world. He\\nsays he can both see and hear spirits, and\\nthat bands of them encircle him, and at\\ntimes, in the presence of some peculiarly\\nfit visitors, manifest themselves with\\ngreat clearness and power. To prove that\\nthe sounds he hears are celestial voices, he\\ndoes many things which baffle those who\\nwitness the strange phenomena which\\nabound in his presence wherever he goes.\\nIt was with much difficulty that those\\nwho participated in these seances and", "height": "4048", "width": "2908", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN? 25\\nwhose accounts of what they saw are sub-\\njoined, were induced to give the medium\\na hearing. Chief Crowley was particu-\\nlarly opposed to giving serious attention\\nto what he denounced as trickery and\\nsleight of hand, and afterwards called\\nmarvelous and beyond power of expla-\\nnation. Finally he wrote down a number\\nof names on separate slips, as explained\\nin the foregoing, and among those names\\nappeared that of his mother her maiden\\nname. The medium at once told the Chief\\nwhich pellet contained his mother s name,\\nthen read it, and in a few moments told\\nwhere she died and where she was buried.\\nA few minutes later the aged Doctor\\nsaid The spirit of Detective Hutton,\\nwho died a violent death, hovers near\\nyou.\\nThe medium then spoke of matters that\\nwere known to nobody but Chief Crowley\\nand the dead detective. This greatly\\npuzzled the Chief, who was later deeply", "height": "4072", "width": "2576", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "26 DO THE DEAD RETURN f\\naffected over purported messages from a\\nson and others who had been dear to him\\nin life.\\nSpeaking of the purported message\\nfrom his dead mother the Chief said I\\ncannot explain this, which is marvelous,\\nfor I do not believe a human being in San\\nFrancisco knew that my mother s maiden\\nname was Elizabeth McCarthy, that she\\ndied in New Jersey and was buried in New\\nYork.\\nChief Crowley then wrote down a list of\\nyears, among them the year of his\\nmother s death. Dr. Schlesinger pointed\\nto the year 1833 as that of her death.\\nCorrect replied Chief Crowley\\nwhereupon the medium said, and the\\nname of your father, Patrick J. Crowley,\\nis also here, and he comes with your son\\nLewis, who has not been dead long.\\nThe Chief thought it the most wonder-\\nful performance he had ever seen. He\\ndoes marvelous and inexplicable things,", "height": "4044", "width": "2908", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN? 27\\nsaid the Chief, and I 11 admit I cannot\\ntell how it is done. While I cannot believe\\nhe converses with spirits, I am puzzled.\\nEX-CHIEF OF POLICE P. CROWLET.\\nI want to see him again and look into the\\nmatter further.\\nThe experiments with Mayor L. R.\\nEllert, who sprang from his chair and\\npositively declined to be thrown into a", "height": "4052", "width": "2580", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28 DO THE DEAD RETURN t\\ntrance condition when the doctor re-\\nquested him thus to visit the spirit world,\\nwere fully as startling as those with Chief\\nCrowley.\\nMayor Ellert took a chair in front of\\nhis official table, which had thus been\\ndedicated to spiritual uses, and asked if\\nany spirits desired to communicate with\\nhim, whereupon the medium grasped his\\nHonor s hands and the line of communica-\\ntion with the spirits was declared fully\\nestablished. Quite distinct raps were\\nthen heard on the table, and Dr. Schlesin-\\nger looked at the Mayor and said You\\nare a medium yourself, sir! My, what a\\npower\\nThe Mayor was urged to sit alone\\noften and be patient, and was told that\\nhe could develop much power by such a\\ncourse.\\nMayor Ellert then wrote down ten of\\nfifteen names of living and dead friends,\\non separate slips of paper. He refused", "height": "4052", "width": "2908", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN? 29\\nto use the paper handed him by Dr.\\nSchlesinger, but cut up an official letter\\nhead which lay on his own desk. As he\\nbegan to write the names, the medium\\nHON. L. R. ELLERT.\\nstepped away and engaged in conversa-\\ntion with District Attorney Barnes and\\nMr. Bonnet at the other side of the room,\\nso that he could not see what Mayor Ellert\\nwrote. The Mayor carefully folded the", "height": "4044", "width": "2580", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "30 DO THE DEAD RETURN?\\nslips, put them in a hat, and shuffled them.\\nHe then brought one forth from the\\nhatful.\\nThat s a dead one, said Dr. Schles-\\ninger. Open it and see whether I am\\ncorrect but don t let me see it.\\nThe Mayor obeyed the request, and\\nanswered, Yes, this is a dead person s\\nname\\nDon t let me see it, said the mys-\\nterious visitor, and I 11 tell you what it\\nis, whereupon he at once correctly pro-\\nnounced the name of the Mayor s sister,\\nwhich was not Ellert.\\nThe Mayor then announced that he was\\nunable to explain the phenomena. He\\nwatched the medium s movements and\\nconvinced himself that there had been no\\njuggling in the shuffle, and said that his\\nvisitor out-Hermanned Hermann. He\\nwould leave the solution of the phenomena\\nto others learned in the arts of divination.\\nThe outcome of the seances and the", "height": "4044", "width": "2932", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN? 31\\nstory of what occurred may best be told\\nby those who were present, and the sub-\\njoined versions are given\\nATTORNEY PATTON S STOEY.\\nCHARLES L. PATTON.\\nI desire to preface what I have to say\\nby remarking that while I have never\\nbeen nor am I now a spiritualist, nor have\\nI ever before been present at the per-\\nformance of a medium, yet what I saw of", "height": "4028", "width": "2532", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "32 DO THE DEAD RETURN?\\nDr. Schlesinger s so-called manifestations\\nfrom the spirit world is entirely inex-\\nplicable to me upon any scientific hypo-\\nthesis with which I am familiar; yet at\\nthe same time I must admit that I cannot\\nexplain the phenomena exhibited upon\\nany theory of legerdemain or sleight of\\nhand within my knowledge. Therefore, I\\nmerely state that I have seen, or seem-\\ningly seen, and heard the following re-\\nmarkable things, during the sitting or\\nseance with Dr. Schlesinger, leaving it to\\nothers more competent than I to deter-\\nmine whether they are the manifestations\\nof some psychic force at present unadmit-\\nted by scientists or the legerdemain of a\\nsleight-of-hand performer.\\nThe facts are as follows At the re-\\nquest of the Doctor, I wrote eight or ten\\nnames of different persons on as many\\nslips of paper, two of the number being\\ndead, and folded the slips in such a\\nmanner that the Doctor could not read", "height": "4040", "width": "2944", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN? 33\\nthem; and so far as I can judge, the Doc-\\ntor could not have had any method of\\nknowing what names I w T rote. I then\\nplaced the folded papers in a hat, and one\\nof the other gentlemen present drew them\\nout one by one. The Doctor, as each paper\\nwas drawn out, asked some question, such\\nas i Guide, is this the one dead?\\nFinally, after all the papers had been held\\nup and the questions asked, some raps on\\nthe table, seeming to have indicated ac-\\ncording to the Doctor that the persons\\nwhose names were on two of the slips\\nwere dead, I, on examination, found that\\nhe was correct in his judgment. He then\\nwithout (so far as I could see) having had\\nany opportunity to have seen the names,\\ndesired me to place the slips with the\\ni-.ames on in my pocket. Presently he\\nsaid I see two faces over your shoulder\\nthe name of one is J. B. The other says\\n1 I am glad you have commemorated my\\nname by writing it here, the name is V.", "height": "4048", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "34 DO THE DEAD RETURN?\\nC. the Doctor being correct in naming\\nthe deceased person in each instance, and\\nthe message being appropriate to the\\ncharacter of the deceased person. I will\\nadd, that, so far as I know, Dr. Schlesin-\\nger had no possible means of knowing the\\nname or anything about either person.\\nOne of the names, I feel confident, was not\\nkrown to any person in California outside\\nof myself. Chas. L. Patton.\\nBARNES WAS PUZZLED.\\nDistrict Attorney Barnes gives the fol-\\nlowing account of the seance\\nI was completely surprised at the\\nperformance in the Mayor s office. It was\\nthe first seance I had ever attended, and\\nI must confess that I had not the slightest\\nrespect for such manifestations other\\nthan a natural admiration for the quick-\\nness of the operator. I had always sup-\\nposed that batteries, wires, a tolerable\\nacquaintance with the sitter, all aided by", "height": "4044", "width": "2944", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN?\\n35\\ndarkness, were the causes of the effects\\nproduced by the medium. In this case,\\nhowever, the seance took place in broad\\ndaylight, and no attempt was made, so\\nATTOENEY W. S. BARNES.\\nfar as I could see, to use any mechanical\\nmeans. The medium sat two or three feet\\nfrom the Mayor s desk, and only touched\\nthe desk occasionally with his hand, yet\\nfrom that desk came the spirit rappings", "height": "4040", "width": "2516", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "36 DO THE DEAD RETURN t\\nthat were clearly audible to all of us in\\nthe room. I watched the others write lists\\nof names containing each the name of\\nsome dead person, and saw the quickness\\nwith which Dr. Schlesinger picked out\\nthe persons who had passed away, and\\ngave messages from them. When it came\\nmy turn I wrote a number of names on\\nsmall slips of paper, folded them and held\\nthem in my hand. Among these names\\nwas that of a classmate of mine at Har-\\nvard, who died long ago at Philadelphia,\\nwho had never been in California, and\\nwhose name I have not mentioned for\\nyears. Hardly had I sat down when Dr.\\nSchlesinger called his full name and gave\\nme a message from him, recalling an oc-\\ncurrence, so far as I am aware, known\\nonly to the dead man and myself. To say\\nthat I was amazed but feebly expresses\\nit; and when I asked the Doctor whence\\nhe got his information, he replied, l It is\\nborne to me on angels wings.", "height": "4048", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN? 37\\nWhether it was or not, it was a most\\nremarkable thing, and deeply impressed\\nupon me that i There are more things in\\nheaven and earth than are dreamt of in\\nour philosophy/\\nWilliam S. Barnes.\\nSeven years after the foregoing was\\nwritten, Mr. Barnes expressed himself as\\nstill deeply puzzled. I cannot think of\\nany experience in life so marvelous, he\\nsaid, so beyond my power to explain.\\nJUDGE FERRAL S TESTIMONY.\\nEx-Judge Eobert FerraTs narrative\\nlargely corroborates what the others said.\\nHe presents the case in his own way.\\nHaving taken a deep interest from\\nearly boyhood in exhibitions of a mar-\\nvelous nature, such as magic, legerde-\\nmain, mesmerism, hypnotism, mind-read-\\ning, and spiritualism, it w T as with pleasure\\nthat I accepted the kind invitation to visit", "height": "4036", "width": "2484", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38 DO THE DEAD RETURN?\\nDr. Schlesinger and personally witness\\nhis experiments and manifestations.\\nI found the Doctor an aged, venerable\\nman, in a large room, surrounded by a\\ncompany of ladies and gentlemen, bright,\\ncheerful, and intelligent, all apparently\\nbent upon the rational enjoyment of this\\nlife, and happy in the belief of companion-\\nable intercourse with the realm of spirits.\\nRetiring to more quiet quarters, con-\\nsisting of an ordinary bedroom and\\nparlor, the business began without waste\\nof words or loss of time. Having written\\nthe names of half a dozen persons, living\\nand dead, each name on a separate slip,\\ncarefully folded and looking precisely\\nalike, which were tossed into a hat and\\nwell shaken up, the doctor proceeded to\\nname the contents of each paper as it was\\ndrawn out. Occasionally he made a mis-\\ntake, but in nearly every instance suc-\\nceeded at the first or second trial. He first\\nseparated the living from the dead, with-", "height": "4052", "width": "2928", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN f\\n39\\nout opening the slips, and sometimes not\\neven touching them; then proceeded to\\ngive the names. Afterward, upon writing\\nplace and cause of death, age, occupation,\\nJUDGE ROBERT FERRAL.\\netc., upon other slips, the same result\\nfollowed. Some of the names submitted\\nby me were peculiar, and I believe known\\nto no one else in this city, yet they were\\nannounced read off, as it were with", "height": "4052", "width": "2524", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40 DO THE DEAD RETURN?\\nbut little hesitation and generally exactly\\nas written. The same thing occurred as\\nto the diseases and places of death.\\nDuring this manifestation of his power\\nDr. Schlesinger simply formed a circle or\\nchain of hands, connecting with himself,\\nfrequently tapped the table, and appealed\\nto an unseen guide for his information.\\nRaps were said to have been heard also,\\nbut of this I cannot bear testimony.\\nHow was this done? By mesmerism?\\nNo for there was nothing in the nature\\nof sleep or putting to sleep. Mind-read-\\ning? Possibly; although some of the\\nslips of paper were read correctly when\\nthe contents were for the time forgotten\\nand unknown to myself. Hypnotism?\\nDon t know, having but a faint idea how\\nfar these phenomena extend. By sharp-\\nness of sight, trickery, sleight of hand? I\\ncannot answer, at least for the present,\\nremaining, as before, an agnostic on these\\nmatters; unable to give an intelligent", "height": "4048", "width": "2932", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN? 41\\nexplanation, but at the same time not dis-\\nposed to jeer or scoff at what I do not\\nunderstand. Respectfully,\\nRobert Ferral.\\nSeptember 5, 1893.\\nDR. BUNKER S NARRATIVE.\\nThe following is Dr. R. E. Bunker s\\naccount, written at his old office, No. 802\\nKearny Street, just after the seances and\\nwhile he was still in charge of the City\\nReceiving Hospital:\\nI saw Dr. Schlesinger in company\\nwith the other gentlemen named, and I\\nsaw wonderful things which I am wholly\\nunable to explain. The phenomena, mani-\\nfestations, or things that occur in the\\nmedium s presence are not only interest-\\ning, but marvelous. I went possessed of\\nsomething like eight or ten slips of paper,\\non each of which I had previously written\\n(at my office) a name of some person I\\nhad known some living, some dead. Not", "height": "4052", "width": "2548", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42 DO THE DEAD RETURN?\\na soul ever saw the slips, for I was alone\\nwhen I wrote the names. Furthermore,\\nthey were so folded that no one could\\npossibly have read a single name. Dr.\\nSchlesinger at once picked out the names\\nof living and dead persons, while the slips\\nwere held between my fingers and wheu\\nI did not know what person s name was on\\nthe particular slip that I held. He pro-\\nnounced every name correctly while I held\\nthe pellet, or as it lay untouched on his\\ntable.\\nTo say that what he did was by the aid\\nof wires or batteries would be to impart\\nto wires and batteries more intelligence\\nthan the greatest philosophers have ever\\npossessed. This is no explanation; nor\\nhas any one ever been able to explain to\\nme how these things were done. I do not\\nbelieve it was mind-reading (a term that\\nconveys no intelligent idea to me any-\\nhow), for I did not know the name on the\\nslip under question not until I after-", "height": "4028", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN f 43\\nwards unfolded it and corroborated the\\nDoctor s readings. You understand that\\nthe entire bunch had been thoroughly\\nshuffled in a hat before any slip was picked\\nup.\\nTo come to specific instances, let me\\ngive a few cases as they occurred. On one\\nslip I had written my mother s maiden\\nname, which was not known to anybody\\nin San Francisco. It was placed among\\neight or ten other names of women some\\nmarried, some unmarried, some wholly\\nfictitious. All slips were folded alike and\\nplaced in a hat under the table, which T\\nheld in my hands. Dr. Schlesinger asked\\nme to pick out the pellets, one at a time\\nand hold them between my finger and\\nthumb. He would say, i That is not the\\nname, throw it aside and so on, until\\nhe hesitated at one pellet and said, i That\\nis your mother s maiden name; it is Emily\\nJ. Laumann.\\nThe answer was correct, and in a", "height": "4048", "width": "2732", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44 DO THE DEAD RETURN\\nsimilar manner he read other names and\\ntold me all about the persons. I had\\nwritten the name of Dick Foster on one\\nslip. Foster had died of consumption at\\nthe old Bella Union Theater, on June\\n21st. The medium did not read his name,\\nbut wrote a message backwards that is,\\nfrom left to right very rapidly, and\\nwhen I held it up to the light with the\\nwritten surface from me, I could read the\\nfollowing\\nI am glad to be here, and if I can obtain\\nthe appropriate conditions I will show my\\nidentity. DICK FOSTER.\\nThis was a puzzling thing, and I\\nshould like for some one to explain how\\nit was done, if there was not communica-\\ntion with some invisible intelligence. In\\nregard to Foster s name it should be said\\nthat the medium had not seen nor heard\\nit, and that his hand flew over the paper\\nvery fast while he wrote the backward\\nmessage. So far as I could see, Dr.", "height": "4052", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN? 45\\nSchlesinger was quite deaf and near-\\nsighted. He was an old man of heavy\\nweight and clumsy fingers. His manner\\nwas that of a devout believer in the\\ngenuineness of his theory. If any one can\\nexplain to me how these things were done,\\nhe will interest me far more than Dr.\\nSchlesinger did, and it should be said that\\nmy attention to what he did was held\\nwithout interruption from the start.\\nThere were several other like tests where-\\nin he read for me other names by a process\\nequally startling, making one feel that he\\nhad marvelous powers.\\nR. E. Bunker, M. D.\\nWHAT MR. BONNET SAW.\\nTheodore F. Bonnet, who was a re-\\nporter for the Daily Report at the time\\nof the seance at the Mayor s office, was a\\nguest of the author during the seance.\\nMr. Bonnet, who is now editor and owner\\nof Town Talk, an influential weekly news-", "height": "4052", "width": "2752", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "46 DO THE DEAD RETURN?\\npaper, wrote the following account of\\nwhat he saw and handed it to the author\\njust after the seance:\\nAfter witnessing the efforts of Dr.\\nSchlesinger as a medium, one cannot but\\nbe impressed by his marvelous powers of\\ndivination. They are impossible of ex-\\nplanation on any hypothesis calculated to\\nreduce his work to the vulgar plane of\\nlegerdemain. Yet the manifestations, as\\nhe is pleased to call his marvelous,\\npuzzling and apparently supernatural\\nrevelations concerning matters with\\nwhich he could not become familiar under\\nordinary circumstances, are after all, un-\\nsatisfactory to the person engaged in test-\\ning his power. I must give him credit,\\nhowever, for having startled me by one\\nmessage. I had written on small slips of\\npaper, which were then carefully folded\\nall this an hour or more before the meet-\\ning. One of the names was Joseph Touhill,\\nan Oakland burglar, who had been killed", "height": "4052", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN? 47\\nby a policeman who caught him robbing a\\nsaloon. I had known Touhill, and had\\nbeen quite friendly with him in late years,\\nbut had never suspected that he was of\\nEDITOR THEODORE P. BONNET.\\nthe Jekyll and Hyde species. The medium\\ndid not at once direct me to the piece of\\npaper on which Touhill s name was\\nwritten, but afterwards he suddenly said", "height": "4052", "width": "2752", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "48 DO THE DEAD RETURN?\\n1 The spirit of the man with whom you\\nwish to communicate is here now.\\nI signified my willingness to hear\\nfrom the spirit, whereupon the Doctor\\nsaid, Old boy, I m not quite as dead as\\nyou think. Then he mentioned the name\\nof Joseph Touhill. Now, this circum-\\nstance deeply impressed me, because the\\nlanguage was so characteristic of the dead\\nburglar, it having been customary with\\nhim to address me as Old boy. Mind-\\nreading will have to be rejected as an\\nexplanation, because the Doctor subse-\\nquently read a name that was on a pellet\\nthat I had not opened, and knew nothing\\nabout until I subsequently read it. I\\npicked up the pellet from the desk where\\nI had put it with a number of others, and\\nhanded it to Mayor Ellert, who, without\\nexamining it, deposited it in his vest-\\npocket. Then came rappings on the table,\\nand the medium said i Behind you stands\\nthe spirit of the man whose name is on", "height": "4052", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN? 49\\nthat paper. He was an eminent person,\\nand he died far away from here. He is\\nwaving a flag over your head, and on it\\nis written the name of Victor Hugo.\\nThe name was correct. Subsequently\\nthe Doctor correctly read the name of\\nWilliam Cullen Bryant, which I had also\\nwritten. The Doctor quoted the spirit of\\nthe poet as saying that he was delighted\\nthat I was interested in demonstrating\\nthat there was a world of spirits. Dr.\\nSchlesinger s feats are bewildering to the\\nhuman mind. If he is a mere trickster he\\npossesses in a marvelous way the skill to\\ndisguise his character, for his appearance\\nand demeanor are those peculiar to\\nfanaticism or strong faith in a cause.\\nTheo. F. Bonnet.\\nMR. M CLOSKEY S VERSION.\\nThe following is the narrative of Mr.\\nH. H. McCloskey, a resident of Merced at\\nthe time of the seance, but now a San\\nFrancisco lawyer", "height": "4052", "width": "2752", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "50 DO THE DEAD RETURN f\\nI did not attend the little seance at\\nthe Mayor s office by appointment. I was\\non my way to finish up some business and\\ncatch the 4-o clock boat, when District\\nAttorney Barnes suggested that I drop in\\nand see the fun. Intending to remain but\\na few moments, I accepted the invitation,\\nand have no reason to regret having done\\nso. As to what happened there, while I\\nremember perfectly well what was done,\\nand kept careful note of all that I saw, I\\nam unable to account for it on any other\\nhypothesis than that the Doctor was, as\\nhe claims to be, a spiritual medium. At\\nthe same time I am not prepared to admit\\nthat much.\\nWhat I saw I saw clearly; it was real\\nand devoid of illusion. There being no\\none present but the Mayor and thoroughly\\nreputable gentlemen, collusion by which\\na portion of the events of that afternoon\\nmight be accounted for is, of course, out\\nof the question; and neither collusion,", "height": "4076", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN? 51\\nmind-reading, nor anything else could\\naccount for all that occurred.\\nThe Doctor requested me to write on\\nseven slips of paper, one on each slip, the\\nnames of six acquaintances, five of whom\\nwere living and the sixth dead. On the\\nseventh my own name was to be written.\\nI had never seen the Doctor before, and\\nhave no reason to suppose that he had\\never seen me. I used my own pencil in\\nwriting the names, and wrote upon paper\\nfurnished by the city and county for the\\nuse of his Honor the Mayor. When writ-\\ning the names I was twenty feet away\\nfrom the Doctor, and as I wrote upon each\\nslip I folded it up carefully, so that I my-\\nself could not see anything of the writing,\\nnor tell one of the seven slips from the\\nothers. Five of the names were those of\\nintimate personal friends, the sixth of a\\nman whom I knew in a business way, but\\nfor whom, while I was not at all intimate\\nwith him, I had always a great regard.", "height": "4052", "width": "2740", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "52 DO THE DEAD RETURN f\\nThis man is dead, and has been so for a\\ncouple of years.\\nIn obedience to the Doctor s request,\\nI placed the seven slips on the table. Tak-\\ning the hand of Mr. Barnes, I holding the\\nhand of the latter, the Doctor proceeded\\nto take the slips one by one from the table.\\nThe first he held a second and dropped.\\nThe second he handed to me saying, This\\ncontains your name. Upon opening it I\\nfound the Doctor to be correct, and asking\\nhim what my name was he promptly told\\nus.\\nI confess I was a little mystified, but\\nthe Doctor did n t stop there. Continuing,\\nhe picked up the other slips until the fifth\\none had been reached. This is the name\\nof your dead friend. His name is V. C.\\nW. Hooker not exactly, but a name very\\nsimilar. I can t quite make it out. He\\nsays he will talk to you at another time.\\nAs you saw when I opened the slip it\\nshowed as I had written it the name of", "height": "4052", "width": "2808", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN? 53\\nV. C. W. Hooper, a man who was quite\\nprominent in Merced during his lifetime.\\nJust how the Doctor found that out I\\nleave to others who were there to explain\\nwhen they have time after accounting for\\nthe mysterious things that happened to\\nthemselves. I cannot and will not pre-\\ntend to. It was not mind-reading, how-\\never. Of that I am satisfied. For as he\\npicked up the fifth slip and said, This is\\nthe name of the dead man/ he did not\\nget that information by reading my mind,\\nfor there were two more slips remaining,\\nand I could n t say which was which.\\nThat is beyond any explanation. Mind-\\nreading will not fit it at all.\\nOne of the party I think it was Mr.\\nBarnes wrote the name of two dead men\\nin his list. Leaving out the first problem\\nthe picking up of the right slip\\nputting that aside, how is it to be ex-\\nplained that the Doctor chose the right\\nname of the two dead ones? Mr. Barnes", "height": "4080", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "54 DO THE DEAD RETURN?\\ndid not know. He had not opened the\\nslip therefore the Doctor could not read\\nhis mind. For myself, I give up the co-\\nnundrum. Very truly.\\nH. H. McCloskey.", "height": "4052", "width": "2808", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IV.\\nCHARACTER OF THE NARRATORS.\\nTo any one who has a fair knowledge\\nof human nature, a glance at the line\\npictures of the gentlemen who partici-\\npated in the events with which this book\\ndeals will tell that they are men of char-\\nacter and keen observation. In San Fran-\\ncisco and throughout the West many of\\nthem are as well known as the Governor\\nof the State.\\nTheir names need no introduction, and\\nsince they have been representative men\\nfor many years it is not necessary to say\\nmuch about them. For the benefit of\\npersons who know nothing concerning\\nthem, however, the following information\\nis submitted:\\nLtfCi", "height": "4084", "width": "2764", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "56 DO THE DEAD RETURN?\\nPatrick Crowley, Chief of Police, was\\nborn in Albany County, New York, on\\nMarch 17, 1831. When quite young he\\nwent to New York and worked in different\\nprinting-offices. He came to San Fran-\\ncisco in 1850, and worked in the mining-\\ncamps for two or three years. He was\\nengaged in the boating business here,\\nwhen in 1854 he was elected to the office of\\nTown Constable on the Democratic ticket.\\nHe was re-elected on the same ticket in\\n1855, and from 1856 he was re-elected\\nevery two years on the old People s Party\\nticket till 1866, when he was elected Chief\\nof Police. He held that office by election\\nfor six years, when he quit the force and\\nwent into the brokerage business. In\\n1878, by an act of the Legislature, the\\nBoard of Police Commissioners received\\nthe power to appoint the Chief of Police.\\nThe office was tendered him, and after con-\\nsiderable pressure he reluctantly accepted\\nit, as he was making an excellent living", "height": "4052", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN? 57\\nat his business. He held the office by\\nelection or appointment for twenty-four\\nsuccessive years. His wide experience\\nwith criminals, bunko-men, and all sorts\\nof tricksters gave him excellent training\\nand amply fitted him for a thorough in-\\nspection of all that was done during the\\nseances. In fact, it was his boast at the\\nbeginning of his sitting with Dr. Schlesin-\\nger that he had helped to trap the Eddies\\nand other disreputable mediums, and that\\nhe would soon expose the fraud in the case\\nin hand.\\nWilliam S. Barnes, son of the eloquent\\nand famous General W. H. L. Barnes\\n(known all over America as the greatest\\nliving after-dinner orator, and known all\\nover the United States as a Kepublican\\norator), is a graduate of Harvard and a\\nman of fine legal attainments. He is one\\nof the most prominent Native Sons, and is\\nfamous for his shrewdness as Prosecut-", "height": "4052", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "58 DO THE DEAD RETURN?\\ning Attorney for the great City and\\nCounty of San Francisco. It was he who\\nprosecuted and convicted Theodore Dur-\\nrant in one of the most marvelous crimi-\\nnal cases of the century. He was also the\\nstar lawyer in the prosecution of the great\\nSydney Bell footpad case. Mr. Barnes\\nwas the organizer and president of the\\nAssociation of District Attorneys of Cali-\\nfornia is an active member of California\\nLodge No. 1, F. A. M., a member of the\\nPacific-Union Club, also of the Union\\nLeague, of which he is one of a committee\\non political action, of the Juarez Manu-\\nfacturing Company, of which he is Presi-\\ndent. Thus his mastery in the legal\\nprofession is no less equaled in his social\\nand business associations.\\nAttorney Charles L. Patton is Grand\\nMaster of California Masonic fraternity,\\nand is a gentleman of the highest personal\\nand professional character. He was a", "height": "4052", "width": "2816", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN? 59\\nstrong competitor against Mayor Phelan,\\nand was chosen by the Republican party a\\nfew years ago as the best candidate\\nagainst the present (1900) Mayor of the\\ncity. Mr. Patton is a man of much erudi-\\ntion and wide experience with men and\\nbooks. He, like all his associates, and like\\nthe writer of this book, was and is a skep-\\ntic regarding the truth of so-called spirit-\\nual phenomena. His account speaks for\\nitself.\\nMayor L. E. Ellert is a man of legal\\nattainments and of wide business inter-\\nests. He was a popular reform Mayor,\\nand was in office at the time of the occur-\\nrences narrated. He is to-day one of the\\nbest-known and most highly respected\\nlawyers and business men of San Fran-\\ncisco. For many years he was a skillful\\npharmacist, and his wide knowledge of\\ndrugs and physiology was useful in the\\nattempted solution of the various prob-\\nlems presented by the medium.", "height": "4052", "width": "2724", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "60 DO THE DEAD RETURN f\\nJudge Eobert Ferbal is the warhorse\\nof Democracy, and one of the Nestors of\\nthe California bar. He made some of the\\nmost spirited races ever entered upon for\\nCongress, and polled the largest vote ever\\nknown for an unpopular political party\\nin the old days. As a judge and criminal\\nlawyer of wide experience, as well as by\\nreason of his unexcelled literary attain-\\nments and extended experience in the\\nscience of hypnotism and kindred phe-\\nnomena, the Judge was an invaluable\\nspectator and participant, especially as\\nhis native wit usually enables him to see\\nthrough many things that puzzle other\\nmen. Here, however, he stood dumb-\\nfounded.\\nDr. E. E. Bunker is a regular physi-\\ncian of high reputation and personal\\nstanding. He was at the time of the\\nmatters recorded in charge of the City\\nReceiving Hospital, and was considered", "height": "4052", "width": "2840", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "DO THE DEAD RETURN? 61\\none of the most careful and competent ob-\\nservers at the seance. Like all others\\nnamed, Dr. Bunker s word is absolutely\\nabove reproach, and there is not a more\\ncompetent man in the country.\\nTheodore F. Bonnet was at the time\\nof the seance a reporter for the Daily\\nReport. He was afterwards elected to the\\nimportant position of License Collector,\\nand is now editor and owner of Town\\nTalk. This is one of the best weekly\\npapers in the United States, and its suc-\\ncess dates from its purchase by the gentle-\\nman named. Mr. Bonnet is an Elk of high\\nstanding, and a man of good family and\\nsocial position. In addition to all these\\nfacts, it should be borne in mind that his\\nlong training as a reporter fitted him in\\na peculiarly advantageous way for the\\nduties of trying to detect what was done\\nby the medium,", "height": "4032", "width": "2796", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "OCT 3 1900\\n62 DO THE DEAD RETURN?\\nH. H. McCloskey was a casual visitor\\nat the seance, being the guest of District\\nAttorney Barnes. Mr. McCloskey was at\\nthe time a resident of Merced, and was a\\nprominent lawyer and politician. He was\\nalso a Bepublican State Central Com-\\nmitteeman and was considered one of\\nthe ablest of the party. He is to-day a\\nwell-known San Francisco attorney. His\\naccount of the seance explains just what\\noccurred.\\nThese facts, with some of the pictures,\\nwill give the reader an idea of the men\\nwhose narratives he has doubtless read\\nwith pleasure.\\nIn conclusion, it should be remembered\\nthat this book is sold by the publishers\\nonly. It will be sent to any address for\\nfifty cents. If you have enjoyed reading\\nit, recommend it to the next friend you\\nmeet.", "height": "4052", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4052", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "Are you happy where 022 007 247 2\\nIf you are not, and if you are think-\\ning of moving to a land of large\\nopportunities, it will pay you to\\ninvestigate\\nLemon Home Colony, California\\nFull particulars of Colony lands\\nand prospects for people with a\\nfew thousand dollars sent to any\\naddress. We have a little book\\nthat gives valuable information\\nrelative to the great early citrus\\nbelt of Northern California, the\\nland of happy homes. Address\\nLemon Home Colony\\nOrland Glenn County California", "height": "4052", "width": "2816", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4052", "width": "2816", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n022 007 247 2", "height": "4880", "width": "2816", "jp2-path": "dodeadreturntrue00harr_0072.jp2"}}