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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 3a

The Medium Put in a Cage

The Medium Put in a Cage.

What were called "Special Test Sittings" were also held. On one of these occasions every garment of the Sensitive was removed, including boots sox and underwear. He was subjected to "a delib-erate and most careful search of his whole body by appointed searchers. He redressed in other clothes, not his own, also searched, and was then linked to the already searched seance room." Immediately the company had entered the room—which was an apartment in the private house of the medical gentleman who had instituted the investigations—the door was locked and sealed on the inside.

The Sensitive, still kept under close observance, was then placed in a cage covered with mosquito netting at the sides and top; the cage was screwed down to the floor, and adhesive plaster placed around its base. As one of the sitters observed—"You couldn't even get a threepenny bit into the cage," and yet even under these very rigid conditions the phenomena continued as before, the apports falling inside the cage without injury either to the netting or frame work.