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uine, and are ever ready to be tried again, we require considerable testimony in favor of a theory of fraud in explanation of the manifestations that constantly occur in their presence.}} | |||
... | Since writing the above the cable brings the news that on Monday last Dr. Slade appeared at the Bow street Police Court, in answer to two summons, taken out by Professor Edwin Ray Lankester. The first summons is under the vagrant act, and the second charges him with conspiring with one Simmons, his assistant, to defraud. The charge of conspiracy was first proceeded with, and Professor Lankester deponed that he had actually seen Slade himself write the messages which he professed were spiritual manifestations. The court room was crowded, after a hearing the case was adjourned one week. Slade and Simmons were admitted to bail. | ||