868. I next give in 868 A and B two cases where certain telekinetic phenomena seem to have been connected with the announcement of a recent death, which in the first case was given by raps, and in the second was accompanied by other physical disturbances. It must be observed, however, that the evidence for the identity of the spirit who was supposed to be communicating in this second case is far from complete. I have already pointed out that the class of motor automatisms seems to lead to telekinetic phenomena, but I shall postpone any discussion of them till the following chapter.

869. I next give in 869 A and B two cases where the supposed communicators had been dead some time, the deaths being known to the automatists, but certain details of the deaths were correctly given, in opposition to the beliefs of the automatists.

870. I add to these in 870 A another curious case where various details known to the alleged communicator were correctly given, although unknown to the sitters; yet where other circumstances were described as they were at the time of the communicator's death, although the sitters were aware that these circumstances had since altered.

871. I know not in what light I should have regarded the next case I give (in 871 A) had I seen it only in a book bearing the somewhat alarming title of The Holy Truth (Arthur Hallah, 1876).

But the aggressiveness of religious conviction with which Mr. Hugh Junor Browne's experiences have inspired him does not prevent his being, as I have heard from the Hon. Sir W. G. Windeyer, Judge of Supreme Court, Sydney, and have found on personal acquaintance, a man of high standing as to both character and practical capacity. He is a prosperous man of business at Melbourne, and the elder of the two daughters with whose automatism we have to deal is married to one of the foremost men of the Colony of Victoria. I regard him, therefore, as a witness whose strong opinions, indeed, might help a fraudulent medium to deceive him, but who is fully to be trusted as regards easily observed events occurring in his own family circle. I discussed this case with him and Mrs. Browne on October 3rd, 1891. Mrs. Browne seemed to me a good witness, and corroborated the facts so far as immediately known to her, giving me a written confirmation of the writing of the young child, who was present at our interview as a young lady of about twenty.

Miss Browne cannot remember the incident in her fifth year, but told me that she had sometimes written automatically since that date; - her arm used to feel numb while doing so.

872. I give in 872 A another instance of a little girl, only four years of age, who had no knowledge of her letters, and who wrote several significant words - "Your Aunt Emma".