The Medium asked Mr. Furness if his name were not Furness. (Mr. Hazard had seen the Medium before, and informed him that the Commission was coming.)

Mr. Furness now put his hand under the table on the hand of the Medium, which was pressing the double slate (not the screwed one) up against the table.

Mr. Furness declared that he heard a certain buzzing noise.  The slate being taken out, there was found written on the inside of the under slate: 

I will help
        you all
                R. Dale Owen

and something that looked like “Henry Furness is here.”

The slate on the floor being examined, there was found on the outside (it was a screw-slate)

I am here with you
        I will help you
             R. Dale Owen.

Some other illegible marks were found on the slate.

Nothing was obtained on the inside of either screw-slate.

The handwriting on the two slates, purporting to be from R. Dale Owen, was much alike.

The Medium now took hold of Mr. Hazard’s hand, and went into trance, personating Esther Hazard, a deceased daughter of Mr. Hazard.  He (the Medium) made convulsive motions, trembled, etc., and while in this state predicted that Mr. Fullerton would receive a very pleasing letter on Saturday next—­said that he should come to the Medium for advice. [No such letter was received on that date by Mr. Fullerton.]

He also declared that Dr. Koenig had brought with him a Spirit named
August.

He declared Ponto, White-feather, Red Jacket and Thomas Paine to be present.

(The Medium called “White-feather” he, Mr. Hazard objecting that
White-feather was a woman.)

The light was then turned out, and all hands laid upon the table.  Mr. Furness laid one of his hands upon one of the Medium’s and upon one of Mr. Hazard’s. (The Medium afterwards asserted that Mr. Furness had held both his hands.  But Mr. Furness was positive that he held only one.) Mr. Hazard was touched several times about the face.  Mr. Furness was touched on the cheek and on his ear-trumpet and Mr. Fullerton was struck on the head by a paper thrown from the other side of the table, and touched once on the back of his left hand by what felt like human fingers.

There were no more manifestations.

The Committee adjourned to Dr. Leidy’s house for conference.  The above notes were read and approved.

GEO. S. FULLERTON,

Secretary.

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April 8th, 1884.

On Tuesday evening, April 8th, Dr. Leidy and Mr. Furness held another seance with the Medium formerly examined, Mrs. Patterson.  The slates used belonged to the Medium, and were, as she told them, in daily, almost hourly use; the frame of one of them was far from sound, and the hole which admitted the screw was more than well worn.  Within these slates, after being held for a long while by both hands of the Medium under the table, two or three barely legible words appeared.  The screw was, by no means, as tight after the writing as before.  This fact, together with the prolonged concealment, rendered it impossible to attach any real importance to the attempt to write, as far as could be made out, the name of Henry Seybert.