Soon after the Medium complained of fatigue, and the sitting was discontinued.  It was declared by the Spiritualists present to be a fairly successful seance.  When the curtains were removed, the small table in the enclosure was found to be overturned, and the bells, hammer, etc., on the floor.

It is interesting to note the space within which all the manifestations occurred.  They were, without exception, where they would have been had they been produced by the Medium’s right arm.  Nothing happened to the left of the Medium, nor very far over to the right.  The sphere of activity was between the Medium and Mr. Yost, and most of the phenomena occurred, as, for example, the whirling of the tambourine, behind Mrs. Gillespie.

The front curtain—­i.e., the main curtain which hung across the corner—­was 85 inches in length, and the cord which supported it, 53 inches from the floor.  The three chairs which were placed in front of it were side by side, and it would not have been difficult for the Medium to reach across and touch Mr. Yost.  When Mrs. Keeler passed objects over the curtain, she invariably passed them to the right of the Medium, although her position was on his left; and the clothes-pins, paper, pencil, etc., were all passed over at a point where the Medium’s right hand could easily have reached them.

To have produced the phenomena by using his right hand, the Medium would have to have passed it under the curtain at his back.  This curtain was not quite hidden by the front one at the end near the Medium, and this end both Mr. Sellers and Dr. Pepper saw rise at the beginning of the seance.

The only thing worthy of consideration, as opposed to a natural explanation of the phenomena, was the grasp of the Medium’s hands on Mrs. Gillespie’s arm.

The grasp was evidently a tight one above the wrist, for the arm was bruised for about four inches.  There was no evidence of a similar pressure above that, as the marks on the arm extended in all about five or six inches only.  The pressure was sufficient to destroy the sensibility of the forearm, and it is doubtful whether Mrs. Gillespie with her arm in such a condition could distinguish between the grasp of one hand, with a divided pressure (applied by the two last fingers and the thumb and index) and a double grip by two hands.  Three of our number, Mr. Sellers, Mr. Furness and Dr. White, can, with one hand, perfectly simulate the double grip.

It is specially worthy of note that Mrs. Gillespie declared that, when the Medium first laid hold of her arm with his right hand before the curtain was put over them, it was with an under grip, and she felt his right arm under her left.  But when the Medium asked her if she felt both his hands upon her arm, and she said yes, she could feel the grasp, but no arm under hers, though she moved her elbow around to find it—­she felt a hand, but not an arm, and at no time during the seance did she find that arm.