Science: Margery Plays Cards

Mrs. Le Roi Goddard Crandon, whose professional name is "Margery," is a celebrated Boston medium whose doings are well known to spiritualists the world over. Wife of a suave and wealthy surgeon, Margery does not use her singular gifts to turn over a profit. Her control, who speaks and thinks for her when she is entranced, is "Walter," a deceased brother. Some years ago Margery asserted that fingerprints mysteriously produced in dental wax were Walter's—hence ectoplasmic. A furor broke loose when Prof. Harold Cummins, Tulane University anatomist, testified that the fingerprints...

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