A Case of Clairvoyance

Votume I, Part II. PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH A CASE OF CLAIRVOYANCE. By William James. The following case of the recovery of the body of a drowned person in consequence of indications given by a clairvoyant, has been entrusted to me for publication by Dr. Harris Kennedy, of Roxbury, a cousin of my wife. It should have been published in 1899. Dr. Kennedy (whose brother was staying at Lebanon at the time the events happened) got the depositions of the witnesses while the case was still hot; and delay has added nothing to the data for our judg- ment. I first subjoin the summarized account drawn up by Dr. Kennedy. Dr. Kennedy’s Account. On Monday, Oct. 31st, 1898, Miss Bertha Huse left her home at Enfield, N. H., at 6 A. M., before the rest of the family had risen. She took her way down the street toward the so-called Shaker Bridge. On her way she was seen by several people, and by one person when she was on the bridge. Her family, learning of her absence, instituted a search for her, and during the greater part of the day 150 men, more or less, hunted the woods and lake shore in that vicinity. This search proving of no avail, Mr. Whitney, a mill owner of Enfield, sent to Boston for divers, with a suit- able outfit. A diver named Sullivan worked the better part of all Tuesday, and up to Wednesday noon, without success in the lake.

: ren / 223 222 Proceedings of A mericarSociety for Psychical Research. A Case ef Crarweyencs A , sent a On Wednesday evening, Noy. 2nd, Mrs. Titus, of Leb- who was then one of quite a ope naen ae in the anon, N. H., a village about four and one-half miles from messenger to get the diver in ‘ evious days. On his Enfield, while dozing after supper, aroused the attention of neighborhood of that spot on t iam sie: -apot whierenahé her husband, who was seated near her, by her noises, and arrival Mrs. Titus pointed out : Star there yesterday, extremely horrified countenance. When he spoke to her, said the body lay. He said, id = Vea ou searched there, she failed to answer, and it was necessary for him to shake and found nothing.” She said, Msc did not search her before arousing her to consciousness. When she was and there (pointing to certain tal only the rubber of her conscious, the first thing she said was, “ Why did you dis- there, and if you go down, you wi sa » ‘ro satisfy her, he turb me? In a moment I should have found that body.” shoe projecting from on sone Anan at the spot indicated. After this she told her husband, “ If I behave very peculiarly put on his diving suit, and went af of the deceased rose to to-night, or cry out, or seem greatly disturbed, do not on any After a moment or two, the a ‘er came up bringing the account awaken me, but leave me to myself.” At some time the surface, and shortly after oe Gia not look in this place during the night Mr. Titus was aroused by the screams of body. The diver then a reactor ox thick eheve that his wife. He got up, lit a lamp, and waited, obeying his yesterday, as the brush aT . 1ld feel of the body, was the wife's instructions. She, during a following interval, though I could not see; in fact, all ee vork.” not awake, spoke in substance as follows: rubber, projecting Sromuthe:tim sid to have had a similar “ She followed the road down to the bridge, and on get- Mrs. Titus ieeerner™ a < not known to have made ting part way across it, stepped out on to that jutting beam power in her day, out —_ i 9 t, having never used her which was covered with white frost. There she stood un- any pretense of being a ssgprk aa ‘or for the sake of any decided whether to go into the water there or go up over trances for any Peet ewer viz., Nov. 4th, Mrs. Titus the hill to the pond. While so standing, she slipped on the notoriety. On the day following, viz., log, fell backwards, and slid in underneath the timber work was ill. of the bridge. You will find her lying, head in, and you will Corroborative Statements. as Matlin to see one of her rubbers projecting from the Here follow the statements Ki, several ee faniin . ; : ;. They were wr Early in the morning, at her earnest solicitation, her named in the ee aa few Aue after the occurrences, husband went to Mr. Ayer, an employee of the Mascoma Dr. Kennedy waite t on aaieved by them as accurate. Flannel Co., at Lebanon, and asked him for leave to absent read by him to them, himself from the mill that morning, in order to go with his Mr. Ayer’s Statement. wife to the Shaker Bridge at Enfield. He then told Mr. 7 Mr. George Titus Ayer the story, substantially as above. Mr. Titus also told On pene sty Bibi : ee 15 A. M. he called : : to the Mascom ° 3 eo ute the story to Mr. W. R. Sunderlin, as well as to certain other Mr J : C Aver to one side to tell him the following: persons, all in Lebanon, before he went with his wife to . ight, in one she caught Enfield, where he told other parties of this occurrence, and * My wife had three nie oso but could not. She asked Mr. Whitney, who had been foremost in the search, to hold of me, and I tried to pull her awa) I can find her. The then said, ‘I know where the girl is. Ic accompany him and his wife to the spot his wife was desirous ‘ Iked out on a log and then : ree - : : irl went on to the bridge and walke 3 of investigating. When they reached the bridge, Mrs. Titus apa back and forth, looking toward the hills. She pointed out a certain spot where she said they would find ds. She did not intend the body in the position as above mentioned. Mr. Whitney, slipped off and went down backwards

224 Proceedings of American Society for Psychical Research. _to commit suicide. You will find her in the mud, with one foot out.’” I, J. C. Ayer, have charge of the mill hands, and know both the sister of the girl, Bertha M. Huse, who was drowned, and Mr. Titus. Both of them worked for me in the mill. This story, which I told Dr. Harris Kennedy on Noy. 10, 1898, is, so far as I know, a correct statement of what was told me by Mr. Titus. (Signed) J. C. AYER. Mr. Sunderlin’s Statement. Testimony in the ‘Titus case, given by W. R. Sunderlin, at Lebanon, N. H., Dec. Ist., 1898. ‘The following is as told by Sunderlin to Henry L. Briggs, Nov. 11th., and corrected by Sunderlin in presence of Sinclair Kennedy, Dec. tst.: On the morning of ‘Thursday, Nov. 3rd, Geo. A. Titus, who keeps a horse in my barn, came into my barn about 5:20, and looking about said, “* What, are we alone here. I want to tell you something, but I don’t want any one to overhear me, and you must say nothing of what I am going to tell you. My wife has had a trance, and declares she can tell where to find the body of Bertha Huse. She says she is in the lake (Mascoma) at the east side of Shaker Bridge.” I naturally laughed at the idea, but Titus stuck to his story. ‘Titus told me that on coming upstairs after supper (he lives in the second story house), he found his wife sitting in a rocking chair, asleep but gesticulating. He aroused her, whereupon she at once said, “ O, George, why did you wake me, Ina few minutes I could have told you where that girl is. If I go into another trance tonight or any other time, don’t disturb me.” They then retired for the night. Along towards 11 or 12, Titus said he was waked by his wife’s groans and mutterings. When he lit a lamp, he found his wife in apparent spasms, though still asleep. While so asleep she declared that Bertha Huse would be found in the lake to the east of the bridge, lying head down between two logs, her body covered by mud and brush; but that one foot would be sticking up, on which was a new rubber. That the girl first appeared to her (Mrs. A Case of Clairvoyance. 225 Titus) on the bridge. That she appeared undecided whether to go in at the spot she was on, or from some point sane down the bridge. That while standing on a frost-covere log with her back to the water, her foot slipped, and she went into the lake backwards. > "Sunderlin continuing said; “I told Titus, W ell, iris if you and your wife feel this way, you better hitch up anc go out to the bridge. And if your wife thinks she is then sure 0 the spot, drive up to Enfield and see if you can get Whitney i sted in this.” Dy Wher Titus came back later in the day, he told me, “When we arrived at the bridge, she got out of ithe DRGs y and walked along the east side of the bridge, looking sea y into the lake. Suddenly she stopped, and said, George, $ . is right down there, between those two — She then go into the buggy, and we drove to Whitney s house. 4 ae Whitney smiled, on hearing the story, but went . the lake with us. My wife went aR? ewe inted out to me, and told Whitney, e is right 4 Phere.” As her opinion could not be shaken, W ries brought the diver. The diver shook his head and said, have been down there.” My wife said, “ No, you poeta down there, and there, but not there. She is pee) ye in the mud, with one foot sticking up, and a new rubber o it.” s s oa) ‘he diver turned to Whitney, and said, “I yorker your orders, sir.” The diver went down at the spot in aie ‘ In a minute the girl’s hat came up. Shortly after the diver ht up the body. brought up y ees In presence of SINCLAIR KENNEDY. W. R. SUNDERLIN. * Mr. Titus’ Story. Sunday, Oct. 30th, 1898, Mrs. Titus, of Lebanon, said to her husband, “ George, something awful is going to pe [ cannot tell you now what it is, but can later on. Mon ay: Oct. 31st, just about 6.40 A. M., as Mr. Miners Sue leaving for ill, his wife said, “ That has happened. ‘a At noon Mr. Titus told his wife that the Huse girl (a

226 Proceedings of American Society for Psychical Research. sister of the one drowned) had gone home, Mr. Titus re- marking that her mother was perhaps ill, at least so some of the people at the mill thought. She said, “It is something worse, I can feel it.” Monday evening we heard the girl was missing. Tuesday, Noy. tst, Mrs. Titus talked about the matter, and said, “ That girl is in the lake.” Wednesday, Noy. 2nd, about 7.30 P. M., after having washed her dishes, Mrs. Titus was in the rocking chair. Mr. Titus spoke to her three times in a low tone and the fourth time loudly, and she woke up. “ George, why didn’t you let me be, in the morning I could have told you where the girl lay and all about it.” She then got up and walked about the house before she went to bed, which was between 8.30 and 9 P. M. After talking a short time, both Mr. and Mrs. Titus fell asleep. At 11 P. M. (Wednesday) Mr. Titus woke her up. She was talking in her sleep with the diver, and hit her husband, saying, “ She is not down there, but over here to the left.” She begged her husband to leave her alone. At 12.15 A. M. (Thursday) she again went into a trance which lasted until one o'clock. Mr. Titus lit a lamp and watched and talked with her in very low tones; when ques- tioned on this subject she would answer, but did not hear about other things. She said something about cold, and Mr. ‘Titus said, “ Are you cold, Nellie?” She said, “Oh, Oh, I am awfully cold.” This Mr. Titus said referred to the drowned girl. After she came out of the trance at one o'clock she told it just as she had it in the trance. In the morning she said it was her duty to go over to the bridge at Enfield, and Mr. Titus asked Mr. Ayer to let him off, which Mr. Ayer did. Mr. and Mrs. Titus drove in a buggy to Enfield, leaving Lebanon at 7, taking about an hour. When about 5 or 6 rods on the bridge, Mrs. Titus called out to stop and got out and walked over to a certain spot, and looked over and said, “ George, she’s down there.” “ Nellie, are you sure?” She said, “ Yes.” Then Mr. and Mrs. Titus drove to Mr, Whitney’s house, A Case of Clairvoyance. 227 where she told her story. Mr. Whitney laughed, but said he would come down, Mrs. Titus returned to the same spot, and said, “ George, she is down there.” Mr. Whitney arrived a few moments later, about 8:30 or 8:45. Mr. Titus called attention to the spot, and Mr. Whit- ney said, “ Walk down the bridge, and see if there is not another place where she is likely to be.” She, Mrs, Titus, walked down a little way, and came back saying, “ George, she is right there.” She explained that she could see the rubber just as plainly as while in her trance the night before. . Mr. Titus says she located the spot in the night, and that he could and did recognize it from her description. After the diver came up with the body, he said he was not afraid of the woman in the water, but of the one on the bridge. Mrs. Titus fights against these trances, as she is usually ill for some time after. The girl walked down to the bridge, and stood wondering whether she would go there or over to the pasture. She slipped and went down between the logs of the bridge. Went down head first, and was buried in the mud, one foot sticking out. Diver said just exactly as she said. She knew neither the Huse girl nor was any acquaintance. Her mother had the power, but wrote. Some days could write nothing, and then again a great deal. Mrs. Titus has no control over the trance which comes on in spite of her efforts to drive it off. The above story which I told Dr. Harris Kennedy on Noy. toth, 1808, is, so far as I know, correctly stated. “ = (Signed) GEORGE N., TITUS. Mr. Whitney’s Letter. Baltic Mills, Enfield, N. H., Nov. 15th, 1898. My Dear Sir: There is very little that I can add to the report which you must have in regard to the finding of the body of Miss Huse.

228 Proceedings of American Society for Psychical Research Mrs. Titus and her h usband called at m i ae after the disappearance. iets Se cc: 4 ia aesies she was positive she could locate the body ernie i in the Muscoma Lake. I went down with her eh — and to the bridge, which crosses the lake, should Rone 2 ge was an eighth of a mile long, we walked alon nea = bridge — arriving at a point about shiseuinas yay across the bridge. Mrs. Titus sai is i ; t j e said, this is the pl : ; e pla Sere toa place in the water where she said the bods Mei “a — is secured the diver, and he went down ; e body exactly as Mrs. Ti i Tice Ereiineen - Titus had before said. rery little that I can add, M i i iaialapen ers , Mrs. Titus certain! f g about the circumstances 4 in the town for two or th ome oe i ree years previous. The diver’ name is Sullivan, and he is fr ’ Boat Co. g om y Rae the Boston Tow-Boat Co., Yours truly, (Signed) GEORGE WHITNEY. Mr. Sullivan’s Statement. [H sf Sinai peer he fol diver: Sullivan was seen by me Rie y] and the following drawn up af with him. He signed it on D patter any. chat ; : ec. Ist, at t : Bowditch Club,* at Hotel Monies Bates se: aie Sullivan’s Statement. Noy. 21st. 1898, Mr. Sulli i ‘ » Mr. Sullivan, the diver in th paces by at sya dry dock, in East Boston ee ned in regard t i i 1 Siedler dos i o the finding of Miss Huse, he told the - ee by the Boston Towboat Co., to search a Lake. I went up at 7.10 Monday from B eee ed at mest and spent the greater part of Daeodar sed ' e rate Noy. 2nd, from ro A. M. until 3:10 P. M., in i ing along the Shaker Bridge. We had given u ‘the idea of diving, and I telephoned to Boston for powder, titel! * The Bowditch Club is a i c group of assistants , i che pare - plsaer School, who meet for sino Lin, ional eniig : A - Kennedy was at the time such an assistant. ee A Case of Clairvoyance. 229 ing to go down by the early morning train and have the powder meet me at Union Station, and take the next train up, having about 20 minutes in Boston, and return with the powder. In the morning, before I could leave Enfield, Mr. and Mrs. Titus drove over from Lebanon and called on Mr. Whitney. Mr. Titus told Mr. Whitney the story of his wife’s trance, and said that altho he did not take much stock in it himself, he felt that on her account he ought to tell Mr. Whitney about it, simply to satisfy his wife. Mr. Whitney laughed, and said that he did not take any stock in it, and at the same time sent for me. We all went to the bridge, and Whitney told me that altho he did not have much faith in it himself, he felt that there might be people in the village who did, and as long as we had started to do all we could to recover the body, we ought at least to give this woman a chance, I said that the villagers up there thought that the missing girl had taken to the woods, and therefore they had had searching parties, while 1 was dragging the lake; but I told him that I was there, waiting his orders, my business was to find the body, and I was willing to do anything that he said, adding at the same time, that I did not want to be made a fool of by going down in a variety of places that she might point out along the bridge. He said, “ No,” that she simply would pick out one place, and he thought the least we could do was to go down at the place she picked out, and that would satisfy the villagers. Mrs. Titus walked along the bridge, and came to a spot and said, “ This looks like the spot I saw in my trance,” then after a moment’s hesitation she said, “ No, not exactly,” and walked a little way along and stopped at another point, and said, “ This looks very much more like the place that I saw last night.” She stood there looking over the rail of the bridge from 20 minutes to half an hour. At last she said she was sure that was the place. I asked Mr. Whitney what I should do, and he said I had my suit, and he thought I had better go down in that spot. I took a guide line with sinker, located the spot from the bridge, threw the sinker over some little way from the bridge, as near as possible to the spot she pointed out. I then placed the ladder, and put on my suit,

230 Proceedings of American Society for Psychical Research. and went down. Mrs. Titus had told me the body was lying head down, only one foot with a new rubber showing, and lying in a deep hole. I started down the ladder, which ex- tended about five feet under the water. When I swung off the ladder I went sideways and then turned. As I struck the crib work, 10 feet below the ladder, I turned to face the ladder, and my hand struck something. I felt of it, and it felt like a foot. I stopped short where I was:—it is my business to recover bodies in the water, and I am not afraid of them, but in this instance I was afraid of the woman on the bridge. I thought to myself, “ How can any woman come from four miles away and tell me or any other man where I would find this body?” I investigated and felt of her foot, and made sure that it was a body, She was lying in a deep hole head down. It was so dark that I could not see anything. I had to feel entirely. I pulled her out, carried her up till I could get the light from above, and then arranged her clothing by laying her out on the crib of the bridge. When I had her laid out on the crib, I reached out for my guide line, but found I could not pull it up. I had to take out my knife and cut it as far as I could reach, and then I tied the line under her arms. The line was simply a clothes line, (6 thread). I then came up and asked for Mr. Whitney.’ I said, “ She is down there.” Mr, Whitney said, “I know it.” I thought Mr. Whitney had been convinced pretty strongly. He said it turned out that when I pulled her out of the hole, her hat came off and rose to the surface, and Martin, who worked the pump for me, came near getting into trouble by being pushed off the bridge when the hat appeared on the surface, because the people rushed for the side of the bridge. Fortunately he was not pushed off. We had a man there in a little skiff, who pulled her up. Mr. Whitney asked me what I thought of it, and I told him I did not think, I was stunned. 41here are two statements which Mrs. ‘litus made that are absolutely correct. She located the place where I was to go down; also told me that the body was lying, head in, in a deep hole, with one foot sticking up, with a new rubber. I was down in about 18 feet of water. It was so dark, nobody A Case of Clairvoyance. 231 could see anything eee aa vaiad ee ae hes body as it was lying, ecause 5 awit an she had already pointed out the place I wa g acta -e known who had not seen the body a agebiged can If you ask me how woteey aes don’t know; but if you ask me if I believe in pe ‘ phe a been convinced against my will. If my best gare ve pei me, I should have thought he had seen a Sy eee. have a similar case and can’t find the pee s the parties to Mrs. Titus, and she will find it. (Signea) MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN. Witnesses: Alfred Schaper Maynard Ladd, Langdon Frothingham, Alfred W. Balch, Henry E. Hewes, William James. s A, Potter, E. W. Taylor, M. 2 so Allen H. Cleghorn, Seta en smi Harris Kennedy, Mr. Sullivan was cross examined at 5 remedy in i being read to him, he co : eeting, where, his story b i in the Sassene of the witnesses whose names wor “_ : above. I add some details from the stenographic a taken on that evening, and from additional information iven by Dr. Kennedy. ay ie adee was a straggling seiroamn ices i irpmetc ile long, originally made by bur < and a quarter of a mile eo eae i é the ice melted, and were J} the ice. ‘These sank when ( \ by timber. Hardly any current ee w ae oie si iti f debris and brush have collec eens bsolutely impossible to see ib w ras absolutely imp about the crib work. It wa eo Sate in i dy, or the place where from above either the body, ee oe i i bber shoe (though it a , The detail of the Indian rub q ri impressiveness of the narration) is ra tN oe . ‘ - irl was called by . Kennedy says—* The gir e One eight velock on the Monday preemies eae por feeling poorly and they had let her sleep. hey fo s had gone and had taken her rubbers. te dhestlecke: At half past 6 on that morning It appears tha gree! mith’s wife,” who was in a position to see the bri ge, s indie oni upon it. This blacksmith’s wife was not ee . by Dr. Kennedy. The diver had spoken with her. is what he reports.

232 Proceedings of American Society for Psychical Research Q. Was she an intelli elligent sort of w ? A. She seemed so. aris 2: ee ee say she saw the woman fall over? . ; She said she saw her on the bridge, or thought it was her. She . saw some wo 1" could say. man there. That was all she ig: Fie foun interpretation of the case is three-fold :-— irs ena ents It appears that there was a light the glel were traced froin Es lice to the beldge aid there : e to the bridge and - 2 aaiN ea dea spaiheapene One of the senitleaien ae mtcbeleneco tent . : “I think that the case is tremendously Gectict list pesplelaw heron the bikige., Wt yourederpeoy- that ; : he bridge. If you can pr ve Vas sae ie at a certain point on the bridge petore she rae seid ein — a difficult coincidence to imagine that Petar cht oa co point ; and that would surely have been ne hn ‘ i itus. It is conceivable that the woman are ihe . bridge, knew Mrs. Titus. Some people alse eid o gona which others have not. Mrs. ge particularly acute power of observation, might oe something which others did not.” oat ee Si footprints and the blacksmith’s wife oe s. Titus data which the latter’s acute powers 5 hank an Lapa or observation, completed into an etapa ore the corpse's position in the water, it seems omnes cOmaaetign miracle as “clairvoyance.” The aban ic ently not led to any spot on the bridge soni fea ; gin s having stopped there, for the whole the woods; sada they oa pater : stan et bridge as the more probable diiiey cocoinhetietivedael ze side, why should the diver h er ee 7 ‘Sian both sides, as he did on the Tuesday oi sels hE adh en asked whether he could go back now Pade wee € spot on the bridge where the girl fell off the plied: “I don’t think I could pick out that spot - A Case of Clairvoyance. 233 ‘The following questions and answers are from his cross ex- amination. Q. How should you know that spot from the one next to it? A. If there wasn’t anything connected with it, I could not pick it out, hardly. If the diver, who had been there, felt so uncertain, it seems still less likely that Mrs. ‘Titus could have accurately found the spot by a bare hearsay description. 2. This leads to the second naturalistic theory :-—Mrs. Titus may have witnessed the accident. Like the blacksmith’s wife, she may have happened to be near the bridge at the fatal hour, and seen what happened. She then probably went home, and with her husband’s complicity worked up the trance story, and on T hursday morning pointed out the spot. The husband's alibi of her would necessarily then be false, and would prove him an accomplice on this theory. Mr. Sullivan’s remark on having it propounded was, “Yes, but how could she then know the exact position of the body on the bottom? Another point against this theory is the odd delay until Thursday morning. Why should Mrs. Titus, if she had a perverse desire to win fame as a clairvoyant, have given the diver two free days in which to find the body unaided. 3. Finally, Bertha Huse, intending to commit suicide, might have confided the intention and the mode of execution to Mrs. Titus, either directly or through her sister, who, it appears, worked at Lebanon, and was probably known to Mrs. Titus. This third hypothesis is psychologically even more improb- able than the two others. Against all three of these €X- planations, stands the fact of the precision of the clairvoyant's direction to the diver. Here are some passages from the lat- ter’s cross-examination :— Q. You think that Mrs: Titus pointed to almost the exact spot where the body was found? A. [know she did. If it wasn't for her, the body would not have been found.

234 Proceedings of American Society for Psychical Research. Q. You say it was too dark for you to see? A. It was total darkness. It is light water, but the crib work cuts off the light. Again :— ©. You found her with her head down and feet up in almost the exact spot Mrs. Titus indicated? A. I might say to an inch. Mr. Sullivan’s mind seems to have been quite “ stunned,” as he expressed it, by the uncanniness of such an exact and immediate verification. “ When I put out my hand it came up against something that felt like a foot.” . . . “Tf I had come across the body the day before, or the first day I was there, I would have thought nothing of it. I would say, “ All right for Boston tonight, I guess.” But when I came across her, and felt out what it was, it did actually stun me, and in place of paying attention to the body, I did so to the woman overhead, that picked out the spot, and the way she saiditlay. . . . Ithought of that, about this Mrs. Titus! I said I never believed in anything like that! Then I com- menced to haul her up after I settled that part of it. I had been positive I would not find the body. I had been mad because I would have to go down because of this woman saying, ‘ there is the spot where the body is.’” It was evident that the exactness of the description was the striking thing for Sullivan. He was interrogated as to whether the position of the body tallied with Mrs. Titus’ account of the way the girl fell over backwards. The body stood vertically, head downwards, in a hole in the cribwork. He thought that a sudden dive backwards was the best explanation of its being caught thus. “ She was lying feet up and head down. She was straight up and down.” “I take it a woman drowning herself, jumping over feet first, the air would get under her clothes, and she would drift around a little ways; but if a woman goes backwards, she will settle quicker.” “ Bodies that have drifted, as a general thing, lie horizontal.” It was plain enough that neither of these three naturalistic explanations has the least plausibility. A reader to whom the A Case of Clairvoyance. 235 i is i ible, had far better ‘s of clairvoyance is impossible, Sethe case as a very exceptional ae of ee ase : inci . I should unhesitatingly do this my : oar ase rarissimi. But the records of supernormne® aa? sti of various types and grades which the Procee nee the $ Pp. R. are more and more abundantly Se seh iis to ‘entific ‘ non-possumus” absurd. it seems to me, the scientific * non-po et eet i almost identical case for instance, xi, ee the corpses of two drowned boys a cag ie found in Cochihuate Lake, near Natick, Ee ee directions given by a Boston clairvoyant nan . ; See also a similar case sini 2 389 of me ha yeret ae swig My own view of the Titus case Ds ae idedly solid document im favor of the a oes aby of seership—whatever preciser meaning may later come to be attached to such a phrase. I conclude by appending a notice that Scan in — Granite State Free Press, of Lebanon, N. i, ie chairs hue vember 11th, 1898, and a letter from a sister of the ¢r girl, received by me quite recently. “ Card. “ The people of Enfield and adjoining ae lief and assistance by W taneously came to our re 1 push? i ts during the long day and kindly and generous ac : aed of terrible anxiety and suspense, anon perm our dear daughter, sister, and niece; to aay eet i sho so genero man, George E. Whitney, W nS ia i ffort and otherwise; to ? assistance by personal e Fest i ssistance when all m who voluntarily came to our a repeal 77 i by the exercise of a, to y efforts had failed, and ge i -giv ower, designate Pp but we believe a God-given p ae Fes found and where it wa d; where the body could be Diephsaremer i rs and singers; to the funeral director, the beare ea tees i to attend the funeral; a who came from a distance to Seely ts i tiful flowers; we W!5 tho contributed the beau \ i“ dace to each and all, our deep sense of gratitude and hea

— 236 Proceedings of American Society for Psychical Research. felt thanks for this manifestation of their friendship. “The memory of this will always be treasured by us. (Signed) MR. & MRS. EDWIN E. HUSE. LEONA E. HUSE. MR. & MRS. GUY E. HUSE. MR. & MRS. L, D. DUNBAR.” Enfield, N. H., April 2nd, 1907. Professor William James, Cambridge, Mass. Dear Sir :— A In reply to your letter of recent date received by my mother, I will simply say—we have never had any reason to doubt that the facts of the case you referred to were cor- rectly stated in the papers at the time of the accident. We do not attempt to explain Mrs. Titus’ part in it, but do know she performed a wonderful act for us, for which we shall always be very thankful. We have no reason to doubt either Mr. or Mrs. Titus’ statements in regard to it. In regard to your criticisms, am quite sure if you had been here you would not have advanced them. , We have not seen Mrs. Titus for several years, so can tell you nothing about her. I judge by your letter that you have the facts of the case, so you will excuse me if I write nothing more—as it is far from pleasant to talk or write about what is to us a great sorrow. Very truly, MRS. H. BARROW, For Mrs. Epwin E. Huse.