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Died. Mina Stinson Crandon, 53, better known as "Margery" the medium whose claims of psychic communication with the dead raised serious controversy from 1924 to 1935; in Boston. Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle believed in her; Harry Houdini offered $5,000 to charity if she produced any "manifestations" which he could not duplicate. Charity never got the money. Before Houdini died in 1926 he said he would communicate with the living after his death if he could, and Magician Joseph M. Dunninger awaited a "message" on every anniversary of his death. "Margery" died the day after the 15th...
DENIS P. S. CONAN DOYLE...
...attention has been drawn to a very misleading misstatement of fact concerning my father, the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which appeared in your issue of March...
...referring to Mr. Joseph Dunninger, conjurer and self-styled expert on psychic investigation, it is stated that "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Edison and Harry Houdini left secret messages (with him) before their deaths to test the possibility of communication with a world of spirits." Now I cannot speak for Mr. Edison or Mr. Houdini, but I do know for an absolute fact that so far as my father is concerned there is not one word of truth in this statement...
...Dunninger can tip tables, conjure up voices and ghosts, make casts of invisible hands, as well as the slickest mediums. But he claims no supernatural powers, relies only on his 25 years of practice in prestidigitation and his knowledge of science. It was to Magician Dunninger that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Edison and Harry Houdini left secret messages before their deaths to test the possibility of communication with a world of spirits. One medium's version of Edison's message: "My niece, Betty. Where are you? Boop. Boop. Boop...