Testimony about Katie King in " Choses de 1' Autre Monde" by Eugene Nus
"Another witness present relates the following, with addi-
tional details about the last seance with Katie King, which
is found in the French " Choses de 1' Autre Monde, troisieme
edition, Paris, par Eugene Nus," translated, 1891, by C. G.
Helleberg, of Cincinnati, Ohio :
" Katie talked about her near departure, and accepted a
bouquet of flowers which Mr. Tapp had offered to her, and
also some lilies from Professor Crookes. Katie requested
Mr. Tapp to take the bandage off the bouquet and place the
flowers before her on the floor. She sat herself down on the
floor in the Turkish fashion, and asked us to do the same
around her. After that she divided the flowers and gave
each of the company a small bouquet, around which she had
wrapped a blue ribbon. She wrote, also, some letters, and
signed them with 'Annie Owen Morgan/ saying that that was
her right name during her earth life. She wro.te, also, a let-
ter of adieu to her medium, and added a rose button as a
remembrance. After that she took a scissors and cut off a
bunch of her hair and gave each one part of it. She now
took the arm of Mr. Crookes and made a tour round the
room, and shook hands with every one of us. Katie sat her-
self down again and cut several pieces from her robe and her
veil, of which she made presents. Seeing so many holes in
her dress, as she sat between Mr. Crookes and Mr. Tapp,
some one asked her if she could repair her dress now, as she
had done on other occasions. She then presented the holes
before us in the clear light, made some taps over them, and
all the holes disappeared. Those that sat near her examined
and touched the stuff with her permission, and they declared
and affirmed that there were no more holes where before
they had seen several, some of which were many inches in
diameter. .
" Katie said she could not speak or show her face to them
any more. During the three years she had accomplished
these physical manifestations she had passed a painful life, to
expiate her faults, but she had resolved to elevate herself to
a superior degree in the spiritual life. After long intervals
she would be able to correspond and write to her medium,
but the medium was always able to see her clairvoyantly.""
tional details about the last seance with Katie King, which
is found in the French " Choses de 1' Autre Monde, troisieme
edition, Paris, par Eugene Nus," translated, 1891, by C. G.
Helleberg, of Cincinnati, Ohio :
" Katie talked about her near departure, and accepted a
bouquet of flowers which Mr. Tapp had offered to her, and
also some lilies from Professor Crookes. Katie requested
Mr. Tapp to take the bandage off the bouquet and place the
flowers before her on the floor. She sat herself down on the
floor in the Turkish fashion, and asked us to do the same
around her. After that she divided the flowers and gave
each of the company a small bouquet, around which she had
wrapped a blue ribbon. She wrote, also, some letters, and
signed them with 'Annie Owen Morgan/ saying that that was
her right name during her earth life. She wro.te, also, a let-
ter of adieu to her medium, and added a rose button as a
remembrance. After that she took a scissors and cut off a
bunch of her hair and gave each one part of it. She now
took the arm of Mr. Crookes and made a tour round the
room, and shook hands with every one of us. Katie sat her-
self down again and cut several pieces from her robe and her
veil, of which she made presents. Seeing so many holes in
her dress, as she sat between Mr. Crookes and Mr. Tapp,
some one asked her if she could repair her dress now, as she
had done on other occasions. She then presented the holes
before us in the clear light, made some taps over them, and
all the holes disappeared. Those that sat near her examined
and touched the stuff with her permission, and they declared
and affirmed that there were no more holes where before
they had seen several, some of which were many inches in
diameter. .
" Katie said she could not speak or show her face to them
any more. During the three years she had accomplished
these physical manifestations she had passed a painful life, to
expiate her faults, but she had resolved to elevate herself to
a superior degree in the spiritual life. After long intervals
she would be able to correspond and write to her medium,
but the medium was always able to see her clairvoyantly.""
(excerpt from the book "Remarkable spirit manifestations" 1891 by William Crookes and Carl Gustaf Helleberg, p. 16-17. Here is a wikipedia-article about Eugene Nus in french. He is "poet, philosopher, dramatic author and journalist" according to J.M. Peebles)
