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    Do the Dead Return? A True Story of Startling Seances in San Francisco
    Do the Dead Return? A True Story of Startling Seances in San Francisco
    Do the Dead Return? A True Story of Startling Seances in San Francisco
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    Do the Dead Return? A True Story of Startling Seances in San Francisco

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      Do the Dead Return? A True Story of Startling Seances in San Francisco - Archive Classics

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Do the Dead Return?, by Anonymous

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Do the Dead Return?

      A True Story of Startling Seances in San Francisco

      Author: Anonymous

      Release Date: March 10, 2011 [EBook #35537]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DO THE DEAD RETURN? ***

      Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive.)

      Price, 50 cents

      Do the Dead Return?

      A Startling Story from Life

      Crown Publishing Company

      San Francisco

      1900

      DR. LOUIS SCHLESINGER.

      DO THE DEAD RETURN?

      A TRUE STORY

      OF STARTLING SEANCES

      IN SAN FRANCISCO

      NOTICE

      This work is copyrighted. Editors are warned

      not to make unlawful abridgments.

      CROWN PUBLISHING COMPANY

      SAN FRANCISCO

      1900

      COPYRIGHT, 1900

      BY

      CROWN PUBLISHING CO.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS.

      INTRODUCTION.

      Before this little volume is read a few words of explanation should be carefully weighed, for otherwise the reader might go away with many false impressions.

      The author desires to say that every word here printed is absolutely and literally true. Nothing has been added or suppressed, but the entire truth has been expressed, usually in the exact language of the distinguished gentlemen whose narratives make the bulk of the book. In most instances the witnesses summoned wrote their accounts with their own hands, and the original manuscripts are still preserved.

      Though many years have passed since the events recorded herein transpired, all who witnessed the phenomena are still alive, and all are well-known and reputable citizens of San Francisco. It was only a few days ago that the author met Captain W. S. Barnes, who was District Attorney of the City and County of San Francisco in 1893 (the date of the occurrences with which the book deals), and he said: What I saw in the presence of the medium has puzzled me all these years. I can truthfully say that the things that took place at Mayor Ellert’s office are the most wonderful events that I have ever come upon. They are absolutely beyond my understanding.

      The circumstances with which the narrative deals are an important contribution to the history of psychic research, and they are presented for what they are worth while the witnesses and actors in the story are alive.

      The Author.

      San Francisco, September, 1900.

      CHAPTER I.

      THE AUTHOR’S STORY.

      In the autumn of 1891, the author of this narrative was business manager of the Modesto (California) Daily News. One afternoon while he was engaged in an important consultation with the late Senator J. D. Spencer, one of the owners of the News, there was a knock at the door of the editorial rooms. In a twinkling an old gentleman entered; he was a venerable-looking, long-bearded man, with Hebraic features.

      Before Senator

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