Crookes, in Mornington Road, London.
[4] The details of both these latter cases are to be found in
"Voices from the Void" by Mrs. Travers Smith, a book containing
some well weighed evidence.
Let us for a moment examine the facts in this Crookes'
episode. A small book exists which describes them, though it is
not as accessible as it should be. In these wonderful
experiments, which extended over several years, Miss Florrie
Cook, who was a young lady of from 16 to 18 years of age, was
repeatedly confined in Prof. Crookes' study, the door being
locked on the inside. Here she lay unconscious upon a couch.
The spectators assembled in the laboratory, which was separated
by a curtained opening from the study. After a short interval,
through this opening there emerged a lady who was in all ways
different from Miss Cook. She gave her earth name as Katie King,
and she proclaimed herself to be a materialised spirit, whose
mission it was "to carry the knowledge of immortality to mortals.
She was of great beauty of face, figure, and manner. She was
four and a half inches taller than Miss Cook, fair, whereas the
latter was dark, and as different from her as one woman could be
from another. Her pulse rate was markedly slower. She became
for the time entirely one of the company, walking about,
addressing each person present, and taking delight in the
children. She made no objection to photography or any other
test.
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