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Memorandum to Professor F.B. Flinn [Dr. Frederick B. Flinn], no date

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HIS BODY EMITS RAYS THAT PIERCE WOOD Tests by Scientists Fail to Deter- mine How His General Halo Is Caused PHOTOGRAPHS THROUGH BOX Paris, Feb. 28.-Tests of a medium who claims to possess a strange luminosity- the emission of blue light rays with radio- graphic properties-are announced by Dr. Gustave Geley of the Metaphysical Insti- tute here. The medium is an Italian named Erto of Castellammare di Estadia, brought to Paris for examination after experi- ments in Italy had failed to determine whether the subject's peculiar properties were natural or artificial. Dr. Geley asserts that he subjected Erto to rigorous tests. The medium was stripped and examined and then clad in seamless trunks and hose and put under the X-ray to make sure he had taken nothing internally which might act as a source of luminosity. Dr. Geley was aided in his experiments by Dr. Charles Richet, noted member of the Academy of Medi- cine. The examiners declare that Erto, when placed in a darkened room, appears to be surrounded by a kind of general halo, while every now and then a clearly de- fined fan-shaped ray of light is projected from the left side. Occasionally, also, a cone of light appears above the head. It is said that this light passes through opaque objects and that photographic plates in sealed boxes had images regis- tered on them when developed, as if they had been exposed in I camera in davlight

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