Sir Conan Doyle Challenged to Produce Ectoplasm

1922

CHALLENGES SIR CONAN DOYLE TO PRODUCE PLASM

Bath, Me., April 29. — The fiction of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is more believable than his facts, and the former will do the world more good, President Clifton D. Gray of Bates college told a meeting of the Sagadahoc Teachers' association.

"Let him write more Sherlock Holmes stories," he added.

"Sir Arthur's evidence of existence beyond the grave have a box office value, but they would stand a poor show in the laboratory," President Gray said. "When he can bring in a vial containing a bit of ectoplasm, it will be time to listen to him. It is a matter of test tubes. The laboratories of Bates college are open to him.

"When the father of Sherlock Holmes succeeds in doing for ectoplasm what Mme. Curie has done for radium, the colleges of the country will be no less ready to recognize his contribution to scientific knowledge than they were in the case of the little Polish woman."



PASTOR'S BODY FOUND IN RIVER

Peoria, Ill., April 29 — The body of the Rev. W. J. Leach, missing pastor of the Averyville Presbyterian church and former newspaper man, was found today by a fisherman, wedged between willows on the Illinois river.

—Syracuse Herald, Syracuse, New York, April 29, 1922, page 9.