An English "medium," a certain Rev. Francis Ward Monck, formerly
a minister at Bristol, who was asserted by his counsel to be a man of independent means, keeping his carriage and yacht at Bristol, was also charged yesterday week at the Huddersfield Police-court, under the Vagrant Act ; and in his case it-appears to be asserted that a number of false hands, musical boxes, and other properties of the trade were fund in his possession. If that is so, it will probably go hard with him ; and if it be true that he is really a man of considerable property, the case will be a very remarkable one in the history of morbid psychology. Dr. Monck is, we believe, the " medium" who was asserted by the Spiritualistic papers some time ago to have travelled, spirit-borne, through the air, like the witches of old,—from Bristol to Stroud, if we remember rightly,—a kind of pretension the validity of which must have been somewhat rudely tested by the bars and locks of the Huddersfield police-office.
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