YOUNG WIDOW'S STORY

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 11

YOUNG WIDOW'S STORY

INTEREST IN SPIRITUALISM

(Received 23rd December, 10 a.m.)

LONDON, 21sfc December.

The lively interest in. spiritualism, owing to the presence of the -world's reputed best mediums Schneidor and Majory, has induced the "Evening Standard" to invite its readers to tell their own experiences. Amidst a mass of truly remarkable versions is one, featured to-day, which is calculated to arouse controversy and appears to be entitled to be legarded as the world's most extraordinary ghost story. It is a letter from Mrs. Dorothy Reeves, wife of a dirt-track rider, Eoy Reeves, who was killed on the Leicester Speedway on 22nd .September. She says: "Three months ago my husband was killed at 0.5 p.m. Three days afterwards I was drawn like a magnet to the speedway with an uncontrollable desire to walk the track. I was accompanied by my husbands' friend and his formft- mechanics. Upon reaching the spot where he was killed, I lost thought of my companions, because my husband was waiting with his own racing model, lie smiled and nodded to me to mount the pillion. I was miraculously able to do so. We completed the course together, he talking and laughing throughout, until reaching the paddock gate, when he drove off alone, gradually transforming into a ball of mist. "Suddenly I returned to earth to lind one mechanic sobbing heart-brokenly and the others pale and ill. The spectactle appeared at 9.5 p.m. To my intense relief tho three men also witnessed it, otherwise I should have thought myself insane. Previous to this I was a staunch disbeliever, poohpoohing tho spirit idea, although my husband was credited with great psychic powers. He vowed to convert me if it took a hundred years. "During the fatal race meeting he had a presentiment that ho would die that day, but none could dissuade him rrom riding. Two mouths previously he chose an autographed wood for his eomn.

. "Though I am now convinced of life in the spiritual sphere, I cannot understand why a material motor-cycle could appear. This same machine was in a nearby workshop entirely dismantled, and emphaticaly not the one used on the fatal night. . "I have several times since both seen and felt him, but I lose my powers of speech at such moments "