A “Statesman” cable says:—

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s claim that a photograph shown from a lantern slide in a recent lecture was a spirit photograph of the dead Lord Combermere seated in his library on the day of his own funeral, is challenged by Lord Combermere’s nephew, the scientist, Mr. Campbell Swinton, who declares that the photograph was taken in 1898 by an American then renting Combermere Abbey, and was not in the library but in the hall, where nobody ever sat.

Mr. Campbell Swinton adds that what is claimed as a spirit photograph of Lord Combermere is a mere smudge, and looks like a white-bearded man wearing a white waistcoat who sat in a chair and jumped rapidly up and down. The suggestion that it resembles Lord Combermere is ridiculous, he maintains.