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Frau Anna Rothe
ermany has produced few great Mediums, unless
Frau Anna Rothe can be classed as
such. It is possible that this woman resorted to fraud when her psychic powers
failed her, but that she had such powers in a high degree is clearly shown by
the evidence at the trial after her alleged "exposure" in 1902.
The Medium, after being kept in prison for twelve months and three weeks before
being brought to trial, was sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment and a fine
of five hundred marks. At the trial many people of standing gave evidence in her
favour, among whom were Herr Stocker, former Court Chaplain, and Judge Sulzers,
president of the High Court of Appeal, Zurich. The judge stated on oath that
Frau Rothe put him in communication with the Spirits of his wife and father, who
said things to him which the medium could not possibly have invented, because
they dealt with matters unknown to any mortal. He also declared that flowers of
the rarest kind were produced out of the air in a room flooded with light. His
evidence caused a sensation.
It is clear that the result of the trial was a foregone conclusion. It was a
repetition of the position of the magistrate, Mr. Flowers, in the Slade case.
The German legal luminary in his preliminary address said:
The Court cannot allow itself to criticize the Spiritistic theory, for it must
be acknowledged that science, with the generality of men of culture, declares
supernatural manifestations to be impossible.
In the face of that no evidence could have any weight.