Mr & Mrs J B Jonson USA
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Mr J B Jonson & Mrs J B Jonson
As a materialization Medium, Jonson, of Toledo, who afterwards resided in Los
Angeles, stands alone, so far as the author's experience carries him. Possibly
his wife's name should be bracketed with his, since they work together. The
peculiarity of Jonson's work is that he is in full view of the Circle, sitting
outside the cabinet, while his wife stands near the cabinet and superintends the
proceedings. Anyone who desires a very complete account of a Jonson seance will
find it in the author's "Our Second American Adventure," and his mediumship is
also treated very thoroughly by Admiral Usborne Moore.* The admiral, who was
among the greatest of psychic researchers, sat many times with Jonson, and
obtained the co-operation of an ex-chief of the United States Secret Service,
who established a watch and found nothing against the Medium. When it is
remembered that Toledo was at that time a limited town, and that sometimes as
many as twenty different personalities manifested in a single sitting, it will
be realized that personification presents insuperable difficulties. Upon the
occasion of the sitting at which the author was present, a long succession of
figures came, one at a time, from a small cabinet. They were old and young, men,
women, and children. The light from a red lamp was sufficient to enable a sitter
to see the figures clearly but not to distinguish the details of the features.
Some of the figures remained out for not less than twenty minutes and conversed
freely with the Circle, answering all questions put to them. No man can give
another a blank cheque for honesty and certify that he not only is honest but
always will be. The author can only say that on that particular occasion he was
perfectly convinced of the genuine nature of the phenomena, and that he has no
reason to doubt it on any other occasion.
* "Glimpses of the Next State," pp. 195, 322.
Jonson is a powerfully built man, and though he is now verging upon old age his psychic powers are still unimpaired. He is the centre of a Circle at Pasadena, near Los Angeles, who meet every week to profit by his remarkable powers. The late Professor Larkin, the astronomer, was a habitue of the Circle, and assured the author of his complete belief in the honesty of the mediumship.
Source The History of Spiritualism by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle