Akutin's hostile report. It is based on the possibility of
imitating the raps, the difficulty of locating them, and the fact that
the flying objects were never seen to start. If Mrs. Shchapoff threw
them, they might, perhaps, have occasionally been seen to start.
S.P.R., vol. xii., p. 298. Precisely similar events occurred in
Russian military quarters in 1853. As a quantity of Government
property was burned, official inquiries were held. The reports are
published by Mr. Aksakoff. The repeated verdict was that no suspicion
attached to any subject of the Czar.
{205} The same freedom was taken, as has been said, with a lady of
the most irreproachable character, a friend of the author, in a
haunted house, of the usual sort, in Hammersmith, about 1876.
{206} Proceedings, S.P.R., vol. xii., p. 49.
{212} John Wesley, however, places Hetty as next in seniority to Mary
or Molly. We do not certainly know whether Hetty was a child, or a
grown-up girl, but, as she always sat up till her father went to bed,
the latter is the more probable opinion. As Hetty has been accused of
causing the disturbances, her age is a matter of interest.
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