George W. Schweich, Richmond, Missouri, wrote September 22d, 1899: "I have begged him to unfold the fraud in the case and he had all to gain and nothing to lose to but speak the word if he thought so -- but he has described the scene to me many times, of his vision about noon time in an open pasture -- there is only one explanation barring an actual miracle and that is this -- If that vision was not real it was HYPNOTISM, it was real to grandfather IN FACT."