Fifty Years a Medium – Chapter 7, 8/16 by Estelle Roberts

I must confess that although under the Act, as it stood, I could have been arrested as a rogue or vagabond, I had been neither deterred nor frightened by the thought of such a happening. My family rested a little more peacefully after the amendment, however,

because it was customary for Hannen Swaffer, when on the same platform, to challenge the Police generally on duty at the rear of the Hall, because of the large audiences, to arrest me. There was no longer the need for them to carry my own Solicitor’s telephone number around with them should the necessity arise for him to bail me out!

Many Members of Parliament have attended my public meetings and have had private sittings with me. Some of the best known, men like Ernest Bevin and George Lansbury, more than once shared the platform with me. Sir William Stewart often came to talk to Red Cloud. In May 1959 Sir William took the chair at a London public meeting at which I gave clairvoyance and openly testified to the help he had received from my guide.

In the course of one conversation Red Cloud warned him that a wheel of his car was unsafe. At the end of the séance Sir William drove off, forgetting the warning until he called at a nearby garage for petrol. Then he remembered and asked the attendant to make a quick check of the wheel-nuts. The man did so and reported all was well.

A day or so later Sir William was about to visit his mother. He knew it would mean a fast journey to get back in time to sit in the House of Commons next day, and he had not forgotten Red Cloud’s warning.

He decided to make a second check. He drove to another garage and accompanied the mechanic on a tour of inspection. This time they found that the retaining nuts of one of the back wheels were so dangerously slack that the wheel must have come off had the car travelled far or fast.