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Of his mother we know only her name Chomley and that she died when her second child, and only son, was an infant. The father was a strict, sturdy, honest, severe Puritan, the marks of whose character ever remained on the character of the son.
I discovered that this was true, for on my first visit I saw a copy of the S.P.R. Proceedings lying on the table. I found him interested, but unable to get beyond the 'subliminal consciousness' theory. A few days later I asked Colonel Bates if he had ever met a Colonel Henry Arthur Chomley in India. He thought for a moment, then said: 'Chomley?
F.F. DERHAM, M.L.A., Postmaster General. The Hon. H.T. WRIXON, M.L.A., Attorney General. The Hon. W.F. WALKER, M.L.A., Commissioner of Customs. Mr. The Bishop of MELBOURNE. W.G. BRETT, Esq., Inspector General, Penal Department. H.M. CHOMLEY, Esq., Chief Commissioner of Police. A. SHIELDS, Esq., M.P., Medical Officer, Melbourne Jail.
A few weeks later, however, you wrote again, and told me that you had been staying with a friend, who drove you over to call upon Colonel and Mrs Henry Arthur Chomley, that he was a brother of Sir Frederic Chomley, and was certainly alive, although not at home, at the time of your visit!
Yet Sir Frederic had a brother named Henry Arthur, and the impersonating Anstruther had borrowed the wrong brother's name when trying to pose as the friend of Colonel Charles Bates. To make confusion worse confounded, Walter Chomley was alive, as well as Henry Arthur, at the time of Miss Mabel Smith's experiences, for I have seen his death within the last eight months!
Now out of this curious jumble of true and false, two points remain clear: My brother had known a Chomley in India, and had succeeded him as Brigade Major at Meean Meer. This Chomley was a brother of Sir Frederic Chomley, the well-known diplomatist, but his name was Walter, not Henry Arthur.
I was much pleased to get this corroborative evidence, though the mistake in initials must have been Colonel Bates' error, and apologised to Colonel Henry Arthur Chomley in the Unseen.
The latter then confessed to having taken a friend's name, said a sudden impulse came over him when I first asked his name, and having told one lie, he felt bound to go on deceiving me, but that he had known both Colonel Bates and Colonel Henry Arthur Chomley in India, and that his own real name was Anstruther!" This was Miss Smith's narrative.
Shortly afterwards you wrote to tell me that you had looked up a Debrett for 1895, and had there found Colonel Henry Arthur Chomley, a brother of Sir Frederic Chomley, of the Rifle Brigade, etc., so that Henry Arthur Chomley was evidently alive in that year, and had been in the Rifle Brigade.
In my next conversation with 'Colonel Chomley' I told him all this, and he again said: 'Mind you ask him about me! I answered: 'How can I, when I don't know what Colonel Bates' ideas are on these subjects? He might look on me as a dangerous lunatic! Colonel Chomley remarked: 'I think you will find that he is interested in psychic matters.
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