Robert Leicester Stearns

Merriam Webster: "apport" ….1 of 2 noun ap·​port əˈpō(ə)rt, aˈ-, -ȯ(ə)rt plural-s 1 obsolete : BEARING, PORT 2 [French, literally, action of bringing, thing brought, from apporter to bring, from Latin apportare] : motion or production of an object by a spiritualist medium without apparent physical agency also : the object so produced apport 2 of 2 transitive verb " -ed/-ing/-s : to produce (a material object) at a spiritualist séance without any apparent physical means