Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-10-10

nc loNk was SCI upon three uliiSr-
ent figures which constitute the
combination, To those who are
acquainted with this kind of safe Il
( is needless IL state that il is next
to impossible 10 open it without
knowing the number upon which
il is set. 40 one but MIR. kictlcr
had the combination and could
open his safe, In this safe are
several small drawers with lock on
each. In one Of these MIR, klrtler
put three papers, one vt which is M
insurance policy, he then locks the
drawer, gives the key of it TO his
friend Mr., kcsslcr shuts the safe
and locks IT, He now with lis
friend Mr.. kcsslcr goes tc the City
Hall, the place where the Prot. ap-
pointed for the entertainments Mr.,
kieiler announced he had 4 test for
the Prot. to solve And it was ms
It afterwards appeared to get at the
insurance policy and designate il as
the thing which MIR. *. had III his
mind. This test the Prof perform
ed in the following manner; he
took Mr. X. BY the hand with
one of his and placed his other hand
on Mr. kictlcr's forehead, standing
SO for Il moment he took his hand
from the forehead of Mr.. kieilcr
and wita both hands grasps Mr..
kiellcr's hand and places it against
the side of his head, in this atti-
tudo he Immediately starts cut of
the hall with Mr.. X. and takes him
10 his store and to the safe in the
back part of it, He then, much to
Mr., kieiler's astonishment, unlocks
the safe, raised his hand to the
drawer containing the fire insur-
anee policy, but the drawer was
locked, Mr.. kicflcr now places his
mind upon the person and where
he was who had the key to it, inn
mediately the Prof, leads Mr. Kicf-
fer back to the Hall selects MIR.
Ketsler who has the key, out of n
crowu "r ~,N" throe hundred per-
sons, takes from his pocket the key
of the drawer returns with it hold
ing Mr.. X. BY the hand to the safe,
unlocked the drawer, takes out the
three papers and from them holds
up the policy saying, this is It. y
1t must be remembered that the
Prof. knew nothing of the matter
except what he got from Mr. Kicf-
fer's mind by taking hold of his
hand and head as above described
Another test was Mr. Calvert Spen-
sley, an attorney Of this city and m
entire stranger to Prof. Arimond,
placed his mind upon opening his
Office door. The Prof. took Mr..
Spcnsley III the same way described
above of Mr.. kieilcr, led him out
of the Hall to his office, a distance
Of eight rods or more, to his office
door, took out Of Mr.. .Spenslcy's
pocket a bunch of keys one Of
which was the key Of his office, on
the bunch was another key SO near
like the Office key that Mr. Spen-
sley could only tell the one from
the other by feeling of their edges
the office key having sharper edge
than the other. The Prof, without
hesitation selected at once the right
key and opened the office door, and
then announced he had accom-
plishcd what was desired. Anoth.
er test was Mr.. Philip Allen, Jr.,
wrote upon a piece of paper the
words Doctor II Van Duscnn and
desired the Prof by mind reading
/ to determine what he had written,
/ This was performed without an cr.
ror or mistake, by pointing out
from an alphabet the letters one
after another composing tie wordt
| written BY Mr.. Allen. Hon. NJ. M
Cothren, Circuit Judge, gave his
gold watch to Mr.. Macarthur and
directed him V give il 70 Mr.. Har.
ris, banker Of this city. The Judge
informed Prof. Arilnond that he
had something arranged, and he
wished him to determine what il
was and solve il BY reading his