The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-10-08
A CLAIRVOYANT
Who Could See Through Mans Head,
And Predict His Death.

Who Could See Through = Mans Head,
And Predict His Death.
From the New York Sun.
"Do | believe in clairvoyants?" said
well known citizen of Railway, for
merly a medical student, recently. 81
cannot say that do, but / was once
almost ready to believe in them. In
the year 1845 the building at the
southeast corner of Barclay and
Church streets, New York, which is
now a factory, was occupied as a pri-
vate boarding house. AS the location
suited my convenience, | engaged a
room there, and took possession of it
one Saturday about the middle OF
January. Among my fellow-boarders
was DR.. Hathaway, a surgeon OF the
United States army, who had been on
duty at the hospital on Staten Island.
During my first evening at the house a
young lady visitor was present, who
She was blind. | had listened but a
short time to the conversation of those
people before learned that they were
almost mOnomaniacs on the subject
of mesmerism, and Iafterward learned
that the bling girl Mary was a clairvoy-
ant subject of DR.. LIE Grand, a we'll
known French physician, who professed
to cure diseases by mesmerism.
Before retiring that night l went
out to a restaurant in Park Row for a
plate of oysters. When returned to
the boarding house, having been gone
little over half an hour, the front
door, which | had carefully fastened,
was wide open, lights were glancing
about, and there were sounds of con-
fusion in the upper part of the house.
was told that DR.. hathaway had had
Il fit, and that DR.. Van Duren, Dr. Par
ker and another physician whose name
can not recall, had been sent for and
were in attendance. Finding | could
be of no service, went to bed. and
next morning the landlady informed
me that the Doctors fit was a slight
attack of apoplexy, unaccompanied
with paralysis, and that he would
probably be all right in few days.
He was not all right, however, either
in a few days or q few weeks.
Before the end of the month NOV
ed uptown, but about the latter part
of March, having business downtown,
| called ut my old boarding place.
found DR.. Hathaway seated in his
room in an invalid chair. not quite
cheerful, but apparently not ailing
much, although he complained of a
slight pain in the right side of his head.
AS | was leaving the house the land
lady drew me into her room and ask
ed me what thought OF DIR. Hatha-
ways case. My reply was The Doc
tor Is doing well, Ii he will get out
and take moderate exercise he will
soon be entirely WELL
"She shook her head mournfully,
and said: 'Hewill neverget out again.
He will never leave that room alive
"'What reason have you for such u
melancholy supposition?' asked.
"'Mary says So
"'What! Has Mary been frighten-
ing you with her flummery?" l asked.
"'No; Mary has not been in the
house since the night you met her here, +"
she replied. AT DR.. Hathaway's re-
quest | went to consult her at DR.. LIE
Grand's Office. She went into a trance
and examined DR.. Hathaway. She
says that the inside OF the skull on
the right side, is all sore and liberated,
ana that there are three Jumps on the
right side of his brain as large as hick-
ory nuts; that he will never get over il;
that it will all be over with him by the
LIST of May, and that you will be pres
ent at the post mortem examinations
sssMa2'
"'You.'
"'What suggested such an idea as
that2"
"Idon't know. She sometimes takes
great interest in strangers she casually
meets. She knows q great deal about
your future
"The fortnns telling charlatan." l
tbougAt. OF course | was tritle too
polite to express my opinion aloud,
and after few commonplace remarks
took my leave.
During the nazt month my mind was
ltaenwise So much occupied the. 1 al
most entirely forgot the afflicted ply.
sician; but on the last dav OF Anril,
when | sat down to my dinner. | was
startled to find an my plate note an
noHncing Pr, Hathaway's death, and
inviting me to be present at q post
mortem examination at 10 O'Clock
next morning, When l entered the
death chamber at the appointed hour
Hound several eminent physicians and
surgeons assembled there, DIR, Moses,
who was then demanstmtor OF anat,
omy at the university of New York,
was conducting the autopsy; When
the top of the Uranium was removed
from the brain, and handed around for
inspection what was my surprise to see
that the lining membrane on the right
side had been extensively inhamed,
exactly as the blind clairvoyant had
described. and iurther, upon cutting
into the substance OF the brain on the
right side, three large tubercles were
found, rare and remarkable patho-
logical condition,
''That was very remarkable"
eyes, but at the funeral | chanced
to ride in the same carriage with a rel
ative of the deceased, who told
me that a sister of DR., Hathaway had
died some yearA before, after suffer-
about the same length of time with
similar symptoms, and that the same
pathological conditions had been found
on post mortem examinations"