Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-10-08
A CLAIRvOYANT
Who Gould See Through n Mans Head
And Predict His Death.

a well known citizen OF Railway, tor
merly a medical student, recently. ~
cannot say that do, but / was once
almost ready to believe in them. In
the year 1s45 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 q
room there, and took possession of it
one Saturday about the middle OF
January. Among my fellow-boarders
was DIR. 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
was introduced to ME simply as Mary.
She was blind. j had listened but a
short time to the conversation OF those
people before | learned that they were
almost monomaniacs on the subject
OF mesmarism, and Iafterwardle learned
that the bling girl Mary was a clairvoy-
ant subject of DIR. lie Grand, a well
known French physician, who protested
to cure diseases by mesmerism.
Before retiring that night / went
out TO a restaurant in Park Row for a
plateo OF oysters. When | returned to
the boarding house, having been gone
a little over half an hour, the front
door, which had carefully fastened,
was wide open, lights were CHANGING
about, and there were sounds of con-
fusion in the upper part OF the house.
/ was told that DIR. Hathaway had had
a fit, and that DR.. Van Duren, DIR. Par
ker and another physician whosename
| 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 a few days.
He was not all right, however, either
IN a few days or a few weeks.
Before the end of the month | NOV
ed uptown, but about the latter part
of March, having business downtown,
| called at my old boarding place. |
found DR.. Hathaway seated i'll his
room in an invalid chair, not quite
cheerful, but apparently not ailing
much, although he complained of n
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 i 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
oon be entirely WELL
"She shook her head mournfully,
end said: 'Hewill neverg get out again.
He will never leave that room alive
"'What reason have you for such a
melancholy superstition & asked.
MARY says So
"'What! Has Mary been frighten-
ing you with her 1ummery?" l asked.
ono; Mary has not been in the
house since the night youmet 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 DIR. Hathaway. She
says that the inside OF the skull, on
the right side, is all sore and liberated,
and hat there are three Jumps on the
right side of his brain as large as hick-
DRY nuts; that he will get OVERT;
that it will all be over with him by the
LIST If May, and that You will be pres
ent at the post norton examination
"'Me?'
"'You.'
"'What~ suggested such an idea as
that?"
"Idon't know. She sometimes takes
great interest in strangers she casually
meets. She knows a great deal about
your future
THE fortune telling charlatan." i
thought. OF course / was d trihe too
polite to express my opinion aloud,
and after a few commonplace remarks
took my leave.
"Duringthenex monthmy mind was
otherwise so much occupied that / al
most entirely forgot the afflicted ply
stefan; but on the last day OF April,
when sat down to my dinner, ] was
startled to find on my plate a note an
nOuncing DIR. Hathaway's death, and
inviting me to be present at q post
norton examination at 10 o'clock
next morning. When | entered the
death chamber at the appointed hour
Ifoundseveral eminent physicians and
surgeons assembled there. DIR. Moses,
who was then demonstration of anat-
omy at the university of New York,
was conducting the autopsy: When
the top of the Uranium was removed
from the brain, andhanded aroundfor
inspection what was my surprise tose
that the lining membrane on the right
side had been extensively inlamed,
exactly as the blind clairvoyant had
described, and further, upon cutting
into the substance OF the brain on the
right side, three large tubercles were
found, a rare and remarkable patho-
logical condition.
"That was very remarkable"
Eyes, but at the funeral / CHANGED
to ride in the same carriage with a rel
alive OF the deceased, who told
me that a sister of DIR. Hathaway had
died some years before, after suffer-
about the same length OF time with
similar symptoms, and that the same
pathologicalcondition had beenfound
on post norton examinations"