The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-10-01
What Blind ClairvOyant Did.

What Blind ClairyOyant Did.
Exchange.
'.Do believe in clairvoyants?" said
\ well known citizen of Railway, for
nerly a medical student, Yesterday.
II can not say that do, but l was
once almost ready to bel eve 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 pri-
vate boarding house. AS the location
suited my convenience, l engaged a
room there, and took possession of it
one Saturday about the middle of Jan
uary. Among my fellow boarders was
DR.. Hathaway, a surgeon of the Unit
ed States Army, who had been on
duty at the hospital on Staten Island.
During my first evening at the house a
lady visitor who was present was in
troduced to me simply as Mary. She
was blind. l had listened but short
time to the conversation of those peo-
pie before learned that they were al
most mono-man:acs on the subject of
that the blind girl Mary was clair
voyant subject of DR.. LIE Grand, a
well known French physician, who
professed to cure diseases by mesmer-
ism.
Before retiring that night l went
out to restaurant in Park Row for
plate of oysters. When I 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 glancing
about, and there were sounds of con-
fusion in the upper part of the house.
I was told that DR.. Hathaway had had
a fit, and another physician whose
name l 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 in
formed me that the doctors fit was
81 ght attack of apoplexy, unaccom-
panied with paralysis, and that he
would probably be all right in a few
days. He was not all right, however,
either in few days or a few weeks.
Before the end of the month l
moved uptown, but about the latter
part of March, having business down.
town, | called at my old-b boarding
place. found DR.. Hathaway seated
in his room in an invalid chair, not
cheerful. but apparently not ailing
much, although he complained of
slight pain in the right side of his
head. AS l was leaving the house the
landlady drew me into her room and
asked me what thought of DR.. Hath
away's case. My reply was: The
Doctor is doing well. If he will get
out and take moderate exercise he will
soon be ent rely we'll
''She shook her head mournfullv,
and sad: He will never get out
again; He will never leave that room
alive
"'What reason have you for
such melancholy suppos on9' l
asked.
'' Mary says so.'
What! Has Mary been here
frightening you with her fiummery?'
l said.
" No; Mary has not teen in the
house since the night you met her
here, she replied. AT DR.. Hathaway's
request l went TO consult her at DIR.
lie Grand's office. She went into a
trance and examined DR.. Hathaway.
She says that the inside of his skull,
on the right side. is all sore and ulcer
ated. and that there are three Jumps
on the right side of his brain as large
as hickory nuts; that he will never get
over it; that it will all be over with
him by the 1st of May, and that you
VII be present at the post-morto ex-
animation
I" ".Me?'
You
"'What suggested such an idea as
that?'
81 don't know. She sometimes
takes great interest in strangers she
casually meets. She knows a great
deal about your future
= The fortune-te,l ng charlatanr 1
thought OF course was too polite to
express this opinion aloud. and after
few commonplace remarks, took my
leave.
sDuring the next month my mind
was otherwise so much occupied that
l almost entirely forgot the afflicted
ply s.cian; but on the last day of April
when sat down to my dinner. l was
startled to find on my plate note an
Dr.. Hathaway's death, and
inviting me to be present at a post
mortem examination at 10 o clock next
When entered the death
chamber at the appointed hour found
several eminent physicians and sur
geons assembled there. Dr. 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, and handed around
for inspection what was my surprise
to see that the lining membrane on
the right side had been extensively in
famed. exactly as the blind clairvoy-
ant had described; and, further, upon
cutting into the substance of the brain
on the right side, three large tuberoles
were found. a rare and remarkable
condition"
'sThat was very remarkable.
"Yes, but at the funeral l chanced
to ride in the same carriage with a rel
ative of the deceased, VINO told me
that sister of DR.. Hathaway had died
some wears before, after suffering
about the same length of time with
similar symptoms, and that the same
conditions had been
found on post-mortem examination.
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