Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-03
CURRENT AFFAIRS.
MIND READING.

hIND HEII(INU.
A REMARKABLE PSYCHOLOGICAL EXHIBITION |
by MIR BisHoP, THE MIND-READER
Mr. Washington Irving Bishop, whose |
exhibitions Of mind-reading or Thought |
transference," as he terms it, have attract
ed wide attention in London and other for
cign capitals, gave an illustration of his
wonderful powers few days ago before a
select audience at the Hotel Nendome, Bos
ton The occasion was notable for the char
acter Of the audience, including as it did
| DR.. Oliver Wendell Holiness James Free
| man Clarke, Rev. Brooke HEREFORD, Rev.
| Minot j. Savage, Col Thomas w, Higgin-
son. His Honor Mayor O'Brien, ex Mayor
/ Green Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Robert
/ Grant, John L. Fitzgerald and other prom
inent gentlemen, many of whom were &c
companied by ladies'.
Mr.. Bishop in beginning his experiments
stated that he wished to demonstrate the
communication of thought from one mind
to another, and asked that whoever the
audience might select as subject would
comply with his conditions, namely, to con
ccntratc his thoughts intently ON the arti-
Gle to be found or the act to be accomplished.
Mr. Bishop then requested that an imagna-
ry assassination should take place while he
was absent from the room. and the knife
used in the supposed crime afterwards
be concealed Rev. Brooke Herford was
selected as the mimic assassin, and after
Mr. Bishop had been taken from the room
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tended to stab Col. Higginson in the thigh
and back. The knife was then concealed
ON the mantphece. DR.. HEREFORD exhibited
some indccision in hiding the weapon, and
when Mr.. Bishop was brought back blind
folded he was unsuccessful in discovering
the article DR.. HEREFORD admitted his indie
cison and Mr. Bishop attributed his failure
to that cause. He asked that the expert
mrnt might hc repeated. and DR.. Clarke
and Mr.. Savage were selected as the sup
posed assassins. DR. C. c. Everett being the
victim While the scene was being enacted.
MIR. Bishop was in a distant room in care of
DR.. Green. The clerical murderers con
cenlcd the knife in AN al Joining room under
a heap of garments. Mr. Bishops success
when he began a second time was truly re
mnrkahlc. In the course Of a few minutes
he led the two gentlemen straight to the
spot where the knife was concealed. found
il without difficulty. and. returning to the
Loruuat hail walked directly to DIR Ever
EFT and repeated the murder scene almost
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.pcn
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