Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-11-26
Salt 9ahe gemutrat.
FRIDAY, NovEMprp 90 ,oor
CLAIRyOYANCE IN INDIANA,
"eh' Lew Wallnce's Experience in
Tailor ShOp-It Made
Good story.

an VINO nave read Gen. Wallace,s
far God' will remember the scene in
tne underground chamber between tbe
Ola priest and the little girl. The child
Is maze the instrument through which
Vlle lair god's coming is announced, she
gong INTO trance under the priests in
! nuence at the time. Several months 400
the General and a number of gentlemen
were discussing the supernatural and
were relating personal experiences, when
some one asked Gen. Wallace where he
got the idea for the incident mentioned.
was practising law in small country
Town in this State number of years ago -
sad the General, "and was at work upon
the novel during odd moments. | have
never paid any attention to clairvoyance
ana that sort of thing, and scoffed at all
VINO believed that man may have knowl
edge OF what pertains to the other world.
There was tailor living in the town who
was exceedingly superstitious. He had
frequently invited me to witness some of
his manifestations, but | had always re-
fused One night as | was walking to.
ward home, after having been engaged
IN some work at my office, saw a LIGHT
IN the tailor's shop window and some.
thing prompted me to stop NV friend
and boy apprentice were at work when
entered. The tailor gave me a chair.
and we began talking over mesmeric in.
fuence and kindred matters. After a
while he asked me il | would care to hear
some rappings. | told him to suggest
something else, as anybody could make
rappings. He then suggested clairvoy-
ance, and told him to 20 ahead.
Now, at this at this point it is neces-
sary to say that for the following dav
had made business engagement with a
farmer who lived near town in an old
fashioned log house. | had driven past
the place number of times, and was IA
mlllar with the house and the road to it.
The tailor proceeded with his arrange
ments by placing the boy on his bench
with his face to the wall. The man
turned down the lamps in the shop and
directed his attention to the little fellow,
making passes with his hands around and
above him. In few minutes the bow.
who was pale and sickly in appearance,
went into sort Of trance, and the tailor
told me to take hold of one of the little
chaps hands and fix my mind on some
incident in my life or on some place that
l had visited. The farm house l alluded
to moment ago came into my mind at
once, and | thought OF it intently. Almost
Immediately the boy slips began moving,
and in a loose, disconnected way he de-
scribed the log house, the roads leading
to it, and many little details as they
passed through my mind. But after fol-
lowing me for time he stopped, and
then began speaking something of his
own volition, or rather that of which |
was not thinking. He said that it was
night and that the house was dark. And
then he said that the door opened, and a
man came out carrying a lamp in his
hand. He walked out to the hen house
and opened the door while he looked
into it; then closed the door, returned to
the house, and all was dark again. At
this point the boy seemed to be growing
very weak, and told the tailor to rouse
him, which he did by waving his hands
in the air.
81 left the shop in short time, noting
the time, which was about 10 o'clock.
Next day my farmer client called
at the hour which had been
set. We went through the business that
was to be attended to, and as he started
to 90 asked him where he had been at
10 O'Clock the previous night He was
at the question, but answered
that he supposed he was asleep. told
him to think about it for minute. ooh,
yes he said, Il remember now. There
was an animal OF some kind causing
in my hen house, and | got
up just about that time to see what the
matter was. Everything had quieted
down when | got there, and returned to
the house.
81 told the story to my client, who was
greatly interested" the General said in
'and the incident made such
an impression on my mind that l wove it
into the story. "-IndimapoliS Sentinel.