The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-15
the symptoms were purely and simply cat

dsepllC.
During the afternoon DR.. Ferguson, the
well known pathologist of St. Luke's and
the New York hospital, acceded to DR..
Irvine's request to perform post mortem
examination The brain and internal or
CANS were all examined and full notes
were taken, the details OF when VIII De
given to the public hereafter. The exam
nation proved the correctness OF the dag,
nosis, which was that death nad reSuIUeu
from coma following hysteric catalepsy.
There is considerable feeling among Mr..
Rishop's friends regarding the lncessant
use of electricity, for they assert that SO
great current was used even aIter deaIn
that the limbs of the dead man were thrown
about as though he were stlll awe. III Is
also a remarkable fact tnaI SO grsa! was
the muscular strength shown by Bishop
while suffering that for two hours after
his seizure he tossed the strong men who
were holding him as if they were children.
MANY an actor went through his part last
evening feeling sore and stiff after his eX-
perience in the death chamber.
The word Townsend" came into the
minute book under peculiar circumstances.
There is no member of that name IN the
club. but Miss Margaret Townsend wrote
to the president a few weeks ago IN rela-
ton to the Lester Wallack statue and her
letter was in due course inserted IN the
minutes. The piece of paper handed Bishop
on which 10 write ''DnesnwOt'' was an en-
velOpe and it contained the contract ne was
to sign with his manager. 1t was the irony
of fate.
Mr.. Bishop was born in New York in
1877, but he did not look his age, owing to
his eliminate appearance, under which he
carried a muscular strength possessed by
few men His bOYhOOd was one OF prlVa-
ton and care and ne began life in well
known drug store. To his companions he
was always a marvel because ne could do
so many tricks of legerdemain and he fire.
quently attended spiritualistic seances,
only to make fun Of them. Finally, he be
came connected with some of the spiritual
istic mediums and assisted them in their
manifestations, though he attracted no
great public attention until he suddenly ap-
peared in England as a mind reader.
His feats were so peculiar and unique
that large audiences followed him where
ever he appeared. though he seems to have
made little money until he went to London.
There his tricks or feats astOnished the
scientific world, while some Of the news
papers accused him of charlatanry. Mr.
LabOuchere especially denounced him as
fraud when Bishop offered to submit to
any remarkable test his accusers might de
eide upon. The result was demand that
he give the numbers on bank note carried
by a gentleman in the audience. This feat
was utNtl IGtilAN uLilCL SttLNNiA' DSStte'@N
Bishop wanted to impose certain conditions
which were not agreed to. He finally be-
gan an action for libel against Mr.. Labou-
chere, but this never came TO trial, and
Bishop returned TO America.
He has given performances IN almost
every city, and has Travelled throughout
Mexico and part of Central America, and
he did many strange feats outside OF ms
regular performances. For instance, drlV-
ing d team of horses through the streets OF
New York in open daylight in search OF
hidden objects though completely blind
folded: and he did the bank note test IN
Boston when he wrote out the correct
figures Is, $40, 1913, which were in the pocket
of Sub Treasurer NJ. p. Kennard, though
the note had not been out of the owners
possession since being received from the
United States treasurer. As an exponent
of the art of mind reading and physiology,
he was known all over the world. As his
conduct was extremely eTratic and eccen-
trio many people considered him partly in
sane.
About 1852 he was married to a young
woman of this city. by whom he had a
daughter, who is still living. This marriage
was never annulled: vet after his return
from Europe he married, in 1886, Ellen G..
Mack, the divorced wife of T. Lord. Their
life proved an unhappy one, for Bishop
was Jealous and irritable and his nervous
temperament led him to do many things
which were strange, if not brutal. 1t is
even said that to obtain relief from pain of
mental efforts he had recourse to cocaine,
the drug only rendering him all the more
uncomfortable. Finally divorce proceedings
We're begun by the second wife, on the
grounds of cruelty. intidelity aud the exist
ance of the first wife. On a decree being
granted, Bishop went travelling through
Mexico and California and ended by marry
ing the mother of his child in order to es-
tablish her legitimacy.
Sensational to the extreme during his
whole career, Bishops death is on a par
with his life since he first achieved motor
ity. 1t is understood that when his cloth
ing was examined after death, nearly two
dollars were found. That he had
an insurance of 1901, 600 on his life for the
benefit of his child is well known. Nothing
will be decided regarding the funeral ar
although the necessary pre-
liminaries have been attended to, until the
widow can be kelrd from.