The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-16
W. IRVING BISHOPS DEATH.
The Mind Readers Last Trick Ends
Fatally.
From, the Nelc York Time,


From, the Nelc York Times
Tho circumstances OF Washington r.
wing Bishops death are very peculiar. On
sunday night the Lambs INDUCED in their
regular monthly 'gambol,n and for the first
+ir1e departed from their custom Of excud-
ING invited guests. The result was that
Mr. Bishop was present as the guest OF
He ry E. Dixey.
CLAY NJ Green, the dramatic author, pre-
s;ded over the festivities, and late in the
evening, or rather early in the morning,
called on Mr. Bishop 30 entertain the COM
nany with an exhibition OF his mind-read-
ing powers. The mind reader readily
acGuietced, and performed what is known
&c the dagger trick, with Louis Aid ich
ss the subject. He then offered to write
any word that any gentleman present would
think of. Mr. Greene volunteered as the
subject and thought Of the name Clown
send. y" which ne remembered to have seen
in the club regi itsr. Bishop, who was
the way down stairs to where the Register
was kept, opened the book, pacsd his fin-
gers on the name, aud leading Greene back
TO the entertainment room, called for
nencll and paper and wrote the name back
ward. After performing this feat Bishop
seemed greatly exhausted. He sank into
chair. and after little while his eyes rolled,
seeming unconscious DR.. John A.
Irwin, who was present, examined Bishop
and declared that he was sutfe ing from an
attack of catalepsy. A majority of the
peopls present, however, disbslieved this,
+ mixing that Bishops actions were only a
part Of bis tricks.
After working with Bishop for several
minu rs Dr. Irwin succeeded in bringing
him around to a sensible condition The
experiment so successful ly performed by
Bishop created much d scussion, and many
of the Lambs refused to believe t1at it had
been done wit out col usion. THIS seemed
to nettls Bishop and ne offered to repeat the
experime t with any other subjeeO that
could be chosen. The new subject proved
TO be more difficult than Mr.. Greene had
been but the expeI inent was repeated with
substantial success. The effort, however,
was much more severe on his ply icsl force,
and he agail yielded to the strain and sue
cumbed to another attack Of catalepsy.
Tn was worse tnan the first d continued
fer longer time 1t was followed by
anot or and another, DR.. Irwin aud certain
members Of the Lambs club never
rellnQui5 hing their attention or their eff )rts
to relieve Bish; p's distress II was about
$50 O'Clock a. m. when Bishop was seized
with the second attack, and no noticeable
change took place in his condition until
ab ut II O'clock, when Dr. II gin expressed
The faY orable mpt ms were short-live1,
however for Bishop soon rolapsed, and at
l2:l0 o'clock, p. ~. the physician pro-
nouncsd him dead. Electricalb a teries had
been applet to the sick man, but to no pur-
pose. The news of his dea spread rapidly,
and many parsons who knew Bisa4p pooh
poohed the idea thai he y as dead, declaring
that the fit or ira cs was only part IF is
trick. One man insls ed that he had seen
the mind reader apparently dead at least
twenty times.
Bishop had como to New York from
Philadelphia Sunday for tae purpose of
meeting Jules Levy, the cornetis at noon
yesterday to sign contract whereby they
were to star together next season as the
monarch of mystery and melody form
Of advertisement suggested BY John G.
Richie, who has been managing Bishops
entertainments for the past two m pnths,
and who was with Bish p at the Lambs
Club. The mind reader died just at the
time set for signing his bust ess contract.
B shops wife and mother reside in Phla-
delphia, and they vera there when he died,
although they hal been notified by tels-
crap of his illness AID had responded that
they would come on to New York imms-
dately. When it was known that Bishop
was dead his advance agent Augustus
Tn mas, va, sent GA to meet the mother
and wife nd break the ne rs t them. The
body had meantime, been rem wed to an
undertaking establishment in Sixth avenue.
Il is rot vet known what disposition will be
mad of the body,
Warrington Irving Bishop was Dor in
New York, and at the time of his death
was about Al years Of aga. He was at one
time a clerk il Hudnut's drug store, and
was wont @ claim tina he was educated at
Htrvafd University. His first public az
pearalce was made in 1855, when he was
connected with Anna Eva Fay, who gave
seances in Tweuty-six u street in this CT Y.
Bishop was Anna Z 4 Fay's busin sss man
Ger and assis ant, and it was fro her he
first gal ed the knowle ige wlic hs put to
such effective use afterward. After 1876
lie had some difficulty Wi Fay, and. Sc
arati from her, went into the business for
himself He posed while as an expOser Of
spritualsm, and then went t. England,
whe he attracted considerable attention in
1871. Two years later he got into his cee-
brsted controversy with Henry l. -bouchere,
member of parliament and editor Of
Lhnd Truth, aud succeeded in gain
ing world wide advertisement,
Which be urned to great fiaanci i benefit
he subsequently travele all over the
world d gave his exhibitions of mind
rea1mg before most OF the crowned head
Il Oh Eu ops lie returned to America a few
years ag' and continued TO i've his enter
H talnments here, always seeking notoriety
and apparently enjoying it. He has re-
Gently been conspicuous by reason of his
martial eccentricitiss and intellect Tics, which
We're freely aired in the Sensational press
nc was married four times, his domestic
NE being made up la gely Of divorces and
Ielna riages, his last wife beisg married
II t"lce by HIM, the seco j ceremony havi
D D-eh performed osly a short time ago
DlsheP was an exceedingly entertaining
cehVersatlonalist and \ man OF consider
40 culture, but his &c rentricltios hal long
81 ehsehuered the suspicion that he was in
sane de was at one time placed in a mad
house IN California, but it is alleged that
nis mp lsonment was only the part of
piah invented by himself to escape carrying
guy contract to go 10 Australia under the
management OF NJ. B. Lsavitt He subse-
81 qle,tly escaped from the asylum and went
honolulu. de remained there but a
suoIO Une, however. aud r turned to Amer
ia 70 renew bis exhibitions Of hypnotism
8 lnu hls peculiar methods Of advertising In
Fl Ia'e. years be pretended not TO know how
. ~ uIa his tricks, but strenuously denied
..a' VAey were tricks. He claimed to pos
s rare power that he could not himself
cue stand. He leaves c daughter by his
nr't marriage.
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