St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-24

old-faShiOned bureau. The two Halls
and Mr.. Conner ransacked every hole
and corner of the house in search of
the missing instrument without avail.
Mrs. Park knew nothing whatever
about it-wasn't sure that she'd ever
seen it, but knew that deceased had a
will of some kind, without the slightest
one inference. The old man toward the
end had probably relented so far as his
own sisters two boys were concerned,
and, not having certainty that there was
time to have another instrument drafted
and signed. had destroyed the will. thus
diving intestate. Tom and Dick Hall
were thus his natural heirs. Mrs. Fannie
- received Cheshire newspaper con-
tanning the death notice of her step
father, and at once instructed her lawyer
to communicate with Lawyer Connor, of
Chester, in regard to the estate OF the
deceased.
SHE RECEIVED A ORAIAL ANSWER
to the effect that as no will was found
at the demise of the former teStatOr. it
was presumable in law that he had de-
stroyed it. His two nephews, he said,
were the natural heirs, and as such
would, no doubt, be recognized by law.
The lady was incredulouS and diSSatiS-
viction that the old gentleman wOnld
not destroy the will and that in some
way or other there had been foul play.
Yet on being fully informed OF the
circumstances attending the deathDed
there did not seem
STRONG GROUNDS FOR SUSPICION.
A year after Mr.. Lighthouses decease
the two nephews were recognized as
heirs, and the property was divided
equally between them. The household
furniture was sold, the dwelling house
let, and Mrs. Park discharged. She
hired small house in Chester. and, ac-
cording to Lawyer Conner, was fire.
qnently visited by Tom Hall. Mrs.
Fannie -- visited England and saw
both nephews. There was nothing SAID
She spent some time in Paris, and re-
vived some of her former associations
and heard good deal Of the theosOph-
ical society that had recently been eS-
tablished there as we'll as in London.
There she met the Hindoo whom Amer
lea had assisted at the cremation of the
Baron de Palm and at the subsequent
ceremony of casting the illustrious the
oSOphiSt's ashes into the ocean.
She returned to New York in the
early autumn of the same year, and was
surprised to meet the same Hindoo in
New York, where he had come on
mission in connection with the occult
lists of the East. The HindOO inquired
why she desired to see him. and she
told the story of the will, as has already
been told to the reader. The oriental
expert told her, in substance, that he
would make careful examination, and
discover for her what disposition had
been made of the will, and~i it was
still in existence he would procure it for
her. Before he left he asked her where
she should like to have the will placed,
in case he should find it. She named
her writing case. He looked at The case
from where he was standing, but
NEVER APPROACHED OR TOUCHED IT.
AS he took his leave he told her to
look inside at bedtime. At bedtime she
looked inside, and there was damp,
soiled, yellow document will, in
short, just as she had seen it when she
made copy with the signatures Of the
witnesses and testator intact. The doc
ument was sent over to Lawyer Conner,
of Chester, by mail, and it was received
and acknowledged by him as the actual
will he had drawn.
NOW COMES THE MARVELLOUS
the incredible. Lawyer Connor sent
for Mrs. Park, the housekeeper, to come
round to his Office and showed her the
will and she became Semi-hysterical and
said: Lord forgive me! The old man
has come back and told you chat his
will was hidden in his cotfinE' The
woman admitted that she had taken the
will and sewn it in the pillow beneath
the head of the corpse, in order that
Dick, but especially Tom Hall, should
not be disinherited. Proceedings are
said to be in operation in the proper
English courts for a rectificatiOn of the
old mans estate, although some conSld-
cradle portion of it is already diSSl-
pated. The occult
TRANSMISSION OF OBJECTS"
Says an Indian gentleman, at present in
New York, "to a distance IS not magic
in the ordinary sense of the word; but
the forces employed cannot be explained
other than to the initiated. The cur
rents made use of do not convey bodies
transmitted III solid mass just as they
exist for the senses. The body, or
parchment, as in this case. to be trans
mitted is supposed to, be disintegrated-
conveyed on the currents in infinitely
minute particles, and then refrigerated
at it's destination. The intervention
of any amount of matter makes no diff
ference whatever. The resting place
OF the will being discovered by the asst
trail body and eye of the adept, the dis
Indignation process came into play, and
the minute particles would be conveyed
on the current already established. By
OccultatiOn time and distance are both
practically annihilated. Yet the world
will not believe because it is not edu-
Gated up to the high moral and unself-
iSh standard reOuiredn