, 1891-05-19
He CALLED The TURN.
Judge GrOesbeck BlushiEgIy Ac-
knnwledged the Corn.
Some Startling Information Obtain
ed in a Very Ordinary Way.
A SpiritualistiC Fakir Discovered at
His FraudfuI Tricks.

Your name is Groesbeck. You are
chief justice of the state ADD you are 60
ing to be married soon"
This was the information, supplemented
with the name of the lady in question,
which greeted Judge Groesbeck as he en-
tered the room of a ~spiritualistic fakir in
one OF the city hotels Yesterday. The
medium luxuriates in the name of Prof.
Schlesinger, He is a well fed individual
with a full gray beard OF imposing length.
As he had just come from Laramie and he
had a letter Of introduction to Judge
Groesbeck from one of the %latter's legal
friends in that town, the information
which he vouchsaied could scarcely be
considered in the light OF a revelation, al
though it was rather startling to those
who were neither acquainted with the
mediums Laramie visit or the judges
tender p%reoccupatlon.
A party Of three gentlemen called
for a seance last evening, One of them
is somewhat inclined to spiritualism while
the other two are doubling Thomases
from away back. These two kept four
very sharp eyes fixed on the professors
movements They paid g 80 apiece for
the privilege Of conyersing with the
spirits and were determined to get their
moneys worth. They distinctly caught
the professor marking three written slips
of paper containing names and demanded
their money back. He made a few
objections but seeing that their roar was
in earnest he went down IN his pocket and
gave back the money.
A few minutes afterwards a LEADER
reporter with a party of friends were IN
taking a seance. The professor pretaced
his exhibition by saying he vas somewhat
out Of order as he had a hard party in a
few minutes before and was unnerved,
but would do the best he could. He first
takes a piece Of note paper, draws say six
lines across. and then asks someone to
write down several rames, say four of
persons known to be living and two OF
persons known to be dead. He then
cuts the papers into strips, each strip hay-
ing on 1t a name, then folds them up,
throws the folded papers into a hat, asks
the investigator to keep it 80 he can't look
into it, then to hand him one piece at the
time underneath the table where he will
feel of it If the spirits rap he will tell
that it is the name Of a dead person and
will spell the name out for you aud gem
orally gets the name spelled right.
This IS an old trick, something which
anyone can do who has a good memory
and a delicate touch, The professor be-.
fore folding the strips Of paper makes a
delicate mark with his finger nail, and re-
m%embering the name and how to spell it,
can tell you which one it is. When 1t
comes to telling the names of the dead
ones from the living, he wants several
trials and if he don't succeed the first time
is willing to try again, asking each time if
some one of the papers does not contain
the name of the dead person. BY that
means he finds out which slips have the
m Of the living on .hem and then
knows that the other two must contain the
names of the dead people. The reporter
has the habit OF making a capital P which
might look to some spirits like an + and
the professor in reading some OF the
names written always made the mistake
OF calling the letter P an +.
Another test he gives is to to tell the
maiden name Of your mother. The same
plan of writing the names on paper is FOL
lowed, only this time the professor does
the writing. He can usually get the
right rame by the information of the iuyes-
tigators voice in |pronouncing his mother 5
name.
He seemed to have it in for the report
er especially and was willing to convert
him, so had his aiding spirit, who was
present indite the following letter in
spirit writing:
My brother il You will sit in your own
room, a lew days alone, you will receive
evidence of this great truth through your
own instrumentaiity. GUIDE.
The letter is written in a reversed hand
and cannot he read without turning it over
and holding it toward the light or by
means of a looking glass.
The professor can probably do better
but his success yesterday was not always
marvellous even ifhe is considered as a
pure fakir who is Obliged to worry along
without the powerful aid OF spirits.