Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-03-04
MIRACULOUS POWER,


sight reader and conjurer, at Bozeman,
Idaho, In the act of swallowing .
sword, which severed his jugular vein,
and the conjurer bled to death in few
minutes.
Herr Mohat, or Francis Morell, writes
q correspondent of the St. Louis Globe
Democrat, was a resident of st. Louis,
and there his wonderful talent, which
made him the peer Of any and led him
before the crowned heads of Europe
and Asia, was developed. He was
very peculiar boy in youth and was con-
sidered a crank. He lived alone with
his widowed mother, supporting her by
working in q stove factory. His spare
moments he spent in the study of magic,
and the attic Of his humble little home
was transformed into chemical shop.
When he was seven years old one day
he suddenly burst into an uncontroll-
able fit Of laughter. His mother asked
him what pleased him so'much- The
boy replied that he saw his father (who
was then living, but not at home) rum
ming rapidly down the mountain side
trying to overtake a jug of whisky
which he had let fall. The Jug rolled
part of the way down the declivity, but
was caught by the old man before he
got to the bottom. When the father
reached home he confirmed the whole
story TO the great surprise of all. After
this the boy excited much talk in the
neighborhood in which he lived About
two years later the Morells were Wis
tied by a friend named Robert Vinton,
with other relatives and acquaintance
from Philadelphia, who came to test
the lads miraculous power, asked him
various questions, and, among other
things, inquired what was then going
on At his (Vinton's) home in Phila-
delphia.
The boy described the house, which
he had never seen, stated that it was
built partly of brick and partly of
stone, that there was lake in front of
the house, which had recently been
drained, and concluded with a descrip-
ton of the people in the house, and of
two persons, a man and a woman, who
were sitting on the porch.
When Vinton reached his home in
Philadelphia he inquired who had been
at his home at the day and hour he had
held the conversation with young Nor
shower of rain at the time and that the
people who were fishing in the lake had
run to the house to escape the rain. The
persons who were on che porch had
been faithfully described, even to the
color of their hair and eyes. In short,
every detail given by the boy was
proven to be accurate.
He became involved in quarrel once
with young man named Turner. Tur-
ner was to call on young lady, and be-
ing met on his way by the young mind
reader, Morell, who was himself in love
with the same young lady, they spoke
to each other and passed on Young
Moren sat down on a stump and, bow
ing his head, conducted his mind to the
parlor in which his rival and the young
lady were conversing. In the course
Of the young mans call he proposed
and was rejected. This made MoreN
happy. Meeting Turner on the street
next day, he tantalized him about his
rejection by the young lady the night
preceding. Words were exchanged, and
Morell drew pistol, but friends stand
ing by interposed, and no harm came
of the quarrel. But Moren fell into
Incorporate habits and lost his good
name. His habit, when asked TO ex-
crcise his faculty Of second-sight see
ing, was to hold his head downward
after closing his eyes. After waiting
for some time, apparently in deep
thought, he would declare what he saw
in his visions. He was sometimes
found alone in the fields, sitting on a
stump and crying On being asked the
cause of his grief he said he saw great
numbers OF men engaged in killing each
other.
After the war, when ne was about
twenty-tour years Of age, another gen.
tleman from Philadelphia, who had
heard much of him, became interested,
believing him to be possessed of a noble
gift, and exhibited his wonderful power
over the United States, drawing i'm
urense crowds in all the large cities
While in st. Louis, in 1873, he was
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