Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-01
WANTS TO BE BURIED.
MIND READER TYNDALL EXPRESS
ES SUCH A WISH.
The Result of the Carriage Drive ''Test'
Made Yesterday-He Simply Repeats
Bishops Performance-Want to Imi-
tate East Indian Fakirs.

| Alexander j. McIver Tyndall, the
mind-reader, yesterday morning per
formed the carriage feat in the same
manner in which it was performed by
the late Mr.. Bishop. On Saturday aft
ernoon W. A. Spading and w. G. Miller,
two members of the committee ap-
pointed to superintend the experiment,
hid a small silver match-safe in an oys-
ter-stall of the Broadway market.
Yesterday morning at IL O'Clock the
committee, including Messrs. Spalding,
Bennett, Miller, DR.. Bryant and two
others, repaired to the Hollenbeck ho-
tel. For preliminary sample of Mr..
TyndalPs peculiar power, knife was
hid in crack Of the brick wall surround
ing the court back of the hotel, and the
mind-reader, taking Mr.. Spalding's
hand, found the article without diff
Guilty, although he had been most care
fully blindiolded.
The committee, together with Mr..
Tyndall, then descended to the street,
where carriage was in waiting. The
mind-reader had again been securely
blindfolded, and with Mr.. Spalding
mounted the drivers seat, while the
rest of the committee occupied the body
of the vehicle. Spalding placed his
hand on Tyndall's forehead, concen-
trated his thoughts upon the article
which had been hidden in the market,
and the drive began. Tyndall had
taken the reins and the whip, and as
soon as he had thoroughly established
communication between himself and
his subject, he struck the horses sharp
blow and started down Spring street at
sharp trot At Fourth street be got
off his course and turned down
to Main at gallop. Narrowly missing
the curb at the corner, he turned down
Main, and. with the horse still on the
jump and the occupants of the carriage
extremely nervous, he drove up Fifth
street to Broadway, down Broadway to
Sixth. up Sixth to Hill, and down Hill
street around old st. Vincent's college
to the rear of the market. A door had
been left open to admit the party.
The mind-reader stopped the team,
and, almost dragging Mr.. Spalding by
the hand. rushed by three or four
doors, entered the one that was open,
ran up to an ice-box, reached to the top
of it behind lot of rubbish, and
placed his hand on a pasteboard box,
which he lifted down. The match box
had been hidden in this box.
The whole length of time occupied
from the departure from the Hollen-
beck until the finding of the hidden
article was less than twenty minutes.
Tyndall himself is mysti6ed by his
curious power, his possession of which
he discovered by accident several years
ago. He was invited to take part in a
game which consisted of a number of
persons agreeing to concentrate all their
strength upon a certain purpose and
thereby cause an uninitiated individ-
ual to perform certain acts. Tyndall
thus found that he had no
difficulty in reading the thoughts
of anyone in the assembly He has
since then developed this popularity of
his nervous organization until he has at
tanned almost perfection. His experi-
ments. or rather exhibitions, have a
strangely exhausting effect upon him,
and he has, like Bishop, frequently lain
in cataleptic state for hours after one
of them. In conversation after yes
terday's effort, he became interested in
discussion of the fact that some East
Indian fakirs have shown their ability
to suspend animation for a long
time and come to life again after
ward as though nothing had
happened. Mr.. Tyndall, with strange
enthusiasm, expressed desire to be
buried while IN cataleptic fit, in order
to find out how long this suspension of
animation might endure.
1t is not apparent that Mr.. Tyndall
does anything but what was accom-
plished some years ago by Bishop. 1t
may be conceded that he is possessed of
peculiar power, but he evidently knows
as little about the principles or purpose
of this power as does anyone else.