Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-04-06
\ REMARKABLE CASE.
Molly Fancher of Brooklyn and
Her Wonderful Powers -
C!airysyant Extraordinary.
Can See Her Friends at Distant
Places and Tell What They
are Doing.

N oAiN VI IiiC SotlUI iDuIlOhS W JlIt
psychical science congress at the
Worlds Fair will be an exhaustive
report of the remarkable case of
Molly Fancher, of Brooklyn. Elk
Judge A. Ii. Daley has been requested
by the general committee, of which
Professor Elliott Coues, of the Smith
sonian institution, is chairman, to
prepare the report and he is at work
on it now.
Molly Fancher is probably the best
known psychical freak in the country.
Twenty-Five years ago, when a girl,
she was thrown ftom a Brooklyn
street a and dragged a long distance
before the car could be stopped, her
clothing being caught so that she
could not free herself. Since that
time she has never left her bed except
to be lifted TO another.
From time to time bits Of infcrma-
ton about Molly Fancher's powers
have been made public. Recently she
told her watchers that a physician
who had not see her for two years
was coming down the street and
would call at the house. Two min
utes later the man mentioned walked
up the steps. There was no explain
able reason why she knew he was on
his way to see her outside of her
psychical powers. The watchers
went to the window when she told
them Of the intended visit, but the
physician was not then in sight.
Molly was in her bed as usual.
When Judge Daley called on Molly
and told her he intended to write q
book about her case and asked her
assistance she entered readily into
the spirit of 1t and said she had felt
before that she would be called on
for that purpose. Miss Fancher's
aunt has kept a diary Of her famous
patients life covering many years.
Friends have records of Molly's power
and Judge Daily would be glad to get
hold of all papers bearing on the sub
ject.
Concerning the scope and contents
OF his report Judge Daily says:
Miss Fancher has put herself entire
ly in my hands and is helping me to
the utmost to make a complete record
Of the phenomena which have made
her a case of worldwide interest to
physicians, clergymen, and psychology
lists. The phenomena are physical as
we'll as psychical. She is c~lairvoyant
and clairudient in a remarkable de-
gree. She can see her friends in dis
tant places, and describe accurately
what they are doing. She can tell
color by the sense of touch, and does
all her work by means Of this sense.
Her clairvoyance and clairudience are
only apparent when she is in the
trance state. At certain times she is
only cognizant Of certain facts in her
life and oblivious Of all o~thers-that
is a curious matter. She has also the
remarkable power of sensing things
about to occur and announcing them.
She is in a bad condition now, worse
than usual. The spasms of her heart
are more violent. She has not recov-
cred from the shock Of her brothers
vi3'ent death. Molly knew he was
killed the moment his name was men,
toned, and shrieked and went into
commissions. The heart action pro-
duccs a strong throbbing of the body,
which is violent and disturbing.
| begin my book with Molly's child
hood, describing her temperament
and disposition. An interesting per-
iod in the first few months after the
terrible accident which crippled her
physically and developed her so
strongly psychically. For days she
bent like a hoop, with her face to her
toes, then back the other way, with
heels to the back OF her head. Then
she would suddenly spring from her
bed and struggle to run away. There
were months when relays of fourteen
people were on hand night and day TO
retain her. 1t took six people to
hold her. There were marvellous
things that happened at that time.
l will quote many independent wit
nesses concerning the phenomena.
Some of them are physicians, some
lawyers, some unprofessional citizens.
Some Of them are members OF the
Baptist church of which Molly is a
member, and who are not in any way
identified with spiritualism.
On Sunday afternoon, March 10, an
exhausted carrier pigeon lit upon a
fence at the back OF Rev. f. Z.
Fellows house, on Otis street,
Norwich, Conn. Next day it was
found on the ground dead. Upon the
pigeons leg was an aluminium band
marked: IN 1861 The bird was
found, on examination, TO have died
from starvation. 1t is said there
were carrier pigeons on the missing