The evening world., 1894-01-06

According to his cards this person Is
ALEX. j. McIvor Tyndall. the Thought
Reader. OF The Lilacs." Market Har-
borough. Leicestershire. England" He
prefers, however. to be known as a hyp- |
notist. and disclaims any close relation
ship to Prof. John Tyndall, the late
British scientist.
The surviving Prof. Tyndall Is tall of
stature. SHINY built, wears a small
black mustache. incipient goatee of the
same hue. Henry Irving locks. shiny
silk hat and a diamond stud. He ar
rived In New York yesterday and put
up at the Aston House.
The Professors avowed purpose in re-
turning to his native heath, after a two
years %soJourn In America IL to rescue
Mrs. Maybrick from Working prison.
where she Is serving II life sentence for
the alleged poisoning OF her husband.
An Evening World' reporter, who
talked with the Professor this morning,
however. gained the Impression hat the
hypnotist's hasty departure was due TO
the threats OF an alleged murderer.
whom he tried TO hypnotic In Sacra-
mento and who threatened to 'hypno.
tize' the Professor with his fists should
he ever get free. He IL now free.
The Professor admits that he IL fright
ened. and this may account for his offer
Ing to have himself buried alive for
thirty days in Chicago shortly before the
big Fair closed. an offer which was
spurned by the Fair management and
the Professor threatened by the uncul-
tured Chicago police. 4
1t Is fortunate for the New York sa-
loon-keepers, however, that the Professor
sails to-day. for. II he Is to be believed.
at beer prices. the barkeeper uncon-
sciously setting up Mumm's instead OF
Ehret's while under the Professors hyp-
motto influence. This tip should be
posted over every bar, however. as Prof.
Tyndall announces that he Will return
In three or four months and throw, one
or two spells over Manhattan Island.
SO far the Professor has operated al
most exclusively in the West, where he
- regarded as a hypnotic hustler OF the
first water-or champagne. az 1t were.
detection or crime was IN Los Angeles,
CAL. where he declares he made a sneak
thief named Dawson believe he was talk
to a detective. Dawson told where he
hid his booty. explained the hitherto mys-
terlous Santa Monica Post-Ottice rob
b~ery--and got seven years. The Professor
got the thanks OF the police and the pop
ulace.
He next proved an alibi for u tramp
accused OF the kio Dista, Cal, murder.
Up to this time he had operated on sub
jects willy nilly." but the threat OF the
accused Sacramento murderer. whose
name he has forgotten. put II stop to this
line OF action.
II had been posing as the fellows law
J yer said the Professor, and when he
threatened me confess that was fright
ened. l asked the Judge II there was
any chance OF the mans being set free.
Ihe replied: on. no; we've too much
wards. however, that he was set free. and
| have since been quite nervous"
The Professor then went further East.
Before he left San Francisco. however,
l M GnNA ha NNI0 I.s IL I'D a.nl
ciammy for seven days. He had over
worked his 'hypnotometer" by driving,
while blindfolded. two horses and IA
coach about the town. Police Surgeon
Williams wanted to cut him up and
examine his brain. but his friends inter
fered.. The Professor recovered and re-
sumed reading minds, freeing and con-
victing criminals, cracking safes and the
r like.
, lie cracked a safe In Seattle. hypnoti.
. callv, of course, not burglariously. and
him and the men with him., who had bet
he could not do 1t. In st. Louis he
Brown stock-yard murder in Chicago.
The papers there printed columns about
I him.
lie has been thought dead .several
times. because OF his habit of going
, into frances, and wanted to trance foI
i thirty days In Chicago as a Midway Plat
] sance feature. but was not permitted to
, But his browning act was in Butte,
Mont. where he went into Reilly's sa
! loon with II newspaper man 10 generous
r ly buy the latter "A beer. Reilly put NJ
two bottles of Gambrinus tonic. when
the Professor transfiAed him with u S
\ stare ana Missed:
THAT'S not beer. The beer Is In thos,
bottles pointing to u case OF
The wretched sa~loon-ke"per helplesslS
put out u quart bottle. which the Pro
fessor and reporter dignifiedly drank
Next day Reilly was with difficulty per
! suaded from betting 500 that he hadn'
! been imposed upon. or. II he had. that Ia
c couldn't be- again.
That's the Professors story, but Rel
ly's friends say the whole thing had beer
" fixed beforehand.
Prof. Tyndall believes he possessed hi
4 powers AT birth. but, like II dutiful child
Q he didn't take II mean advantage owe
his parents with them. In fact he dldn'
know he was u hypnotist until he wa
: eighteen, when he operated ON some U
n the patients OF his father. who Is II ply
= stefan,
lie is IA theosophist. he says. and 1
- afraid that on his return to earth hi
II mental being may get into the wronl
system. He Interestingly remarks tina
when IA lunatic's brain Is examined, II /
= Invariably found to nave deteriorated
. which shows hat something physical ma
- interfercd with his mental powers.
The Professor believes that he can IRE
! Mrs. Maybrick II she will consent q
r come under his influence. Murderer Or
70 Thatcher Graves and Train Robbie
/" Dlnk' Wilson resisted him. Dr. Gravei
"a -l,.,1, aft.rNyur tIa snnlmiItpl suicide.