The Press., 1894-01-18
DRIVES BLINDFOLDED THROUGH
 NEW HAVEN.

Andrew J. Seymour, the mind reader, while in New Haven recently, successful | ly performed the so-called ''London drive" feat, which was made famous by the late
 Washington Irving Bishop.
 The drive was announced to start from l the Register" office at II o'clock. About | fifteen minutes before that hour, Mr. Sey- mour and his manager, H. l.. Leavitt, drove up to the office in an open barouche drawn by neatly groomed pair of white horses. In a few seconds crowd of be- tween 1000 and 2,00O people collected, al- most blocking up the street. Mr. Sey- mour and Manager Leavitt went into the business office of the Register" and were introduced to a number of newspaper men present. A committee consisting of one representative from each of the daily papers was selected at random, and at MT. Seymours request retired with him into a small room in the rear of the office, where it would be quieter, so MT. Sey- mour said MT. Seymour took the chair he had been sitting in with him, and after placing it on the floor said:
 "Now, gentlemen, am going to make few preliminary tests with you. I de- sire one of you to think of some scar on your body, then whisper the location of it to some one of the party and I will try to locate the scar.'
 MT. Seymour's directions were follow ed, and one of the party having thought of a scar on his left finger and having whispered it's location to the man beside him, sat down in the chair. Mr. Seymour having blindfolded himself seized the left hand of the subject in his right hand and placed his left hand on the back of his neck. His left hand moved convulsively over the subjects body several times, and then he announced the exact location of that scar He tried this feat with two others of the party, locating scar exact ly with one of them and coming about four inches from the place with the other These facts having been performed, MT. Seymour informed the members of the committee that they were free to carry out the next step in the test. According ly leaving one of their number in the room with him. the other five left the building and seated themselves in the barouche The driver was instructed to go up thro' Grown to Church street, but it was not until Church street was reached that the committee decided on place to hide the article. The driver was directed to the police building in Court street, and on ar irving there the committee went inside and asked permission of Captain Wrinn to use that place as a receptacle for the article to be hid. Captain Wrinn oblig- ingly allowed the committee to choose any spot i'll the building, and it was &C., cordingly decided to hide bunch of keys in cell No. II, on the lower tier in the womans ward, then vacant, of the lock- up, On arriving at the cell one of the committee placed the keys in the iron framework of the ventilator in the upper part of the rear wall of the cell. Then the door of the cell and the outer door of the lookup were locked, but the keys were allowed to remain in the locks,
 The committee re-entered the carriage and were driven back to the Register" office. The bis crowd was still standing out in front of the building patiently awaiting developments.
 The committee were again closeted with Mr. Seymour in the rear room, and here he produced two small pieces of black canvas cloth on one of which was painted in white the letters of the alpha bet, and on the other the figures 1, 3, 8, 4, etc., up to 100. Blindfolding himself again he asked one of the committee to think intently of the name of the article hidden and how it was spelled and then grasp his wrist firmly. These instruc- tions being followed out Mir. Seymour moved his hand rapidly over the cloth and announced that the name of the arti- cle hidden was ''keys." In the same way he informed the committee that the arti- cle was hidden in Court street.