The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-02
WHO KILLED EMILY I?
The Murderer Described by Mrs.
Baldwin, the White Mahatma.

AT Infantry Hall last evening Q thou
sand people we're first amused and then
mystified by the vaudeville performance
OF the several talented people who ac-
company Professor Baldwin and his wife,
Mrs. Kittie Baldwin, on their entertain
ment tour, and then by the wonderful
exhibition OF mind reading, or whatever
else 1t may be called, on the part OF Mrs.
Baldwin herself.
For an hour or more the audience
laughed at the jokes and songs and
dances, admired the mandolin playing OF
Manuel Lopez, and wondered how the
professor performed the curious cabinet
trick. But while that part OF the show
was good, even above the average, it was
forgotten in the admiration OF what is
new, at least in this city-Rosicrucian
Somnomist.
In the intermission half dozen ushers
had passed about the hall with slips OF
ordinary note paper and every one who
wished took a paper, wrote some question
upon it, signed his or her name and
pocketed the slip. There were
seventy or eighty to try the experiment
and when it was over they were willing
to credit Mrs. Baldwin and her very
genial husband with having earned
the title Of the White Mahat-
mas from their residence among
the Hindoos and investigation Of Orien-
tai mysticism. After the people had
written their questions Mrs. Baldwin did
the rest. She was hypnotized by her hus-
band and then, blindfolded, seated in the
center of the stage. And all this tine
the written questions had been placed I'm
the pockets OF those who wished them
answered and none but themselves
had seen them. But the
hypnotized woman said that she saw q
certain person pronounced his name
told her husband to tell him that so and
so would or would not happen or had al
ready happened as the case might be.
Was there such man in the audience?
There was. He raised his hand. Was
the answer given an appropriate
one to the question concealed in the gen.
tlemsn's pocket. 1t was. Mrs. Baldwin
repeated the question and then the
man gave up his paper and the question
was read aloud, agreeing verbatim with
the statement of the Mahatma.
There was large variety of
questions, some serious, some other
wise. One woman has been incautious
enough to write, where was my husband
last Friday night ? and the answer came
to Mrs. Brown, "your husband was at
Pawtuxet last Friday night playing cards
and he lost s2.15. You thought that he
was somewhere else" The woman
the question, that her name
was Mrs. Brown and that her husband
sometimes went to Pawtuxet. That is all
she said, but Mrs. Baldwin carried it
further. "The man in Pawtuxet is a Sec
ond cousin OF the lady in the audience
and his full name was John Paul Brown"
and her questioner jumped up in her en-
thusiasm and fairly screamed: Yes;
every word OF it's true"
Anot her man, called by name, got for an
answer just the name " Benjamin Harri-
SON." ard on his paper was found the
question, Who will succeed Cleve-
lsnd?" and SO on. There were questions
asked and answered about articles
lost or stolen in this 6nd other cities. At
one time 1t appeared as il q mistake had
been made, and sceptics nudged each
other and smiled, bnt the little incident
turned out the other way and added more
to the wonderment with which the little
woman on the stage was looked upon.
But the sensation Of the evening was
when Mrs. Baldwin began with at is q
gloomy country road at night, / see q
carriage pproaching-there are two occu-
pants, a man and a woman. Both are
dressed in black-she is a dark haired
his companion, short, thick set, has a
tawny moustache, blue eyes and wears
black slouch hat. They quarrel"
The audience was spellbound and every
one thought OF the Scituate murder.
But Mrs. Baldwin continued; she acted
as well as spoke and was on her feet with
a scream of genuine agony as she saw
pistol; there were two shots; he is beat
ing her, and the hypnotized woman fell
to the stage in her maginary struggle.
Then apparently overpowered with
her dramatic portrayal of the
tragedy, she whispered the
word Scltuate and mentioned four
names. Four men, two newspaper re-
porters and two others, answered to their
names and gave up their slips of paper
On each one was the question, "Wno
killed Emily Chambers?"