The evening world., 1894-01-06

Alex. ]. 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
British scientist
The surviving Prof. Tyndall Is tall OF
stature. slimly built. wears a small
black mustache. incipient goatee OF the
same hue. Henry Irving locks. shiny
silk hat and diamond stud He ar
rived in New York yesterday and put
up at the Astor House.
The Professors avowed purpose In re-
turning to his native heath. after a two
years sojourn In America Is to rescue
Mrs. Maybrck from Woking prison.
where she Is serving a life sentence for
the alleged poisoning OF her husband.
An Evening World" reporter. who
talked with the Professor this morning.
however gained the impression that the
hypnot!st's hasty departure was due to
the threats of an alleged murderer.
whom he tried to hypnotize in Sacra-
mento and who threatened to "hypno;,
tize' the Professor with his fists should
he ever get free. He Is now free.
The Professor admits that he is 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.
II Is fortunate for the New York sa-
oon-keepers. however, that the Professor
sails to-day, for, II he Is to be believed.
he has a habit OF drinking champagne
at beer prices. the barkeeper uncon-
sciously setting up Mumm's instead OF
Ehrets while under the Professors hyp-
notic influence. This tip should be
| 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
Is regarded as a hypnotic hustler OF the
first water-or champagne. as 1t were.
III, His i,rs, application Of hypnotism to the
Cal. where he declares he made sneak.
thief named Dawson believe he was talk
ing to his pal. George Wilson, instead OF
t. detective Dawson told where he
hid his booty. explained the hitherto mys-
ter!ous Santa Monica Post Office rob-
bery-and got seven years. The Professor
got the thanks Of the police ana the pop
| ulacc.
He next proved an aIibi for tramp
| Up to this time he had operated on sub
1ects willy nilly." but the threat of the
|
name he has forgotten, put stop to this
line Of action.
II had been posing as the fellows law
threatened me confess that ] was fright
ened. | asked the Judge II there was
any chance Of the mans being set free.
EVIDENCE aEsns mo- Teye no9 9,s mssh
wards. however, that he was set free. and
have since been quite nervous"
The Professor then went further East.
| 10 n Co
he says he was unconscious, cold and
clammy for seven days. He had over
worked his "hypnotometer" by driving.
coach about the ,own T Polise 9nseS sarseon ans
Williams wanted to cut him up. and
examine exam ri his brain. but his friends inter
sumed reading minds. freeing and con
like.
He cracked safe in Seattle. hypnoti-
new roundsman on the force arrested
him and the men with him, who had bet
he could not do It, In ST. Louis he
proved innocent a man arrested for the
| Brown stock-yard murder In Chicago.
The papers there printed columns about
him
lie has been thought dead several
times. because of his habit of going
into frances, and wanted to trance for
thirty days in Chicago as a Midway Plai,
sance feature, but was not permitted to-
! But MS CTOWnlnH act was IN Butte,
| Mont, where he went into Rcillys sa :
loon with a newspaper man to generous
| ly buy the latter a beer. Reilly put IN
two bottles OF Gambrinus tonic when
the Professor transhXed him with s.
stare and hissed:
That's not beer. The beer is in those
bottles pointing TO case of Mumm s
The wretched saloon-keepcr helplessly
put out n quart bottle, which the Pro
fessor and reporter digniiiedly drank
Next day Reilly was with difficulty per,
suaded from betting 800 that he hadn't
been imposed upon. or. II he had, that he
couldn't be again.
That's the Professors story, but Reil-
ly's friends say the whole thing had been
| " hxcd'' beforehand.
Prof Tyndall believes he possessed his
powers at birth, but, like a dutiful child
he didn't take a mean advantage over
his parents with them. In fact he didn't
know he was II hypnotist until he was
the patients OF his father, who is ply
siCian.
lie is thCosophist. he says, and is
mental being may get into the wrong
system. lie interestingly remarks that
when unatic's brain is examined. II is
Invariably found to have deteriorated
which shows that something physical has
! interfered with his mental powers.
The Professor believes that he can free
| Mrs Maybrick II she will consent tC
come under his influence. Murderer Dr.
| Thatcher Graves and Train Robber
|" Dink" Wilson resisted him. Dr. Graves
! .b,,,iy nft rnInmittP cd suicide