Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-09
PsxoHoLoG1oAL TESTS.

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 PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS. Wonderful Periormances by Mind.
 Reader Andrew J. Seymour-Found the Keys in Cell l in the Lock-Up.
 The Safe at F. M. Brown & Co.'S.
 Another wonderful exhibition of mind reading was given by Andrew J. Seymour, the phyehologist yesterday. The feat per- formed was the s'London drive," which was made famous by the late Washington Irving Bishop. The drive was announced to 30 from the Register office at Il o'clock. About fifteen minutes before that hour Ar. Seymour and his manager Ar. Leavitt drove up before the Register building and very soon acrowd of fully 1000 people was collected. Mr. Seymour went into the business office where he was introduced to representatives from each of the daily newspapers. After retiring to another room he requested one of the gentlemen to think of some scar on his body. This WAS done. MT. Seymour then blindfolded him self and 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, with good success.
 After this, leaving one of their nfnber in tho room with MT. Seymour, the others went out and seated themselves in the barouche and ordered the driver to drive ap Grown to Church street. It was not until they arrived at Church street that they decided where to hide the object. It was then decided to hide bunch of keys somewhere in the police building. So they drove over to Court street and secreted the keys in cell Il. When they were coming out someone suggested that the building had no number. Someone elte said that 1t should be 15o. It was necessary that they think of some number in order that he could read 1t in the mind of the subject. The committee were then driven back to the Register building. They were again clossted with MT. Seymour and he produced two pieces of black canvas on which were painted the numbers 1, 3. 3, 4, etc., up to 100. Blindfolding himself again he asked one of the committee to think in tently of the name of the article hidden
 
 wrist firmly. These instructions being fol- lowed out MT. Seymour moved his hand rapidly over the cloth and announced that the name of the article hidden was t'keys." In the same way he informed the commit tee that the article was hidden in Court street.
 8. Then another member of the committee seized him by the wrist in the same man. ner as before, and MT. Seymour, producing the piece of canvas on which the figures were painted, announced that the number of the building was 159, and the number of the room or receptacle in which the ar- for him to get the right 'impression' as he termed 1t, of the latter number. Twice he made 1t out ss Ill, but on being in- formed he was in error tried 1t @ third time and announced number II.
 He then entered the barouche and drove up to Grown, to Church, to George, to Temple, to Chapel, to Court. when he went l into the building and found the ksys in 6 very short time.
 In the afternoon he gave another e1hibi- ton of his power at F. M. Brown & Go E.. A wager had been made that MT. Seymour ! could hot give the combination numbers of | the safe of the company, and the time set ! for the trial was 2:30 o'clock. The store was thronged with people who were de- 1 sirous of seeing the test. MT. Seymour | announced that he wished to forego the l opening of the safe as 1t would require l some time and he did not feel equal to the occasion owing to the severe test that he had undergone in the morning. The firm | selected certain given numbers to repre- | sent combination and MT. Seymour of fered to find what the numbers specified were.
 With that he spread down on a table before him 8 canvas having 8 large nun ber of numbers and numerals on, also the
 words fright" and Cleft" Edward Field
 the bookkeeper, was called upon as tn, subject. The latter kept his eyes on th, canvas and thought intently of the giver combination.
 Mr. Seymour, taking hold of his hand
 soon marked the first number of the com
 bination down on pad, and continuing
 the process; and in half sn hour correct
 ly gave the combination selected for tn
 test and the number and direction of tn i requisite turns or revolutions, viz., 40, 90
 20, turn to the left four times, to th
 right three times and to the left again tw | times.
 This combination was pronounced to b , correct by both Mir. Field, MT. Haynes an MT. Brown, and amid the expressions c ) wondermsnt MT. Seymour left the build ing.
 THE EVENINGS PERFORMANCE. A good-sizsd audience greeted Andrew Seymour, the mind-reader, last night at tn Hyperion theater. A committee compose of Attorney Harry W. Asher, Attorney Good hart, W. Miller, chairman, George Hughes Dr. Meyers, Henry Hillmsn and Colone Lee were asked to act as judges, After
 few preliminary remarks MT. Seymou made his first test He left the room an William Neely was called to the stage He placed an article in the hands of M,
 William Weaver of the Morning News who was seated few rows up from tn
 orchsstrs. MT. Seymour then came O,
 the stage blindfolded. and graspipg M, other on the back of his neck b
 led him to MT. Weaver and found the arti
 cle. His next feat was som mewhat of detective test. He took kni @ and gay
 it to Attorney Goodhart, with the instruo tion that he pretend to stab some ore, az,
 then hide the knife. After this had be done he led Attorney Goodhart all ove , the theater and finally gave up and aske ] for another subject. MT. Weaver consent
 cd to act and the knife was found. H
 then proposed to find the person and tn | DAooo "ACAo AO ANu OooA pIotouOc0A
 stabbed. Attorney Goodhsrt again scte'
 as the subject, but for some reason b. could accomplish nothing with him. E
 finally found the person and the finee
 which had been in pretenee stabbed, witt
 the aid of Mr. Weaver. He next aske,
 a lady to think of the initial
 of her mothers maiden name. H
 read in her mind that they wer
 "M. A.," which was correct. He followe,
 with "hammer and nail" teat, which con
 sists of making mark in the room some
 where and then the mind reader driving
 nail in 1t. This he accomplished. He gav
 other tests which were equally interesting
 He insisted on having perfect order fl
 the house during his performance. On
 student was foolish enough to keep "cluck
 ing" and he called down upon his owl
 head the severe censure of MT. Seymour.
 MT. Seymour did not seem to be rapid ii
 his performance as he had been heretofore
 and he made the remark that his tests hat
 not taken him so long in twelve years.
 IN sOUTHlNGTON. The Annual Town Meeting. SoUTHINGToN, Jan. S.-The annual tow
 meeting was held here to day, at which tn