The sun., 1895-05-10
CLUES BY CLAIRVOYANTS.
sEARCHERs FOR sTUMPs's BoDF
STILL HhVE LOTS OF FAITH.
Dreams Now Comine 60 the Ala OF the
Secrs-Many Pools Dragged. and n Search
for . Hole that ls Filled With LeaNcp.

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| Secrs-Many Pools Dragged. and a Search
for Hole that 1s Filled with Leaves.
Interest In Perth Amboy 10 now centred on the
whirlpool in the Rarltan River. The two fac
| tons into which the searchers for the body Of
| Joseph Stumps have separated are keeping n
| sharp lookout from diverse motives The clair
| voyant party hope that the body won't be found
| In the whirlpool Tho anti-clairvoyants hope II
| will. Tho believers, II the body does not come
| up by to-day, which is tho ninth day. on which
all drowned bodies are supposed to reap
pear. will hold that their case has been
| triumphantly proven, and that the clairvoyants
| who declared the body to be buried In q deep
hole with weights on IL, are entirely correct the
| reading of this weird soothsaying being that
| either the old man is in hole In the ground or
| Is held down at the bottom of the whirlpool by
| the aforementioned weights. AS for the advice
| Of the last cairvoyant consulted, that q jar Of
| slaked lime should be lowered in the whirlpool
In order that its explosion might cause the body
| to rise to the surface the faithful explain its
| failure In the words Of Duncan Currie. who
| downcd the skeptics by saying:
THE idea was all right, but the lime was no
good. always knew you couldn't get any de-
cent lime in Perth Amboy."
Many, however. believe that the body Is not in
the water. and their interest in the river, while
as lively ever. is now purely negative. Led
rie, they have been still further engaged in ex-
tensive, II somewhat spasmodic. excavation.
One OF tho family Of tho Watson who owned
Watson's brick works. where old Mr..
Stumps once worked, and where he was
seen the day Of his disappearance, started a
report that somewhere on the grounds about tho
deserted factory, he thought in ono of the small
pools. was deep we'll. This report reused tho
clairvoyant party to pitch of wild excitement.
III in he n diato ~
factory had been dragged. but back further
were some more. Ford and Carter. leading
party of the faithful took graphing iron to the
pool and proceeded to drag 1t with great care in
| all directions. In the middle the water is as
much "a eight inches deep. so that It is reason
able to that had shS body been the
Try II once more" no said 70 Carter, who
that the old man Is there. If that graphing iron
San wants tn to sink d1wn don't you stop it. Let it
''I hut the work was unproductive. and even the
| lndefatigable Ford was forced to admit that the
in and 3hsF hs e0H h. e the
those. Then. q fair trial having been made Of
%ses Ss must not e, our
selves be discouraged. We know that those
whose eyes see beyond the I seil of material ,es
ind the body tell lllS you ai i makes me @ mad to o
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damned fools in this town yet who don't believe
| in the wonders of clairvoyance, and even make
want wa, volunteers. There's pond back Of here .
that's got TO- to be dragged: and there's Gregorys
over. over. III 60 there. and want some Of y You nj to
follow me- The rest can drag the pond. !
s aS 'hhpysss Sa
clairvoyant spoke Of"
Tho party separated half going to the pond.
| which they dragged with a net result OF one de-
ceased cat and some waterloERed underbrush.
The other party had some good hard work;
with old lumber Of all kinds to a depth Of from
four to six feet. 4 dozen men at hard labor for
Ford's faithfuls, after two hours at it. gave up;
and went away with their hearts still! Allied
and 1t1 their full shO of
yard arc the remains, OF the hulk Of
the Se
that hulk. The fact that nothing less than /.
charge of dynamite a steam derrick could
stir the old ship enough for anything to get un-
der It didn't make much difference. Evidently
mite cartridge Ford would blow up the wreck
went on to dig up brick Allied well which bore
| to their splinter collection.
party because Of his utter disbelief in the super
ic part Of the affair with rdicule, arrived on the
scene. and. remarking that he had something
letter from a ' man named seymour asserting
that he was combination mind reader. clair
voyant, and mesmerist. This was tho letter.
ms'Iss ,sa, ,ssosy h +:
ease ca" &C. Respecfy eA'A anu AspsEw
Upon hearing this the man who had propound-
ed the wrecked steamboat theory held O little
jubilee OF Joy right there and some OF the others
veered to his opinion; Carter and Ford, how
underground: a few boats put out and did
some more dragging and the land forces perse-
yered IN their work. the results In both cases
Two dreams Of some significance have added
dreamed n Dbs By joins f. Ling who lives IN The the
Stumps house. Mr.. Ling is an absolute skeptc
lie I told his dream. and the W supersttioHs ilnne. ne
dately took It up up and @ spread It m abroad: Mt:
locality he couldn't remember The other dream
was a land dream, and Abbott Carter. father Of
Carter, in his hours of sleep. found himself
wandering in the woods s., near ear. Watson,s Point
Here's where old Mr.. Stumps's body is." he
at once exclaimed and proceeded to dig.
Mr. stumps sem s er peTfeetS tete det ne hen
he ,awoke he couldn't locate the hole. Holes
at this season Of the year and the clairvoyant
party believe tha, & whoever finds . one e win get
the go reward oHered oy Mr foru Ior the ro-
cOvery Of the body.
The very latest development in the case Is
the announcement of Duncan Currie that he
can do little in the clairvoyant line himself.
While In the barber shop yesterday morning he
overheard skeptic ridiculing clairvoyance,
second sight, and kindred mysteries.
LOCK here, young man" ma said Currie. "yoT y
you some things about Yourself that you won't
like to hear, and they'll surprise you some too"
you tell me?"
"Oh. | can read the past. can't read the
future yet but cal look back into the past. |
knew the man who killed that girl in Railway.
One day met a man and something IN me said.
That's tho Railway murderer. and went to
work to get evidence. but the man must nave
known ] had found him out. for he killed him
Mr.. Currs is now regarded with awe In Perth
Amboy, There is some awe, too. regarding
nection with pair of grocer's scales which he
had quietly conveyed to his place. 1t is said
that he is compoundlng a mixture of mystical
properties which shall aid In finding the body
To all questions about this he turns a dear ear
I.l. aud . ha< thart hall hau ha