The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-24
LONG DISTANCE IELEPATuY.
Editor stead's Remarkable Expert
ence in Switzerland.

ence IN switzerland.
From the Hartford Times.
Mir. W T. Stead. the famous London
editor. who gets letters simultaneously
written through his own hand from
friends at a distance. relates the appended
striking case in his own experience in an
interesting article pablished in Border
land the unique ma gazlne he conducts.
lie says he never knows, at the time the
messages are written. whether they are
from friends in or out Of tho body;
oftener, perhaps from the former. one
Of these he received from a lady who had
been in the Highlands of Scotland. 1t
covered three closely-written quarto pages
The next time nc met her Mr.. Stead read
to her the letter, and out Of all the three
close y-Written quartO pages giving
particulars and details. there was but
one error-and that was e single word.
which did not materially change the
meaning. Here IS a notable case. the
experience above referred TO. i'm Switz-
erland, wherein one Of the respond
ents who wrote through his hand, had
been what we call dead" for over three
years
When I was at Grindelwald (switzer-
land / found no more difficulty in tele-
foNAAtN WI fH EOAtAtNtE win London than
Wnen ! was at Wimbledon. OF this [
may perhaps be permitted to give an in
stance where telepathic communication
anticipated a telegram by three hours
III "a case IN which / was personally very
deeply interested. Although the incident
was not comparatively slight. the evil
dence is SO clear and so Well atteeted
and moreover, the communication foI,
lowed Immediately upon message pur.
porting TO come from disembodied rnir
IT, and was in turn followed by confirm
atofy letter and telegram, that II NAV be
worth while simply reproducing here
When / was in Grindewald. in TulN, I
was grieved to receive bad news as TO The
health Of one OF my nearest and dearest
friends. Three days I'm succession 1 re
ceiNed letters from London, each more
gloomy In It's tdings, and when the third
arrived ] decided TO return at once I
Went to Dr. Lunn's office and asked hin,
when l could get a reply from a Iondon
suburb 10 telegram. ii was then 4 Hc
sal0 ne did not think ! could expect a re-
ply before o'clock discussed the ones.
ton Of leaving that might, or Of waiting
TIL the morning. Ultimately / decided III
adopt the latter course. and going acrosg
off the telegraph office, | sent of q I,s-
patch, saying:
Grieved to hear of --s illness. VIII
return tomorrow Telegraph doctors lat
est report.
Returning TO the hotel to make all pre-
partitions for departure 7 found fl frienl
IN my room to whom l told my bad news
Sitting down at the table L determined
/ to try whether or not l could. bv The ala
/ OF my automatic hand. obtain any news
/ from London. l first asked the ever-faith-
/ ful friend who some three years ago pass
/ ed from our sight whether she could teu
/ me how the patient was. My hand wrote
/ without a moments hesitation:
You friend is better. You need not re-
/ turn. The proof of this is that about ?
! o'clock you will receive telegram to mi
/ effect, when you viii see that / am cor
/ rect.
1 [ then asked mentally if / should ash
my friends son TO use my hand telepathi-
cally to give me the latest news. The an
swer came at once as follows:
No you had better ask her daughter.
she is at home, and can give you the lat
est news.
/ then asked the daughter (wbo was AZ
her home in London TO use my hand and
tell me how her mother was. NV barJ
then, as always, unconscious Of the 1east
/ dlueience IN the control of the embodied
or disembodied. wrote as follows.
Mother had a better sleep last nirbt
/ There is no need for you to return earlier
/ We have taken house at the seaside at
| (name unintelligible) Mother thinks she
viii be ell right after her visit.
I / feared TO believe the good news. I reo5
/ the message 10 my friend, who signed
them as confirmation, and remarked tbat
if this turned out right it would be a yrca +
score for the spooks, but that he feared
my own strong desire for better news had
Initiated the accuracy of the dispatch I
Z then left the hotel and went down to DR..
Lunn's chalet, where l told Dr. Tunn.
Mr. Clayden, Dr. Lindsay and other
friends that / must return to London nex+
day.
4 At o'clock dinner is served at the Bar
l saw the head waiter. told him [ was eN-
pecting an important telegram, and asked
him to bring it to me at the table.
/ This he promised to do. Dinner PASSED
Eight o'clock approached. And l am
. afraid" I said TO my friend, 1.-THE spooks
are no so this time" and set OFF for the
/ church, | had not got half way there
when my boy Jack ran after me, shouting
Father, here's your telegram: it was de-
| livered by mistake in Uncle Herbie's
. ROOM / opened it, and found that il had
. arrived at 7;1O. II ran as follows:
better. Don't come back.
( Two days later l received 4 postca r5
FROM the daughter parity written before
my telegram arrived. Here it is:
Mother is rather better We have taken
house at w. Later: Your telegram
has just come. There is no need for Won
to come back"
There was only one point left uncon-
hrmed. DID the patient think she would
. be quite set up by a stay at the seaside ?
/ When l returned to London ] put the
! question 10 her daughter. She replied. Il
never heard mother say anything about
that But the doctor said SO, when he
| called that day."