The herald., 1896-03-07
The Boy Phenomenon Sues the
Boy Wizard
THE ELECTION LAW DEFINED
The Deed of Conveyance Made by Julius
Br0usseau Annulled
The Main Case in the City Headwaters Case
Reaches the Jury-The Sturdy
Divorce Suit

There is blood on the face of the moon
and something is going to drop and drop
very hard.
DR.. Franklin Stuart Temple, otherwise
known to fame as the Boy Phenomenon,
has camped on the trail of plain Karl Her.
mann, also known in terms OF windy
phraseology as the Boy Wizard.
1t appears that the Boy Wizard has been
stealing the thunder of the Boy Phenom-
enon, and so the former has commenced
suit to enjoin the latter from playing
hanky-panky with his business, which he
holds by divine right. The complaint,
which was filed yesterday, and which was
drawn and executed in Worcester, Mass,
where the Boy Phenomenon has recently
been hanging out his magnetic shingle, is
a most interesting document. The Boy
Phenomenon begins by alleging that he is
a regular practising physician, and that in
1894 he entered into partnership with
William Fletcher Hall. While in Stock
ton, CAL, during the month of October, he
cured Sadie Flynn of paralysis and rheu-
matism, and she gave certificate wherein
she recites the wonders wrought upon her
by the Boy Phenomenon. For seven years
tory rheumatism and scatica. For two
years she lay in bed helpless; for two years
she could only get around in a roller chair,
and for three years she was cripple de-
pendent on her crutches. Private practi-
TONERS gave her up, and after twenty
months treatment as an impatient at st.
Mary's hospital in San Francisco, she was
discharged as hopelessly incurable.
But the sad picture changed when the
Boy Phenomenon appeared upon the scene.
When Miss Sadie first visited him she
walked around the room; upon her second
visit she waltzed down the stairs, and a
little later she was permanently cured.
1t is also set fcrth in the complaint that
an obdurate case of rheumatism with
which w. j. Olliphant, secretary of public
works at Austin, Tex, was afflicted, also
yielded to the magnetic strokings OF the
Boy Phenomenon.
The magnetism on tap for public con-
tnued as heretofore, but the personal mag
netism of the Boy Phenomenon ceased to
gee with that of William Fletcher Hall,
and the partnership was dissolved in April,
1895. Since then the Boy Phenomenon
has been going his magnetic way alone
and single handed. He claims, however,
that Mr.. Hall, since forming the partner
ship with Karl Hermann, otherwise the
Boy Wizard, has been using garbled state
ments and extracts from certificates which
we're given to the Boy Phenomenon to ad-
vertise the Boy Wizard. and his magnetic
soul is grieved at it.
He alleges that the Boy Wizard is no
wizard at all, which is very dreadful; and
that when Hall picked him up he was Just
an ordinary, every day rubber in the Turk
ish baths at ST. Louis Furthermore, he is
person of no education, without any
knowledge of medicine and is not a prac-
ticing physician. All that is bad enough,
but the unkindest cut is given when the
Boy Phenomenon boldly states that the
Boy Wizard has no magnetic powers such
claimed for him by Hall in the adver.
tisement issues.
By the garbled statements put forward
and by reason of the fact that the Boy
Wizard has no healing power the reputa-
ton and business of the Boy Phenomenon
has been injured and has suffered damage
10 the extent of $40 1000. and for this sum,
with cost of suit, he prays judgment.
Who'd have thought it? What a rattling
business the magnetic hoodoo must be
when clean cut of $40, 900 can be made
in a month or two. But it's true because
it is set forth in black and white in the
complaint of the Boy Phenomenon linn
self.