New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-02-22
HEALED WITH HIS HANDS
TWO STARTLING CURES EFFECTED ni
THE VERMONT BLACKSMITH NJ" ELL
IN THIS CITY

r,,rv APE vOrrHED FOR by THE TWENTY VIII
NrssEs WHO WERE rREsENT-AN OLD
MANS RHEUMATISM CURED. AS WAS
AN ELDERLY woMAN's Mel
RAIG1A-FEw KNEW OF
THE FAITH-HEADER's
VISIT HERE.
The Vermont faith-healer ana o''' "''''' 49,
Newell whose stories Of marvellous cui'9 ''i '''
Rrattleboro nome have rivaed those OF 0o''is
vent mar, If Tuesday and "Wednesday oi 'i's
week in New-York and Brooklyn ne uVp"'
for his mountain nome on Neuie9"'
nresence in the metropolis. unth inc eNe'
his departure, war known only 10 IL" f
na,o, fr,ends and it was just before he starteo
for the Grand Central station Oh ,I1.r,
.,,ht that the guests at the Marlborough Ho'ei
w, where he spent Tuesday Night
Irew that he was a guest in the house MI
Newell came down to New-1ork VIII" ~
uouos of Trattleboro merely on a pleasure UP
,,, u,b;,a ON a visit 10 his friends In brooh'Hh
80 oxhihitad some evidence of his so-called mar
vellous healing powers.
lie was the guest at luncheon. on Wednesday
at the house of well-known ana pion''''''''
educator of this city, whose name al tie i"''0'
reouest is withheld. About twelve or hi'ee"
people were invited TO meet MI. Ne"eH Il" Inv
afternoon. Among them was an o'u man
relative of the family. whose hands were De'''
with rheumatism. and also an elderly woman
afflicted with neuralgia of the race Win ""'0'
she had been troubled foi years.
Unfortunately. perhaps. with these TWO eN-
cantions the assemblage was remarkably
healthy one. and Mr. Newell therefore was ue-
prived of a further exhibition of power
old
The man. who is nearly Sixty years oiu' P'e
scented himself before Mr.. Newell who grasped
his bent and misshapen fingers IN MS pIo"u'
strong hands Then the faith-healer turned MS
,.os &c e in anpeal TO Heaven The two men
stood silently for the space of fully five minutes
In tho moan time not a word said and the
small audience watched the two with deep and
intense interest
Whatever power he possessed was eXerted sue
cessfuy. for after the contact was broken the
cd man found that his fingers, when ne hao
not been able to move freely for long ume'
were without pain. and flexible when ne moved
the Joints He also discovered that where Tor
merly he was not able to extend his hngers' he
could do SO with comparative ease.
In describing his sensations afterward, he
spoke vaguely of a certain sensauon' WHICH
might have been a strong magnetic power or
something else of which he knew nothing But
at any rate. he certain. and SO told MS
friends about him, that the pain was entirely
gone There were many expressions of astonish-
ment at the cure.
Next the elderly woman exter ced her hahdS'
which were grasped by Mr.. Newell. and the same
performance was gone through with However
1t was. she discovered afterward that the pain
across her forehead and over her eyes had dis
appea red Her sensa tons were akin TO thosc Oh
the old However strange this ma! Seei.'
the cures are vouched for by nearly twenty Wit
nesses all of them reputable and weii-KhoWh
citizens Of Brooklyn
Whether they will be permanent is quite an
other matter. but certain ii Is that the strange
newer possessed By the mountain blacksmith did
it's work most thoroughly on Wednesday AFTER
noon There being no other subjects TO WORK
upon some time was spent in the discussion nE
tire guests Of the educator in what they mad VII
messed. =,
The blacksmith said to them: 7 am sure ,s,i
do not know what this power is" He then told
the story as to how he first came to learn or the
gift which. he said. the divine power had given
him He working in is blacksmith shor
one day when there came to him. as he expressed
II "a blZz!ng in his ears which seemed TO say,
Go forth and heal" II seemed absurd at hrst,
but the phenomenon was repeated ana ne at
length yielded After that, he said he went OUT
and wrought the cures. the accounts or when
rave been published far and wide
Mr. Newell. as described by one of the members
nrcsent that afternoon, is man weighing over
two hundred pounds and over six feet in height.
He has large, well-rounded head. with thick
shock of black halr ana luil DlacK DeaTu his
face is inclined to refinement. but his CONVERSE
tion while possessing native intelligence. shows
more or less the lack Of cultivation. He Is modest
in the extreme.
AS he was leaving the Marlborough Hotel. in
New-York on Wednesday evening IT became
known in some mysterious way that he was the
Vermont faith healer Of whom so much had been
said and written A curious crowd watched him
in the lobby as he passed through to take O. cab
TO the station. but the two men hurried out and
were rapidly driven away.