The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-22
QUEER Loss or MEMORY.
The Gift of Foresight Takes Its
Place.
From the Baltimore American

Place.
From the Baltimore American
Portland. Ore, Aug. 1s-Franklin Hart.
IS years old. whose father lives in Trinity
county. California. came 70 Portland on
a visit last June well supplied with funds,
which he spent freely. He suddenly dis
appeared on the morning Of July and
all efforts OF the police TO trace him
failed The suicide and foul play theories
ran out. A large reward was offered as
a stimulus for the detectives.
On July . the fact was established mat
young Hart on the afternoon OF July
bought a tourists ticket 10 Chicago. Chi
cago was ransacked without locating him.
A letter received from Hart. ST., in Call
fOrnia states that when he returned home
he found a telegram saying that his son
was in a Chicago hospital. He lost no
time in reaching Chicago, finding Frank
lin in the county hospital, convalescent.
HIS son arrived IN Chicago July y. stop
ping at the Palmer house. On the second
night he attempted suicide by asphyxia-
tion with gas. He was sent TO the county
hospital, and though his life was saved,
his mind was left in a peculiar state
While Franklin's physical condition Il
so good that he Will be able to leave the
hospital in a day or two" writes Nj.
A1dlLr MS mental EAdLt 5Adl ties mt AAAs'
mental vision is supernaturally prospec-
tive, instead Of being reTOsp ective, and
the physicians here tell me that there Is
no parallel case on record in any part Of
the civilized globe. They claim that tbs
phenomena demonstrated in my sons
mentality is one of the many hidden
forces in human nature.
In ordinary conversation Franklin is
as lucid as ever yet it is a matter diff
cult for him TO recall past events without
hard study. For instance when 1 referred
to his Portland visit and his departure
from there it took him two days to recall
even the more important facts and fea-
lures of those events. as they had alto
gether passed from his memory since the
almost tragic affair at the Palmer house.
The other peculiar phase of his case is
that he seems to see into the future. For
instance, the day prior to Mr.. Harris ar
rival In Chicago Franklin almost YER
batim repeated to the doctor attending
him the conversation he had with his
father forty-eght hours later. In other
words, It is said that young Hart has
power to read all manner of events, even
of the most triiing import, forty-eight
hours in advance. with the same clear
ness that the healthy normal mind con-
jures up the past
Another remarkable condition of Frank
Inns mind, writes Mr.. Hart, is that af-
Ter the llOh u dn event WHICH
he has foretold he is utterly unable to
remember 1t.
Last Friday" continued the writer,
Franklin told me that he had on that
day received a letter from his mother.
l knew it was a hallucnation, but asked
him what it contained; so he repeated
TO me what he imagined had been writ
ten to bim. The day following he, indeed.
got a letter from his mother without the
slightest variation from his prophetic rev.
elation. Every hour in the day my son
startles me and the doctors by some evil
dence OF his wonderful mental vision"