The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-28
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CRIME AND TEsLEPATHY.
An Interview With Woman TeIc-
pRthist who lis Greatly Interesting
London
From the New York Herald.


From the New York Herald.
Here is an interview had by a London
reporter with Miss Maud Lancaster. tele-
pathist who is.just now greatly exciting
Great Britain by her exhibitions of seem
ingly marvellous powers.
Il am not attached to any force" said
Miss Lancaster, land have certainly not
done any work for Scotland Yard, as a
London evening paper recently reported.
| might begin by telling you of an expert
ence / had i'm New York. Walking down
Broadway one day with detective of
Inspector Byrnes force, I started as a
man passed US and exclaimed: That
man has committed a murderp The de-
tective laughed but when | pointed out
the man l meant, he grew suddenly seri-
Gus and told me that the person who had
caused me to make the exclamation had
indeed killed a man, but had got off with
a short term of Imprisonment.
That was wonderful, wasn't It? And 10
you won't put the names in your paper /
will tell you of curious experience last
year in London.
Il was sent for suddenly one evening
by lady who had lost her jewels. She
suspected her maid, but, after passing I'm
review all the servants of the house,
was convinced that the thief was not
among them.
why? Because-well, / will tell you
something that will help you understand
1t. A hall fun of people thinking Of a
mimic crime (as in my entertainments do
not give off as much magnetism as a
single really guilty person. and il is by
magnetism that my work is done. / went
up to the lady's boudoir and / told her
the drawer from which the jewels had
been taken. She acknowledged / was
correct; and then went down into the
drawing room, and / felt / was on the
right track more and more. till we reached
the apartment, where a man was stand
ing.
thief; and, fun of triumph. l was about to
call the lady aside to tell her that the
culprit was at hand. when she said:
g Let me Introduce my husband
Pleasant, wasn't it? However, / broke
1t to her gently when we were out of the
ROOM and, of course was finely abused
for my pains. But about fortnight aft
erward my client wrote to me and said
that her husband had owned up to taking
the jewels, so my instinct was again JUS
titled"
Tell me. Miss Lancaster. If the pestle
with which the recent railway murder was
done was put into your hands do you as
sert that would help you find the MUIR
derer?"
NO" replied Miss Lancaster, that is
not my work at all. That would be clair
voyance, which is quite a different matter
But l will tell you what / could do. Had
/ been travelling by that train and the
murderer had passed the window after the
crime, ! would have got out and given
him in charge. 1 would know in a minute
that he had committed a crime. He would
appear to me as IL enveloped in a red
mist"
Surprising, now, Miss Lancaster, that
you were taken to the compartment in
which the murder had been committed
could you track the man in that caseP
THAT depends. If IL was the Same
night, or even the next morning, 1t would
be easy. But when other people have
passed and repassed above the scene Of
the crime, the magnetism left by the MUIR
derer is disturbed and obiterated by their
magnetism. l should like to have tried
my hand at that murder" added Miss Lam
caster, in regretful tone, but it is too
late now"