The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-05
A NOTABLE APPARlTION.
Carlo Fenzi, an italian senator, Appear
ed To His Brother After Death.

ed to His Brother After Death.
Signor Falconer, in The Adriatico.
recommends to the consideration of Mr..
Gladstone and Mr.. Myers the following
psychical experience which happened
to Cavaliere Sebastian Fenzi:
Signor Sebastian Fenzi brother, SEN
ator Carlo Fenzi, q man who had stud
led much at home and abroad and trav-
eled mpch, had such a strong antipathy
for spiritualism that he begged his
brother never to mention the subject to
him as he valued their mutual love and
the family peace But in the early days
OF June, 1881, being with his brother
at their fathers house at st. Andrea, he
held out his hand to him and said
Look here, Bastiano. have something
to say to you that will Aplease you OF
late have turned my i&oughts to spir-
itualism and am convinced that if l had
investigated it thoroughly, as you have
done, | should have arrived at the same
conclusion as you about it,
Signor Sebastian heard this with
great JOY, and, the tie between the
brothers having always been very close,
he begged his brother, now that they
were getting on i'll years, to promise
that the one who should die first should
try and give the one left behind sure
proof OF life beyond the grave Carlo
pressed his hand and said, Eyes, |
promise, with the greater pleasure that
l feel | shall be the first to 60. To
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will Don't get melancholy ideas into
your head. +" But Carlo added: Il feel
it so strongly that it must be true. Lis
ten. | shall not live to the end of the
year Before three months are gone
shall be dead and buried 4"
Three months after this conversation,
Sept. 2, 1881, Cavaliere Fenzi, father
in-law to Admiral Norm, commanding
at Spezzia. was staying at Fortullino,
his villa by the sea, ten miles from Leg
horn. Cavaliere Fenzi was in good health
and in the cheerful company of his
daughter Cristina and four grandchil-
dren, when he was overcome by an in
applicable melancholy and feeling at
his heart that something serious was
about to happen. He turned to his
daughter and said: Il don t know what
terrible thing is happening to US at this
moment, but must rush away or in a
minute | shall burst out crying before
the children. So saying he rushed
out into the rain without hat and ran
to field, whence he could see some
rocks, where he expected to see his cous-
in, Giuseppe Fenzi, who had gone out
some time before to 'behold the fury OF
the elements, as he said, bat at that
moment he did not see him. Instead,
looking carefully, he saw that his broth
er, the Senator Carlo. was there, i'll "a
top hat and without an umbrella, max
ing his way down from rock to rock
without needing the deluge. the flashes
of lightning shooting from all sides or
the noise of the thunder.
Now at that day and that hour the
senator was at Florence. 70 miles away
from Villa Fortullino. so that Sebastian
at once thought this figure must he hal
lucinative for if Carlo had suddenly ar
rived at Fortullino he would certainly
not have got out of the carriage to take
a shower bath on the rocks. He rubbed
his eyes, but the figure remained and
looked so real that he shouted out Car
los name and waved his arms to him,
but the phantom seemed not to see him,
for it passed behind big rock without
showing itself again, although Sebastian
waited While waiting he observed his
cousin, Giuseppe, on the rocks, so that
he said to himself, Nov, when he
passes close to the big rock he will see
Carlo and will stop and speak to him. >
However, Giuseppe saw nothing IN
passing behind the same rock. and on
Joining Sebastian in the field he said he
had not seen Carlo and that no one was
there. 1t was now 10 :45 o'clock, and
the Senator Carlo Fenzi died exactly at
that hour, 20 miles away, calling on his
brother name Signor Sebastian s mel
ancholy passed He had lunch and was
sitting reading a paper when tele-
gram was brought to him saying
Come at once to Florence Carlo very
i'll No one at Fortullino knew that
Senator Carlo was i'll; the last letter
from him said he was we'll On arriv-
ing at Florence he heard from the doc
tor that Carlo had asked for his brother
and died at 10 :45 with his name on his
lips.
Some days after the death Signor Sc
bastian was present at seance OF a
psychical society that he had founded
There he received message by raps,
by which an intelligence announced it
self as Carlo Fenzi. and, addressing
Cavaliere Sebastian, said. Il forced you
to go out of the house, as l did not
want to brighten Cristina's children :
What an unexpected proof OF identity!