The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-04-13
cRrrE AID TELEPArHY.
Al IatsFvIsW with W"nHn Who Il
CRAFTY InisrrstIng London.


Here Is an interview had by = Lon
don reporter with Miss Maud LAHcas-
ter. a telepathlst, who Is Just now
greatly exciting Great Britain b her
exhibitions OF seemingly marvellous
powers,
Il am not attached TO aay force
said Mss Lancaster, and have Ger.
taluly not done any work for Scotland
Yard, as a London evEuing paper re-
ce1tly reported. might begin by iellinG
you OF an experience l had In New
York Walking down Broadway one day
Wlth a detective Of Inspector byrnes
force, starred as man passed ~, and
exclaimed. That man has cvnInitted
9 murdrrr' The detective laughed, ou'
when I pointed out the man meant ne
grew suddenly serious add told me t-at
the person who had caused me 90 make
me exclamation had indeed killed q
man. but had got OF with a ea0Tt Term
Of imprisonment
THAT was wonderful. was III And Il
you won't put the names In your paper
I will tell you Of a curious experience
last year In London.
Il was sent for suddenly one eFeninS
by a lady who had lost her Jewels, she
suspected her maid. but after passing
Ia review an the servants OF tue house
I was convinced that the thief was not
among them,
Way BecAuse-weIl, I will tell you
something that will help undsTsi and
Il A hail tnI! Of people thinking OF
mimic crime tas IN my entertainments
do not give OF as much magnetism A. 2
single really EulIty person, and Il Is by
SIS
went up 20 the lAdy's boudOlT. and
told her the drawer from which the
Jewels had been taken. She acknoVI-
edged ! VAS correct. and then We weni
down into the drawing room, and felt
I was on the rigit track more aRd more
til We reached the apartment where a
man was standing
Instantly ( WAS convinced he wRs the
thief. and, full OF triumph. ] was ABOUT
20 cali the lady aside 70 tell her that the
cglprit was az hand, When she said:
" Let me Introduce my husband.
Pleasant, wasn't H. However.
broke II to her gently when we were
out Of the room. and, Of course. was
finely abused FOR my pains But about
a fortnight aftsFWard my client wrote
20 me ana said that her husband had
owned up TO taking the jewels, so my
instinct was again Justified.
Tell me. Miss Lancaster. X the pes
tile with which the recent railway mur-
der was done. was put into youE hands,
do you assert that would help you ind
the murder"
NO" replied Miss Lancaster. that
Is not my work at all. That would be
cIairvoyaace which Is quite d!hersns
matter But / Eill tell you what |
could do. Had been travelling b. that
train. and the murderer aad passed the
window after the crime, would have
got out and given him IN charge.
would know In minute that he had
committed crime He would appear 70
me as II enveIoped in red mist
''Supposing now, Miss Lancaster, thar
Won were taken to the compartment ~
which the murder was committed, could
you track the man In that case
That depends II It was the same
night, or even the next morning. u
would Dc easy. Bpt when other people
have passed and repaased above The
scene OF the crime, the miEnetLsm left
by the murderer is disturbed aad oblit.
Grated by their magnetism should
like to have tried my hand at that
murder" added Miss Lancaster In a
regrettul tone. but 1t Is too late now,