The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-10-13
SENSATIONAL RIDE,
Prof. Boone BIlndfOIdsd Drives a Double
Team Through the City.
LOCATES A KEY THAT HAS BEEN HIDDEN
by Committee OF Eivc Newspnper
Mcn-Finds u letter md Delivers Il
10 the Piacc to Which II is Address.
cd-I.tkc IL Hound on tho Sconc-
DID Not Like the Intrusion.


Prof. Boone. the hypnotist, had the
public guessing yesterday when he gave
his famous undertaking test-the same
one that Bishop used TO use. i
The requirements OF the test were
these: a committee was to enter the
carriage at The Hub clothing store on
Main street, drive down the street some
where. secure piece Of paper and en-
Velopc, write n note 10 some business
man. put 1t in the envelope, seal and d.
rect 1t and then put it in some post
Office lockbox, key having been Dor
| rowed for the occasion. The key was
then to be taken by the committee and
hid somewhere in n store or house. Then
the carriage was to return to The Hub
Prof. Boone to get In, drive blindfoldcd
to where the key was. find 1t, drive
bllndfoldcd to the postoilicc and still
blindfolded, find the box in which the
letter was, pick 1t out. take it TO the
man TO whom 1t was addressed and tell
him what the address was.
This test Prof. Boone very successful
ly and remarkably carried out. His
committee, consisting of four newspaper
men and a fifth gentleman selected by
them, left The Hub at 10 O'Clock A. m
In Il cab which Ind been secured for the
was stopped and the paper and cnve-
lope was secured. The letter was writ
ten In the cab and directed. II was then
taken TO the postoilice and put in lock
box 1S3.
The committee drove TO the end OF
Main street and after some consultation
as to place, finally hid the key In the
back OF i cnhdy store, No. 5S3-bchind Il
staple In the rear door. The party then
ROT n IN, hn IN, or
ty securely blindfolded Prof Boone with
black silk muller. which was folded
live or six times, making 1t absolutely
impenctrable for light or sight. a
| copper wire was twisted around his head
and the two ends passed down through
| the front of the cab to those inside.
They were grasped by two members OF
the committee, the third joining hands,
forming a circuit. The other two sat
upon the drivers seat on either side OF
the Professor, Wild held the rclns.
Thus blindfoldcd the hypnotist drove
the cab down Main street between lines
of curious spectators, and deftly avoid
Ing street cars and passing vehicles, he
finally brought his committee to the
store In which they had hidden the key.
asking them to fix their minds on the
place where the key was hidden, and for
all the world like n hound on the scent
of prey, the Professor, dragging his
comm!ttec after him, rushed into the
store past the startled proprietor and
employees and in less than Il minute
had located the key and gotten it in his
possession. He then drove the team to
the postoilce, and in the same way
found the box, opened IT, and selected
one of the two letters which he found
there. II was the one addressed by the
committee to J. II. Hudson. Boone was
lifted back to the drivers seat and driv-
Ing rapidly through the maze Of street
cars, vehicles and excavations stoppcdat
Hudson's kitchen and headed straight for
Mr.. Hudson's Office. That gentleman
was not IN, and his representatives,
whoever they are. did not like the in
trus!on and insisted on his being taken
out. Some one suggested arrestng the
crowd. Boone was headed for thc>pavc-
memt. upon which an immense crowd
had congregated. Here the committee Sc
lected man TO whom he should give
the letter. The man was n stranger to
the committee, they merely indicating
him 10 each other by signs l5oone pick
ed him out at once, and gave him the
letter telling him the address. Then he
collapsed into n dead faint or some
thing like It. The bandage was taken
from his eyes and he was carried into an
adjoining hallway and revived after Il
short while.
There can be no doubt that the test
was an entirely fai: one. as there was no
possible chance of fraud. This being
true, the feat, viewed In the light, or
rather in the darkness of the limited
knowledge of people as to The peculiar
tiles and limitations of hypnOtism, must
be considered nothing less than remark
able.
Douglas. the boy whom Prof. Boone
has put TO sleep for fifty hours. is now
sleeping a vacant store room on Church
street, just around the corner from
Main. He was brought to the Acadc-
my of Music and kept while this place
could be secured, and was yesterday Wis
tied by crowds Of people all day long.
The room to which Douglass had been
removed was without lights and early in
the evening he was put in a glass case,
something on the order Of n coffin,
brought back to the Academy Of Music
and placed in the vcstibule, where he
now lies.
FOR THE KLONDIKE.