The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-13
MAHATMA IN PRISON.
Fate of the India Healer Who Came
to Cure Charles Broadway Rouss.

New York, April 13.-Dr r. Guelph
Norman, who came all the way from
India to try to earn the $1,000,000 which
Charles Broadway Rouss is willing tC
pay for the restoration of his sight, is
in Ludlow street Jail.
The complainant against the Great
Healer as he says he is called in the
Orient. is Mrs. Hulda Schlatter, who
owns the house in which DR.. Norman
has been practising his alleged art OF
healing. She says the doctor borrowed
81, 600 from her on the strength of all
the money he was to receive from the
blind millionaire, and that he owes her
another 81, 900 for rent.
When DR.. Norman first appeared he
declared, very magnanimouSly, that he
would exercise his powers only on Mr..
RouSs and would not impair the reve-
nue. of the medical profession by a gen
eral practice.
But soon afterward he opened in Mrs.
Schlatter's house what he caleld a Roy
al Asiatic Academy" He told Mrs.
Schlatter airily that Mr. RousS had al
ready given him $780, 900 by way of peck
ct money and that person whom he
described as Commissioner Frost" had
advanced him 81 500. Mrs. Schlatter
deemed these very good reasons for ad-
vancing him 81 900 and permitting his
rent to accumulate to a like sum.
Mrs. Schlatter was still more deeply
impressed with the Oriental magnih-
cence of her tenant when he went to
Massachusetts last month and married
a rich woman in the off-hand manner
of man going into the woods to shoot
robins.
But the amiable 1andlady was begin
ming to wonder when the Mahatmas
would prompt the professor to discharge
his obligations to her.
She mentioned the matter to him one
day, whereupon he speedily fell into a
trance and read the contents of letter
which she had in her reticu1e-at least,
she says he did.
On another occasion, when Mrs.
Schlatter efficiently mentioned that she
was in need of money, the accomplish
ed Oriental pressed his thumbs on her
eyelidS, commanded her to breathe hard
and then announced that he saw her IN
a vision ruling over happy esoter1c
band on a mountain peak in Thibet.
These manifestations pacified the
landlady for a time, but irreverent
friends persuaded her at length: when
DR. Norman had retired from view, to
tell her grievance to Attorneys Lenney
and Donovan. They professed them
selves willing to brave the occult pow
ers of the man from Asia in the en-
deavor to recover her money, and she,
with a sigh, told them to go ahead.
A Judgment order was procured, and
many attempts made to serve 1t, but all
hostile callers at the house were met
by a Mrs X NJ. Mcintyre, alleged to be
a clairvoyant, who repulsed them with
a sad and stony story.
Deputy Sheriff Wagering had re-
course to strategy yesterday afternoon
Remembering the Rouss episode, he dis
guised himself in a shade and a pair
of green goggles, found sympathetic
looking friend to act as a guide, and
thus stumbled gropingly to the healer's
door,
II am blind he said plaintively, as
the clairvoyant appeared. Il wish to
see the professor"
I'VE have nothing for you today" re-
sponded Mrs Mcintyre, with acerbity.
but am willing to pay anything to
be cured" protested the deputy sheriff.
It am very rich
Come in,' said the cla1rVoyant,
throwing open the door.
And three minutes later the As1atic
healer was a prisoner.