The record-union., 1898-07-17
San FranCiSCanS Meet a ClairyOy=
ant at the Mayors Office.
Ellert, Exc Chief Crowley, Ex=Judge
Ferral and District Attorney Barnes
Corral a Medium.

L cannot tell now II is done. While L
cannot believe he converses with spirits
l am puzzled l want to see him again
and look into the matter further
The experiments with Mayor l.. r.
Ellert, who sprang from his chair and
positively declined to be thrown into a
trance condition when the doctor re-
quested him thus to visit the spirit
world We're fully as startling as those
with Chief Crowley
Mayor Ellert took a chair in front of
his official table, which had thus been
dedicated to spiritual uses, and asked
II any spirits desired to communicate
with him, whereupon the medium
grasped his honor's hands and the line
of communication with the spirits was
declared fully established. Quite dis
tinct raps We're then heard on the table,
and DR.. Schlesinger looked at the May
or and said, You are a medium your
self, siri My, what a power!"
The Mayor was urged Ito sit alone
often and be patient" and was told
that he could develop much power by
such a course.
Mayor Ellert then wrote down ten or
fifteen names of living and dead friends.
on separate slips of paper. He refused
to use the paper handed him by Dr.
Schlesinger but cut up an official let
ter head which lay on his own desk. AS
he began to write the names the me-
dunn stepped away and engaged in con-
versation with District Attorney
Barnes and Mr. Bonnet at the other
side of the room, so that he could not
see what Mayor Ellert wrote The
Mayor then carefully folded the Slips
put them in a hat and shuffled them
then brought one forth from the hatful
That's dead one" said Dr. Schles-
niger. "Open it, see whether l am
correct, but don't let me see it,
The Mayor obeyed the request and
answered, Yes, this is a dead person s
name!'
Don't let me see it," said the mys-
terious visitor, and I'll tell you the
name" whereupon he at once correctly
pronounced the name of the Mayors
sister, which was not Ellert"
The city's highest official then an
nounced that he was unable to explain
the phenomena, which bewildered him
He watched the mediums movements
and conviced himself that he had not
that his visitor out Hermanned Her
mann. He would leave the solution Of
the phenomena to others learned in the
arts Of divination.
The outcome Of the seances and the
story Of what occurred may best be
told by those who We're present, and the
subjoined versions are given:
ATTORNEY PATTON'S STORY.
81 desire to preface what / have to
say by remarking that while 1 have
never been nor am I now spiritualist
nor have / ever before been present at
the performance of a medium yet what
I saw of Dr. Schlesinger's so-callad man
ifestations from the spirit world is en-
tirely inexplicable to me upon any
scientific hypothesis with which / am
familiar; yet at the same time / must
admit that / cannot explain the phe-
nomena exhibited upon any theory of
legerdemain or sleight of hand within
my knowledge, therefore / merely state
that have seen or seemingly seen and
hard the following remarkable things,
during the sitting or seance with Dr.
Schlesinger, leaving it to others more
competent than / to determine whe
ther they are the manifestations of
some psychic force at present unadmit-
ted by scientists, or the legerdemain of
a sleight of hand performer.
THE facts are as follows: At the re-
quest of the Doctor, 1 wrote eight or
ten names of different persons on as
many slips Of paper, two of the num-
Der being dead, and folded the slips in
such a manner that the Doctor could
not read them, and SO far as l can
judge, the Doctor could not have had
any method of knowing what names
wrote 1 then placed the folded papers
in a hat and one of the other gentle
men present drew them out one by one
The Doctor as each paper was drawn
out asked some question such as:
Guide. is this the one dead?' Finally,
after all the papers had been held up
and the questions asked some raps on