The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-21
BUTTE News.
HIS CREDITORS MOURNING
NJ. Paul Wilhelmy Has Turned
Up Missing.
HE WAS A TRANCE MEDIUM
A Few Gullible People Expected Better
Things OF Him He Had an Idea
That Butte Was Good
Thing.

. ! M. Paul Wilhelmy is missing and a
number of Butte people are mourning.
The mourning ones are mostly credit
ors and a few gullible persons who had
expected better things of him, for NJ.
Paul was "the greatest of all living
mind readers and trance mediums" and
they had paid him to exercise his SUI
perhuman powers in their behalf.
There Is no doubt that NJ. Paul is
really 1t, for he said so over his own
picture in great display "ads.," which
he ran literally in the newspapers and
forgot to pay for before he left town.
NJ. Paul Wilhelmy's right name is
Paul Hirsch and he halls from Chicago.
He had an idea that Butte was a good
thing and he struck the town hard
about three weeks ago and opened a
suite" of offices on the fourth floor
of the new Hennessy building, and
then he used the newspapers TO tell
, the people all about himself, except his
right name. That he concealed from
every one except few intimates, who
are now wishing they had not known
him quite so well. M. Paul was ner-
Wy, very assertive sort Of a fellow.
as may be evident from the fact that
his name is Hirsch. He said of him
self that he was acknowledged by
press, medical faculty and public IN
general as the foremost exponent of
occult science living" and that he could
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what business he was best adapted for,
whom to marry, all about lovers and
friends whether true or false, and how
to be successful in business, law. love,
marriage land everything In fact, he
knew everybody and everybody's bus!-
ness, but he didn't know himself, and
he wasn't quite on to his own job or
the people of Butte. He was particu-
larry anxious to help spectators, for
his wonderful forecasts have in nota-
BILE instances brought fortunes to MS
patrons" and ne was specially anxious
to meet persons with a few hundred
or few thousand dollars to invest. He
also had an idea that prospectors and
miners were good graft, and he told
them in big type that if they would
bring him specimens of ore he would
tell them lust what to do without
even asking one question
Hrsch said in picturesque English
that he was a graduate from the IA
nous Russian school of ralmistry ana
has read the palms of all the crowned
heads of Europe" and he named among
his int!mates and patrons Queen Vic
toria, Grover Cleveland, Emperor Will
helm Major Mckinley, the sultan of
Turkey, prince and princess of Wales,
President Faure, Bismarck, Gladstone,
Robert ]. Ingersoll land many other
noted men and women famous in lit
erature, science and art" All consulta-
tons with the great it were 'confiden-
itial and sacred, and the fees We're in
reach of all, but in spite Of these al
Turing Inducements, M. Paul made
failure of it in Butte, and he disappear
ed some time last Saturday, and yester-
day many creditors and secretary Of
"a secret society, which it is claimed
he had imposed on, were trying ito get
some trace of him.
However things may apear against
M. Paul, there is a possibility that his
intentions were all right, for he was
one of the smoothest in making prom
Uses, and for "a week he was successful
dn standing off his creditors by slap
ping them Familiarity on the back and
telling them good story and giving
them ICON game" At one time he
had hopes of making Butte his perma-
nent home, and when the legislature
passed the boxing contest bill he set
about ITO organize a 'gentlemen's sport
ing club" and, according to his own
story ne had the promise of millions
to back 1t, and there was not promi-
nent man in Butte, in any walk Of life
who had not been enrolled as a mem