Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-01

CHICAGO, January 27.-Fred Roe,
Pratt, attorney, and one of the we'll
known Pratt twin brothers of 1929
Prairie avenue, died at Manila a few
days ago and the instructive knowl-
edge of his death flashed quicker than
the cables message to the mind of
Frank Fay Pratt, the surviving bro
cher. Joined through life by some
strange ~telepathic faculty the brothers,
had for years maintained a mystic.
unbroken interchange of thoughts and
tidings. When the last link in the
occult chain came across 10000 miles
of ocean to Frank Fay Pratt the lat
ter knew as unerringly as though his
brother had died beside him that the
twinship was sundered and the tele-
pathic partnership dissolved forever.
walks the streets FOr1orn.
The surviving brother was resting
calmly in his home at early evening
when the knowledge came upon him.
Stopping but to tell his aged parents
of the blow, he hurried put into the
night, and hour after hour walked the
streets, fevered with the burden of his
grief. Three days later came the
cablegram from Manila telling briefly
that Fred Pratt, who had been voyag-
ing around the world, was dead and
that his body was upon a steamer
going to Japan.
Frank Fay Pratt was at home to-
day talking of his brother to a group
of sympathizing friends--a brother OF
Robert Baker, with whom the de-
cedent had started round the world;
Capt. Arson and others, who had
known Fred Pratt, and all of whom
knew the strange communications so
long maintained between the twins.
Tells of strange Knowledge.
1.-THE news of Fred's DEATH" said
Frank Pratt, " was what we had
awaited for three days before it came.
Four days ago, as | sat down to din
ner, the thought came suddenly upon
that Fred was gone. Warning? Pre-
monition? l do not know. Call II
what you will. / spoke to mother:
We are separated said 1, Fred has
gone"
81 walked the streets the following
-.-Ik r.1-. 1or1x, or-Onsnn All 1oyliohf
came, or / lay awake, knowing that he
was dead, yet anxiously awaiting for
confirmation. 1t came yesterday-no
details, merely the information that
Fred was dead and that his body had
been shipped to Japan. l do not know
of what cause he died-possibly the
plague, which is said to have broken
out in the East, possibly from some
fever contracted at Manila. We are
now considering the advisability of
sending for the body. In all probable
ity we shall do so, and lay him IN
Rosehill.
May Have Died BY a Bullet.
Erred started out with Robert Baker,
of Racine, in December, 1898. Then IN
tended to visit nearly all the oriental
countries, winding up in Australia, and
had already seen China, Japan, Singa-
pore and other places. Manila and the
war appealed to them so strongly that
they hurried thither, and l consider. it
quite possible, knowing Fred's adven-
turous disposition, that he may have
gone out on the firing line and been
shot by a rebel Filipino.
This so-called telepathy had existed
since we were babies. 1t made no dif-
ference. whether we were separated by
ten feet or 10000 miles-we could keep
watch over each other, and we kept up
this communion to the end"
Likeness of Twins Famous.
Many stories of the Pratt brothers