Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-12-12


! ruled, and was about eight inches lens
by two and a half vide. 1t was
rather damp, but neld together
firmly. It was straight, but ap
parently had been folded at one unr
and it seemed to be without any trace
! of writing. Michael had never seen
anything like that style of paper
before.
Il took it to the house." he said
! 'and showed it there Mother and
! the rest were all very much excited
! Mrs. Mary Wilson, a, farmers wife
near by, was On the road, and she
came up and looked at it. When ]
it very wonderful. Then l put it in
the clock for safe-keeping.
A few nights later the British
soldier, for the sixth time, came t.
Michael and advised him to go back
and dig deeper on the same spot.
Il went right away when 1 got up
! Michael narrates, :'and dug two feet
deeper. Right in the ground l found
a little round bottle about an inch IT
diameter and six inches long.
couldn't dig well there. as the subsoI
seemed to have been pressed 10
gether, and in loosning the bottle /
happened to break it with a crowbar
Il carried the broken bottle to the
house and took a paper out and
showed it 10 the folks. There was
writing on it, pretty faded, but /
could make it out to be a certificate
dated 1775, for $4,000 with interest
on the bank of England. I knew
what G. stood for from my arithmetic
lessons.
Andrew, one Of my brothers. was
working for B. T. J. Jewett. whose
son, Prof. n. F. Jewett, was then at
home. He said to me: You had
better take it to the professor s
l took it and the first note down.
told Professor Jewett about INV
dreams. He looked at both notes, and
after a while said: I'll keep them ia
some dark place where they won't
fade
Then he and his father hitched ur
a hores and buggy and came down
AMI examined the SPOT. The profes,
sor took a spade and dug still ne
struck solid ground. His father
asked him what he did that for. IT.
said he did that to see if the ground
at the bottom was old, old ground, AND
he said:
CT have no doubt Of it. I am
satisfied it has been there for years. u
Professor Jewett, who is connected
with the High school at Fredonia, ana
who interested Professor HysIop in
the case, has assured the latter that It
was evident that the ground had not
been disturbed for many years.
Professor Jewett took the two
papers to F'rCdonia. For a seventh
time the British soldier came in al
dream and told Michael that the first
note, which could not be deciphere3
was for G10,00O with interest. Nj
Chael wrote the substance of this
dream to Professor Jewett, who re.
piled that SUI q coincidence va
queer; that he had just used acids 0n
the note and had found that it was forI
he sum name in the dream.
Professor Jewett subsequently wenrj
to England and presented the notes at
the bank o. England. As with III,
teTest and compound interest money!
doubles every 20 years the G140GGI
from l775 would now swell the
amount to more than $5.O00000.
The officials Of the bank of EngIan |
carefully investigated it's accounts
and replied that there were not out
standing obligations Of that nature
and that he bank never gave interest
on notes.
The bank of England authorities
also added that the paper of the notes |
was not made until 25 years after
1775.
In the meantime Professor HysI0pi
began to study this remarkable case
eXperimentally. This required 81
series of Investigations.
AS final touch to his experiments !
Professor HysIop tok Mccartney to his
house, 519 West One Hundred and
FOrty-ninth street, recently, and there
repeatedly hypnotized him to discover |
if possible, whether in that condition |
acting under suggestion, he could re
veal the supposed real sources of the |
dreams
Every one of the seven dreams was |
literally alike to the minutes cir |
misunderstanding marvellous in |
itself, for seldom On ever does any
person have even two dreams
precisely similar.
Moreover, the finding Of the notes
on the spot indicated the coincidence !
Of the soldier telling Michael that one |
was for 10000, when Professor |
Jewett at the same time was dis
covering the fact by means of acid
far away-these stamped upon the |
ase most significant mystery.
Uf all men scientists are justified in |
being skeptical until the fact isl
proved beyond doubt. But whatever
were Professor Hyslop's suspicious |
upon beinning his Investigations, they |
had wholly disappeared by the time
he had completed them.
Professor Hyslops examinations of
Mccartney, physically and |
mentally, were continuous and
thorough. Mccartney does not show !
the slightest signs of being either 4 !
neurOtic or a degenerate. About 81
feet inches in height. his form is /
that of a well-built strong man, whose |
health, partly inherited and partit !
coming from living natural n,1tdo,.t |