Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-12-12
PSYCHOLOGICAL RIDDLE THAT
PUZZLES INVESTIGATORS.
M'cAFFREy's ODD CASE
Extraordinary Visions Which Prof.
Hysiop of Columbia University
Admits He Cannot Explain-A
6ewiIderine Gift Which Battles
Its Owner.

LeOnOrd Il. PIPER, TOT IL years Inc
marvel of the psychic experts of two
continents, in which she declared
that she does not believe that her
wonderful trance demonstrations are
evidence Of communication from the
spirit world" but thinks them at
tributable to telepathy and hypnotism
comes, says the ST. Louis Republic
the case of Michael Mccartney, one #
the most battling phenomena upon
which the men who seek to read the
dim riddle Of the mind and spirit
have ever turned the light of In
vestigation.
Mrs. Piper's explanation of her own
bewildering gift may offer a hypoth
esis to explain what befell Michael
Mccartney, but even then the mystery
would be greater than ever.
Michael Mccartney, of Bangor, n
Y, is the principal in this great
psychological mystery, which scien-
lists have studied and been con.
founded by. His experiences with
dream manifestations which led to
tentative claim of $5,00O,O0O on the
bank of England are so at variance
with scientific classification, the
repetition with which they appeared
so logical, that even so high an au.
thority as Prof. James H. Hyslop of
Columbia university, owns himself
at a loss to advance the shadow of an
explanation.
In dream British soldier of the
Colonial period appeared to Mccartney
and told him to dig under an old pine
stump on his farm. The vision was
clear and distinct, and none of the
haZiness of the usual dream. The
farmer had impressed wildly upon him
every detail of the soldiers features
and his dress, the quality of his
voice and the peculiarities of gesture
Mccartney did as directed and found
a certificate On the bank of England
dated 1775, for 10000, with interest
Then the soldier appeared to him
again and told him to dig deeper
This time another certificate for
$4,000, was unearthed. Five times
afterward came the soldier down the
highway of sleep and spoke to Nc
Caffrey, and So convincing, so rea'
was his presence that the dreamer
began to doubt that he>slept at all.
The certificates, with interest
would call for 100000 When they
were presented to the bank of Eng
land it was found that there were nc
outstanding obligations of that nature
The bank officials also made the dis
eovery that the water-mark was not
made until 25 years after 1875.
There is no ground to believe that
Mccartney was party to any fraud, and
1t was to determine this that Pro
fessor Hyslop conducted a series Of
experiments upon him. The man of
science owns himself baffled after two
years of the most searching investiga-
ton. The history of the case and the
part he played in trying to solve the
mystery will be embodied in a mono
graph to be submitted to the Society
of Psychical Research.
The Mccartney home is about four
miles from Bangor, N. Y, near the
Canadian frontier. There on a farm
of 35 acres live Michael, now a man Of
40, his mother and brother and 4
sister.
Michael had lived the life of the
average country boy and man up to
the dream visions. There was moth.
ing whatever to distinguish him from
other farm laborers. His ancestors
for generations had been farmers.
To this unsophisticated rustic the
vision of British soldier appeared in
a dream one night, telling, Michael to
dig under the pine stump, where he
would find a paper. Not only was
this made distinct, but the soldier ex,
pressly ordered him to dig there on
July 2. The soldier according to
Michael's description, looked like a
middling-sized man who used to live
at Brushton.
He was smooth-faced and was
dressed in a red jacket and big, tall
hat, sGmethink like those band men
wear at the Fourth of July celebra.
tion at Brushton. | had never seen
anything like that red jacket, and he
wore those things (meaning epauletsl
on his shoulders.
mo; never had seen any British
uniform and had never read any de.
scription Of it.
HE said he was a soldier and that
he had been killed by the Indians and
that he had no relations whatever
The dream vanished and woke up
I didn't think il was worth while
thinking upon and I went blowing
that morning withosa giving 1t an
other thought"
But again and again the vision of
the British soldier reappared, with
exactly the same context, the same IN
structions to dig on July 2. Each
time the dream impressed Michael
more and more. and, after the fourth
manifestation, he told his folks.
I'VE were drawing potatoes" he
tells. "and when I described the
dream to my folks they laughed at me
and told me was surely a-dreaming
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