Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-08-09
CAN BE DONE BY ANY ONE
WHO WILL TAKE THE
TROUBLE TO PRACTICE
DOCTOR WHO DID THE
TRICK - THE STREET
DRIVE.

! tribune, short time afterwards, has
this to say of tombstone:
IF Paul Alexander tombstone Is not
a fraud he Is most remarkable young
man. Ii he is a fraud, some of the
smartest people in Chicago will feel
sheepish today when they know they
have been deceived by trick as
transparent as the mohair hood which
Dr. Charles Gatchel asserts John.
stone peered through when he made
his famous trip in the downtown
streets September 10.
"Dr. Gatchell is a well.known physi.
clan and is editor of the Medical Era
of this city. He occupies the chair OF
! the theory and practice of medicine at
the University of Michigan and is a
confirmed materialist. He doesn't be.
lieve in mind reading or thought trans.
ference. It was an unlucliy day for
tombstone when Dr. Gatchell got on
his trail. DR.. Gatchell followed him in
his trip through the streets and was
confident the alleged mind reading was
fraudulent. He had no way Of proving
it, though, till he met DR.. G. f. Butler,
lecturer at Rush Medical College.
whose office is at No. 2i0 Wabash ave.
nue.. DR.. Butler was q member of the
committee which accompanied John.
stone, and he had his suspicious.
W len he had talked with DR.. Gatchell
and the two doctors had experimental
little, they learned, as they think,
the secret OF the tricks by which John.
stone deluded the inblic and gathered
more money in a month than most men
make in a year.
Trick Was Exposed.
"A week ago last Saturday Dr. Cat.
chell broke up Johnstone's perform
ance at Central Music Hall and yester.
day he showed Tribune reporter how
the young man from st. Paul does the
trick. He did 1t more easily and bet
ter than tombstone had done II, and
he used neither whisky nor Mysteries
to help him out.
THE Tribune reporter and DR.. But.
Ter composed the committee which
tested DR.. Gatchell in his rooms at No
2S5 Michigan avenue yesterday morn
ing.
"I will imagine | am tombstone he
said. Then he snapped his fingers and
stamped and sweated just as John
stone did. Put these gloves over my
eyes. Now tie them tightly with this
handkerchief. want the gloves to be
near the optic nerve. That's right
Higher, a little. Now try this hood on
and tell me II you can see through it..
THE hood was double thickness
of black cloth, and only a faint light
came through its meshes The report
er said he couldn't see, and the doctor
still initiating tombstone, drew the
hood over his own head.
"'Pick out a word in the Century
Magazine and remember the page
THE committee chose the word
ignorant
Now take a trip through the hall
: and down stairs. Remember the direc
lions and the number of steps you
take
THE committee went out, turned Ia
the right few yards, came back, went
downstairs eight steps, and returned
to the room.
"'Stand against that wall DR.. Cat
chell said to the reporter. Then tC
> Dr. Butler: Trace in the air the direc
,tions you took. Now the number Of
steps. Now the page in the magazine
and the word you selected
Called for Whisky.
Or Butler did all this because he
was the man who made the tracings
for tombstone. When he had finished
Dr.. Gatchell seized one hand, the re
porter took the other, and the three
men galloped into the hall. DR.. Cat
,chell dragged the committee to tn,
: right, back again, down eight stairs, III
eight stairs, and into the room. Their
he called for whisky because John
stone had called for it. Unlike John
stone, he didn't drink 1t.
> Pencil and paper! he shouted.
THE pencil and paper were furnish
ed. The doctor bent over the bool
and ran through the pages, shouting
meantime: Give me air. Why dom
you keep your minds concentrated?
Whisky. No; hold on, boys, ] dom
want any When he reached the pag,
he stopped and said: Your minds arr
: off the subject. Why don't you sd.
this Is the pager
1T is said the committee. TheI
the doctor snapped his fingers som'
more and tainted once to give verisi
Multitude to the imitation and FINAL!
wrote a word on the paper. The wore
was ignorant.
: THE imitation had been successful
The hood had been examined as close
ly as II was examined by the commit
: tee at the Auditorium Hotel. DR.. But
Ter had made all the test conditions
that have ever been enforced at John
stones exhibitions. At least one OF thu
committee never thought Of the wore
once after the fun began; yet DR.. Cat
chell had not only picked one word GU
of forty, but one out of 400 or 500.
Then he sat down and laughed,
Would You Like to Know.
: would you like to know how 1t II
: done? he said. Look at these TIVE
gloves. You see fold them and place
them against my eyes. That is John
tones first deceit. II looks like al
additional safeguard against fraud, bu
he couldn't read mind without 1t. III,
: this handkerchief about my head. Tie