The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-15
PROF. RICHET'S
FRIENDS GHOST
HOW DID MIME. x. OBTAIN GER.
TAIN INFORMATION?
It Seemed to Her that Spirit Met
Her on a Train and Told Her Prob
able Extension Of Human Faculties
Of Which We at Present Know Little.
London Answers.

staying at Carqueiranne in October,
1900, when he received an extraordinary
letter from lady Of his acquaintance
who had only very lately. come to live
in Paris. This lady, whom he calls
Nine. x, had lived up to that time
retired life in a. convent, and had only
known Professor Richet for few
months. In none Of their conversations
had the professor told her intimate de-
tails Of his life, and she was wholly
unacquainted with his private history.
The letter of Nine. x. stated that she
had left Paris for month in the forest
of Fontainebleau, and that during the
railway journey strange event had be-
fallen her. At the station of Melun it
carriage opened; that strange man
entered it, and, sitting opposite to her,
Immediately began to talk Of Profes-
sor Richet. She appears to have been
aware thru it all that she was listening
to the words Of a ghost; but she ex-
perienced neither horror nor fear, and
listened patiently to what the ,appari-
had been in his lifetime a great friend
| Of Professor Richet, whom he had called
FCarlos,o and by whom he had always
been called "Tony''; and he further
| told her that he was very well &C
quainted with Fontainebleau, and would
accompany her in all her walks thru the
| forest. ri ~,
This was as much as the first letter
| told, but the letters which followed it
| quickly, one after another, revealed to
Professor Richet a strange and moving
story. / will quote few of the pas
sages given in the English version Of
Nine. KS letters: 5..s.
"Tony showed me tree today, on
which were engraved the letters A. B.,
and a date 1880 or 1883--the last fig
ure was indistinct. Under the letters
A. B. was the name Lucie. He
| says he collaborated with you in some
work. He says that when he was dead
you went into his death chamber and
kissed him on the forehead. He had
not been previously lila feeling Of
sufocation in the chest, and that was
2 When H. Ss Tis sd only 50 80 Hyea ados eld
charming; for Antoine (Tony) shows
me her portrait medallion or a lock-
ct, which he used to wear-in which
she seems to have beautiful dark eyes
and hair. .... -
~ think Antoine lived long time
with Lucie at Fontainebleau; they were
sadly happy there. The house they
was a red and white cottage, quite
close to tn. Forest which iS was just be;
alone, tranlway passes by there today.
i e"Tony also speaks about his father.
His father loved his own freside. He
one lost so lot Of, Of money when An An
% befo4gs 10Eh o d dIPsda wednssd Se1T.
you and he were at banquet together
and drank each others health. Tony
then told you that he had not been
II feeling well and that he was in great
need Of a holiday. Antoine
told me again today. that he loved
Lucie dearly, 'and,' he said, Il still
watch over her, even now. Tell her
no evil will even befall her. :" y
Such is a very brief and hasty sum-
mary of the revelations made to a
solemn lady from a French convent by
a spirit walking in the forest Of Fon-
tainebleau. For those of us who read
them they have the color of romance
the pleasant, eerie feeling Of flreside
| ghost story. But for Prof essor Richet
the brilliant French Psychologist and a
, member Of the. Academy Of Medicine
, tifc, but one poignantly human anc
i real. -. e. .-~.-. =, ya.@s n ..s
| He tells us that he had friend whose
name was Antoine B., and he saysi ~
} am particularly anxious to point out a
) fact Of which | am absolutely certain
Wh1cn Is IhaJ mao never pronounced
the presence Of Nine. x.'' =
+ Professor Richet found out, to his
4 own surprise, that he and Antoine B
had been to Fontainebleau together in
! the year 1883. ~" I'LL
eft is quite true," he tells us, "that
4 alone among all my friends, Antoine
! called me Carlos, and that I, on my
side, called him Tony. This is q fact
4 correct-and am not aware Of HAVING
/ related this fact to any person whatso
h ever-that when Antoine died, stricken
y to death in few hours by~a disease
\ Of the heart, I went into his deatl
\ chamber and Kissed him on the brow
1 : He was 80 years old when he died
and his death was almost instantaneous
I death more correctly than Nine. X
1 does in the words, A feeling Of suffo
cation in the chest, and that was all.
In fact, toward II CLOCK in the nigh
he was seized by g thoracic oppression
which made such rapid progress that b
expired at ,clock in the morning.
/ Regarding the "Lucie" of Nine. K.
\ visions, Professor Richet tells us tha
the name Of Antoine s wife was Marie
but that Tony frequently used to sa:
to her: "What a pity you are no
4 called Lucie!" It was his favorit
4 name. The description of this Lucie
says Professor Richet, is exact.
4 The story related by Nine. KS ghost
in fact, is SO wonderfully like the trut
known to Professor Richet that we nee
not trouble to relate further similar!
ties. But the story is incomple sine
the chief interest Of it is Nine. x
I without the following postscript to til
4 narration Of Professor Richet:
tone evening in May, 1903" wrot
B Professor Richet, ~ was dining wit
\ Nine. K. and her family. 4,
Z ward the close Of the evening, shortl
4 before / left, Nine. x. pronounced til
\ following ds-words which I wrot
4 down among my notes as soon as
\ reached home: 4 see woman stant
ing near me. She has gray hair, she
q about SO years of age, but looks Ode
4 than she really is. Her hair is quit
gray I believe it is Nine. B. (Antoine
4 widow tho am not quite sure yet.
see the figure with her, which prol
\ ably means that she will die in seve
months, or on the 7th Of some nes
month. . d.
@ died within seven weeks after Mn
| X1s p prediction, on Tuesday, June 9
Mime. B. had black hair. I,who kne
her well, had never noticed any gray j
her hair; I did not know. she was era.
Now, few days before her illness too
a serious turn, one Of the members
my family, who had just been pawn
Nine. b. visit, said to me: Nine. ]
does not dye her hair any longer,
I that one can now see how very gray 81
isl Here, says the professor, is.
yeritable premonition &, 4.