The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-04-25
This Is the Question Being Ask
ed About Prof. Berrich.
PROBABLY The SOUL
Of the Vile He Had Just Murdered. Is
the SoleRn Reply Of Science AT.
ter a Series of Remarka.
bic Scientific E1-
periusrts.

Adolph Rarrich, 3 gsunV, enscia1eo
maniac, was captured by the sheriff
and 8 posse last month on the prarse,
nine miles from Colorado Springs, Col.
To the physician at the County jail
where be was first taken, he inne
distsly becsne an Object OF intense
interest by revealing himself IS a
student Of advanced physics and chen
istry.
Frssmentary utteraross indicated
further that the new inmate hao no
fronn Boston, Mass. that be was
Prof. Adolph Bscrich, snd that hs
hs6 killed bis own wife in the inter
ests OF science. 10 a rambling way be
has descsibed an experiment. with q
euorescent screen, ULTRA violet rays
and other apparatus, snd q human
soul Costing away.
Berrich's state ments were SO re
marksble that a search vas made o;
the cave In which he had been leao-
ing 3 hermits life for years, in the
hope that something mere tangible
might be found Of the soul s:ekirs
apparatus to which he referred so OF
ten.
The searchers fcun0 nothing CT im
rortsnce bus very lengthy manu-
script, very illegible at times. Thougi
the document is unsigned its aurcoi
Is in all probability Professor R2rrica
for il relates il slightly less frsgn1n'
ta,y form the details Of the gcast!J
scientific experiment. on which ths
nind Of the maniac is folev2r dwell,
Ing.
Considered alone as an unsuostan'
dated document, the manuscript OF
Professor Berrich is Of little apparen:
value, and may be dismissed as tie
irresponsible rawlings OF a lunstic Bu'
It becomes OF tremendous inporsaEc:
when considered IN correction with
the experiments which nava just bser
completed by Professor E:1cer Gates,
the Washing gton scientist. By the use
OF ultra yiolss rays q f1ncosc, ,2e ana
other apparatus which Bsr-ich 5anb
iipsly dsscri bes over and cv2r again
day after DAY, Profsssor Gsses cialn:
to na7s duo::cased che soul-seeiag ex-
pertinent OF the mad Professor Bsr
rsca. BE used dlinG rat ID tht
final and most successful test, anc
detected, it is dsc:arsd, q SHADOW
whica passed over tie specially Ere
pared sc,sea and taaed aAa; as tDi
little soiasl died.
Barrica asserts that he saw tn
sou! O, his o.n ai!e IN his expari
nsnt. Tue discovery 5y the Wash
lneton sec ns:s5 inoicats that It "a
not Impossible fer nl12 te haV- Coz
50.
TEE AMAZING Confession.
$50 it seemed 10 ms Gla5 wna
would be mos. wor5t kIoRing OF an.
earth would be H:,etne1 toers IS O
not apy hereafter. My t-siaia>g i:
the sc,ences naturally prompted "a
to scientific Investigation but fos year
ny results were sbs iutely negstlve.
Ten years ego 1 ~ss conStccei
shat sei,s c. hao no way Il soivics
the SO ! c.-and indeed, II h&dn'G 8
that time. left the U.sived State
and spent several years in ouner ctu3
TILES. Into al those relics OF super
stition known as the black rats I Gel
we'd.
AFTER seven years 7 fell III love IL
Paris ard married beausiful Gu!
vain girl much youoger than myself
! resolved and promised to give u
my c,fz7 ideas and live only for tx
present., as all animals AID most peo
pie 90.
I'VE were quite hsppy for si1
months which We spent IN Europe
Then my Old d5s!re crept b=ck upoE
me.
EVERY night my wife knels By tae
bedside and prayed. Al 6sst- she
prayed out loud for her dead parents
and for herself snd for ma. It was
no use to argue with her that there
are 70 trustworthy evidences Of SOU.
and that the hereafter is a m5 "a in
vented Tor simple minds. She had tt
admit the strength CT my arguments.
offered ncne in return but kept OF
With her pra:
''As so-D ss the prayer was eve,
she Grorped quickly TO sl,ep. I hoa-
ever was doomed to follow cut till tne
small hours the chain Of dcub5s and
blows engenoered by her prayer.
Several lire s are partially chlit2r-
sted By the weather a. this loiat, but
the sense is evident from the remaln'
ing words.
'.From that moment vas possess
ed By az IDA. A fxsC iaes, psychoi'
ogists cal. it. / rec, gniz:d It. 'ougc'
against it, criticised ls-a..d tie il
sane do not criticise their iceas-so ]
wss nos insane. Yet the idea gre"
upcD me each night that Is ccu!o
XIII 8 human being IN the right way
and be all prepared I nigat SEE tie
human soul.
II could but catch glimpse OF
the soul as It forsaok the dead bod;
my doubts and misery you'd Ell be st
an end. ] tel5 that my l,fs would os
peaceful ever afse: ard tuat vou:o
stoae for aEe nur3er oJ spceaGing the
truth CT immortality to sN :he world.
Tha5 would suEsly BE 8o1tn Cne
life.
Wary OF what he had er6ured in
Oio World ,ravals, this nary;.icr 0: 3
1e7ol5iGg csirs, tur:.ed ho&s.a &
but bes,ea "a: I dawn lessons Il Z
the legends OF VSLds:5. csa6, ;nt
Flying Du @cl-1a7," he ss:s ''cr
Ahasae1us, Ike Wandering J:v, cur
sed with pscpe:ual yo1th a1d ever
seeking az el:x:r ct csa:h.
ia ny s.eepisss niGess tie temp
tatjcn 1ss te:,.b'a 70 slsy sle,,;scraa !.
VINO lay Breathing ,ilensly bs ide ~.
She wita teE pray: rs, was l-2:f Gne
Cause q Z. mi>=rg.
AT lasu I Saw That I must oven