The San Francisco call., 1909-01-30
GIVES FURTHER
PROOFS OF HER
STRANGE POWER
Bess Conner Continues TO DEM
onstrafe Occult Phe-
nOmena
Fourteen Year Old School Girls
Performance Still Puz=
zIeS Many

Intense interest has been aroused
throughout the city among students of
psychic phenomena by the exclusive
news in The Call yesterday Of the
strange powers in the occult of Bess
Conner. the IA year old schoolgirl who
has developed. within three weeks
time. into a psychic of astonishing
skill
The Conner home at f171 Seventeenth
street was besieged yesterday by per
cons interested in the study Of the
astral world. and a few of the visitors
were allowed to enter the house and
:. watch the gifted girl in a demonstra-
tion.
Brother Fabrician head of the de-
partment of psychology Of St Mary
fcollege, Oakland. through the agency
Of one OF his advanced pupils, VINO
visited the Conner home last night
made an engagement 10 call at the
house tonight and study the girl as
she goes through a test. Brother Ia
bricjan has been connected with St
NIary's for Is years. and is deep stu
dent Of psychology and psychic Dhe-
nomena. His judgment upon the girl :
power viii be awaited with the deep
est interest. for the professor is reeog-
rized as an authority, a careful and
learned scholar.
COoPER's EXPLANATION
Irving 6. Cooper, national lecturer
for the Theosophical society and a
former president Of the Berkeley So
cietv for PsychicaI Research. who IS
completing a lecture tour OF the united
states. expressed himself at length yes
terdav upon Bess Comers strange gifts.
Co0per's reputation as student %
psychic phenomena is national.
Greater care is needed in the study
- rpn1Tif'afl
e.. even in scientific Investigations,
Cooper said yesterday. There are so
many chances to be fooled that the
Investigator must keep keenly on the
ert watching every move. constant
. ly insisting upon test conditions.
II have not had time to look into
.the interesting case Of psychic phe-
nomena described by The Call this
morning. and so have no right to say
- whether ii be true or false. II true,
ii might be accomplished in one or
two ways: either by what is commonly
known as clairvoyance or by telepathy.
x IS a well known fact to the occulist.
and IS now recognized by science that
thought can flash from mind to mind
without the aid Of speech. Two think
ing brains are like two wireless instru-
ments. II sympatheticalIy tuned they
can communicate with each other by
thought waves. Bess Conner may have
gained her knowledge TO answer ques-
rions IN this way.
INTERNAL AUTOSCOPYv
ON the other hand. by slightly in
tensifying the vision Of the human eye
1t is possible to develop a sort OF
.Xray' sight, which can see through
material objects without much diff
Guilty. A solid board, for example
would look like a slab of faint mist
through which objects could be seen.
Scientific men in Europe, after test
ing this vision, which theosophists call
etheric sight in connection with the
examination Of the interior OF living
human bodies, have given it a new
name Of internal autoscopy' This
name satisfies the orthodox conscience
Of scientists who have previously
scoffed at the very existence of clair
voyance"
The students of psychic phenomena
Who called upon Bess Conner yesterday
pronounce her an example of the
'pythones" type of person gifted with
occult powers. This means that she is
the receptivee type in her Impressions
rather than objective
Pictures held in the minds Of her ex-
aminers yesterday were described un-
erringly by the girl and other and
more astonishing feats performed. The
test by Brother Fabrian tonight will
conclude the girls manifestations for a
time, for her family fear that the
nervous strain upon her may work her
harm.