The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-02-12
ALBURTUs GETS
EGG
Hypnotist Now Able to Tes-
tify That Taking Don't
Go In Dalhart.


FACT < M p H A 8 d
ALBURTUS GETS EGG RECEPTION
Those who were ON the streets last
night are convinced that there Ia no
egg famine in Dalhart. Eggs SCARED
shortly after ten U clock but they fell
to the earth again aud In falling did
not fail TO "splattcr. Ia fact II
was intended that they should splatter
and that IN so doing that the clothes
and phiz Of ona Albertus, an alleged
hypnotist. should receive the fun bene
Ut Of the price paid for the Y
And 50 Albcrtus met his las, night,
- his referring to fate or eggs, which
ever the reader cares to interpret it.
There was no hypnotislng last night.
Other stunts were pulled OF but no
one was hypnoiised. The boys who
occupied the front seats in the hopes
Of being invited to the stage we're dis.
appointed, no one was asked to the
stage.
And so happened hat a m ID Of
about two hundred, It is claimed form.
ed at the front door Of the theatre,
and the story goes that they were
armed vita Over ripe eggs aud this il
confirmed to an extent by the appear
ance of the side wink this morning.
Albertus heard rumors to the effect
that he vas being waited for aud 80
thought It best to 20 by a back way.
But 10, no sooner was he out side this
building than cggs b gan to y frun
all directions and the hypnotist wa.
compelled to flee for his life. lie burn.
cd the wind at a two.forty gait and
on reaching his rooming place found
that his clothes would have to be
cleaned before he could attend church
services next Sunday.
But Albertus was not the only one.
The window sleeper, the man who WAS
50 horribly m%ultilated, was not slight.
cd. lie went down the front street
and his clothes too, noed a cleaning
1t is alleged. The rotten egg deal is
the result OF q man trying to run a
fake in Dalhart. Fakers don I gener.
ally work here. Public opinion il
against II and Albertub will testify
that taking IL not a paying business
In this queen city OF the plains.
The following Is u trse account Of what
took place Sunday night In waking Al
burtus' sleeper.
Max X. Smith, Tom Long Of wa.
liams' garage and j. Wilson and Mr..
Taylor who works for Martin Furniture
Co., leave the back door Unattached 80
that they might get in, and they took
four Columbia dry cells and induction
coil on an automobile and attached the
wire to the sleepers' hip, while on the
outside OF the window whero crowds OF
people were watching the sleeper, and
II they had applied the wire to the
boys face everyone would have seen
Il. The current could not have been
very strong as they had to use the air
for u return current and il would take
a very high voltage with a strong an.
perago to kill. IL Mr.. Alburtus can
hypnotizo the writer, he IL welcome "a
do so and apply the battery, that WINS
used on the boy, as long ~ he lixes and
there will be no funeral on account of
It. The electricity seemed to be n good
for the drug given 70 the bow
for 1t woke him up and hs went 20
Mrs CulbertSOns boarding house to nc.
quaint AlbuItus that ne was awake.
went up the stairA and Clyde Cul.
berson followed him up, and he asked
Glide to call Mr.. Rsndolph, which Glide
lid.
The boy went to main street and
'ried 10 act like he wa in a trance and
overlook him when he got
Town even with thu old Midway banS ,
'uiiding and made out like he woke
I'm up.
Any one who says the boy walked tho
Tor hour. does net know anything
bout It for il vas noe over thirty min
les from tho time the battery was ap.
iod until Alburtus snapped his On. :
'Ts before the boys face and told him J
wake up'-Dalhsrt Evening News.
This rs the hombrs who played the q
vt Of the supernatural fool here isst J,
and II sssms tksa he Il mssslxsI