The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-10-09
AMBULANCE FOR A PSYCHIC
DR. MIvOR TYNDALL SCBCN-
CONSCIOUS ~ CARNEGIE HALL.
.Junhie Of Wstrh Numbers and Mental
Hostility Made Him Tumble RiGht
Over epticism was . Disturbing
Dweller ~ the threshold Of the HAL.

JumNte oS Watrh NumOers ana MeuSss
Hostility Made Him Tumble RiGht
Over r-scepticism was . Disturbing
Dweller ~ the Threshold Of the HalI.
DIR. Alexander J. NicIvor- -Tyndall presi-
dent Of the Progressive New Thought
Society. lectured on Life After Death
AZ Carnegie Lyoeum Last night and after
the lecture gave what he called demon
strations" Of psychic power. He was
about to read the number OF watch
that he couldn't nee because he was
blindfolded when Miss Hudson. one
Of the committee" whom the doctor
had called to the stage a. jury. rushed
to him and apparently whispered In his
ear.
Thereupon the doctor tumbled to the
floor.
The New Thoughts jumped to their feet
all over the house. crying. Hes fainted!'
Some OF them ran to the stage.
The first man to reach the doctor was
one Of the committee. DR.. George Starr
White. who lives at ls Warburton avenue.
Yonkers. DR.. White felt Of DR.. McIvor-
Iyndall's pulse. passed his hand over his
forehead, scrutinized him closely for a
moment. got his hat and left the hall.
What's the matter with Dr.. Mclvor-
Tyndall?" somebody asked the departing
physician. HAS he fainted?"
you can write 1t down this way" DR..
White replied. .f--e-i-g-n-e-d."
woman rushed out OF the Lyceum
and went to the Hotel Grenoble, where
she grabbed a telephone and asked Roose-
welt Hospital to send an ambulance. She
said that DR.. McIvor-T -Tyndall had been
assaulted. The hospital. which has no
ambulance service. told her to call up
Police Headquarters. which she did
Presently an ambulance from Flower
Hospital appeared at Carnegie Lyceum.
but by that time the building was dark
| and nobody was on hand to tell what had
happened
Before the New Thought president thus
ended the meeting by falling on the stage
he had been demonstrating how telepathy
could be used in the detection Of robbers
He had also while blindfolded found mai
that DR.. White had driven in the wall o.
the stage and had hit 1t on the head with {
hammer which Dr. White had hidden
When he got to the watch reading tricl
three persons walked out Of the hall
They loudly declared at the door tina
every member Of the committee on tn
stage had been paid by DR.. Mclvor
Tyndall and that Miss Hudson. who wa
also on the committee on Sunday nigh
q week ago. was undoubtedly his con
federate.
Thereupon New Thoughter got up ant
told DR.. McIvor-Tyndall what thes
scoffers were saying about him. Tn
doctor removed the handkerchief from
his face and announced that he woul,
give 5000 to charity il committee to b.
appointed by New York newspaper
could prove him faker. Then followe,
Miss Hudson's whisper. the faintin,
scene. the exit Of the Yonkers docto
and the call for ambulances.
Mrs. McIvor Tyndall was in the Lyceun
lobby taking care Of the gate receipt
when her husband fell. but later at he
home. 10 West Seventieth street. she wa
able to explain lust what happened
DR.. McIvor Tyndall abe said. had sue
ceeded in reading all but one Of the figure
a man among the spectators shouted
Now why can't you read the numbe
on my watch?"
WELL" Mrs McIvor-Tyndall said /,
telling her story at her home. you hav
! heard Of the wireless operator who die,
Of shock when two messages got crossed
That is just the effect this tumble o
watch numbers and of mental hostilit,
had on my husband. except that instea,
of killing him 1t threw him into state o
subunconsciousness"
The doctor. 80 his wife said, was sub
unconscious for several minutes. Sh
: heard that an ambulance had been called
} but as the doctor recovered quickly fror
! his faint she took him right home in
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