Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-02
4SEES" OVER PHONE
William T. Stead Describes
Strange Power of Friend.
DOESN'T TRY TO EXPLAIN
No Use Made Of Eyes in His Feats of
Describing Objects.
DISCOVERED BY ACCIDENT
Occult Power II Known as Phone
voyance-Has Been Adapted to
Music Hall Performances.
DISCOVERED BY ACCIDENT
BIZ WILLIAM T. STEAD.

BIZ WILLIAM T. STEAD.
Special Cablesram % The Star.
LONDON. April 1.-The keen interest
taken by Americans In some experiments
which conducted q few years ago with
q Nottingham gentleman for tho trans
mission Of words by telepathy from Not
that II may not be without interest II
I describe the latest and still more re-
markable phase Of telepathic clairvoy-
ance.
A performer at the Alhambra Music
Hall, who had been giving thought-read-
ing tests. undertook to demonstrate that
telephone for the purpose Of visualizing
objects at the other end Of the wire.
Two committees were formed. one sit
ting on the stage OF the music hall. the
other in the Daily Mirror ofice. Mem
formers husband at the Alhambra ar
ticles which they produced from their
pockets, and his wife, who was at the
newspaper ONCE q mile away, described
the articles in question and generally
But the existence Of this faculty of
phone-voyance has long been known to
me, Its original discoverer, to the best
of my knowledge and belief. being Vim
cent Turvey, a retired business man, who
is living at Bournemouth. How he first
came to make this discovery he de-
scribes as follows:
His First Experience.
November II, 1908, Mr.. Sharpe.
neighbor, rang me up on the telephone
to ask a question. When had answered
the inquiry, he said: I must go now,
as have a friend here I replied, Yes.
1 see you have He said, You don't
mean to say that you can see who it
is? I said. No; ] cannot see who he
is, but / can describe him to YOU
Il then proceeded to accurately de-
scribe the gentleman's face, hair, eyes.
hands, stature and mustache. adding:
He wants shave l mentioned that
he was sitting in an armchair with his
OF the chair. While this description was
being given Mr.. Pontifex. that is the
name Of Mr.. Shapes visitor, rose from
the chair and went and leaned on the
mantelpiece with one elbow, standing up
to do so with his legs crossed.
Fast Losing Power.
After that Mr.. Pontifex came to the
telephone and asked for further demon
stration. The ability to see was fast
slipping away from me; but was able
to describe one or two articles on him.
He then cross-questioned me, in order
to find out If had seen him before. and
/ was able to convince him that had
never heard of him.
That was the first occasion on which
Mr.. Turvey was able to see, as II were,
through the telephone. He made subse-
quent experiments with considerable sue
cess. In the first the distance between
the seer and the seen was not much more
than one mile. In the next experience
the parties were separated by nearly 100
miles.
In one case Mr.. Turvey rang up a Mr.
Lane to ask for the return of a book
when Mr.. Lane came to the phone"
says Mr.. Turvey, Il could distinctly see
a long, narrow passage; at the end OF the
passage i could see q pair of hands,
wrists and forearms, evidently wom-
ans.