The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-26
lola Plumber Says He Can Find
Dorothy Arnold.
Nothing of "Seer" or Fortune
Telling About Man.
HE KNOWS CRAVENS.
Once Employed by Man Who
Trained Animals.
Tells of Gliding Employer for
RObbing Bank.

lola, Kan, May 26.-That he coGlo
readily locate Miss Dorothy ATHoiu-
and as easily identify Ben CraVehs' tne
famous outlaw, said to be serving TINE
in the Missouri state prison under tne
name of Maust, is the ccnnoent dSseI-
ton of Charles Johnson, an 4otd PIu-I
Der, whose claim to the gift OF a "ol'-
derful psychic power ATTRACTS in mo,
than passing attention because u Illo
successful experience he has naq IN
periments along this line. Johnson
worked for CravenS in Oklahoma IN
1888, but never heard OF the ArnotiS
until following Miss Arnold's myster1-
Gus disappearance, and the Worlo-"Aoe
search was begun. for her.
Instead of being the superstltlous
falxir one might imagine him to be,
Johnson is aYerse to notortety ana
earnestly ambitious to master the SCI
ence of psychology as far as II Is pos
sfble for him to do so.
81 claim to be able to solve the most
rnysf erious criminal cases through VS.
ions or dreams 1 do not go into a
trance although it is possible for me
to do so and operate successfully Al
times 1 am able to concentrate anu
control myself so absolutely that haV-
ing been furnished the necessary 0ppor-
tunity to first study the crime, can,
with open eyes, stand and see tnlngs
that are so plain to me that l Won1er
what blinds the officers.
"I have been called a clairvoyant,
mind reader and seer but am not
to be classed with any of them. me
power that 1 have has been with me
from the days of my youth and 1t is
as strange and ineXplicable to me as
it is to you. 1 know, however, +hat
psycotheraIy is a science and not
myth and my ambition is to master II
as far as possible.
Ore of the earliest demonstrations
of nv power and one of the most con-
vincing ones came in 1883 when 1 was
working for Ben Cravens on rarcn
in tie Choctaw nation in Oklahoma.
One night, a bank and a postoftice in
the vicinity of FL Reno were robbed
In my dreams the following night.
could see the work plainly done and
Ben Cravens was in It, The next
morning passing me on the ranch
met Ben.
"'How are things coming?' he ask
ed.
livery WE'LL 1 answer. and they
ought to be coming pretty we'll with
you after the other nights work.
"Cravens eyed me sharply and de-
manded: What do you know about
it?'
"Of course I didn't know anything
about it except what 1 had seen in
my dreams and that without the evil
denee was valuelesS. But now, by
dreams and visions. I place the off,
GERS in a position to get the evidence.
IF 1 could see the home of Dorothy
Arnold; if she were described to me
by those who know her Intimately;
if ] could see her surroundings in tho
magnificent home and if I could per-
sonally go over the ground she last
trod before disappearing, I am certain
/ could locate her. I am just as GER
tain that I could identify Ben Cravens
if he is in the Missouri prison as they
claim he is. He has probably chang
ed a great deal since 1 last saw him;
but had I never seen his face 1 should
know it should I follow his crimes
through dreams"