The Washington times., 1912-05-17
CHAPTER X.-(Continued).

CHAPTER x.-(Continued).
TS HE objection may be raised that.
as Ford was far removed from
the scene of his supposed crime.
his mind would hardly have
given so prompt response to
what Beilair sought to know. But,
on second thought, 1t will be remem-
hered that Bellair had Just previously
his foot slipping. This must have sent
Ford's mtnd-his consciousness-to the
cave and the accident and memory
truth: r. as Was pre6able. @eba ,asneo the Thing ing
Sehlnd the Curtain was open to receive
Impressions. the objection must be over
That Is the only instance we have of
Bellairs taking mental record with
out the use direct electrical contact.
am nenss e think that
Eresssd in that direction, too. for we
find that when he took a record of a
person outside Of the house--as in the
case OF the prisoners at police head
q1arters-he had recourse to the Bell
telephone.
According to Detective-sergeant Rem
on one point. Beliair often requested
that the prisoner be brought to the tele-
phone. Close questioning recalled to
lair was particular that the steel head
piece be placsd on the subjects head;
bnt Remrhers Is also sure that In later
that BelIair required was that the pris-
oner subject should put the receiver
to his ear in the ordinary. and usual
tSa TbinS nshi5d shiS we ,s may 1adge that @
phone was discovered by, Bellair to be
sensitive enough to receive the tele-
pathic waves Through the ear), as II
10. In Its ordinary use, sensitive enough
to receive sound waves. which are
then ,transmitted by corresponding cleo
1t is also clear from Remmers' story,
and from the testimony OF other wit
nesses. that Bellair was continually en-
gaged In experimenting.
The presence of ali Sorts and condi-
tons Of men In his study Is sufficient
evidence that he was constantly taking
records. The case of Holstein, and of
the man who came back to ask If he
had shown any signs of "dippiness'
while In the study, suggest to me that
Beilair also took every opportunity of
er knows. my own experience to sup
port this Why he should have chosen
tramps for the most part in his expert
ments. cannot think, except that such
and for all We know to the contrary. he
may have found the odd mentality Of
the degenerate and the abnormal more
picturesque than that singleness Of pur-
pose ana interest wnlcn usually CnaraC-
terize the superior creature There is
one part of the whole matter which I
must confess Is quite beyond my under
standing. l refer to what Mrs. Anslem
termed raising the dead and the ex-
traordinary incident of Bellair playing
his own funeral march after he had
suffered two wounds, either of which,
Coroner McCreedv assures me. must
selp,'s account of what she overhea rd
Be?s'- saying about raising the dead
and the trouble about getting the mind
% can blame 4 heraS gao that VIVA Whatever theory MHf
McCready's thinking. merely echo
sst ne seisiF %as as abe sa ultimate
body which had been dead for some
time seems certain. If we believe the
testimony Of Remmers. which has since
been corr oborated in one essential de-
tall by, the morgue-keeper called
Jimmy" A body which had been in
TIE refrigeratSr for months and then
three days warm. and with the appear:
ance of not having been dead three
We also have the testimony of Mrs.
Anselm that IN one occasion. when her
master was supposed to be alone In the
Red Room with dead man in cof-
nnr.ns apd bad nerson sSs
ing Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep
This is enough to staSger the creduiity
OF tne most imaginative.
McCready himself shakes his head
over It, but he is inclined to attach a
considerable amount of Importance to
the garbled statement of Mrs. Anselm
and brains AIMS; of the living"
II look at it in this way" says Cor
oner McCready. 1T we grant that this
man was able to wipe. Mr.. William,
supersede him with q person named
Arthur Tremlett, SO that for that time
you were mental duplicates, we must be
prepared to grant everything possible. ,
testimony Of Remmers and the morgue,
keeper about that body, and. although
1t is hard to believe Mrs. Anselm'
story about the man singing and the
lairs body was found flung across the
piano keyboard. We CANT help think.
Ing that he resurrecteh himself to play
the Grand march: ~ ,..o.a.,.,
point comes in. II he did play tbs
plano, 1t was because hetwas animated
Temporarily, by a brain that was MOI
his, just as the German Holstein wa.
previously Inspired by the same record
Ford opened the wrong switch when h
went to find out which of the record:
contained the discriminating truth abou
him. The telephone head receiver wa
still on Bellair. and there you are! Mrs
Anselm would hardly have told us tina
the headpiece was on II she hadn't par
tlcularly noticed 1t.
THAT part of her story Is to me very
convincing" continues the coroner; foI
you observe that she heard the music
stop almost simultaneously with tn
discord and the noise OF the madmal
smashing the machine. All the cOndi
tions of the room when ] arrived In l
pointed to the truth Of the plano play
Ing story. for such was the position o
the instrument against the wall tina
BslIair could not have been shot in tn
forehead and breast while he sat will
his back to Ford.
true. Then you are up against the prop
oSition OF dead man cursing as
drunkard one minute and singing a
another man the next. You either hav
10 grant that II was so, or go right bacl
70 the beginning of your argument ant
start all over again.
mrs. Alselm. of course. says that th,
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