The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-17

well built. weight about 10 pounds,
rudy complexion, clean shaven and
attired in light suit
Sister Is Questioned.
Miss Ethel Fischer. sister of Edward
P Fischer, was questioned by justice
department operatives as to her broth
er'S movements, when she returned to
her home today after a short absence.
She declared Fischer left about a week
ago, stealing out of the house at a
m, because he feared an attempt
would be made to put him in a sani-
tarium. He had been in an sanitarium
once before, she said. After he left,
his brother-in-law, Robert Pope.
started after him with tire intention
of having him committed for insanity,
Miss Fischer stated.
Detectives today found part of the
clock works of a time bomb. on the
roof of the sub-treasury building,
by the blast. They were still search
ing for the owner OF the horse and
wagon which conveyed the Internal
machine to the scene.
It was reported that District At
torney Swami would call a special ses-
sion of the grand jury to investigate
the disaster.
Telepathy His AIibi.
Hamilton. Ont. Sept. 17.-Mental
IelepaLnY was O1I6I6Q is the SAPAdAAdl-
ton of Edward P. Fischer's warning
of the Wall street explosion in New
York by Robert A. Pope, Fischer'S
brother-in-laW, who caused his ar
rest here today. Pope declared Fischer
was not in New York yesterday when
the explosion occurred
Pope had Fischer arrested on
charge of insanity after their arrival
here this morning from Niagara Falls,
n. Y. Fischer was arrested in the Of
fices of attorneys in the Bank of
Hamilton building.
Pope. in a statement to authorities.
said Fischer's mental condition was
not normal and fer three weeks dur
ing which Fischer sent out warnings of
the Wall street disaster his mind was
in a peculiarly receptive condition.
With his mind thus sensitized. Pope
said, he was especially receptive to
mental suggestion from others. His
intercepted the thought
waves of those guiltily connected with
the explosion. according to Pope's
theory. With his mind filled with
these intercepted thoughts, Fischer
worried about friends who might be
harmed and warned them, Pope be-
lieYed.
Lunacy Experts Quiz Him.
Pope said Fischer predicted the dis
aster to him three weeks ago, and, at
that LlIne wrote 1F1enQS IN the imam
cial district of New York warning
them of what was to take place.
The Hamilton lunacy commission,
Doctors McGillivray and Rosenburgh.
visited the prisoner in a detention
room and examined him.
The officers who took Fischer in
said that his conversation was
peculiar. Fischer. they said, declared
he once was a sparring partner for
Jack Dempsey. He asserted, accord
ng to the officers, that only once in
mis- life had he struck a man in anger
and that finished the man"
Pope supplied the police with the
story of Fischer's activities during the
ass three weeks. He had been sub
ject to spells of mental depression,
Pope said, and his relatives feared he
was on the verge of a nervous break
down. They sought to persuade him
to go to the Northwoods for a rest but
he refused.
Pope asserted Fischer did not come
n contact with anarchists and he did
not believe it possible he met any per-
sons who would have had knowledge
Of the bomb plot. He then advanced
The theory of mental teIepathy.