The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-19

Pope, brother-in-law of Edwin A. Fischer, who wrote postcards from To- Ironto to his friends in the financial dis ltrict here warning them there would be disaster in Wall street, denied in a statement tonight that there lad been any effort on his part, or on the part of Fischer's attorneys to keep -nim in Canada.
 Everything is being done that can be done." said Pope, ito bring my broth- 1 er-in law back to New York for exam nation by the authorities. l am at a loss to explain why he wrote the warm ing note, l asked him about it, but all | he would say was when any of my friends are in danger I know it. 1 Pope said that several weeks ago when Fischer was acting strangely, he had him examined at Bellevue hospital, where doctors said his mind was slightly unbalanced and advised send ing him to some quiet place.
 | "On September 13," said Pope, "Fis- | cher went to Toronto, Canada to see a tennis tournament On the fifteenth I received a telegram from him asking me to send him a check to Niagara on the Lake. I thought it best to gb 1 to Niagara on- the Lake and meet him. 1 l took him to Hamilton, Ontario, and tried to put him in a sanitarium, but I found it would be impossible. as he was l not a Canadian citizen. It was in Hamilton I learned of the explosion
 and the fact that my brother-in-law had written the warning note My sole purpose in going to Canada was to i. get him into a sanitarium.'
 Pope said he did not attach any sig nlficance to Fischer's acquaintance l with wealthy Japanese munitions manufacturer. He said Fischer had met the man on tennis courts.
 SAYS PKEMONITION POSSIBLE New York. September 1s.-Psychic knowledge of an impending disaster is az ] feasible as though it were picked up'' by radio operator whose instrument chanced to be tuned" or within "receiy- ing range of a wireless message" accord 1 ing to Dr. Walter F. Prince, acting d. lrector of the American Institute for Scien- tific Research. founded by, the late Prof. James H. Hyslop, authority on psychol- ogy.
 Dr. Prince declared that the assertion of Edwin P Fischer. detained at Hamii- | ton, Ontario. that his post card warnings to friends here of the Wall street ex- | plosion last Thursday were inspired by psychic phenomena. were hign,y wNnin the realm of possibility"
 Dr. Prince cited two striking cases of
 
 monition of which, he said, he had re- ceived in dreams and which were borne out in detail the following day.
 pr. Prince said the mind of Fischer, | whose brother-in-law, Robert A. Pope, l declared he had possessed psychic pow CTS for a number of years evidently was tuned to those who plotted the the ex- plosion. receiving telepathic impressions of the tragedy that later occurred. He said the expressions or thoughts of the tered on the abnormal mind of Fischer
 Tt is reasonable to suppose that ] Fischer's mind, being tuned in har- planned the disaster, received the im- portant fact that such an occurrence was to happen he said, but misread l the signals as to the exact time, which | accounted for the fact that his written warnings fixed the time of the disaster at about twenty-four hours ahead of it's actual happening.
 l 'I regard 1t as a proven fact by q l large number of authentic Instances l known to me by personal inspection. or other good evidence. that there is such | a thing as prediction of future events. | regard these instances as unusually of ] the nature of supernormai reasoning. AS 1 the intention to commit the Wall street | crime was undoubtedly in the minds of some persons for days previous. 1t is conceivable that Fischer got his infor- | nation by quasi-auditory process, i whether or not it was intended for him. It likewise is possible that he got it by ] telepathy from living minds"