The New York herald., 1922-03-07
RAISING DEAD EASY,
SAYS MYSTERY MAN
Brazilian Doctor Tells How He
Can Change Black People
to White.
DISAPPEARS SUDDENLY
Consulate Never Heard Of
Wizard Who Defies
Laws of Nature.
DISAPPEARS SUDDENLY

Pardon me, senior" said voice OF
saavsty at the telephone of the Brazil
ian Consulate-Generai yesterday, but
we have not been honored as yet by a
visit from the Dr.. Octavio Felix Pedroso
OF Sac Paolo. In fact, senior (and
some OF the suavlty dried out of the
voice). I may state that we have never
even heard OF this DR.. Pedroso.
But your excellency. this eminent
fellow citizen OF yours claims that he
can raise the dead--has raised 'em--
and that he can turn black people into
white"
Permit me-" said his excellency
firmly, TO call your attention to the
fact that the former achievement has
not been performed with any success
at all for a matter OF nineteen centuries.
This is the eleventh request we have
had to-day for information about the
Dr. Pedroso and you will understand"
quite so. 1t must be annoying"
Miracle Man Vanishcs.
Which was about as far as anybody
got in the quest for inside information
about Octavio Felix Pedroso, awakener
OF the dead, modern miracle man in
medicine. Whatever his reason. the
doctor from Brazil vanished after utter
ing some of the most amazing state
ments that have been ventured in many
a day. Where he went after landing
from the steamship was still mystery
last night, and as n matter of fact the
doctor himself hadn't seemed to know
in the morning just where he was headed
for. He referred all inquiriers to the
Brazilian Consulate. but as has been seen,
the officials there were strangely ignor-
ant of the name and fame of the doctor.
The Munson Line steamship Southern
Cross. with q general cargo OF nuts, had
taken Pedroso to Pier 3. Hoboken. along
with eighty-one other passengers not 50
imaginative. He lost no time in acQuaint-
ing the press with his peculiar skill. He
said he was q graduate OF tho Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons OF
London, and that he conducts the
Pedroso Institute of Scientific Research
at Sac Paolo, Brazil.
Without batting an eye the doctor ex-
planned that 1t is perfectly possible for
him to restore life to the very, very
dead. He explained that his process in
volved massage of the heart along with
the introduction into the blood of a
special serum. He had tried this method
successfully on animals, and had no
doubt of his ability to employ II sue
cessfully on humon beings.
Changing Color Easily.
AS for making black skinned persons
lily white, that was easy, said DR..
Pedroso. All you had to do was to take
a shot OF his No. serum first in one
leg, then in the other. or first in one
arm and then in the other. and presto,
hingo. Black gives way to bay. bay 60
lemcn, lemon to graywhite and gray
white to lily white. The doctor had II
all figured out that his serum changed
the character OF five trillion cells q
day. and that in fifteen days he could
make the darkest Senegambian that ever
lived look like native OF North Sweden
Then he faded from sight. The Nun
son Line people said his baggage was
marked Washington, ID. c." The trans
fer company men did not handle his
baggage. Nobody knew anything about:
the wizard. The Rockefeller institute
which really tries to keep absolutely up
to date about such matters, and which
makes a great fuss ii IL can get n
twitch or two out OF the left hind leg OF
one time frog, couldn't place DR.
Pedroso and had escaped all knowledge
OF tho pedroso Institute.
The young woman who spoke for DR.
Simon Floxner said that Of course the
Rockefeller Institute didn't know all
there was 10 know about people and
Institutes and science experiments, but
that IL aybody even down in Brazil had
been reshuffling the laws OF nature she
thought the Rockefeller Institute would
have heard about Il.