San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-09
S. 4. WILL SEE
bLINDF OLD
WIZARD
Hayward Thompson to
Make Last Public APP
pearance in Alamo City.

~ Can you tell the number OF a
: watch with your eyes closed?
- A man has just arrived in San
Antonio who can. And not only that
Z but he can do it blindfolded.
He's Hayward Thompson, Wizard
Of the Blindfold" and Americas best
known dual personality. He will make
his home in San Antonio and has
agreed to do few stunts in the near
future.
Mr.. Thompson's history is vivid
and interesting one and he has been
the subject of considerable study
among the psychopaths, psychologists,
PSYCHOLOGISTS and psychothatists ever
since his remarkable and uncanny gifts
or skill became known.
He 10 the man who 'sees with his
skin" He reads with his finger tips.
Blindfolded, he drives an automobile
through traffic without an accident
and without violation of a traffic law
and without hesitation over any desig-
mated route, stopping at any pre-
. determined point. With bandaged
eyes he plays golf with some of the
best pros. He shoots a rifle as well
! MS some of the foremost experts.
while his eye vision is cut off. He
. reads describes pictures and performs
. other seemingly impossible feats with
his eyes covered-and he does not
select the coverings for himself.
LAST PERFORMANCE.
He will perform these stunts in San
Antonio and this city will have the
privilege of seeing him in action for
he IL =
such performances to enter the pro-
motional advertising business and is
buying a home on West Summit ave
nue., where he says he intends TO stay.
Good climate-no snow-brought
Mr.. Thompson from Colorado TO live in
San Antonio
He attributes his unusual ability TO
a sense of par-optic or Extra-retinal
vision.
Back in the days when the United
States Marine Corps was stemming the
seeming invincible rush of the German
.orde toward Paris, Hayward Thomp-
son was one of the unsung millions.
In the battle of Bots de Belleau. Hay
ward Thompson was in the path of an
II. E. shell. A terrible head wound
was the result Today. sunken. |
jagged scar extending from the left |
temple up and across the left frontal |
portion of the head and disappearing |
in q mop of jet black hair, tells the |
story of the injury more plainly than |
words. Time went on and Hayward /
Thompson went the way of the \
wounded. 1t was hospitals and more
hospitals until July, 1921.
UNABLE TO REMEMBER.
In July, 1921. Hayward Thompson
was on the mend. He sought active |
Employment. In November he ac-
cepted position withsa large Eastern !
manufacturer as sales director for the
Mid-Western states. Something had
snapped in the mans brain. Hay \
ward Thompson ceased to exist and in
stead there came into being a strange
personality who called himself Thomas
A. Anderson. AS Thomas A. Ander-
son, Hayward Thompson became &C
lively engaged in business. possessed
Of the ability to anticipate but not re
member. His business was conducted
through the use of what might be
properly termed an inverted diary.
Every act in life was anticipated and
recorded in this book. Accordingly. I
he was success.
LOSES SIGHT.
Time went on. On the second day I
OF February. 1922. Thomas A. Ander I
son was in Denver. 4 young man who 4
had served with him in the Marines
recognized Anderson as Thompson.
The shock of this meeting caused q
reaction and Hayward Thompson did
rot know his existence. His mind was 4
q blank as far as memory was con-
ccrned. Leading brain and nerve
specialists were called and while un-
scr their observation the man went
blind.
Then began a long pilgrimage in
arch Of relief. While in Boston, I'M
der the observation Of the leading
brain specialist of this country, il was
discovered the man was possessed OF
= sense of perception without the use
cf normal vision. He could see
through the sense of touch. Science
investigated and the reality of the
phenomena was attcsted.
FAILURE UNKNOWN.
Later. in Denver. still blind, it was
discovered Thomp,on was suffering
n partial dislocation of the spine.
Restoration of this bone TO its normal
position eliminated in his recovery.
His sight came back and with it he re-
tanned his abnormal sense of percep-
ton. This was in June, 1922.
In July, 1922. Hayward Thompson
gave his first public exhibition in Cas-
per. Wyo. Since that date he has
thrilled countless thousands with his
sense To date he has staged
2g7 public exhibitions. Not once