Year: 1873

CLARIVoYANT.


The Bangor (Maine) Commercial tells
this curious story:


Reporters, and the officers of the law
hear my curious tales; but we are con
tident that none more ir teresting and re.
marsable than the one given below, and
told to one of our reporters under an in
junction not to publish the names of the
parties concerned on account of their So
cial position, has hardly been made
public.


Between two young ladies, formerly
inseparable friends, and between their
respective families, residing in different
towns in thsnear vicinity of this city has
arisen an estrangement which will be
difficult to heal. On the one side wound
ed pride, and on the other the feeling of
confidence betrayed. 1t appears that
one of the young ladies had been paying
short visit to her friend, and the next
day after her departure porte-monnaie
containing twenty-five dollars was miss
ed from the bureau of the room in which
the young ladies slept. The porte-mon-
naie which plays an important part in
this strange story was the property OF
the young hostess, and was made of Rus
sian leather. For several days, the
house In the meantime having been
thoroughly searched, not a thought of
the guests having purloined the porte
monnie crossed any ones mind. Atlast
a servant in the house who had observ-
ed some suspicious actions, ,as she thought
about the young girl, communicated
her suspicious o the family, who at first
would hear nothing of them, and were
about to discharge the servant for having
breathed such thought, when it was
suggested by some one that a noted
clairvoyant in the neighborhood be con-
suited. A party was made up and the
clairvoyant visited. He went into a
trance and described the young visi tor
perfectly, the dress she wore on the even
ing of her departure from the house, her
going just before she left the chamber in
the morning to the bureau drawer and
taking therefrom the Russia porte mon
naie, and concealing il in her bosom.
He then followed her into this city where
she made several purchases of cosmetics
and perfumes at the druggists on the
bridge, and some linen cuffs and collars
on Main street. After these purchases
were concluded she took conveyance
home, where she concealed the porte
monnaie in the skirt of the same dress
that she wore when the theft was COM
mitted. This circumstantial story stag
gered the family, but they soon called in
the aid of the constable above mentioned
and put the matter in his hands. He
again visited the clairvoyant and made
himself sure of her place of abode and
some little details which might be of SER
vice. He then proceeded to the young
lady's residence, where he was received
by the young kleptomaniac herself AS
delicately as possible he broached his un-
pleasant business, the poor girl bursting
into tears and denying her guilt. She
then became suddenly cool and self-pos-
essed, and upon the officers requesting
to be shown to her chamber she consent
ed, and offering to let him examine
everything, went with him. The first
article of clothing which met his eye was
the dress which the clairvoyant had so
perfectly described as being the one in
which was concealed the porte-monnaie.
He examined the dress, the girl mean. /.
while much agitated, and bursting into
tears when the fatal porte-monnaie was
discovered sewed up in the hem. Of
course no arrests were made, the klep-
tomaninac restoring the amount of mon
ey expended, some So. Why the girl
should have taken the money, she being
the petted child of father we'll able to
indulge her every wish,is unexplainable,
except under the theory of kleptoman-
ia"