The Mayor was urged “to sit alone often and be patient,” and was told that he could develop much power by such a course.
HON. L. R. ELLERT.
Mayor Ellert then wrote down ten of fifteen names of living and dead friends, on separate slips of paper. He refused to use the paper handed him by Dr. Schlesinger, but cut up an official letter head which lay on his own desk. As he began to write the names, the medium stepped away and engaged in conversation with District Attorney Barnes and Mr. Bonnet at the other side of the room, so that he could not see what Mayor Ellert wrote. The Mayor carefully folded the slips, put them in a hat, and shuffled them. He then brought one forth from the hatful.
“That’s a dead one,” said Dr. Schlesinger. “Open it and see whether I am correct; but don’t let me see it.”
The Mayor obeyed the request, and answered, “Yes, this is a dead person’s name!”
“Don’t let me see it,” said the mysterious visitor, “and I’ll tell you what it is,” whereupon he at once correctly pronounced the name of the Mayor’s sister, which was not Ellert.
The Mayor then announced that he was unable to explain the phenomena. He watched the medium’s movements and convinced himself that there had been no juggling in the shuffle, and said that his visitor out-Hermanned Hermann. He would leave the solution of the phenomena to others learned in the arts of divination.
CHARLES L. PATTON.