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A CLAIRVOYANTE. "STARTLING CLAIMS FOR WOMAN IN GERMAN COURT.
SEES CRIME IN TRANCE. A trial began at Insterburg (East Prussia) on April 80 which promises to throw light on the juridical and scientific status of clairvoyancy.
The case is an appeal by the Public Prosecutor from a verdict of acquittal given by a lower court at Insterburg last year, and occult fat exparts are to be called.
appeared to her that what took stolen objects were fur and twelva The thief had place was a "cleavage of her ego," marks in silver.
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A police sergeant was brought entered, through a window, a room from a remote village, to whom decked with regalia and had eaten alone of those present in court, a sausage. The owner la Herr were known the details of a theft Von Reibnitz, and though he is committed recently in his district. not.70, but 89, he still takes a The thief has not yet been dis-daily ride.
The only thing still to be dis covered, and his name is still un-
covered is whether a man named known to the police.
The problem given to the Dumke was the thief. medium was to reconstruct the Photographs were taken of the crime and to name the criminal. medium during the sitting, and it After the Court had been cleared remains for the exports to consult of the public she was given a seat upon thoir conclusions and advise
centre of the hall, into the court accordingly. in the which the sun was shining bright- Other remarkable evidence of the iy, Bo that the environment was feat of second sight performed by not exactly favourable for occult the alleged clairvoyant was heard from highly credible witnesses,
But the most interesting feature of the affair is the personality of the alleged clairvoyante, Frau operations.. Elsa Gunther-Geffers.
She began by staring for some amid the breathless astonishment | The career of this woman, as minutes at a match which she held of the court. possessor of "second sight," began between her eyes,
Presently her
After a vivid description, during at the age of four, when she rush-head sank back, her eyes glared which the medium had described The exports the complicated wanderings of a ed from bed at Neuwied and start. vacantly upward. ed a big family group with the an were satisfied that she had fallen watch lost on the parade ground by a Reichswehr Colonel, the Presid- nouncement, "A house is in flames into a genuine trance.
Dr. Thoma, a Viennese hypno-ent of the Court shook his head and and belis are tolling." Four daya later, according to her account in tist, who was in charge of the ex-exclaimed, "Simply dumbfounding." court, the Cathedral at Neuwied periment, asked her, "Do you hear
me?" was burnt to the ground.
As she grew up she became widely known 48 the "Sibyl of Memelland." She was even sought after by the local police for the detection of criminals, in which she achieved some well attested success. She is able to produce written testimonies by a landown er and a Judge to the effect that she named two murderers, who were subsequently condemned, a Berlin correspondent informs the "Morn ing Post."
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"I do," she replied. Whereupon the police sergeant began ques tioning her.
Stuttering Replies. "When was the theft?" medium, whose replies were given in a weird, stuttering voice, an- swered, "February."
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The authorities of an old church In Switzerland decided to make some repairs to its interior furnish- The ings, and employed an artist to touch up a large painting. When the artist presented his bill, the committee refused to pay it unless the details were specified. The artist then sent in this bill as follows:
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"What do you see?" inquired Dr. Thoma.
Silver objects. Glitter," was the reply.
The Police Sergeant-Where was It? Last building.
Dr. Thoma-Go, go ont-Several entrances and exits.
Dr. Thoma-Quite right, but go you taking me? on!-Where are
Much Large hall. High chairs.
Missing Body Found. Her gifts Arst brought her into conflict with the law when she be gan to use them professionally after her husband had lost his money in the "inflation" era. was the Public Prosecutor who dark furniture. Furniture carved. Police Sergeant-What is the brought her into Court, and re-
name of the owner?-Prefix "Von." markable evidence was given.
The Court WAS particularly quite dark furniture. Deep chairs. struck by the case of a coachman Seat in front of long object.
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was taken to the inn, where she was last seen and fell into her usual trance. She walked along the road to a lake, where she de clared that the body was lying in Ja bent position with the hat on the head. The lake was immediately searched without result, but four months later the body was found there, wedged in a pipe, exactly in the position described.
Faced by such evidence as this, the Court acquitted the woman of fraud, with a rider to the effect that the presence of supernatural gifts was not established, but that she undoubtedly became possessed of mysterious knowledge in a way which could not be accounted for.
A strong point in her favour is that she expressly disclaims in- fallibility. She declared in Court
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solve she falls into a trance dur ing which she makes statements of which she has no subsequent re collection. The explanation of her gifts, she said, was a matter for the sefentists to determine, but it
How old is he?-Nearly seventy. During further questions and answers the medium was seen to thrust her hands forward like a blind person groping.
She stated that in addition to the silver objects a fur had been. stolen; that the thief had entered by a window; that the room con- tained food and regalin; that the thief ste some meat there and drank, something.
At length Dr. Thoma asked. "Can you give us the name of the thief?"
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Mr. James Aitken, news of "Two syllables," was the reply.
whose death at sea while on the Dr. Thoma-Well, then... 1
learned recently, Medium, with much difficulty way Home was Dumks. (This she wrote down): went to Malaya as a boy in 1868.
Name Given.
He was educated at Raffles Institu- Police Sergeant-Who owns the tion, where in 1886 he won one of the Queen's Scholarships. He was property-Two syllables.
Tho medium then muttered called to the bar in January, 1891. vaguely, and finally wrote down, Three years later he formed the rather indistinctly, "Von Reibnitz." partnership with Mr. Song Ong- Then she was gradually awaken- siang which lasted the rest of his ed from her trance.
life. He spoke Chinese fluently Her statement had been almost and counted many friends among without exception true. The the Straits Chinese.
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