THE
TELEGRAPH. HONGKONG
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER
26, 1934.
EXPERIMENTS IN REALM OF TELEPATHY
By DR. V. J., WOOLLEY
From Ume immemorial people cipient are not in the same room have belloved that they do on oc-it in immaterial bow far apart
from they are, and that the process casion receive messages others by means which do not in- thus independent of distance. volve their ordinary Bunsea,
"BURIED” MAN FOUND LIVING
MOTHER'S DISCOVERY AT HOSPITAL.
A mistake in the identity of n man who had been buried after a motor accident, in which four per sons had been killed and two In- jured, was revealed at Preston In- firmary when a mother, who bo-
"Harry,
In old legend those means were: During the last year or two afieved that her son was the man of experi- who had been buried, stood beside a most commonly their dreams, very prolonged series while in some races we find stories nients has been carried out by Dr. patient's bed. and of events being perceived by what J. D. Rking at Duke University. My son!" Harry Boocock, 34, of is called "second sight." Now North Carolina, in which an at-Wilberforce Street, Bradford, the my man in bed. who had lately re- adays the greater number of auch tempt has been made, ja
fram unconsciousness, sxperiences consist in a kind of opinion, successfully, to overcome covered waking vision of some important the difficulty of computing the odds smiled, and whispered "Mother!" ovent occurring to a close friend against a chance correct guess. attempted of the one who experiences the He has confined his
transmissiers to five simple din vision.
grams, so that the chance correct, guess is one in five. has had the patience to carry over 90,000 such experiments, and is still doing more.
-
About the actual occurrence of such visions it is impossible for anyone who reads the evidence to entertain any serious doubt, and it has been usual for students of the subject to attribute such vision to a thought-message sent reach only chance scores
of
The man's wife, Hannak Boo- cock. was killed in the motor ucident and was buried with the
In the accident, mun atated to Hean thought to be her husband. out be Ronald Mackillop, was seriously injured, and his wife, Annic MRC- killop, was killed. Doubts about this man's identity were raised by
Briefly, he finds that while some
a, individuals have no gift at all, and members of the Mackillop family
when who went to see him at the infirmi by the dying man to his friend. tested, other subjects reach a rury, and the police, suspecting that The expression "spontaneous telesult which is just a little better the man might really be Beacock, pathy" was uned to describe them. than pure chance would give. It
Nothing is impossible to ship-buildors there days. Here is a German American tanker getting a new "middle," after har bow and starn bad been cut off to be attached to the remodelled contre huil.
got Into touch with Boocock's mother and brother, who travelled to the fafirmary and immedintoly recognized him. It now appears that the man buried with Mrs. Boocock, as her husband is Ronald Mackillop.
When the inquest on the bodies of the four persons killed in the accident was opened all the dend were identified by members of their respective familles. The man be- lieved to he Boocock was identified by his sister-in-law, und Mira Mackillop by her mother, The Identification was rendered difficult. however, by the fact that all the victims had been severely injured about the hend.
The Archdukea Joioph and Albrecht are pictured marching in the St. Stephan's Day procession in Hungary, commemorating the works of Hungary's first King, a great teacher of Christianity.
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EMPLOYER REBUKED
MISERABLE WAGE FOR CHAUFFEUR Clapping greeted the Magis- trate's rebuke at Liverpool, of a witness because of the low wage he had paid an employee.
case was
The
one in which Roland Evan Hughes (28), of
It is announced that a French submarine of the 1930 programme which is now building and was to have been called the Casablanca The burial of the man, who now to receive instead the name appears to be Ronald Mackillop, and
Casabianen. The change Mrs. Boocock took place at Bowling made at the suggestion of M. per Huskisson Street, Liverpool, Cemetery, Bradford. The InterPietri. the Minister
of Marine, was summoned for embezzling £6, ment was a double one. Mrs. Mac-who considered that the names of 188. 70. from his employer. Charles klop being buried on the Aame North African, towns wore saf-Pink, wholesale jeweller, Paradisc
flcleatly represented already in the Street. Liverpool. The two families are now wait-ely represented pirtney intere lug for official action,
Mr. J. IL Neville, on behalf of so that as a good Corsican, to preserve the Mackillop may be reburied with his memory of bis countryman, Hughes, said he was a married ¡wife.
Captain Lice de Casabianca, whose man with one child, and he took small son "stood on the burning
GIVE A COWBOY ENOUGH ROPE
AND HE'LL LASSO TROUBLE
deck" of the Orient at the Battle on the job of chauffeur to Mr. of the Nile, as recorded by Mrs. Pink for 258. a week, being content Hemans in her poem. Two ships to earn that small sum, rather than of the French Navy, a man-of-be on the "dole": As he had to wir which served from 1857 to work soven days a week, he was 1877, and a mine-layer which was compelled to relinquish the posi- sunk in the Acgcan in 1915 havoon of church organist at £20 a previously horne the name.
M. Pietri has also settled a long
year..
week.
age, at 26s, a
A cowboy who had been appear-controversy over the gonder which The Deputy Stipendiary, Mrs. ing at a rodeo at Winnipeg was should be given to French ships S. C. V. Addinsell asked Mr. Pink fined £2 because he luxgold 21 in quoting their names. A ship le how he came to employ a married woman while she was watching the regarded in France as masculine, man. 28 years of rodeo parade.
nd there have in the past been The cowboy's name was Eugene those who insisted on speaking of, Pardee, and charge of as8sult; or instance, "le. Normandio" and was laid against him by Mr. and "le Provence" when naming those Mirs. Cecil. Wellwood, of Winnipeg, ships, though those names are It was stated that Mrs. Wellwood | feminine. M. Platri has now, de- was standing on a street corner creed that the definite article as the cowboys rode past, when such cases is to conform to the suddenly Pardee tossed his lasso wonder indicated by the ship's over her and dragged her up to his name and that it is not to be hurac.
Fomitted except ja telegrams.
Ing at first to regard such a trans. be these results can
By now, however, many cases
ittle better that it would be have been described in which no is death was involved, and the sup- overlooked unless a vast number posed sender of the message is of tests were made, but when they found to have no knowledge that are made
to have occurred against any message-
or may shown are not be acquainted with the odds of hundreds of millions to that many at least of these He has further found that the
who has the vision. It is one.
Cova"
cases do not in-accuracy of the process
Mr. Pink--That is the price be asked.
The Deputy Stipendiary, apenk- ing with indignation-"Do you know what it costs a man to live? Do you think it in a decent thing to employ a man for a week of Beven days at such a rate? I am going to punish this man."
about the method of transmission peat.
. Mr. Pink—I don't want that, but of these impressions. It la tempt
The experimenter chooses R mission as something like an number from one to five and tries you can do as you like," electric vibration, like those of our to will that number into his sub- The Deputy Stipendiary-Don't wireless sets. But if we find that ject's mind. If the subject thinks be impertinent. So far as you are the transmission is independent of distance we are bound to discard he has got it, he says what it is, concerned I only regret he has not is in-
such a view,
and the experimenter notes "right",taken more of your money than he which
(Tuis remark was greeted volve the sending of any message, creased by substances
the brain, яuch 21 All the ordinary transmissions or "wrong" on paper. After try has but rather a curiously neiguced stimulate
nar- of energy diminish rapidly with in- ing twenty-five times, see whether with hand-capping from the epec- there are more than five "rights." nors gallery.) You have been sensitivity of perception on the caffeine, and abolished by
creasing distance from their part of the visionary, a sensitivity cotics.
Like previous experimenters, he source. The telepathic transmis- Of course, there should be five ng 102 R. which would batter be described as clairvoyance, or by the older has tried the effect of increasing sion seems to take place in mental by chance guessing, but if there
the distance between the agent and world where space no longer exists are more, and if you repeat it with a La Wage at Was term of "second sight"
percipient, sometimes reaching as it does in the physical universe, several more aories of twenty-five, 250 miles; and he finds that dix- tanes makes no difference to his results.
In "spontaneous" visions there may be such wealth of detail, auch unlikely but actual Incidents per
This last fact seems to me to celved, that chance coincidenco Is! made wholly Inconceivable. In be of the greatest importance if wish to discover anything no experiments that I have heard we of has any such complete success been reached: The most that can be hoped for is a strong prob- ability, and that only after a vast number of axperiments.
Many Investigators have carried out experiments in which it has been sought to transmit a thought. picture of some diagram or num- ber or word to one or more perch plants. Some readers may recall such an experiment which I con- lucted some years ago
for the
for Psychical Research In conjunction with Sir Oliver Lodge and the B.B.C. In that expori- ment no evidenco for telepathy was obtained, and was, I think, hardly to be expected.
But in experiments in which the agent and percipient have been close friends there has often been- ovidence for a true telepathic
The value of that
has been very difficult, or to gauge, because it has been impossible to
what have been the odds against a guENA being correct by pure chance.
RBY
Notwithstanding these dificul- tics, however, such experiments have thrown a definite light on. certain aspects of the problem. They have indicated first that dif ferent people vary greatly in their ability to receive and possible to transmit such messages; second,
at different times; and, thiru" chlafly, that if the agent and per-
you may find that your subject gela regular scores of, say, six or seven, and, even without going as far as Dr. Rhine, you may satisfy your selves that there is something in
But no descriptions of other people's experiments are as useful as those we make ourselves. suggest a simple one which any body who is interested could re-it.
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