THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26,
1934.
EXPERIMENTS IN REALM
OF TELEPATHY
By DR. V. J. WOOLLEY.
"BURIED” MAN FOUND LIVING
MOTHER'S DISCOVERY AT HOSPITAL
A mistake in the identity of a
From time immemorial people scipient are not in the same room man who had been buried after a have believed that they do on oc- It is immaterial how far apart motor accident, in, which four per- ension receive messages from they are, and that the process is isona hund been killed and two in- othern by means which do not in-thus independent of distance. volve their ordinary senses.
. from
jured, was revealed at Preston In- firmary when a mother, who be In old legend those means were During the last year or two a loved that her son was the man most commonly their dreams, very prolonged series of export who had been buried, stood beside a while in some racen we find stories ments has been carried out by Dr. patient's bed and said "Harry. of events being perceived by what J. D. Rhine at Duke University. My son" Harry Boocock, 34, of is called "second sight. Now, North Carolina, in which an at- Wilberforce Street, Bradford, the adays the greater number of such tempt has been made, In my nun ta hed, who had Intely re experiences consist in a kind of opinion successfully, to overcome covered
unconsciousness, waking vision of some important the difficulty of computing the odds familed, and whispered "Mother!" avent occurring to a close friend against a chance correct guess. The man's wife, Hannah Boo- of the one who experiences the Be has confined his attempted cock, was killed in the motor vision.
transmissions to five simple dia- nccident and was buried with the grams, so that the chance of a man thought to be her husband. correct guess a one in five. Ho has had the patience to carry out over 90,000 auch experiments, and is still doing more.
In the accident, a man stated to to Ronald Mackillop, was seriously injured, and his wife, Annie Mac- killop, was killed. Doubts about this man's identity were raised by members of the Mackillop famliy when who went to see him at the infirm- roary, and the police, suspecting that
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 Brledy, ho finds that while some the subject to attribute such Individuals have no gift at all, and vision to thought-message sent rench only chance scores by the dying man to his friend, tested, other subjects reach a The expression "spontaneous tele-ult which is just a lttle better the man might really be Boocock, pathy" was used to describe them, than pure chance would give.
It got into touch with Boocock's mother and brother, who travelled to the infirmary and Immediately recognized him. It now appears that the man buried with Mrs. Boocock as her husband is Ronnid Mackillop.
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When the inquest on the bodies of the four persons killed in the accident was opened all the dead were identißed by members of their respective families. The man be- lieved to be Boocock was identified by his sister-in-law, and Mra. Mackillop by her mother. The Identification was rendered difficult, however, by the fact that all the victims had been severely injured about the head,
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CASABIANCA TO
BE HONOURED
Hero Of L'Orient Remembered
EMPLOYER REBUKED
MISERABLE WAGE FOR CHAUFFEUR
Clapping greeted the Magis- trate's rebike at Liverpool, of a It is announced that a French witness because of the low wage submarine of the 1930 programme he had paid an employce. which is now building and was to have been called the Casablanen
The case was one in which The burial of the man, who now
Is to receive instead the name Roland Evan Hughes (28), of appears to be Ronald Mackillop, and Casabianen. The change Wha Mrs. Boocock took place at Bowling made at the suggestion of was summoned for embezzling £6, Upper Huskisson Street, Liverpool, M. Cemetery, Bradford. The inter-Pietri, the Minister of Marine, ment was a double one, Mra, Mac-who considered that the names of 188. 7d. from his employer, Charles killop being buried ou the same North African towns were auf-Pink, wholesale jeweller, Paradise day
Elciently.represented already in the Street, Liverpool. French Navy. M. Pietri prefers,
The two families are now wait- ing for official action, so that Mackillop, may be reburied with his
wife.
GIVE A COWBOY ENOUGH ROPE
AND HE'LL LASSO TROUBLE
A cowboy who had been appear- ing at a rodeo at Winnipeg-was fined £2 because he lassoed a woman while she was watching the
rodeo parade.
as a good Corsican, to preserve the Mr. J. II. Neville, on behalf of men of his countryman, Hughon, said he was a married Captain Liec de Cnsabinnen, whose
mentory
smail con "stund on the burning man with one child, and he took deck" of the Orient at the Battle on the job of chauffeur to Mr. of the Nile, as recorded by Mrs. Pink for 25s, a week, being content Hemuns in her poem. Two ships to earn that small agm, rather than of the French Navy, a man-af-be on the "dole". As he had to war which served from 1867 to work seven days a week, he was 1877, and a mine-layer which was compelled to relinquish the posi sunk in the Aegean In 1915 have tion of church organist at £20 a previously borne the name.
year.
The Deputy Stipendiary, Mrs.
M. Pietri has also settled a jong controversy over the gender which should be given to French ships S: C. V. Addinaell asked Mr. Pink in quoting their names. A ship la how he came to employ a married regarded in France as masculine, man, 28 years of age, at 25%, n and there have In the
past been those who insisted on speaking of, "le Normandie", and
The cowboy's name was Eugene Pardee, and a charge of assault for
week.
Mr. Pink-That is the price he was laid against him by Mr. anance" when naming those asked. Mrs. Cecil Wellwood, of Winnipeg, ships, though those names are
It was stated that Mrs. Wellwood feminine. M. Pletri has now de- The Deputy Stipendiary,, speak-
was standing on a street corner ns the cowboys rode past, when suddenly Pardee tossed his lasso over her and dragged her up to his horse.
creed that the definite article in ing with-indignation—"Do-you- such cases is to conform to the know what it costs a man to live?
ship's gender indicated by the
name and that it is not to be Do you think it is a decent thing omitted except in telegrams. to employ a man for a week of seven days at such a rate? I am going to punish this man."
By now, however, many Cases have been described in which no is so little better that it would be about the method of transmission pent. death was involved, and the sup overlooked unless a vast number of these impressions. It is tempt.
Mr. Pink-1 don't want that, but posed sender of the mossnge la of tests were made, but when they ing nt first to regard such a trans- The experimenter chooses
these results can be mission an found to have no knowledge that are made
something like an number from one to five and tries you can do as you like." or may shown to have occurred against electric vibration, like those of our to will that number into his sub- was sent,
The Deputy Stipendlary-Don't any message even not be acquainted with the odds of hundreds of millions to wireless sets. But if we find that ject's mind. If the subject thinks be impertinent. So far as you are person who has the vision. It is one.
the transmission is independent of argued that many at least of these! He has further found that the distance we are bound to discard he has got it, he says what it is, concerned I only regret he has not
do mat
and the experimenter notes "right"| taken more of your money than he "spontaneous" casos
in-accuracy of the procĘBA 1s in such a view.
greased by substances which volve the sending of any massage,
All the ordinary transmissions or "wrong" on paper. After try hus. (This remark was greeted but rather a curiously heightened stimulate the brain, sach
ing twenty-five times, see whether with hand-clapping from the spec- sensitivity of perception on the caffeine, and abolished by nar- of energy diminish rapidly with in- there are more than five "rights."lators" gallery. You have been creasing distance from their part of the visionary, a sensitivity cotics. which would better be described | Like previous experimenters, he source. The tolopathic transmis- Of course, there should be five asking for it. 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 Addressing Hughes, the Deputy the distance between the agent and world where space no longer exists are more, and if you repeat it with Stipendiary Anid the wage he was term of second sight
percipient.
sometimes reaching as it does in the physical universe, several more series of twenty-five, teeniving was grossly inadequate,
you may find that your subject gots In "spontaneous" visions there 250 miles; and he finds that dis- may be such wealth of detail, such tance makes no difference to his
descriptions of other regular scores of, gay, six or seven, but that did not justify him taking unlikely but actual incidents per results.
people's experiments are as useful and, even without going as far as in employer's goods. This last fact seems to me to as those we make ourselves. I Dr. Rhine, you may satisfy your- į Defendant was bound over. colved, that chance coincidence is made wholly inconceivable. In be of the grentest Importance if suggest a simple one which any selves that there is something in no experiments that I have heard we wish to discover anything body who is interested could re-it.
of has any such complete success
been reached. The most that can
prob-
be hoped for is a strong ability, and that only after a vost number of experiments.
Mauny 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 perci. piente. Some readers may recall such an experiment which I con- ducted some years ago for.tho Society for Psychical Research In conjunction with Sir Oliver Lodge and the B.B.C. In that experi mant no evidence for telepathy was obtained, and was, I think, hardly to be expected.
But in experiments in which the nyant and percipient have been close friends there has often been evidence for a true telepathic
video. The value of that
has been vory difficult, or imponible, to gauge, because it has been impossible to say what have been the odds against n gueAA being correct by pure chance.
Notwithstanding these, dificul ties, however, auch experiments,
definite light on have thrown certain aspects of the problem. They havo indicated first that dif- forent people vary greatly in their ability to receive and possible to transmit such messages; second, that the same people vary greatly at different times; and, third and
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GRANITE FROM AUSTRALIA
Thirty-nine blocks of granite, hown from the rocks of Cape Everard, Victoris, the first point of Australia sighted by Captain. James Cook, the Yorkshire naviga tot, arrived at Hull last night in the steamer Cormorant.
The granite blocks will be erected as an obelisk in memory of Captain Cook at Great Ayton, in North Yorkshire, on the site of the cottage which was his former home. The cottage itself was taken down and abipped from Hull to Australia, wliere it has been re-erected In Melbourne.
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