More About Irving Bishop.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 4193, 24 November 1883, Page 7 (Supplement)

More About Irving Bishop.

[By Mr Lauouohkrk in "Tkutii."]

A very curious robbery is reported in the Livorpool nowspapors. Irving Bishop, according to his account, wont from his room to pay his bill nt his hotel in that city, leaving on his tables some bank notes; when ho returned the notes wore gone^ Tho polices wero sont for, and searched everywhere for thonoteswithoutdisoovering thorn. Ono of the notes boro precisely tho samo number as that handed up to tho " thought-roader " to bo rend at his seance by nn " independent" investigator. " Tho polico," continues the roport, "camototho conclusion that tho notes had been taken from tho tablo by someono in tho hotel." This conclusion is, I should funcy, correct. Hum ! Bishop botook himself from Liverpool to Leeds, whore few persons attended his seanres, and where his failure appears to havo been complete, Yorkshiremen not being proverbial for credulity. Ho tried his pin trick with Mr Gaunt, an Alderman, who took the precaution to hide it in ono place, and to appear to do so in another. From tho latter place Bishop triumphantly extracted ft pin. Whon tho Alderman protested, Bishop abused him, and when the Mayor, who had taken tho ciinir, took the Alderman's part, he abused tho Mayor. Ho subsequently failed to read tho numbor of a note, the audience having insisted that a mysterious strangor of tho namo of lliloy, who had dropped from the clouds amongst the committeemen, should withdraw. The impostor seoms to bo at his last shifts, and endeavaurs to cover his failures by bounce, bluster, and insolence. 1 gather from tho reports in the local newspapers that a good deal of tho time at these dismal moot ings is consumed in abuse of tho humblo writer of these lines. This does not surprise mo ; but what does is that Mayors and Aldermen should havo anything to do with the rogue, and that sane human boings should pay money (flattering as this is to mo) to listen to this abuse, and to witness an American either fail to porform miracles, or perform them by moans of tho most bungling and transparent trickery or collusion.