A WOMAN'S STRANGE DELUSION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 183, 1 August 1908, Page 15

A WOMAN'S STRANGE DELUSION.

A STRANGE PREDICTION. Throughout America -enormous Interest has been aroused by tbe mysterious case of Mrs Anna Kiselcia, of Passaic, New Jersey, who says that a heavenly angel appeared to her, aud told her to be prepared to die by sis o'clock last Sunday morning. She is (says lue "Daily Telegraphcorrespondent, writing"on June 10), a young | woman, a widow, and a Greek Catholic. She talked like a refined aud cultured Christian, ana was strictly sensible on 'all points, except that slio believed Implicitly that the hour of her death on tfcat day was foretold. Moreover, she had the pift of making a host of friends believe her. Since Saturday week, when the alleged angel appeared, she had arranged all her alfalrs, ORDERED HER COFFIN, and made her shroud. Then she went to the general hospital at Passaic, New Jersey, paid for a private room, and asked the doctors to attend her until six on Sunday, when she said they could certify her death. She declared that she would do herself no injury, but admittedly she wanted to be "called home," and see her husband in heaven. All last week photographs of Mre Kieelcia, a woman of delicate, spiritual, and rather attractive features, were published in the newspapers throughout the country, aud reporters were in constant attendance at the hospital. On Sunday eveverybody asked, "I wonder if Mrs Kiselcia is alive." No newspapers are printed here on Sunday to answer the question, and 1 therefore despatched a representative to Passaic. and have just talked with him over tiie long-distance telephone. fie reported that there was an enormous crowd outside the hospital, and that hr? was not allowed to enter the patients' ward, because it was Sunday, but the hospital superintendent had assured him that the lady at that time (10 a.m.) was still alive, and had lust eaten a REMARKABLY GOOD BREAKFAST. Unlike Baxter, the American "prophet," ■whose dates for the end of the world were always coming wrong, Mrs Kiselcia does not say 6hc blundered in her dates, nud promptly adjourns the hour of her death, but Bays frankly and fairly that she must have been suffering from delusions. She says she is sorry to "break faith" with so many people who had trusted her, and henceforth ebe will be sceptical regarding alleged angelic warnings.