SPIRITUALISM IN MEXICO.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 164, 11 July 1914, Page 17

SPIRITUALISM IN MEXICO.

SIADEKO BELLEVEL IN "SPIRITS." lltEtlTA DRINKS TIIEM. LONDON. May 23. Dr Loon Leroy, formerly professor of p-y<-holo K y In tbe UniviTSlty of Mexico, and Hie murdered Francisco Madcro's cblef spiri- : tuaJls-.ie adviser. in now In Dr i Mndero and high lv his favour hi* administration, was exiled from M.llro liy Hucrta la.-v September. Dr Leroy talked interestingly about MiJoms spiritualistic beliefs. He said he told ihe l'reaideat seven aionthji before his death exactly liow the murder would occur. He is a Swiss of nigh education, and sneaks French, tiurman, English and Spanish fluently. . I ■'I Ascribed «-xactly to Madero," he said, "what was goiii- to happen, eron dowu to yaeh a detail xi the automtilille wlirh catried his dead, body from Cli»pultcpec. He said. 'Well, what's to be will be. . You know. Madero was a typl'il fatalist, one of the strangest things connected with tho assassination was the niur- I der of the i-hnuffenr and bis mechanic near Mexico City lv August, lllli The bodies of the two men were found In ;lio forest. None knew who had committed the crime, but a youuc somnainbuliet revealed to m* two lnou who hat! been offered S.tKJO peso.s by PaA.-Uiil Oroz.-o to kill Madero. and who took a <lrlv« with. thJs chauffeur and mechauic. In the be:irt of ;he woods they dis< - ns*<l Uie offer, lint, on flndin; that tie chauffeur and mechanic had overheard them, they drew rcvulvers and' shot tLese two boys la the back.

•TUI- somnambulist, who was a beautiful young woman, told Madero and im; at the Paiace of Chapultepec pvcry detiill of this murder while in a trance. She repeated It without change four times. One month later I was walking with her in the street itt Mexico Orty -when suddenly she screamed, ■There they are! Seize them:" Then tax* fell back fainting Into my arms.

"I looked down the street and saw two QguTcw approaching. One proved to he Trerlno, a notorious character. I informed the chief of police, but he did nothing.

"•'The <£iy Xlad>n> was imprisoned In Cua|«iltepei- by Hnerta I did not know the circumstances until suddenly it flashed Into my brain that he wa« in great trouble. I wrote him an unsigned note, knowing that he was familiar with my handwriting, telling him to escape from .Mexico at any cost to the I'll lied States; but the note was never delivered. It fell into the hands of (Jcneral Blanquet.

"I remained in. Mexico City after Madero'.s murder until last September. In July I w.-is invited by Hiierta to his daughter's wedding reception.

"After I b:iil esrorlrd the wife or Francis Strong, the predecessor of Sir Uonel <'ardcn. into rhe reception room, Hnerta met mc and , gave mc this photograph, of himself and his daughter and signed it, as you sec. You can ccc lunv drunk 'he was from the handwriting scrawled, oiv the buck. That great blot is wheTe he broke my fountain pen in his half-drunken condition.

"In Sepremlicr, after attending a reception at the Brazilian Minister's home, I received a message to leave Mexico City lnime<Hately, and went to Vera Cruz."