CURE BY TOUCH

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LIX, Issue 87, 1 November 1938, Page 3

CURE BY TOUCH

MAN'S STRANGE POWERS

(From The Guardian's London

Correspondent)

LONDON, September 10

A claim that anything wooden will burn when he touches it, if he is in the right mood, was made this week by Mr William Barnes, a Northampton tailor. He is reported to have made remarkable cures by touch, but he does not know how he does it.

"I just concentrate, get a feeling I know what the trouble is, then go ahead," he said. "Customers used to say, after I shook hands: 'I'm feeling better already.' It isn't faith healing. I can do it even if the patient doesn't believe. It's uncanny." Mr Barnes admits he is psychic— has been since has was seven. Many people in Northampton tell of the happiness he has brought. One of them is Mrs Whittaker, wife of a chemist. They brought Mr Barnes to her daughter, Mary, aged 11. "She was sinking," said Mrs Whittaker. "He saved her life." Mary's father said: "Mr Barnes went to her bed and touched her. He straightened himself and immediately he knew what the trouble was. He then laid his hands on her. The fourth time he came she was running about, better." This week Mary was playing on a swing in the garden.