FINDING HIDDEN THINGS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1914, Page 14

FINDING HIDDEN THINGS

THOUGHT-READING IN VIENNA. An interesting feat of thought-reading was recently performed in Vienna. A young man named Rubini undertook to discover within two hou^s one or two things hidflwi in any of the twenty-one districts of Vienna. All that Rubini was to perform was written down and signed by responsible witnesses, including one lady who was the medium. Her task was to concentrate her mind on ordering Rubini to do what was laid clown in the conditions. There were about twenty motor-cars of interested people following Rubini and tho medium. These two each held one end iof a bronze rod. Following them were : representatives of the Austrian and i foreign press. The party started in the inner town, and went on without a stop for about twenty minutes. Rubini, vyjio directed the chauffeur, soon got the " scent," and halted in front of a florist's shop, a corner house. He entered the shop, found a wreath, and took it. This was, indeed, the first part of his task. The second part was much more difficult. Rubini ordered the chauffeur to drive towards a rather distant suburb. When the party reached a district where there were many cottages, they drove for a long time through some of the loveliest of Vienna's outskirts. Suddenly they halted in front of a large villa. Here Rubini rang the bell, but it was the bell of the adjoining house. He at once noticed his mistake, and rang tho correct bell. On the door being opened he rushed to the first floor, fitill holding the rod and accompanied by ihe lady medium. After a time he went into the drawing room, where he found a key in a box. With key in hand he ran clown to the door of a room, opened it, and found a bust of the Emperor Francis Joseph. He carried the bust into the garden. His task was not yet at an end. He next returned to the upper room, and took a young girl who was there down to the garden and made her lift the wreath lie had placed there. On a pedestal in the garden was a figure of a young lion. Ho took this figure down and placed the Emperor's bust upon the pedestal instead. Then he made the young girl place the wreath on the Emperor's bust. When the conditions of the test were read they agreed in every detail with what Rubini had clone.