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Evening Star, Issue 6262, 11 April 1883, Page 3

An extraordinary scene was recently witnessed at Liverpool. W. Irving Bishop, the well-known thought reader, had announced his Intention of making a public exhibition of his skill in the direction of reading thought —the particular experiment being to find a pin which had been hidden some hours previously in a place within a radius of 500 yards from the hotel. In order to add interest to the event, it had been arranged that the sum of LlO should be handed to the Royal Infirmary by Mr Bishop if he failed in the experiment, and by Mr W. Ledgman, a well-known local dentist, if the experiment succeeded. Fully 15,000 people raw the experiment tested. Mr Bishop, duly blindfolded and attached to Mr Ledgman by a piece of thin pianoforte wire, dashed off at a rapid pace, and made his way forcibly through the crowd, dragging Mr Ledgman after him. Great excitement prevailed amongst the spectators, who cheered the talented thought-reader as he passed along. Without hesitation Mr Bishop directed his way along Ranelagh square, Great Charlotte street, and through Clayton street to the Neptune Hotel, where he mounted to the first storey, and found the pin on the outside ledge of a window. On returning to his quarters Mr Bishop received an ovation.