A WOMAN'S STRANGE DELUSION

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 11 August 1908, Page 3

A WOMAN'S STRANGE DELUSION

A STRANGE PREDICTION.

Throughout America enormous interest has been aroused by the mysterious case of Mrs Anna Kiselcia, of Passais, New Jersey, -who says that a heavenly angel appeared to her, and told her to be prepared to die by six o'clock last Sunday morning. She is (says, the Daily Telegraph correspondent, writing on June 16), a young woman, a widow, and a Greek Catholic. She talked like a refined and cultured Christian, and was strictly sensible on all points, except that she believed implicitly that the hour of her death on that day was foretold. Moreover, she had the gift of making a host of friends believe her. Since Saturday week, when the alleged angel appeared, she had arranged all her affairs, 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 o'clock on Sunday, when she said they dould certify her death. She declared that she would do herself no injury, 'but admittedly she wanted to be-~ "called, home," and see her husband inVheaven. All last week's photographs of Mrs Kiselcia, a woman of delicate,*: spiritual and rather attractive features, were published in the newspapers throughout the country, and reporters were in constant attendance at the hospital. On Suriday everybody asked, "I wonder if Mrs Kiselcia is alive." No newspapers are printed here on Sunday to answer the question, and I therefore despatched a representative to Passaic, and have [ just talked with him over the longdistance telephone. He reported that there was an enormous crowd outside the hospital, and that he was not allowed to enter the patients' ward, because it was Sunday, but the hospital superintendent had assured him that th.ejady at that time (10 a.m.) was still alive, and had just 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 she blundered in her dates, and promptly adjourn the htfur of her ddath, but says frankly and fairly that sfie must have been suffering from delusions./ She says she is sorry Jo "break faith" with so many people who had trusted her, and henceforth she will be sceptical regarding alleged angelic warnings.