UNCANNY POWERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22444, 13 June 1936, Page 5 (Supplement)

UNCANNY POWERS

POLICEMAN IN BUDAPEST Unlike many clairvoyants and mediums, Janos Kele, the most valued member of the Budapest police, does not lapse into a trance or semi-coma when making his divinations. Instead, acting as a perfectly normal being, he elucidates murders, suicides and other crimes after concentration on the clues—often the flimsiest —put before him. His eerie powers have confounded the most brilliant doctors and scientists in Hungary. When Father Mattyasovszky was murdered a few months ago, Kele took charge of thfe investigations. He explained that he suddenly found an impression of the priest's assailant burning itself into his mind. As a result of this vision, the murderer —a man-ser-vant—was arrested a few hours later. Kele is also employed as assistant to Dr. Szimon, chief of the "People's Protection Department," for which he acts as a sort of universal S.O.S. bureau; his tasks range from divining the movements of missing persons to describing the whereabouts of lost or stolen property. A year after he joined this department, the city's suicide rate decreased by 40 per cent.