UNCANNY POWERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22909, 17 June 1936, Page 10

UNCANNY POWERS

Unlike many clairvoyants and mediums, Janos Kelc, the most valued member of the Budapest police, docs 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 alter concentration on the clues—often the flimsiest —put before him. His eerie powers have confounded the most brilliant doctors and scientists is Hungary.

When Father Mattyasovszky was murdered a few months ago. Kele took charge of the 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 servant—was arrested a few hours later. Kele is also employed as assistant to Dr Szimnn, chief of the " People’s Pro tcction Department.” for which lie acts as a sort of universal S.O.S. bureau; Ins tasks range from divining the movements of missing persons to describing the whereabouts of lost or stolen property. A year after lie joined this department, the' city’s suicide rate decreased by 40 per cent.