A WONDERFUL POWER.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12502, 31 March 1909, Page 4

A WONDERFUL POWER.

One of the "freakiest" men ever brought -Into a police station was at Tacoma recently, when P. Arnold, a cook, 64 years old, did tricks that have mystified the • police., Arnold laid aTpoliceman's club acrosa the palm of his open hand, and then asked several of the officers by turns to remove it. It required one of the strongest men of the force to move the club, and then he could only get it a fraction of an inch from the man's hand.. The same trick was performed with a billiard cue, 'which also was laid 'in Arnold's open hand. The cue was finally broken by one of the men, leaving the butt lying across Arnold's palm. The man also makes lead penbe able to find articles hidden. When oils do peculiar thjngs, and claims to; he rubs his hands together for the fraction of a minute both the members become so hot that they will raise a blister, he claims, by laying them on the flesh. He tried to give ocular demonstration of his power on Chief -Detective Fitzgerald, but the officer dodgejl and moved near the door. Arnold was' arrested for disoiderly conduct, but when the police found out his peculfarjties they turned him loose. „■.."•-■'