HIS “ ASTRAL ” ENEMY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 4016, 26 February 1903, Page 3

HIS “ ASTRAL ” ENEMY.

The insane theories of an inventor have led to his tragic and mysterious death. Albert Guelle, of Meudon, pear Paris; at one time possessed of an independent fortune, and spent his leisure in scientific research, his tavourite study being spiritualism and occult science (says a Paris correspondent). So ardently did he apply himself to the quest of the unknown that his intellect became unhinged, and he imagined himself persecuted by an astral spirit. The defend himself against the assaults, of his invisible enemy, Guelle constructed a curious metal apparatus, something like the helmet worn by divers under water. His first helmet, made two years ago, did not give him satisfaction, and since then he had been at work on another, which he was to test for the first time the other day. He wrote to a medical man in Paris asking him to be present at the trial, but the doctor requested the inventor to postpone the trial .for two days, when he said he would he present. But on that day, when the doctor knocked at the door of the little pavillion at Meudon occupied by M. Guelle, there was no reply, and when the door was forced open a ghastly sight met his eyes. M. Guelle lay lifeless on the floor of bis laboratory, and on his head was the strange astral helmet. Attached to the apparatus was a reservoir containing chloroform, which, through a tube, was intended to fall drop by drop upon the lips of the inventor. On a table was a letter written by the deceased, in which he said that he could bear no longer the assaults ofhis astral persecutor.