A REMARKABLE INCIDENT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13240, 21 March 1907, Page 7

A REMARKABLE INCIDENT.

23 YIJAR^ A strange incidenh and. one 1 hut >vill :bs of interest, to students ■<» psychical research, has just been before our; notice {.says the " liore Standard "). Twentyrthiee years 'ago :a: i'lyntoiitlv Resident '■ put away l in Safe keepiijg n'rlife,iiifiiranee policy on the lil'o of his: father. who was then lying on his deathdied. The policy was i'n "ihii (:'.oveinuie;ii- : office, /was for £SOO, and wits given him byliis .mother for the purpose of hiding owwitig to the theft of' ii-liiige about, £SO. from 4heir' diome;. it. may be- added. was a VThe the course of a-few • days.' and in the settling up of his affairs , thu production- of the policy, was •-.required). Iho son, however, had forgotten where he had seeneted it. No aniount o of'thouglit; could, recall its hiding place ; / perfect bhink,im the matter. Years passed, hut they brought; iio : :-elu6idatibn :'q£ the. r iiiysi:eVy, and. in . the, couiW 6f "UiiTe :t?lie carried a .'claim Against. the Insurance Department- to -thei;nv..courts.. . It eveiituafly found its way to "the i'livy Council, but. thu defence ; was succe-sfuil.v raised that, tlie .policy was not hist^it/hadjiieeiirpiit. away., oh /the;! plaintiff's own showing,:,and when it. .was pip- • ditced the insurance would be paid. 'l'he sequel to -Wie/strange ' affair - in ; Gore • ltist. .week. , , s ; ilia . gentleman, now., a res-ident of this district.whose - memory served him. so- shabbily 23 year ago. ■ viited ;a; Qfire■ dentist;: ; jji. lights,. ilor, the purpose of having several teeth ex-ti-actedv : was 'adniinisteredy /arid raider its inthienco the ..subject's ni.iiid wandered to. the old .question When-he Yt=as hnnsfclf: lie remarked that th.e iaiae'stli'etitf liad solved the' probleii>' of his life. He. explained to 'Mi' Hughes how every detail in connectiiiti with the" s^ci'eting : /; ; of he 'polfcjr' ■ caiiie: clearly before liis mind'while iridei^'its/ influence} He. reciiiled goiiig-'fiiitn; the' i?it>m,, where' his father lay dying with his mother by the bedside, "how the mm her tool: two policies from.'it 'cupboard and handed (.nie _■ to. biiiij instructing him it) hide it- as;' ii might share the same'fate as th.e stolen; money ; • how lie went, into, tlie passage of the hotel to carW out her wisli.' and/' jlie. l'Mr ■so.ns7tlia"t pVonipted;liiih. to select, the hiding place he did Ifo carefully cut open the Willi paper iri ; - and hid the. policy behind the .-crUn, and.then pasted the paper, over it...again. Our friend lost ;.little tithe; hTi-eftcliiiifi".,tlie telegraph office and wiring to a brother -toraake at stlV6 >spoti' hQ : osa%-:irt ;liis: and- iri that- }lie policy had be'.'n found •just where lie had directed the search ,to be made. '] hare iire eircuni.st;iiice.< : witli. jtiie/dlsiippeanince of the' unfortunate results as far as. the gentleman w.t- concerned,. but, ot course.:. they.. eannot be' referred to:, but .it is rather a curious> fact, tltat '•lie pineidetij; was the 'cause. of him coming t his distance.' from his old : home, arid"-' tli.^ut.'._ifcv. WMS-Jjlßr§.'','tk®, mysfeiy 'wiis r solved. ' 'Tlie;.- private particulars, if pub.lishable, would invest, the. story with quite ii::r,bmantie element, -butapart from' that, the incident has an intense, interest for those who -take up the. study of psychic phenomena. , .', : ■'