CLAIRVOYANT TESTS

Waipa Post, Volume 41, Issue 3186, 9 August 1930, Page 3

CLAIRVOYANT TESTS

TRIUMPHAL ACQUITTAL. In order to test whether the claims of a clairvoyant were genuine, a judge at Leitmerilz, Czecho-Slovakia, lately staged a seunce in court. The test was applied to Eric Jan Hanussen, whose services as a clairvoyant wera requisitioned by the Austrian military authorities in their search for water, and who has since made a fortune giving demonstrations in the principal towns of Austria. Hanussen was, however, arrested in Teplitz, and though witnesses were forthcoming who alleged they had been decieved, an equal number spoke to his extraordinary gifts. In order to put him to the test the judge ordered that the court be strictly guarded by gendarmes with fixed bayonets, and the neighbouring rooms searched for an accomplice. Hanussen was set to find a concealed object; to give the characteristics of three persons from specimens of their writing; to do the same with two specimens of writing in the possession of the court; and to describe the fate of a man by study of an associated object. As soon as the object was hidden Hanussen ran out of the room and returned within one minute with a key which had been concealed. He gave a correct description of three wellknown personalities when their writing was submitted, and he succeeded equally well with the other tests. In one of these he gave a description of a motor accident. Hanussen was acquitted and taken in triumph to his hotel.