CLAIRVOYANTS AND THE GATTON TRAGEDY. '

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9676, 23 February 1899, Page 2

CLAIRVOYANTS AND THE GATTON TRAGEDY. '

Percy Abbott wrote to the Sydney ' I'wllotin- — Some would-bo cleverpeople, hovo, in your columns, sneered at clairvoyants because the cataloptß have not ■ - re^ertlcd the identity of the^Gatton murderers: These ignoramuses have an idea that a clairvoyant is ,a kind jtf locum tenens for Providence t Xmo smuggles forbidden knowledge wJiilo" Providcnco is away for a holiday. The fact is, that clairvoyants nro strongest on contemporary or past events when-in, ■ spiritual or personal contact 1 . ' Tangibility is necessary in. all such cases, and nono but foolish persons , would expect a clairvoyant to have any knowledge of _ , such affairs while -hundreds of miles away from the scene and the actors. - A enso in point. Madame Heller was.asked by a lady with whom she staying , about a missing brooch. > Very little , progress was made until a girl came into tho room with afternoon tea. _ As she,, handed tho cup to Madame their hands.^. „ mot, and tho .clairvoyant immediately began to describe » elrl taking a broOcli from a table and hiding it behind a chest of drawers by sticking tho pm into tho wall paper.- A search wos^madOj arid v the brooch w.aß found as -described, .tho _ culprit being tho girl 'who handed tho tea. She' confessed to hiding it there in the hop"c Of boing able to tako posses- - sion of it later on. Similaralyj if a <. genuine clairvoyant could bo brought into contnet with the Gatton.jnurderersj a description of tho men qndrtabdiifl operand! of the crime could be obriun§di This could only be done Dy'submitnug ' all suspected persons to the ordoali< Un- _ til some such test ia madd it .wbuldJße well for scoffers to refrain., from talking \ about things boyond their limited" com- ' - prehension. ;