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“SHELLS IN PISTOL © |Man Is “an Electric Machine” \ Former Penryn Expert _ nity of a Child as Well as Human Diseases. of U. S. Navy Testifies at EC Woman’s Trial. \moMs RIVER, N. J., Oct. 12.—The pistol with which William M. Giberson| other important facts about the individual.” is s@pposed to have been killed at his} phat is how Dr. Albert Abrams of © home at Lakehurst on Aug. 14 was!san Francisco sums up his remark: identified to-day at the trial of Mrs. |pie ‘theories about electronic reactions Ivy Giberson, charged with the mur-lin the human body. And he adds: der of her husband, as being of the] “gpiritist phenomena are a matter game calibre as the unexploded shells} of electronic activity. found at the Giberson home. Testi-] “Love, hate, jealousy, fear, every many to this effect was given by}emotion known to man, is merely a Francis J. Burns, formerly an am-|matter of electric vibration.’ munition inspector in the United tes navy He testified that the gun was of .38 calibre, a service revolver, that three of (he chambers hfid been used recently and three had not been used. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. A vigorous, keen-looking, clean- shaven man id Dr. Abrams, whom I found at the Hotel Astor. For some time he has been a storm centre in « He declares’ the shells were of hte|the medical profession, but he looks , same caifbre, and a holster, found in]as if he were not losing any sleep over & hamper ut the Giberson home, was]it, He has invented the electrical ma- for either 2 .38 to .45 calibre gun. hieaad athe t La Vergne Wisner, who lives with [Chines he uses as well as the tech- Marshal W. Murray of ‘Lakehurst, |2!aue df his treatment. And, while esttified that he was awakened by|such authorities as Sir James Barr, Murray about 6.45 o'clock on Aug. 14] past President of the British Medical and went to the Giberson home, where he met Thomas Manton, another Mar-|A#ecciation, pronounce him a great medical genius, and not a few reputa- ble physicians avail themselves of his shal. They took charge of the case pending the arival of the authorities, methods of diagnosis, there are others who are strong in opposition. he said, and during o talk with Mrs. Giberson he told him her home had been robbed. She said she had been sleeping on a couch and when she was awakened by the noise she went into the kitchen to turn on the light and was seized by two men, who bound and gagged The two men, according to Mrs. 'Giberson’s story, the witness testified, then went into the bedroom where her husband was asleep and later she heard a shot. Mrs, Giberson told the witness, he testified, that as they were about to depart the taller of the two] cepted. A stone, u blade of grass, men said: ‘ “What the hell did you do that] every inanimate object, Is held by for?’ and the other replied, ‘Well, | Physicists to be merely a collection of | doctor about these cures. he was waking up.’ Wisner testified that during the] years ago it occurred to me that the i ecru inet Ave tes oe human body itself should be so viewed. outbuilding, where later the gun was| Students of it were handicapped for a found. He said he was watching|long time by the belief in vitalism— from a point near the residence and| that is, the belief that some strange after Mrs. Giberson entered on her] torce not present elsewhere was to be fifth trip he saw a flash of ght] sung in ourselves. Ideny that, Like everything else, we are a group of “In one sentence, you believe that the human body is an electric ma- chine?’ I put it to Dr. Abrams, as he sat facing me in a low rocking chair. “Exactly that,” he said, crispily| repeatedly by students and quickly. “It used to De thought that the human body was a collection of cells. Then, in physics, the elec- tron theory began generally to be ac- through the ventilator in the out- building. Returning to her residence, the witness testifled that he heard 3 Mrs, Giberson say to two or three] “And the vibrations are immensely women standing near her: . “It 1s bad enough to have your et . aap ane reich helped, I- can’t suppos: husband killed without being held."’| for all the so-called spiritist phenom-| YCUld keep on coming, Policeman Kelly corroborated Wiss-|ena, The levitation, the moving of ner’s testimony. He added a story of objects apparently without human finding the bullet which had passed) agency, which seems so remarkable to through Giberson’s head, coming out] Sir Conan Doyle and Sir Oliver Lodge, of the cheek, and falling into the pooi] may be explained simply by the force of blood in which the body was found.| of electricity emanating from the Kelly also told of finding three 82-] human body.” calibre cartridges wrapped in cotton in a coffee canister, He identified] Then the doctor declared that he hem. considered both Doyle and Lodge Policeman Mason told of finding the] ‘consciously sane but subconsciously gun in the outhouse, with a long wire.| insane, 1 see no other explanation Prosecutor Jayne introduced into evi-|for the views expressed by two such dence five one-ounce bottles contain-| great men," he add ing some liquid, He said they had] “And you can detect disease by ex- been found in the Giberson pantry.|amining the vibrations in a drop ——- of the subject's blood?"" I asked posed to flow gentle born. It is perfectly true,’ in radio-acti In the second plac whatever the complaint may be. 1 ‘Mgr. Patrick F. myth, rector of|jong that I know the number of vi St. Joseph's Church, Jersey City, | brations which denote the presence of died to-day in § S' Smyth was ¢ y-two years old and} js, briefy, as follow: The blooc the oldest clergyman in the Newark} drops are placed in the chamber ot Diocese. He was born in County}an electrical machine, near the elec Goutra “Spee peas. Patrick's Seminary, Maynooth. He]contact—not with the patient, but came to America fifty years ago. with one whom I call ‘the subject In 1914 he celebrated his golden jubilee as a priest and was appointed @ monsignor. In his fifty years of service in this country he w nected with various parishes present, I have to depend to register on his person the various blood vibra- tions. Then by what {s known percussion—-a method of tapping cer- Jersey and twenty years 4 tain areas of the subject's body with charge of Joseph's He my thumb—I test the electronic 1 the church of debt and built the pa-]actions, When I hit a ‘dull rochial school, one of the finest of its] that is, a point on the stomacl ‘cind in the Sta He was taken ill three weeks > With Mor. Smyth at the time of location of that spot, in connection his death were the Revs. Thomas] with the electric current coming} tween Salsttz and Louie Sicardo, fourteen, of No, 1311 Nostrand Avenue, S$ Canty and William Costello, curates| through tho machine, tells me cer- of St. Josep They will bring the] tain facts about the person who: hody home. Funeral services proba-] blood I am testing; such facts as sex,| the rooms of the Brooklyn Children’s ly will be held onday the presence or al He is w sister, Mrs, |and even parentage." Lenihan, to v3 and three —- nieces. Furthermore, it has been asserted ence of dise Me survive Dv the fight, that the risitz from the effects of a blow death had resuited from aw The bey was unusually large Sieardo by pushing and i OPEN OF KH SEO (a Review at 165th Street Ad- dressed by Cit and Others. And Love “Vibrating Electrons: AT GIBERSON TRIAL Dr. Abrams Explains His Theory ARE IDENTIFIED Physician Whee Dinphostie Methods Stir Medical World Says Electronic Reactions Reveal Pater- “Man is au electric machine, Every organ, every tissue, every drop of blood is teeming with radio-active vibrations.. By examining these vibrations we can diagnose disease, detect relationship and learn many passing between bunting automobiles, from 116th Street and Seventh Ave- nue to Dyckman Street to-day as @ part, of the programme celebrating the opening of the newly macada- mized Speedway. Major Charies Marshal of Dubois acted as|» the parade. car came a bus carrying Department Band, automobiles carrying Murray Hulbert, President of the Board of Aldermen, representing Mayor W. Simpson, Chairman of the Com- mittee of Arrangements; various city officials, the Speedway General Com- mittee, representatives of many civic organizations and a detail Back of this were The line of march was by way of , 168th Street} St. Nicholas Ave- 18lst Street, 207th Street, Sherman Avenue, Dyck- man Street and thence to the Speed- way entrance. At 165th Street a reviewing stand had been erected and here a pause was made while epeeches were de-| 10 Mermaids Back From Ber- livered by Mr. Hulbert and Mr. Simp- son, John J. Ryan, Acting Park Com- missioner, and William McAdoo, Chief City Magistrate, Fifteen hundred children from Har- jem and Washington Heights schools broken oF ALBERT ‘by wenn erase pwora tion wee einen. x muda—N. Y. Girl Smashes Another Record. —_| because he was after it when I left.” Abrams'’s work that he not recognizes the vibratory rates of cer- tain diseases in the blood of the pa- tient, but that he can cancel these rates with others from his electrical machines applied to the body of the patient—thus curing such diseases as cancer and tuberculosis, I asked the songs, led by Miss Mary B, Mrs, Charles ©. Fein led community vibrating electrons. A number of He shook his head, smilingly. don’t talk about cures,” he de- clared, “When you do that, you put yourself in the quack class. say that disease being the expression of a vibratory rate, it is just as true that some other electrical vibration can destroy it as it is that a drink- along the line of march. big gathering the Harlem and a banquet A water carnival ¢ during the day at the Hotel Biltmore, at which there THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, ZODCARSINFARADE Giri Breaks World Swimming Record Kirst Time in History Made by Man Sve BAUER. GERTRUDE EOER.. ETHEL me GARY, HELEN Wain _sa Krueger. the first ‘time in the history of | ™M! n, s back stroke in] thr of 6 Yninutes 28 4-5 seconds, Th up by her clubmate, Harold|muda upon invitation of DoRowwy Wee ETHEL BAKER. : LILLIAN, STOCOARG, RLIZARETH BECKER, anv, Doms OMAi Miss Bauer alfo broke the woman's record for 300 and 400 yards. ablegram from Ber- said to-day, Government officials, and the swim- held in the pool George Hotel, at St. “T sent him a muda,"’ Miss Baue let him know I'd by mermaid party were: kidding me over goin Doris O'Mara, ranging in « swimming -contests a woman has] teen, who « world swimming record held/ the Furness Line steamship Fort Vic nd the signally victorfous|toria after competing ng woman, Sybil Bauer, eighteen, Northwestern Univ: of th and diving rsity, a mem-| Gertrude Ederle, Illinois Athletic Club, re-| Amsterd turned to-day from Bermuda, where] yard fre record was made. distan She swam 440 6 minutes 244-5 seconds, beating the| tablished in Dorothy Westley, This bettered by recently es- gland by Hilda Jame n, and Helen Wain- » second: » In charge of Miss Char- n of the Wor ing goblet can be smashed by sound- ing just the right note with a tuning fork or with the human voice. electric vibrations. —well, people have come to our San Francisco clinics from all over the country, and if they hadn't been that others wilfbe more speeches, to-night, part of the celebration. [MAJ SUTTON FOUND GUILTY OF ROBBING WOMEN IN STOCKS Judge Commends Verdict as Step to End Modern Form its father, the child’s blood test wil NOT show a likeness to the mother.’ I asked Dr. itself Is merely a matter of vibration “It is just that,” he averred, “and we have fourd that there are differ- ent vibrations for diffesent sorts of Mother love vibrates differently from the love of woman for man, or from the love of a child for its par- All the other emotions are also vibrating electrons. 2 attracted to a particular is because thelr Then I asked Dr. Abrams to de- scribe how the blood is the test of pedigree in a sense different from the theoretical “blue blood” which is sup- the veins of the “that by testing a child's blood you an always determine: its paternity nd sometimes its maternity. are three distinct tests, In the first place, a child's blood has the same vibration ag its father's. it shows the sume racial vibration; that 1 father is German, the child's blood will show! the German reaction; ish, the Irish reaction, and so on. ef course,’ he replied. Eaeh MGR. P. E. SMYTH dinense Santa owt Vibratory race | Furthermore, in certain tate DIES AT AGE OF 82 cancer, tuberculosis, blood disease or Nbat GG Anel child. ‘Chess toate lave , or vice versa, are in harmon much a matter of phy: of a magnet And if one pers not the other, the lover can, by the or her vibi them up in the object of cal law as the on loves, and stronger counter force pulling in an- other direction Which is perhaps the natural law back of the old saying, have studied and experimented sc] been used in two court cases ‘alifornia to determine paternity. But—and here is an interesting atoga Springs. Mgr.|each. Tho method of detecting ther | point—unless the child's mother loves “Love begets injr false statements ssets of his company. Minerals Cavan, Ireland, and educated at St.| trode. Another electrode is placed in Boy Drops Dead During Fight Res es, 6 ih Another Lad i He Chaffed Leonard Salsitz Tana First at Blow in in Duel, but Weak Heart Killed Him. His propensity for teasing his playmates led to the death of Leonard chest or back of the subject which] Salsitz, fifteen, of No. 160 Pulaski Street, brooklyn, This was the police sounds dully under the tapping—the! version to-day of a fight in Lexington Avenue, near Tompkins Park, be- at 9 o'clock last night. Sicardo, who was held last nigbt and to-day in y, will be released late to-day ical Examiner Charles Wuest ” reported after an autopsy this morn- ing he could find no evidence t the theory advanced following stigution, police sald, fight between Sal not aroused by girls whom the two boys, it and Morris in npkins Park. T boys were king in when they met the girls and conversation At this time Salsitz beg an to tease Lting 3 EO WARD. DSALITZ, Children's Court is no charg: Sicardo finally grew tired him ‘to eur it out.? Words f and a suggestion that thi was made. Sulsitz, who to have taken boxing lessons « be proud of his boxing a acquics The girls x ‘ ent Into Lexington Ave- coats each Jo si landed the fest blow and he ond. Salsita started anot when he suddenly threw up " Sivardo was held all wight to a purt be will be of Thievery. The sions which had been try: ent of the Pacific Minerals and] turned over several ¢ al Company, found him guilty] In addition, .80 o'clock this morning mers Major Sutton, a West Point gradu-| j,, , was Indicted on a charge of issu-] recaptured about the Cedar ed in the Pucifie nd Chemica! Company with Was assoc Escaped Elephant Back Home After Rampaging for 48 Hours Topsy Now Feasting on Peanuts and Other Delicacies Following Second Capture. * WILMINGTON, N t elght hours has been celebrating in the vicinity of Wilmington by wreck- ing everything in sight, was chained again to-day to a stake at a quiet spot, near Cedar Point, while her wearled keepers kept her supplied with extra rations of peanuts and other elephant The circus elephant, which for forty- delicacies to calm her frayed nerves, a cireus here before Judge Talley in| becoming frightened of dogs, flower beds, a > Major Redondo Sutton, formerly] factory, caused to its plant by the elephant the barking the Eureka gro cabin and a dye mobiles paid for eked down when he attempted to » elephant’s progress but es- arent damage ock | keepers: when he attempted to lead the pac derm to a lighter by means ® animal's ear to a hospital nervous condi tion improved He was carried Notice Lindsay, who recently guy of having avin Brown Bear Mortally Wounded women of social prominence out of about $1,000,000, Lind wae ove vores] ~— N ZOO Battle With Two Polars in Major Sutton’s trial Standing at the bar, the former army officer received the verdict with-] Pugilist Valiantly Breaks Up Fight With Club at burg, but Arrives Too Late. out emotion, At the request of Georgé Gordon Battle, his attorney, and with consent of Assistant District At HAMBURG, Thomas J. Whalen, date for|whip two Polar bear sentence was fixed by Judge Talley 10. Sutton gave lis pedigree in a dis tinct tone, saying he was thirty-two] The years old, of Los Angeles, Cul., that is an engineer, marriod and Mves at 70 Kast 77th Street. He sald hi] Ways appeared « mother fs living and that he had befor n convieted of ere fight After Sutton had be led aerogs | tress were Bridge of Sighs to the Tombs]! Talley, turning to the juror led them for their verdict. | beasts » said to them “It may interest you to know that} pet cub 5 the first-conviction, so far as 1] brown bear aware, under a law ¥ was | one of ed in 11h. It the most| Then important luws in dealing with erime] with the Millions of boi n from women like Mrs. William Arnold in this city by means of prospectuses. J asked Mrs, Ar nold to-day how much money she had st through tNe defendants mentioned | struments nis case and she informed me that] glib t it totalled $27,000, Lindsa tmanuel a. witness in this ease, got]! 10,000 from one woman, Mrs. [the Judge lone, and other women not of | sen type of Mrs. Arnold or Mrs. Duke, | they might, om whom you would searcely}a ja pect had ever heard of Wall Stree " t thousands of dollars through | tur kind of m used to think committed by Press).—One proved in an impromptu battle staged in 4s/the Hamburg Zoological noticed into an u during cleaning operations. when he found himself SAY HE DEMANDED DRINK WITH PISTOL Hlashed Special Policeman’s two snarling antagopisis who t Enraged at jis tes of the 7 filled with th and a Special Pe A pugilist Vrederick Holshoe Mrownie his wounds every package. Try them at our risk. 10 In the packa: Claro—Colorade Claro—Colorado kK Fee INPORTERHELD | SEIURE OF $100,000 IN WINE amination of ‘Olive Oil’ Barrels Disclosed Sherry Paradise Cafe Closed. Dominick Alonge, member of the Importing firm of Alonge Bros, of No. 194 Elizabeth Street, who do an extensive business in olive oll and other Mediterranean products, was held in $500 bail to-day in Essex Mar- ket Court for an examination on a charge of violation of the Mullan- Gage Law The arrest was made after sherry wine valued at $100,000 had been seized by the police ono search warrant, The wine, in 168 bar- rels, each containing fifty-four gal- lons, was found in the ceHar of the place Its detection was due to a fire Sept. 21 on the top floor of the building, whieh is not oceupied by the firm, Police Sergt. Greenberg noticed that the firemen had covered many barrel in the various Greenberg floors with | tarpaulins and asked “what was in them, He was told olive oll, After Justifying bis suspicions he asked if the firm had a Federal permit for the wine and was told it had, ‘The search warrant was obtaiged after the firm had failed to produce the permit. This is one of the largest seizures of what is regraded as “good stuff"? made in a long time. Posing as ors and doing @ vaudeville turn through Greenwielr Village carly to-day, Prohibitfon Agents Kerrigan, Reiger and Stafford had no trouble in buying Hauor at $1 a drink and getting evidence against three plices, the Moulin Rouge Cafe, Washington Place and Sixth Avenue the Village Star, No, 142 West Fourth Street, and La Vie, No. 144 next door The officers said all you had to do was play the plano and sing a song and the rest was easy, Mrs.\Margaret McCarthy of No. 438 Kast 18th Street is totally blind in Bellevue. She attended a party on Tuesday night and had two drinks, She is a bookbinder and went blind yesterday while reading, “Wood al- cohol’’ was the doctor's verdict. The Paradise Restaurant, 68th Street and Eighth Avenue, known for @ generation as Reisenweber's, was closed for a year by order of Judge Manton in the Federal Court for con- tinued violation of the Volstead act. It was declared a public nuisance, District Attorney Hayward considers the order the biggest thing that has happened to restore respect for the low. ee MRS. BEHRENS’ BODY IS BEING TAKEN HERE ed Accident Caused Death of jarlem Woman Near Syracuse. ‘The body of Mrs. Conrad Behrens. Ne. 2642 Elgth Avenue, which was found along the railroad tracks near Syracuse yesterday was being brought here te- this afternoon relatives had d the details of her death Behrens left Tuesday morning in company with Miss Helen Doherty, alxteen, of 2 Went 139th Street, to visit her daughter, who has bee nill, in Toronto, Canada. 'They were to meet her son-in-law in Buffalo. A message last night to her husband said the son-in-law was bringing the body home, but gave po information as to how Mrs, Behrens met death. She th and had plenty of lieved to have been NEWSPAPER CLUB PLANS BIG SPORTS TOURNEY Wives eof Morning and Eveotnw Men to Take Part. Whether the wives of morning newspapermen or the “better halves’? of writers on the evening dailies excel in athletic endeavor ,particularly golf and tennis, will be determined at the first sports day of the Newspaper Club, to be held at the Westchester- Biltmore Country Club, Rye, next Wednesday, There also will be com~ petitions for the men After the sports dinner will be served in the grill, at which speech- making will be tabdy. Daneint will be enjoyed and otherwise, will leave the Newspaper Club, No, 188 West (Ist Street, at noon, 2 o'clock and 4 o'elo was in a saloon at North Bighth and Ber Streets, Williamsburg, early to-day, when Kennedy entered and demanded a d Te refu Holshoe nnedy flashed a badge 1 when he saw it was a Long Island Rall road Special Policeman hield, Infurioted, KF dy, he declares, drow a guy Holshoe pushed tt aside, took Kennedy to the street and turned him over to Patrolman William Wubbenborst We’re sure Piccadilly Little Cigars will please you. That’s why we put a guarantee in iin