| Show V Polish V VV V Who Is ils Amazing L NaY Y With Intuit hie ve Powers V V Vf rV VV V V V 5 I VV S V V VV VV V V V V Vc Vc'S S 'S V V V V V V VV V V V VV VV V V V V V V S V VV VV V V V V V V 41 V V VV VV V V VV V V H HV V V V VV I IV V S Rafael famous Polish handwriting expert who has astonished American scientists police officials official and journalists I Letter From Hungarian Is Only Clue for Famous Writ- Writ Tells of Incidents That Have Entered V Life of Scribe Warns Warm Persons Against Possibilities of Errors Errors V VV V V Copyright TIght 1923 United States and Canada by the North American Newspaper Alliance Copyright 1923 Great Britain South America Australia and Japan bythe by tha North Amer American can Newspaper Alliance All rights reserved I NEW YORK Nov Noy 27 on On my first visit to Rafael I pulled a piece o 0 of paper from my aty pocket pocket pocket-a a letter Jetter from a Hungarian friend in Vienna Letterhead and signature were V torn off tho letter consisted of only about three lines said What language is that I dont don't know it V I said Its ts t's Hungarian V V said Is that letter a d and that one an e I Thereupon he said This man Is a genius genius or or rather rath rath- er promised to be once His Ills nerves are shattered He still has a brilliant brilliant bril bril- V intellect but his health health is is giving out V He lie is a great noble character has character has sacrificed himself for or others others fought fought for Justice justice but but butle he le had many enemies They accuse accuse ac ac- ac i cuse him of ot a terrible crime He lie do anything wrong wrong wrong-he he meant meane well well well-he he Is innocent He sits behInd behind be- be hInd walls walls heavy heavy thick walls and cries out out crIes cries out help me help me nobody me-nobody nobody hears hears' him the walls are too thick He languishes and suffers consumes himself becomes Is ill 11 Is dying now dying now they hear him They rush to his V aid he Is free But he is not the man he once was V Who Vho is he V WAS TALKING OF OFF KERI V VI I was stricken speechless The man who wrote the brief brIet I Hungarian note Is a former Budapest Buda Buda- V pest jest Journalist Paul Kerl Ken Before I the war ho he was one of ot the most 1 brilliant men in the profession His correspondence during the Balkan I wars war awakened European Interest i Daring the World Wild war he was a aI I I pacifist and spokesman spokesman in In Hungary and was persecuted by the government He was ono one of ot the leaders leaders' of the r revolution In Octo Octo- V ber bel 1918 Later he joined the comi com com- I i When Horthy and the I I Whites tes camo came into power Keri Ken was 1 arrested and Imprisoned and tried for life Ute Th The charge against him was that he he was the murderer of Count Hungary's war pre- pre mir riler who had been shot ahot to death I in his palace by a group of intruding ing revolutionists unidentified V at atthe atthe atthe the time on October 30 30 1918 The Tho charge was bolstered up up- up we knew all the time Keri Ken was In in- in no cent I The prosecution could not produce any evidence evidence but but ICon Kerl who behaved at the trial in a n. very dashing manner and and ridiculed ridiculed rid rid- his accusers was sentenced I to death for the murder Tho The RussIan Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian soviet government Intervened and Ken together with a batch of ot other political prisoners was ex exchanged exchanged ex ex- changed for tor some Hungarian I cers cars He lie went to Russia and Is Isnow Isnow isnow now In Vienna Oh yes yes while while InI in prison ho he began to show symptoms I of ot tuberculosis and was actually I half haIt gone when the Russians freed I him Today he he is comparatively well again but his nerves are shat shat- He lie is an old friend of mine and when he w ws was s In prison I wrote articles in his defense in the Nation and In tho the New York Tj Tribune une ERRS SOMETIMES One very ery Important reservation reser about nn must be bo made I his faculty is not infallible Sometimes Sometimes Some Some- times hi his analyses blend astonishIngly astonishingly astonish astonish- some I truth with obvious error at I other times he runs up as it were against a bla blank blaik k wall I have made madea a special study of his limitations on the basis of both my own experiments experiments ex ex- and observations and of ot testimony contributed by experts Owing to lo tho the extremely extreme y elusive character of s gift one of ot the best ways to define them Is 1 Isby Isby by stating what It is not Professor Fischer of Prague expert psychologist psychologist discerns in the ver very Instability th- th stability of power a proof of Its genuineness Ho sa says s 's that his variability is tho tilO earmark arm ark of a biological function uncontrolled by will if It performance rested on trickery it might be Professor Pro Pro- fessor lessor Fischer believes more un uni un- uniformly accurate V When Is very ery tired V Vand and nervous when ho he la is personally strongly concerned in the of a t test teat st or simply when he for any any- PS psycho physical reason is inan In an fin ot off oU mood his powers do 10 V not function with their usual cutting edge Y K ft himself most V conscientious of men tt hi Q var people e no act to toI I i J i expect from him per cent ac acCuracy accuracy accuracy ac- ac curacy all an the time B But t the tho consensus consensus con con- seams of experts and other substantial sub sub- witnesses supported by my myOwn myown myown own experience is that failures are infinitesimal compared with his astonishing successes UNFOLDS LIFE SECRETS Moreover one of the interesting points about mistakes is that he frequently hits the truth He diagnosed a handwriting as that of an army officer It was the handwriting handwriting handwriting hand hand- writing of ot a civilian civilian but but one who happened to be president of ot a VIennese Viennese Viennese Vien VIen- nese fencing club the Union The point Is the writer was ws a man well versed In swordsmanship Again once attributed a a a poet In reality reamy it was that of ot the great Viennese actor Joseph Kainz who however was wont to do literary work too in touching up th tb tho plays which he ho pro pro- After Kainz's death a number number number num num- ber of ot literary experiments frag experiments frag fragments ments of plays poems etc were found among his papers As manns mann's analysis preceded this by several years in this line Uno as in many many others the Veinna einna wizard put his finger on a lifes life's secret Or else as said Id looking looking looking look look- ing at tho the handwriting of a friend of mine the man had fought hard battles with poverty As a matter of fact the man is wealthy but his fortune has shrunk very considerably considerably considerably consider consider- ably owing to exchange conditions and though living in luxury he has grave financial These in instances instances instances in- in stances prove in a graphic way the tho adequacy of ot the saying as applied to case that I error i is merely a n. form of truth MANY CEASE SCOFFING I You cannot approach the work of Rafael from any point of be view and not be impressed I came to doubt others doubt others have come in inthe tho the same frame of mind We have scoffed when those who have haYe kno knon n him hini fOr years earR told of tho things they have seen And they been proven proven in tho the right right not not as doubt doubt- ers ens There Thero is no need to see in mann a man who goes beyond nature na na- na- na ture Ho ITo Is a u. part of nature the nature the thing he represents whatever It may be is natural and not super super- natural That It has not yet been analyzed and dissected does not mean that it will not be In time There are diseases of ot which the germ is still sun unknown yet let ret these dIseases diseases diseases dis dIs- dis- dis eases are aro recognized It is so With He has something that t has not been deot defined ned |
