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Show RELEASED HIS SOUL, BUT IT DID NOT RETURN mother not to regret hlra if his experiment experi-ment should prove fatal. He promised that his soul should continue to communicate with her. PARIS, Jan. 22. In an effort to prove that the soul can leave the body and return re-turn to It, A. Guelle, a man of superior Intellect, In-tellect, lost his life victim to one of the strangest experiments in history. Mr. Guelle was widely known as a translator I from the Greek, Latin and Hebrew. For a time he filled an appointment at the bureau bu-reau of public assistance, but resigned his I position to study occult sciences at Meu-I Meu-I don. The independence of the mind in dreams caused him to conclude fhat personality s dual and he resolved on an experiment that should free his soul from his body for a time. His experiment was based on that I of the fakirs in India, who have them- l selves bulled alive, maintaining their bodies in a lethargic state while their 1 minds are supposed to journey in the as- j I tral world. He constructed an apparatus consisting ' of a reservoir fixed to the wall which would let a mixture of chloroform, sulphuric sul-phuric ether and water fall drop by drop on his face. Then, choosing his birthday for the experiment, he wrote his will and a letter to a friend, placed himself on a bed beneath it, having anointed his body with antiseptics, that mortification should not set in while his soul was absent. The letter to bis friend asked him to awaken Guelle at the end of ten days. Immediately Im-mediately on receiving it the friend rushed to the young man's apartments with Ouelle's mother. They were too late. They found the student stretched on the bed, a calm expression on his face, as if ! he were sleeping. He had been dead several sev-eral hours. In his will he enjoined h' I |