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Show ACTS OF YOUTH BAFFLE JOCTORS BOY POSSESSES MYSTERIOUS POWER OF ATTRACTING INANIMATE INANI-MATE OBJECTS. BELIEVED TO BE HYPNOTIZED Home Has Been Visited by Hundreds of People, Who Cannot Account for the Strange Happenings. Hap-penings. Mount Horeb, Wis. The citizens ol this village have been considerably troubled during the past few weeks by the actions of Henry Brophy, a young lad 11 years of age. The boy lives with his grandparents in the center of the village and is a lad of more than usual intelligence. The grandparents are aged people. They are retired farmers, having purchased a nice home at Mount Horeb and moved to that village about a year ago. The first strange acts were noticed no-ticed on March 3, and since that time Btories as weird as the phantom ghost have been transpiring in rapid succession. suc-cession. The strange occurrences always al-ways take place in ,the presence of the boy, never when he is absent from the house. Some of the best and most highly respected people of Mount Horeb claim to have witnessed scenes for which they cannot give the slightest explanation. expla-nation. It seems that the prevailing circumstances circum-stances are that all articles that move about in a mysterious manner nearly always travel in the direction of the boy, who is usually on the opposite side of the room from that side from which the article starts. On one occasion a relative brought a basketful of eggs to the house and set them upon the table, and wrbile talking to the members of the family, one egg suddenly flew out of the basket, bas-ket, striking the boy in the face. On another occasion a drawer in the sewing sew-ing machine came out of its place and came flying through the room, scattering scat-tering the contents in every direction. . i. . Everything Travels Toward the Boy. An old case knife flew through a room and stuck in the floor near the old grandmother. An ornament on a heating stove was jerked off and thrown across the room. Books, soap, sausage, and many things movable in the home have been performing queer pranks. Thinking that the environments of the 'home had something to do with the events, the lad was sent to the home of a relative, three miles in the country, where, it is said, the strange occurrences are still taking place daily. There are many attempts at solving the mystery. At first it was thought that the house, which is built of brick, had in some manner been electrified, elec-trified, which was soon disproved. Another An-other theory is that the boy has accumulated ac-cumulated hidden force which was acting without his knowledge. Others think that the lad has the strange power possessed by' mediums. Still others believe that the circumstances all have natural causes, whatever they may be. Nevertheless, whether it is a scheme or some spiritualistic performance, perform-ance, the events that have transpired have caused a great commotion in Mount Horeb, and as many as 200 people peo-ple have visited the house. It is said that the lad has a high temperature constantly, and is losing flesh. Relatives are planning to have the boy taken to a specialist for examination. ex-amination. The -writer recently visited the scene and those at the home seemed strong in the belief that the boy had been hypnotized and left in that condition. Since the little fellow has been taken to the country coun-try nothing extraordinary has transpired trans-pired at the home in the village, but strange movements of articles have followed him to the country. |