TELEPATHIC HEARING [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In connexion
with the statement in your issue of December 20th that Professor Murray's auditory system was rendered so sensitive during the experiments in thought- reading that it could record words spoken in another room at the other end of the house, may I relate the following, told to me by the late Dr. Dabbs, of Shanklin ? The doetor had a patient very ill who suddenly became agitated, asserting he heard screams and cries. At the time the sufferer was supposed to be the victim of the hallucination of fever, but when the papers next day told of the loss of the Eurydice ' off the Isle of Wight and the time she foundered corresponded with the time when his patient had been so disturbed, Dr. Dabbs came to the conclusion that his patient had really heard the cries of the poor drowning lads though miles had intervened.
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