HELLER IN ENGLAND.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4193, 28 August 1874, Page 3

HELLER IN ENGLAND.

(From the Melbourne Argus.) It may be reassuring to some of our country contemporaries to be informed that Mr. Robert Heller, who they supposed to have been mysteriously made away with in Mexico, has recently concluded a successful season of upwards of four months in Manchester, “an almost unprecedented run,” says a Manchester contemporary, “ for an entertainment of this kind in a provincial town.” The same paper describes some novel effects by which Mr. Heller and his sister, Miss Haidee Heller, appear to have considerably astonished the inhabitants of the cotton metropolis. Our contemporary says :—“ The latter portion of the entextainment is taken up with the sketches respectively entitled, ‘ Scepticism,’ and ‘ A Dark Seance,’ in which Mr. Heller has the assistance of hia clever sister, whose marvellous second sight has been the talk of the town for the past three mouths. In the first-named sketch Miss Heller personates a lady who is a firm believer in sph’itualism, and who is i-educed to a state of trance. In this condition she correctly calls out the names that various members of the audience have written on slips of papei’, x'olled up, and deposited in a hat, from which they are taken one by one, as Miss Heller mentions the inscription each contains. Not only this, but one of these names is also shown traced in blood-red characters upon her arm, although it appears perfectly clear that she could have had no foreknowledge of what was intended to be written. In the other sketch, the phenomena originally associated with the Davenport Brothers are produced in a most amxxsing fashion by Mr. and Miss Hellex - . The latter has her hands bound by the audience with inost formidable knots, and she then retires into a large cabinet, furnished with curtains. When these are - drawn several pairs of hands are seen to protrude, and odd sounds are heard. The curtains are drawn apart, and Miss Heller appears bound as before. One of the spectators now ties up the mouth of a lax-ge sack with a piece of cord, and this is placed in the cabinet, and the curtains again «tonceal the interior of the structure. A moment afterwai’ds bliss Heller is discovered enveloped in the sack the mouth of which is as before closely tied. The curtains being again drawn it is found that Miss Heller has divested herself of the nautical garments which she wore on entering the cabinet, though she still continues a pxisoner in the sack. Finally she disappears altogether in the most inexplicable manner. Mr. Heller describes [the fix-st part of his entertainment ‘ Wonders,’ and the latter part 1 Mystery,’ but we are at a loss to make such a distinction, as each so completely embodies both these characteristics.”