FAITH-HEALING.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1931, 17 August 1889, Page 3

FAITH-HEALING.

A Sussex paper states that a sudden recovery from a serious illness has created much amazement in Lewes. A little more than seven months ago Mr R. Rummery, of that town, was taken ill with chroaic rheumatism and hysteria, which seemed to affect every nerve in his body. Prior to bis illness his sight had been bad, and now he became totally blind in one eye, and gradually began to lose the power of vision in the other. He was brought back from Bath a helpless invalid. Oa Saturday, June 15, he was utterly prostrated, and never left his bed, nor could he well raise his body therein without assistance. On that day ther« came from London a minister who sometimes preaches in the chapel which the sick man was in the habit of attending. The minister ! and five others proceeded to the eick chamber. Solemnly they " anointed " him by pouring a few drops of oil ©n his head and then laying their hands, in turn, upon him. Kneeling then by the bedside, prayer was once more offered, when, within ten minutes of the arrival of the party, Mr Rummery, of his own accord, sat up in bed, a thing he had been unable to do for weeks. He took from his face the shade which for two months had covered his eyes, and at once exclaimed, " I can see." ill pain had entirely left him. The afiward progress did not stop here, for, to the araazeiaent of all, he soon after got out of bed, dressed himself and walked downKfcaira unaided, weeks no solid food bad passed his? iip-, but; upon g-.J.<g downstairs ho (x-catue ntrcnc'ui;/ hungry, and sat do\wi and thoroughly enjoyed a hearty meat supper. After a few days' change of air, Air Rummery proposes to resume his | ordinary daily employment.

A TRAGEDY. A shocking tragedy recently took place at a London music hall. Mr George Letine, a well-known " music hall artiste," was entering the Canterbury Theatre of Yarieties in Westminister Bridge road about 11.15 p.m., to take part with his troupe in a performance, when a man stepped up to bim, and remarking, "I've been waiting for you a long time, and now I have got you," thrust a knife into his abdomen. Immediately afterwards his assailant walked across the road, placed a revolver between hi» teeth, and fired. Letine died in a few minutes, but the attempt at suicide was less successful, and when the mail left the murderer was reported to be recovering. The motive for the crime was a peculiar one. Letine's real name, it appears, is G-eorge Thomas Govin. He was thirty-six years of age, and was the leader of a company of acrobats known as " The Wondrous Letine Troupe." His assailant, Mr Nathaniel Curragh, was manager of the Crayford Waterworks, Kent. It appears that he had a daughter Beatrice, fourteen years of age, who, seeing the Letine troupe perform near her home, became possessed of a craving to join them. Letine offered her a situation, which she accepted, with her father's consent, although it appears that she went ,to Letine in the first instance without her parent's knowledge. She went into the acrobatic business " & fine healthy child," and returned home in a few months, utterly broken down, to die of consumption. The father brought au action against Letine, which he lost. Intense grief at the death of his child, and a strong feeling that she had been ill-treated by Letine, then took possession of Curragh's mind until he became a complete monomaniac. His son states thas he was constantly talking of his dead child, and would wake up in the night "screaming out" at the thought of his misery. At last he determined on killing Letine, whom he regarded as the caase of his daughter's death. How he carried out his intention has been already told.