(Part xix.) of the Psychical Research Society's Proceedings, as having occurred on Rhode Island some years ago.

An excellent citizen, and a very religious lay preacher, of the name of Ansel Bourne, was the subject:-- On January 17th, 1887, he went from his home in Coventry, R.I., to Providence, in order to get money to pay for a farm which he had arranged to buy, leaving his horse at Greene Station, in a stable, expecting to return the same afternoon from the city.

He drew out of the bank 551 dollars, and paid several small bills, after which he went to his nephew's store, 121, Broad Street, and then started to go to his sister's house on Westminster Street.

This was the last that was known of his doings at that time.

He did not appear at his sister's house, and did not return to Greene.
Nothing was heard of him until March the 14th, when a telegram came from a doctor in Norristown, Philadelphia, stating that he had just been discovered there.