Exposed by Nellie Bly

Sunday, November 11, 1888

A Swindling Magnetic “Doctor” Caught at His Tricks

Prof. Ernest De Blanc, of Brooklyn, Proves to be a Notorious Criminal

He Has Advertised to Give a Big Free Exhibition To-Night, but “The World’s” Active Reporter Discovered Him Just in Time — His Ingeniously Secreted Electric Wires by Which He Demonstrates His “Personal Magnetism” — A Long Criminal Career in Half a Dozen Big Cities — Convicted of Forgery at New Orleans — His Brilliant Advertising Schemes.