Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-16
MESMERISM EXTRAORDINARY.
An Editor MauIed by n Female Lee.
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The London Morning. Heraidsays: can
extraordinary scene took place on Friday
evening, Jan. 20, at a mesmeric enter
tainment in Ihe&-towR of Camarthen,
where the editoEOe 6ne' of the local pa
pers was brought 10 feel the powers of
mesmerism in a way he little expected.
Miss Poole, q well-known lecturer on
eleetro-biology and mesmerism, had been
! lecturing to crowded audiences during the
week, and on Friday, being the day the
local papers are issued, one of them con-
tanned the following paragraph;
"'MESMERIsM.-This science is too dry
TO go down the threats ever of the lower
classes without a bit of fat in the shape
of gifts and prizes. Miss Poole has been
experimenting here this week with good
peeuniary success, the bait taking remark
ably well. The lady, for aught we know,
may be an accomplished electro-biologist ;
but We have no hesitation in saving that
her subjects were wide awake when they
were supposed TO be in the embrace of a
| god more powerful than Somnus and
Morpheus combined. If Miss Poole de-
mics this, will she allow the writer to ap-
ply = very simple test to her subjects af-
e GhO "a AASA uluEE COllLIOl : his
would be the means of convincing or Ct
undeceiving the public
that evening Miss Poole COM
mented upon the above c%ritique, and took
d copy of The Reporter from her pocket
and tore it into shreds before the audience.
She then had several young men Of the
town upon the platform, who volunteered
to be mesmerized; and the whole of them.
with few exceptions, were experimental
upon with success, and appeared to be
completely at her bidding. While this
was going on the editor of the above news
paper entered the room, and being recog-
nized by the doorkeeper, was ordered out,
but he refused to leave. The doOrkeeper
then appealed to Miss Poole if he should
send for a policeman to turn him out, and
she replied Let him alone; 1 have po-
licemen of my own. We will have some
fun directly And addressing about eight
of the young men on whom she had been
operating, but who were then apparently
awake, she said There is a person in
this audience whom l want you to bring
upon this platform 60 and fetch him.
"At this command the whole of them
bounded off the platform and ran toward
the individual referred to, who was point
ed out to them by the door-keeper, and
they laid hold of him and carried him by
main force to the platform, the audience
cheering and laughing heartily, little an
ticipating what would follow. But mat
ters soon took a serious turn for as soon
as he was brought near the platform Miss
Poole, whose cOOlress and seIf-possessiOn
had evidently deserted her, seized him by
the hair and dragged him upon the plat
form, the young men still keeping fast
hold of him, and there he lay for u few
moments, with the enraged lady pulling
his hair in a furious manner, the audience
yelling and hooting at her but their yells
and boots she needed not.
1.-The editor at last gained his feet, but
his revenger still chung tenaciously to him
till some person in the audience came to
his rescue. The confusion was now in
tense, and, amidst the Kissing and the
hootings of the audience, Miss Poole pro-
ceeded with her performance.
"SummOnses nave been issued against
Miss Poole and her coadjutors who Joined
in the ARRAY. The affair has created quite
a sensation throughout the town, the gem
tleman attacked being highly respected by
all classes"