The sun., 1890-12-10

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He re%si sinea At II the Ge'f house. s week and then
tired Fl iiie: his wife had diSa, and 5 10 wanted d
business s and could s spend wa the rest p q his days
He selected Norristown because it looked like
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them all by name, Ho ,rememhered going to
bed In the store but he SNudnht rsPember S
was ip Boston. He did not know how he came
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one in IN charge q ~ OF It. and thought that 1t must
laughed. ana SAID It was not true; he wasiH, J.
that h. should aSs nas seeo@e hypnotzed Without
special influence. and that h he should he not 20 oii
%e s Rowan asan
place Nh!lc he was In the IanSe., The PROBES
He E.,turned home with his wife
.a d0sn ws Hst IN fSs SsIn hs
he had rcuislsrsd at the Pawtucket Hotel as
Brown He Sot ss there the s,srIeon that
any further until he eotto Philadelphia. The
reason was that the registers at !he hotels In
however. we VET found the boarding hi" house wherc
STEAMED enS hs I'D ssrs 5 ~
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strange In In his @ Conduct. t NV '''e'1 ' 'A'"s
wholc story Rowsn % @ told was R true V We r sent fr
@ H. "n He s. mr. Se T
him whore he had seen us before. and he said.
proved that he .had lost ali sense Of TING; lie
exactly where err he had dropped it Il In tn the Office.
and he hsdn reslzsd tha, he had been aTSHy WY
HI 10 a nran h%
he had told US OF the weeks he had been away.
and wondered again how his store was getting
Prof James again commanded him not to
become hypnctized without special influence.
and wanted TO know what we wanted OF him.
hypn otized him a third time. with tho Same
result We began then to reason with him
and to try to make him believe that his name
with maady that made him disteeve in his
real existence. He was undor the influence
three hours this tlme., His wife. was in the
room. but he no more know her than he did
on the first OCCASION. Finally he said: Well
maybe my name is Rowan. ! think | can DO;
fvS thst II YOU ~ me truly that 1t s
Professor said: This is your wife,.
".WhatY he asked. this woman my wife?
We'll, y guess not; I'd nevsr marry her. You
" But she Is your WIFE, the Professor said.
Nov rememSer your name is Rowan and this
"' tell you I wouldn't marry that woman
Rowan replied looking his wife In the face. not
trace OF recognition in his eyes. You are
trying to deceive me-
% He was released then and went homo with
his wife. We had him a fourth time recently
and went through the same formula He now
likely that through the influence we. NAV exert
over him when he is In a hypnotic state we
may fully convince him that be is who he Is.
and thus cure him entirely. The idea that he
i Brown seems to be getting away from him.
His memory OF what he did when he dsap-
pcared is iail ling. do not think that there Is
snothsr S' srch case on record. 1t is certainly
How, soon do you expect to have him
cured I" asked the reporter.
Il think BY Feb. ] he will have lost Brown
forever" replied the doctor
In answer to o question as to how he ac-
counted for the phenomena pr .Hodgson saId
man is victim OF spontaneous hypnotic or
spontaneous somnam bullStic frances"