Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-05
investigated by Philadelphia physician,
but with no results.

investigated by Philadelphia physician,
but with no results.
All that was known was that the man had
been away from home two months, six
weeks of which he had spent at Norristown,
but the remaining fortnight was blank to
him and could be explained by nobody else,
In the course OF time the circumstances
reached the notice of Prof. james. The
man was now again at home. peaceably pur-
suing his trade of carpenter. The professor
visited him and found him to be hard
headed, matter-of-fac Yankee. After con-
siderable persuasion he was persuaded to
come to Cambridge and be hypnotized. The
pro lessor thought that in q hypnotic trance
the man might remember his Brown expert
ence.
And so he did.
This is the most valuable phase of the
phenomenon from psychical point OF view.
He was very readily hypnotized, and, as
soon as he passed into the trance, began to
talk of
Norristown and the Candy Store.
He also explained those two weeks that
had been up to this time a mystery to every
body. While prosaic enough, his account
was perfectly circumstaISial.
Having conceived a notion that some
trouble was in store for him at home, he got
on horse car one day apd rode to Paw
tucket, proceeded thence to New York,
stopped one night at the Grand Union
Hotel, went on to Philadelphia, put up 3
couple of nights at hotel, and then took a
room at boarding house. The location OF
this house he gave as 1115 Filbert street.
While there, seeing an advertisement OF a
| small business for sale in Norristown, he
went to that place which he had never Wis
| tied before, and set himself up in trade.
Such was his story when he was in the
| hypnotic state, and in that state he could
remember nothing of his former or normal
condition. On the other hand, while in
his waking state, he had no recollection oI
| his Brown experience subsequent to his
boarding the horse car to ride to Pawtucket,
nor could be tell why he started on this trip.
His Brown personality was, as Prof.
James put it, a weak, insipid, diluted ex-
tract of his normal personality. In the two
states he was two entirely different men.
He was hypnotized many times, and at
I tempts were made by all sorts of articles to
effect at least partial fusion of mis- Brown
| condition and his normal condition, but
these efforts were quite unsuccessful. The
only result was that his hypnotic memory
grew more and more feeble, until finally ht
could recollect only the barest outlines o.
his Brown experience.
Not a Freak of the Imagination.
His statements concerning that experience
were, OF course, verified as far as possible
1t was not until last week, however, tha
the boarding house at 1115 Filbert stree
was found to have existed otherwise than il
his imagination. When Prof. jane
wrenched his hypnotic narrative from hin
that house had been torn down and replaced
by mercantile establishment. and all trace
Of its former occupants were lost. And onll
few days ago did Prot. j ames received wore
that they had been discovered.
They perfectly remembered the man, will
the circumstances OF his arrival at thei
house and his departure to 60 into busines
at Norristown.
This example of dual personality Prof
James pronounced as one of the most com
plete on record. He will describe it in de
tail in the next volume of proceedings o
the Society for Psychicai Research.
The exercises last night were conclude,
with the reading, by Secretary Hodgson, o
a report of some sittings with Mrs. Piper il
England, by Prot. Oliver j. Lodge, F. R.
Mrs Piper has returned from England
but, being in i'll health, is not now giyinl
| SeaUces