The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-21

distinctly as if it were real, and If you
should put L true rose IN its place, or by 1t,
l should not know how to distinguish
them
Il made her see it for ten minutes. She
moved it, changed its place, etc. She was
wide awake, and talked coolly about the
phenomenon. Then l said to her, Look at
it for the last time; it is going to vanish.
Then she saw it grow less distinct, fade and
vanish inseusibly.
81 suggested to c. during sleep that
upon waking he would see NJ. s., col
league, present with only one side OF his face
shaved and with big silver nose. After
waking his eyes fell toy chance on my col
league and he burst out laughing 'So'you
have been betting, said he, that you
would allow only one side Of your face to be
shaved; and your nose! You have been to
Les Invalides, have you?'
The most remarkable case related by
Bernheim Of pOst-hypnotic suggestion is
that of an old sergeant. Bernhelm says of
him:
During his sleep in August, 1888, said
TO him: what day in the first week in DC
tober shall you be freeP He replied
Wednesday, Well, then, listen carefully:
The first Wednesday in October you will go
to Dr. Liebault' (who sent me this easel and
you will there see the President of the re-
public, who will give you q medal and a
pension Il will go.' he answered. l did
not speak to him of it again. Upon waking
he remembered nothing. | saw him several
times in the interval, and gave him other
suggestions, but never recalled the first to
his memory. On Oct. 3 (sixty-three days
after the suggestion, l received the fol
lowing letter from DIR. Liebault: The
somnamfulist, s., came here to-day
at ten minutes of one. He greeted NJ
F, who met him as he came in, and
ENrwa l-EA l.
library without paying attention TO any
one, and l saw him bow respectfully and
heard him speak the word "Excellence "
As he spoke quite low, | went near him
Immediately. Just then he held out his
right hand and said. "Thank your Excel
lence." Then asked him to whom he was
speaking. ''Why, TO the President of the
republic" he said. l noticed there was no
one near him. Finally he turned away,
bowed and came toward NJ F.. A few
moments after his departure the witnesses
of this strange scene naturally asked me
about this fool-as they thought him. My
reply w&s that he was no fool but was as
re sonsble as they or l. Another was
acting through him.
81 add that when | saw s. again, sew
eral days later, he assured ne that the idea
of e ing to NJ Liebault had come to him
suddenly ON Oct. 3, at 10 o'clock in the
ceeding days that he had to go, and that ne
bad no idea of the meeting which had
taken place.
However singular, however inexplicable.
may be these suggestive phenomena, which
are realized after long interval at a mo-
ment assigned in advance, and which are
elaborated or thought out by the mind, un-
kno Hn to the subject himself, / do not hesi-
tate TO relate them. | should have hest
tod in tho Of Cd fook
but | have reproduced them 50 many times
in different somnambulists that have not
the least doubt of their reality. The inter
probation of them belongs to the domain of
psycho logy,
The gravest branch of the subject from a
social point of view is the relation of
hypnotism and crime, which was partially
considered by the Sun a week ago. That
there is practically no limit to the influence
of an operator over good subject when
once the hypnotic condition is invoked no
body with any knowledge of the subject
can deny. But there are strange mani
festatlons of the phenomena which were
not touched upon in the previous article.
Not only are the present, and TO a degree
the future acts Of a subject who can be
hypnotized to the point of Sonambulism
fully controlled by the operator. but false
evidence OF real or imaginary events may be
readily created. In word, a hypnotized
person may, by suggestion, be made to be-
Iieve that he has witnessed events that
never took place, or q real memory may be
suppressed or supplanted by q fictitious.
There are on record several cases of absorb
ing interest in criminal jurisprudence which
are exDlainable in no other way.
One of the most famous cases in all the
history of crime, the Tisza-Eslar affair q
few years ago, introduces this element A
young girl, IA years old, who belonged to
the reformed faith, disappeared. Nineteen
Jewish families lived in this Hungarian
village. The rumor soon spread that the
Jews had killed the girl for her blood. 1t
was the eve Of the Passover feast; they had
mixed her christian blood with their I'M
leave1ed bread. A corpse was later found
in the Thesis, and was recognized by six
mother remained incredulous, and
other witnesses, chosen by her, re-
fused to recognize the body. The anti
Semitic passion was reused. Public opinion
was reused and thirteen Jews were ar
rested. The judge, a great enemy of the
Hebrew race, busted himself in confirming
the conjecture which blind hatred had con-
ceived. The sacristan of the synagogue had
a son IL years old. he was summoned be-
fore he judge. The child knew nothing OF
the murder, but the judge, wishing by all
means to establish what he believed or
wanted to be the truth, gave him into the
hands of the commissioner of public safety,
who was expert in extorting confessions
The latter took the boy to his house. Sew
eral hours later the child had confessed
His father had allured the girl into his
house, and had then sent her to the syna-
gogue. The boy Moritz heard a cry, vent
out, looked through the keyhole of the tenn
pie door, aud saw Esther stretched on the
ground; three men held her. The butcher
cut her throat and caught the blood in three
basins.
The child was isolated for three months
under the care of a guardian who never left
him. When he came before the assembly
he persisted in his confessions. The sight
of his father and twelve co-religionists
threatened by the gallows, the most earnest
supplications to tell the truth, tears and
curses-nothing moved him. Without
hesitating he repeated the same things in
the same terms; he had seen. Justice tri-
umphed in the end and the accused men
proved innocent, but how account for the
strange ties imony of the child Witness
Bernheim thus considers it:
1.-TWO hypothesis are possible. Terror,
violence, threats, have been able to force
the lying dispositiol, and everyone knows
how in children, and even i'll adults, per
sistence in lie becomes obstinate opinion,
through the sole fact of having lived for
weeks with the habit of this lie Add &c
this the flattery that follows and the prom
Use of a rose-colored existence as a reward
for r,arsayar-aunp in fOrcod Iia This 10