The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-26
HYPNoT1sM WINS A BRIDE.
Luring a Young Girl to the Altar,
Henry Lawrence Deserts Her.
From the Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.
New York, Oct. 19.-Led to the altar
under a hypnotic spell, Mrs. Henry Law
renee, fair Scottish lass, only three
weeks a bride, has now been deserted by
her cold-hearted husband, about whose
life hangs a deep mystery.
The brides name was Minnie johnson,
and the two were married in Glasgow
Minnie is a blue-eyed, rosy -cheeked young
woman, with whom any man might with
reason fall in love, but her husband is
husband in name only, for, though we'd
ded, she is no wife. She was a private
nurse in a hospital in Glasgow. Henry is
the son of the late DIR. Lawrence, for
merly one of the best known physicians
in Glasgow, and visiting surgeon to the
hospital where Minnie was employed.
Henry was the cause of much anxiety
to his family and ten years ago, on the
advice of his father, who died six months
ago, he came to this country, and lived in
Philadelphia. There was some secret the
family tried to conceal in connection with
his life. He made frequent visits to his
Scottish home, and month ago went
over to visit his mother.
MAGNETIzED INTO MARRIAGE.
On this visit he and Minnie met for the
first time. She says he exerted some
magnetic influence over her, and now be-
lieves that he hypnotized her. She felt
that she must obey his slightest desire
without having the faintest power of re-
sistance. Within three days after their
first meeting she had promised to marry
him.
After the engagement became known
his mother sent for her and strongly adj
vised her not to marry Henry The chief
| surgeon in the hOspitalalso tried to per-
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ing Henry was not, "a suitable husband
for herr She wished to act according to
| this counsel, but felt some subtle influence
steal over her to destroy her will
The marriage took place. and a strange
marriage it was. Henry did not kiss his
\ bride, and manifested none of the symp-
! TOMS of Joy shown by ordinary men on
their wedding day. She stopped that
night at his mothers house, but her hus-
band did not go near the bridal chamber.
The next day Henry's cousin sympathized
with Minnie and told her she had made an
evil marriage and would bitterly regret it.
Two days afterward Henry and his
bride went TO Liverpool and started for
| this country on the Britannia They oc-
cupied different sleeping apartments, but
the husband always treated her with
courtesy and close attention in their in
tercourse. She still felt a secret power
over her, but she did not question any of
his acts. -oa Fg
When they arrived here last Friday he
took her to the Atlantic House, 12 Green
witch street, and engaged a room for a
week. That night she felt tired and re-
tired at 9 o'clock. He came into the room
an hour later and she suggested that it
was time to retire. He said he would,
later. At midnight he came back, threw
himself on another bed in the chamber
and went to sleep.
TOOK HER MONEY, THOUGH RICH.
Saturday he saidhe would get the bag
gage ready for visit to Syracuse, and
started out. She gave him $210 in Eng
lish money to be changed into American
He did not come back, and it was found
that all his baggage and hers, too, had
been taken away. She says he had
plenty of money and had no occasion to
take hers
The whole thing is a mystery to her,
and she does not know why he married
her. She has sister, Mrs. Barr, living
at Sterling, Conn, and she intends to go
to her while waiting for more money from
Glasgow The detectives are still look