The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-29
HER MIND IN HIS SPELL.
Young Pickens Could Control Miss
Briggs Though He Was Miles Away.
From the Now York INnrId

Eau Claire, Wis, Nov. 25.-Hpynotlsm
and telegraphy will, it is believed, be
given a new standing in the scientific
world by facts brought to light here
through the arrest of DR.. George w.
Pickin, and his son, Asigal Pickin.
On Sept. H. Edna Mabel Briggs, seven
teen years of age, intelligent, vigorous
and of good family, disappeared. After
two days her father and an officer found
her at the home of DR.. Pickin. She has
since been in the custody of her parents
and in the care of physicians, but, it is
claimed, she was so in the power of young
PiclSin, who had hpynotzed her, that the
story which led to the arrests was not OBJ
tanned until recently.
The same charge is made against Dr.
Pickin and his son. Each pleaded not
guilty and waived examination. The doc
tor is out on 800 bail, but the son is stu
in prison.
The district attorney says he has enough
proof of the ordinary manner to convict
both father and son of the serious crime
charged, but much evidence is being
gathered relative to the hypnotic and tele-
pathic features.
The facts are stated to be that the girl
when found by her father, was under
hypnotic control; that she remained so
for a long time afterwards and owing
to the control exercised over her by
young Pickin she was unable to reveal
the truth; that she was constantly in
the care of d prominent physician of this
city; that the authorities summoned to
their aid a well-known professional hyp-
notist and physician, who placed her I'M
der a hypnotic control superior to the in
fluence of young Pickin; that by this
means the main facts were gained, though
the girl Telapsed again into the control of
young Pickin for time; that young
Picxin was finally persuaded to at least
partially release the girl from his hypnotic
control, which had bafied the authorities
and physicians In spite of the fact that the
girl was all the time in their custody; that
by careful treatment her mental freedom
has finally been restored, and that when
the arrest OF young Piclxin was announced
to her she threw off the last vestige of his
influence and is prepared to tell her story
on the witness stand.
The district-attorney and the physicians
say that II was demonstrated while the in
vestigatlon was going on, that though
separated from her by a distance Of two
or three miles. young Pickin exercised
control over the girl. and that she de-
scribed with perfect accuracy on several
occasions exactly what Pickin was doing
at a time when collision was absolutely
Impossible.
The physicians say that the phenome-
non Of telopathy or thought transference.
is By this case established firmly as "a
scientific fact.
The Rirl rs Of much more than ordinary
Intelligence. She has told the district
attorney that on the night she was taken
go Dr.. Plckin's house Ehe read the mind
of thr doctor through that OF bis son. She
added that u there n anything Do mind
reading there Do "a Hubcoilsr in thBf house
lu which ere buried bodies Of the babies
~ two young wrlH.
fluzeut of standing and wealth are in-
terestIng themHelFfs in the girls case.