The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-11-29
+ SHE WAS HYPNOTIZED.
A Sensational Case Comes to Light
at Eau Clare.

A Sensational Case Comes to Light
at Eau Glare. .-,
Eau Claire, Wis, Nov. 27.-Dr. e.
w. Pickin aud his son, Asigal Fickin,
have been arrested on the charge OF
assault. DR.. Pickin is out on 800
bonds, but his son is in Jail. The
prosecution is the result OF an in
vestigation which began Sept. 4. last,
when girl of seventeen, named
Emma Mabel Briggs, daughter Of
Joseph NJ. Briggs, was found at the
house Of DR.. Pickin by her father and
an officer after she had been missing
two days. The case of the prosecu-
ton is that the girl had been hypno
tied and was crlluinally assaulted
repeatedly by both Pickin and his
son. The defendants have pleaded
not guilty and waived examination.
While the state expects to prove the
crime on evidence of the Ordinary ma
ture, large mass of evidence will be
produced on the hypnotic feat Tres Of
the case. The facts are stated to be
that the girl, when found 10y her
father, was ,lnGrr hypnotic conttol:
that she remained so for a long time
afterward, 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
| prominent physician Of this city;
| that the authorities summoned to their
| aid a we'll known professional hyp-
notist physician who placed her under
a hypnotic control superior to the 9th
er influence; that by this means the
main facts We're gained, though the
l rS11r, 40, in Sp,to f17o troll Nf
| young Pickin'S influence for time;
| that young Picllin was finally COM
| PEELED by persuasion to practically re-
lease the girl from his hypnotic con-
! troll, though he continued to impart
suggestions to the girl, duplicating
other parties, and for time battling
the authorities and the physicians in
spite of the fact that she was all this
| time in their custody and that of her
parents; that by careful treatment her
mental freedom has finally been re-
stored, and that when the arrest Of the
Pickins was announced to her she
threw off the last vestiges of their in
fuence and is prepared to tell her
story on the witness stand. " ~.
Interesting to Scientists.
One Of the extraordinary features
Of the case, saws tile district attorney
anil the physicians, is that It was
demonstrated beyond the shadow of 8
doubt that while the investigation
/ was going on Mabel Briggs and young
Pickin were in mental communication
to such an extent that, though sep
arated by a distance Of two or three
miles, she described with perfect &C
curacy on several occasions exactly
what Pickin was doing at a time whe1
collision was absolutely impossible
The physicians say that the phenome
non of mental telegraphy or though
transfcrence is by this case eStab
lished firmly as scientific fact, ant
that it opens a new era. The girl il
of much more than ordinary intelli
gence.
The story is terrible in it's details
One Of the things she tells the distric
/ ! attorney is that on the night she va
. taken to Pickin's house she read tn
mind of the doctor through thlt &c hi
, | son, and she claims to have receive
! some mysterious revelations. Their
: is growing excitement over the affair
Citizens of station and wealth ar
interesting themselves in the girl
case. DR.. Pickin and his son sa
I nothing, except that they are innoccn
. DR.. Pickin has lived here many year
! and has so-called vitapathic inst
: tute in an obscure part of the Yves
r side. The Briggs family are of III
! exceptional social standing, and M.
: bel was always in good society nut
Q this affair occurred.
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