The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-12-29
THE Won eAlomoa TRAGEDY.

ReeaIl:ns Statements Made BY the UnfOs.
tunat~ Girls Father Prior TO Her Death.
The keenest interest continues to be
manifested throughout Europe in the
strange fate OF Eta Won Solomon, who
died in hypnotic or clairvoyant trance
near Vienpa three weeks ago. Franz
Neukomm, who conducted the expert
inents which ended SO tra3ically, is a
well known engineer Of Worschetz,
Hungary. His special calling is boring
artesian wells, and he has won the
gratitude of the population of many
districts in which, before his time,
there was not drop of pure water to be
had. He has never failed to. find water.
Herr Won Salomon, tho father Of the
dead girl, is one Of the great landed
proprietors of Hungary. A few months
ago Eerr Won Salomon wrote an account
Of some of Neukomm's experiments
with his daughter and others He said
in that articles:
Having plunged them into hyp-
MOTTO sleep, he caused them to forget
their mother tongue. At his com -nand
they We're unable to count more than
table. He put them back into the fifth
year Of their lives, from the fifth to the
eighth year, tie twelfth year, and so
on He spelled, wrote and read with
them as with children, and they con-
Quoted themselves after the manner Of
children of the ages suggested. Neu-
komm pressed a cold hairpin on my
daughters left hand and produced a
large burn. 1t Is remarkable that these
hypnotic experiments were productive
of the best effects on the health of the
ladies.
"The most exciting episode of all
was the following: My daughter. while
in a hypnotic trance, suddenly uttered
a cry and then began to speak rs fol
lows: 1T is now quarter to q O'Clock.
A thief has slipped into our dining
room. He l>Is Just placed himself before
the chest in which the silver Is kept so
that he cannot be seen through the win
dow He is putting things in his pocket
the sugar bowl, with the flower on
the lid; the coffeepot, the saltcellar.
| He is gone into the drawing room. Now
he is in my room. He hears noise. He
| is creeping under the table. Now he is
under the sofa. Then she described his
flight. She told of the pause he made
before leaving the house in order to ex-
anime the stolen objects. How he hit
himself i'll the garden, returned ant
hen buried the silver vessels in the
garden.
The entire company was greatly ex
cited on hearing this narrative. We
were not then in the castle, but at Man
dok, and without delay we set out along
with Neukomm for the castle at Tuszir
The articles enumerated by my daugh
ter were gone, and we found them il
the place sho described.
ION a subsequent occasion we wer
desirous of learning the name of tn
thief, but my daughter replied tina
nothing must b. done to render the MAJ
miserable. We promised not TO lodg
ny Information against him, but L
our assurances she made reply that th
ioul trusts not human promises, bu
does what it deems right Wewho wit
messed all these things are under grea
obligations to Herr Neuko,nm. II
causcd pure sources of water to sprin
up where formerly there was none t
drink; but, more than that, he ha
shown US that the divine spark exist
within us, of the Immortality of whic
we are all convinced today"
Herr Won Solomon has made no state
ment since the death Of his daughter. =
Vienna Letter.