Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-01-31
DEAD BY HYPNOTISM.
A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN MUIR
DERED BY WILL POWER.
The italian Artist Procci's Contest on
His Fiancee Sporting in the Waves
With Rival Aroused Jealousy She
Sank as He Desi red.

Hypnotism does not stop at murder.
Mario Procci. the great artist painter,
furnishes evidence to that effect.
Procci is painter of some renown.
Last year King Umberto bought one
of his large pictures that had won a
first prize at the Rome exhibition.
The young girl whom he claims to
have murdered was Anna de Luigi,
the daughter of noble and wealthy
| family. The very painting now hang
| ing in Umberto's library in the Quiri-
nal is Annals portrait, says the New
York Advertiser. After giving his
name and station in life to the chief
of police and explaining the nature of
his visit Procci said:
81 had planned the pal hitting repre-
senting Ophelia now in the possession
of his majesty, and was looking for a
suitable model, when one day, about
two years ago, met in the Piazza di
| Spagna a woman who in form and
features completely filled my require
ments. l followed her, ascertained
| her name and address and procured
an introduction. She was willing to
become my model for arts sake. /
found her, on nearer acquaintance, as
| Intellectual as she was beautiful; she
was musical, well read and had trav-
eled a good deal in foreign countries.
Nothing unusual in an artist falling in
| love with his model. Anna allowed
herself to be loved. She was heart
less, Unfortunately proud of her beauty,
her mplishments. Alteration
pleased her. | think she was incapa-
BILE of loving anybody but herself.
She derided my feelings. She went
further; she established a rival at my
side, and finding that / was almost
crazed by grief, lured on another to
keep him company. Wherever we
went these two monopolized Annals
attentions.
Il became a hypnotizer myself,
with the idea of practicing my new
accomplishment on Anna. First she
was most unwilling, and her mother,
too, objected, but that was just the
reason why after awhile my intended
withdrew her arguments against it.
1t pleased her, she said to play with
fire. All! how beautiful she was as
she gave herself into my power-a
Madonna, with the whitest and rosiest
of skins, royal blonde hair and great
moist blue eyes!
$50 commanded Anna to withdraw
her arm whenever my rival offered to
kiss her hand. The experiment sue
ceeded. Then | ordered her not to
laugh about the bajocco's indiscreet
jokes. Next day | saw her in his
company while he narrated side
splitting tale, silent, almost sad. The
muscles of her face seemed to be par
alyzed
lone day last summer heard my
rival propo Sc an outing to Porto d.
Anzio, by the sea. Anna announced
the idea enchanting.
Gamma looked the picture of beaute-
Gus health in her white bathing suit,
so richly embroidered. l kept my
eyes on Anna and twice / saw that she
kissed my rival as the waves tossed
him into her arms. All! their calcu-
lations-of the waters actions were err
roneous; instead of hiding it, the
waves disclosed their infamy. Now a
terrible thought, like lightning, struck
into my mind. Die, miserable wo-
mani / said, with astonishing energy.
'Die!' And felt as if something de-
parted from my soul and flashed across
the waves into the heart of the hated
one. 1t was as if my whole strength
departed from my body through 49,
600 pores, directed by my supreme
villa murderous missile of a new
sort. Then l saw Anna. 1 saw her
recoil from my look; saw her lose
self possession, then consciousness.
The next moment she had disappeared
below the waves.
"Cries for aid; terror among those
on the strand and in the water;
blanched faces; the life savers who
did not save--I had intended to drown
Anna; and she drowned"
What is hypnotism? Mental and
physical passiveness on the part of
one; indomitable will power on the
part of another.