The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-22
HE WAS HYPNOTIZED
The Weight Of Occult Influence
Crushed His Mind.
HERBERT MAGEE lNSAN
Another Subject for the Asylum
He Sees Many Crazy People.
He Says-Badiy Unbal-
anced Mentally.

Special Correspondence OF the Standard.
Livingston. March 21.-Herbert Ma
gee was brought up from Sweet Grass
county tonight in custody of Under
Sheriff Jackson and an examination as
to his sanity conducted before Judge
Henry and Drs. Alton and Shawk. He
was brought to Big Timber yesterday
from Al Harrison's ranch, on Deep
creek. where his queer talk and actions
convinced the people there that he
ought to be taken care OF.
Attorney Sydney Fox came up from
Big Timber on the same train and re-
lated how Magee imagined that he was
under hypnotic influence of sundry per-
sons. when Magee took the witness
chair he accused a man named Bennett
of hypnotiZing him, but careful in
quiry failed TO elicit the fact that Mr.
Bennett was gifted with hypnotic pow
ers 70 any marked degree. Some lady
who lived on the line of the Great
Northern was also mentioned as pos
sessing an occult influence over him.
and he also explained that half-breed
Indians were more expert in the hyp-
motto science than white people. 1t was
impossible, he said. 10 get beyond the
influence of his prosecutors. and he
could feel the hypnotic current coming
from the time they set ii agOing I'm his
direction. 1t would come with a rush
ing, kissing noise-z-z-z-z at times re-
sembling the ringing Of bells or blow
ing of whistles, and while under the
influence he would be mentally ire
sponsible. The people who eXorciZed
their spells over him were bent on ma
licious mischief and If they kept it up
necessarily IL would eventually drive a
man insane. At times he had almost
concluded that he was crazy, but every
day he encountered people so much
more crazy that in comparison every
body would admit that his mental pow
ers were not impaired. lie remembered
that his grandfather had gone insane.
but he could not have inherited the
mania or he never would have been
able TO withstand the witchcraft which
had been practiced on him for the last
seven years. ever since he left Colo
RADIO.
He could practice the black art him
self, he said, but he very seldom did so.
lie could penetrate, or rather, travel,
with his eyes long distances and hypno-
tie any one he sought to. Often inn
ages Of people would rise up i'm his path
and confront him. but were not tangi-
BILE objects, for they would melt away
If sought 10 be captured. He had often
/ seen a horse turn into n human being.
but this was always followed by a re-
transformation back to a horse again.
At various parts of his story his feat
ures would relax into a broad smile
and his sunken eyes and cadaverous
countenance would then give forth
some evidence that his insanity. tenden-
cies did not totally eclipse or obscure
all of his mental faculties He was good
natured all the time and when 1t was
suggested that he go to the hospital
for a time to see IL he might not thus
escape from hypnotic influence, he
readily acquiesced.
The commission made out a commit
ment for him to the asylum at Warm
Springs and Sheriff Jackson took him
in tow on No. /. He is SO years Of age.
a native Of Massachusetts. and has a
married sister residing at Webster In
that state. Mrs. Emma Wallace, by
name.
Two frail damsels were arrested on
the train this morning, on a telegram
from Marshal Terrell at Billings. which
charged them with grand larceny. The
Livingston officers escorted them e.
Jail, and to them they confded the
story that they had done nothing but
jump the town and beat the land
| lady" out OF their board bill The Bill
ings marshal viii arrive in the morn
ing and chaperon them home.