The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-05-27
Her HYPNOTICCRAZE
Mrs. G"lantzmann Accuses a
Newark Doctor Of Put
ting a Spell on Her.
COMMANDS HER TO FAINT
Has Been Acting Queerly for
Years and Wants the Law
to Secure Her Free Will.

A short, dark-eyed, wiry, nervous-look
ing woman entered the Oakland Avenue
Police Cour. this morning and inquired
for Police Justice Douglass. The judg.
had just left the court, and when shs
was told that he would not be back unit
this evening the woman was much dis.
appointed.
To a Jersey City News reporter she
said that she wanted the judge to hell
her cast off a hypnotic spell which was
upon her.
The reporter CLEANED from her the fol-
lowing story. She was Mrs. William
Glantzmann, of No. IA Hoboken avenue.
Her husband is a carpenter and they nave
three children. two girls and a boy. About
sixteen years ago, she said, she met al
her mothers a DIR. Fred Last, an alleged
astrologer and fortune teller, who claimed
to be able to cure any disease with a rem
edy he called sympathy. AT that time she
was a young girl engaged to be married.
DR.. Last often visited her house, and
about seven years ago she a him tell
her fortune.
He told ner a fairy tale of her past,
present and future and Immediately af-
ter, she says, she felt a queer feeling in
her head, but paid no attention to it at
the time.
Time went on and she began to act
eueerly. She would suddenly stop short
In the street and gaze at people, and do
all kinds of outlandish things. She says
an irresistible power seemed to command
her, andfalthough she did not want to do
certain things she had to do them. She
could not resist the command. She knew
atnen that someone had a hypnotic infu-
ence over her, but she did not know who
IL was untl one day DR.. Last was at her
mousse and she then realized that he was
the man.
Sne accused him of hypnotizing her. He
denied 1t. She asked him to take off the
spell, and he passed his hands in front Of
her eyes a couple of times and she was
somewhat better, but not entirely free.
The spell soon broke out upon her afresh
ana so she went to the doctors office, at
NO. lS Magazine street, Newark. but
again pleaded with him to release her.
lie again refused, and instead placed her
under his will ever more.
Two years ago he called at her ho,sa
NO. "a Beacon avenue, this city. where she
was then living, and her husband ham
pened to be at home. He ordered the
doctor out of the house and threatened To
XIII him if he did not free his wife. The
ooctor then left off annoying her. she
says, une't she met him on Newark ave-
nue one day last summer. He asked her
Gfd to sne was living, and although she
ner 20 q yso. He called at her Hoboken
avenue mouse a short time ago, when her
bhuspaHa vas away, she says, and again
hypnotlzed her. She then went to New
arr 70 see. him on Saturday afternoon.
Nay L., and went On her knees to him to
release her from his spell. He refused,
ponce station in Newark and asked
Lieutenant Prout to arrest the doctor.
dnS olncer sent a, patrolman with her,
and she was placed on a trolley car and
sent to this city.
Lieutenant Prout then sent for DR.. Last.
Wno Wnen questioned regarding the affair
woman for several years and that tha~e
Was no truth in her statement that he had
hypnotized her.
That is a lie on his part, Y Mrs. Giant
mann sad this morning, and 1 can prove
1t by my daughter Mamie"
Int reporter then went around to her
bright looking child. about fifteen years
old. Mamie said that DR.. Last called
upon her mamma a few days ago and told
would not take it off. He makes her.
the child says. do lots of queer things.
Mrs. Glantzman was picked up in Green
Vlle a Few lays ago on the streets suffer-
ing from a fainting spell. She said this
morning that it was the result of Pro-
fessor Lasts influence over her. She
said that he commands her to close her
eyes and faint and she does it, although
ne is nowhere near her. He can exer-
else his power away from her just as
we'll as when he is near her.
She is going to call upon Justice Doug
lass tomorrow and invoke his aid. She
talks like a rational woman and seems
to be sensible upon every subject but
the one of hypnotism. Her husband was
not at home when the reporter called. She
says that he believes she is hypnotizad
and hat DR.. Last is the person who exer-
eiSac the smell