The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-06-02
sASrAYEnLI,s GREATEST.

Starts James Mahoney on Five Days
Sleep, Mt Grand Opera House Last Even
ing-Large Audience and Many Doctors
Witness the Performance.
open your eyes and be very sleepy;
go over to the couch and lie down and
sleep, and don't wake up until next
Saturday night, when I call you. You
won't be hungry; you won't be thirsty"
| These were the words which Santanelli
addressed to his hypnotic subject at
the Grand opera house at 1920 last eve
ming, and James Mahoney, the young
man hypnotized at once arose from the
chair where he had been sitting, and
| going to the bed prepared for him in
front of the stage laid down to take the
long sleep which Santaneli commanded
him to take.
| "A large audience was present in anti
cipation of this exhibition and expert
Inent with hypnotic power and among
them were many well known physicians
of the city
The vitascope and the various hyp-
motto exhibitions were as successful as
they We're the last week, but everyone
was looking forward to this one event,
AT the opening of his performance San
tanelli said that he was obliged to do
dltferent than he had promised, for he
| could not get the young man to sleep
as the physicians said that his health
was not good enough to undergo the
| long sleep, and no one else could take
| MS place, as all the rest of his subjects
nad eaten hearty supper and the eX-
| pertinent must be made when the Stom-
ach was empty. There was general re-
gret felt at this announcement and all
the doubling Thomases" felt that their
doubts were confirmed, but later in the
evening the subject recovered so that
Santanelli said he would put him to
sleep, stating that it was not done to
satisfy curiosity but because it was of
scientific and clinical value. All the
doctors in the theater were invited to
the platform and after some delay the
following doctors came upon the plat
form: Drs. Wheeler, Ruickholdt,
Hawkes. Winchell and Guilford They
at once examined the subject and found
his pulse s5, respiration TO- temperature
$751; weight 120 pounds, apparently a
young man in average good health.
A few of the small boys started in
to jolly James at this point, and such
cries as 80 long" good night" were
heard from various parts Of the house.
The subject smiled, as did everyone
else, but apart from this the affair was
| taken seriously, as indeed it should
be, for it is no simple thing to sleep five
days even if one is ever so sleepy, and
there as many ifs which might sug-
gest themselves to the average per-
son.
Three policemen have been detailed to
watch the sleeper and will each watch
eight hours. The men detailed are
East, Bright and Gilbert East had the
first watch from the time when Maho-
ney was put to sleep at 1920, till 6 this
morning.
/ The doctors who form the committee
in charge will make frequent examina-
tions of him, and the stage entrance
will be kept open day and night for
those who wish to see the sleeper.
Mahoney has slept this way two or
three times before, and santanelli has
put over forty to sleep in this fashion.
The case is an interesting one, and
will be watched by many to see if it
| really can be done.
Tonight at the Grand opera house
two new pictures will be shown by the
Edison vitascope. One will be a view
of the arrival of an elevated railroad
train at Sixth avenue L station in
New York city, and the other will show
the immensely funny Highland fling
from Rob Roy" with the entire opera
company represented. All the other
realistic pictures will be given.