The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-03-18

AZ VIII 9 uFdmdGlC sweep OF the arm 6ne
threw the letter as far away from her as
possible. It was returned to her, and the
same thing repeated, but with the same
result. She was then put on her feet and
asked to dance jig, but protested most
Indignantly. On being awakened she at
Hrst remembered nothing, but on being
commanded by the operator to remember
all she repeated everything that had hap
pened and said she knew all the time that
the letter did not belong to her.
Last on the programme, the experiment
tiers were rewarded by seeing murder COM
mitted-murder with paper dagger The
young man who performed the frightful
crime is probably the best hypnotic subject
In the city. He has been used often by
travelling professors to show that crime
can be actually made possible by hypno-
tisn, and he has often proved it to the
satisfaction of an audience-with a paper
dagger. But with real weapons it was
different.
This young man was first exhibited in
the usual tests to show his capabilities.
Anesthesia and catalepsy were shown, the
youth holding up man while stretched
rigidly between two chairs, readings book
aloud the while. Then his pulse was in
creased from so to 100 beats in less than q
minute by the suggestion that he was run
ming up the lighthouse stairs He made
speech, exhibiting the style of bicycle
which he sells in business life, and finally
nearly broke down the chandeliers trying
to drive away swarm of bees that were
stinging him.
Harry said DR.. Parkyn, edo you re-
member that fellow that cut up your face
SO badly in Minneapolis? Well, saw him
yesterday" Harry remembered, as his re-
marks showed.
'That man is right in this room," con-
tinued the doctor in an impressive whis-
per. "There he is. See him sitting there
asleep? This is our chance to do him up.
Take this knife -thrusting paper dag
ger into his hand-"and go around on that
side and stick it into his back I'll 20 this
way and help you out. Hit him hard and
finish the matter once for ALL
On Harry's face was the liveliest hatred
imaginable. He crept up to the sleeping
form and drove the dagger with right good
will into the nearest shoulder, using his
fists afterward until dragged off and COM
manded to sleep by DIR. Parkyn. At that
point in the tests there was scarcely per-
son in the crowd of spectators who did not
believe that crime was possible under hyp-
nosis.
The performance was repeated, but this
time with real knife, which would have
made a blow serious The doctor again
worked his accomplice. up to pitch of
Iury, showed him his still sleeping enemy
and told him to hit again, this time max
ing sure of the business. The subject re-
fused to believe he had not killed the man
by the previous blow until the victim look
ed up. Then he was ready to complete the
work of murder This time he was handed
the real knife. He started as before to-
ward the still living and hated enemy,
with the knife in his hand, and Dr. Par
kyn's grasp firmly fixed On the back of his
coat to prevent possible serious results
But the subject, as enraged as he appeared
to be, knew the feel of real knife from
that of one of paper. Followed on tiptoe
by the excited spectators, he crept up on
the sleeping man, until, with howl of
hatred, he sprang at his throat. But his
last act as he reached for his supposed VIC
tim was to throw the knife behind him to
the floor. Then he throttled and punched
with his empty hands in well simulated
reality until dragged away by the doctor
His case was considered conclusive.
" If crime is possible as the result Of hyp-
motto suggestion, the body Of experimenters
present at the tests do not believe it. They
think, in fact, that the trials made were
conclusive on the subject to any fair mind
ed person.