The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-29
A HYPNOTIST LOCKED UP.
HE TRIES TO HYPNoTIEE POLICE
sERG EANT HULSE.

The Terrified Sergeant fakes Refuge in q
Telephone BOx-EIypnotist Paidy Has Two
Fits In the Station BEFORE neinE Ba,ied out
by Formsr Commissioner or Jurors Mooney.
Policeman Sullivan OF the West Forty.seventh
street squad found q man, who said he was
Charles w. Paddy Of Stamford, Conn. wandering
around the stairways Of the elevated railway
station at Eighth avenue and Fifty-third street
last night. As he was evidently unable to take
care of himself, Sullivan hailed him to the police
station. Paddy. who was well dressed, said that
he was a professional hypnotist. Amid feeble
remonstrances he was taken to o cell and locked
up.
A t IL o'clock former Commissioner Of Jurors
Robert Mooney appeared at the station and told
Sergeant Hulse that he wished to bail out
Paldy. While the bond was being arranged
Paddy was brought into the room. He seemed
perfectly sober and self.possessed. Tho bond
was signed, and Mooney started out with the
young man.
Paddy on tho very threshold threw up his arms
and sank to tho floor apparently in a faint. The
sergeant tore away his necktie. ripped the collar
OF his shirt open, and called for water, which
was brought by the doormen.
Then Mrs. Valentine, the matron, brought .
bottle of smelling salts from her room, and the
Sergeant knolt beside the hypnotist and held
the smelling salts under his nose. Paddy slowly
came out of his faint, shook himself and said:
II don't know what you're making all this
fuss about. haven't been In q faint at all. As
I told you, I am a professional hypnotist. This
is merely one Of my ~states."
He was led to a chair. and Sergeant Hulse
went back behind the desk. Paldy faced him
and looked directly into his eyes. Everybody
except the Sergeant was standing around Paldy.
Sergeant Hulse suddenly jumped up with a
wh9op.
the other way. I'll hire a cab and pay for It
myself. Take him away from here. i say, ~
nor NOR anybody sSS dpt else shall iSi hyppD Do hs't me." 'nA' man
Then the Ser g cant 5'naIS it up and and ran rshi int b the
Mr.. Mooney went over and tried to reassure him.
ss %Thsre'ss h no ,, reason p i,,s for RI, 5 sIHSt, 1 Hs 9sn1s
going to hypnotize you. Don't be worried. l
tell you it's all right; The man is not dangerous"
saw W.T. that tf BsIdy was still ii looking oeHh gin in his i d dhS aHoa.
Not on me" he said firmly, you don't work
Paddy gasped. threw his arms up in the air.
and began to wriggle off the chair as II he had q
fit. Detectives Chandler and Sweet, the door.
resched the ~ floor: lie twrithed and Struggled 4
and kicked, and it took the strength of all four
men to hold him in the chair.
Sergeant Hulse has never in his life showed
over to- to join them G He got within ten ter feet Of
Paddy and the hypnotist Strengthened out.
twisted his head around. opened his eyes and
fixed them on the Sergeant.
With a yell of dismay, the Sergeant. fed back
to the telephone box. Somebody got hot water
and managed to make Paddy swallow some Of 1t,
and In time he recovered from the fit. The
Sergeant was persuaded to come out Of the
telephone room.
II don't know about letting that man go out
Of here" he said. I'm not sure that he Is in
any: condition to be released. whether he's
Keeping a wary eye on Paddy. the Sergeant
summoned an ambulance and went back to his
desk.
DR.. MacAlider came down from tho Roosevelt
Hospital. Paddy told the doctor that he was
suffering from morphine poisoning.
The, doctor made o careful examination, and
said he couldn't see any signs of morphine
poisoning or of anything except too much gen
eral dissipation.
Mr.. Mooney took Paddy out to o cab which had
arrived by this time, and went away with him
The Sergeant was not, communicative as to his
mental condition during the time when Paddy
was looking in his eye. TN glad he's gone
he said, and would say no more.