The herald., 1897-03-04
ODD MENTAL CONDITION
OF the Young Girl Florence
Hay Thomson
some UNDERCURRENT Suspicious
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in Court
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Further Fees
Heavy Claim Of 100000 Against the Eberle
Estate
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Florence Hay Thomson, the seven
teen-year-old girl who was arrested for
curious behavior in Main street drug
store on Monday, was brought before
Judge York yesterday to be examined
as to her mental condition
She appeared in court with her cloth
ing in disorder and her nerves evidently
In a very sensitive condition, as she
was constantly picking at her fingers
and clothes. AS witnesses there were
her mother, Mrs. Thompson, young
man named Morris and her father, an
inmate of the Soldiers home.
While Mr. Thomson has resided at the
home his family have had little home
at Santa Monica. A few weeks ago
the mother and daughter came to the
city, and they, with Morris, had been
to the Burbank theater and the play had
affected the girl very greatly. She was
taken to DR.. Gillette, a magnetic healer,
and since then the girl has complained
of darting pains throughout her body
She has also been troubled by halleuci-
nations imagining that her father is the
great Napoleon l.; that the food she
takes turns into worms that work their
way into her fingers, etc.
During the examination 1t seemed as
il Mrs. Thomson and Morris, the latter
swore to he complaint of arrest, by the
way, were endeavoring to keep back GER
tain facts. To such an extent was this
spirit of repression carried that Mrs.
Thomson constantly interrupted wit
nesses while they were giving their tes-
timony. Finally Judge York perempt-
orily ordered her to remain quiet or take
the consequences, and she subsided. Dur
ing all this time the girl sat quietly by
speaking quite nationally, but brushing
invisible cobwebs from off her face with
her hand and swapping her fingers in the
peculiar manner affected by spiritual
istis manner affected by spiritual
Thomson, her daughter and Morris
seemed to have attended seances pretty
frequently and the latter admitted to
a quasi -dabbling in Spiritualism. He
referred to Florence Thomsons musical
penchant and when Judge York asked
him If he had seen her rehearse for the
stage, he reluctantly stated that it was
not exactly for the stage, but he had
proposed some entertainments, with
slate writing and music singing by the
daughter and piano music by the
mother.
You were organizing a company"
asked the court.
well, 1t might have developed into
that" replied Morris.
There were also some questions put to
Morris as to whether or not he had ever
practiced hypnotism and he said that
while he believed in one mind influence
ing another, he had never practiced It,
The mother vaguely ascribed her
daughters indisposition to her having
caught cold at an unfortunate time and
that a dose of morphine had thrown her
into fever She contended her daugh-
ter was delirious and not insane.
Judge York finally determined, on rec
ommendation of the medical examiners.
to send the girl to the county hospital
for better investigation of the case, it
being meantime continued until the 10th
inst.