Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-04-24
HYPN0TIZED By PHONE.
A Remarkable Experiment Successfully
Performed Yesterday Afternoon.
Charles Ebeling, Of the South Side,
Is the First in This City to Make
Success OF This Extraordinary
Test-Is Separated by Half Mile
From His Subject, Yet Has Him
Under Complete Control.

Under Complete Control.
Local interest in the hypnotic science
has not lessened. a difficult experiment
| in this art was yesterday successfully ac-
complished for the first time in Wheeling.
This was the hypnotizing of a person by
| telephone. This feat has been accom-
plished in other cities, but Charles Ebel-
ing, of the South Side, performed it sue
cessfully, yesterday, and to him belongs
] the honor of being the first of this city
TO put subject in the various hypnotic
stages by the transmission of his in
| fuence over the telephone wire.
The experiment took place yesterday
afternoon about two o'clock. Mr.. Ebeling
was at the y NJ. c. A. building. and was
connected with the Register editorial de-
partment for fifteen or twenty minutes.
At the Register Office ne had his subject. Il
young man about eighteen years of age
and a couple of assistants. When the
connection was made the subject was
brought to the telephone. and upon the
command of the hypnotist at the other
end of the wire he was put into n sleep.
hands together and he was put into G.
| hypnotic trance while one of the assist
ants held the telephone receiver 10 his
ear. The first suggestion made to him
was that he could not unlock his hands.
and the subject tried convulsively to get
them apart. and very nearly fell out of
the chair in which he was sitting while
making the attempt. lie was brought TO
again by the receiver being put TO his
ear and the hypnotist giving the word.
When he was brought 10 he was per-
spring freely from his eXertions. He was
next put into a sleep and while in that
condition pins were run through the flesh
Of his wrist and pulled out a few min
utes afterward without drawing any
blood The next was the rigid test. The
receiver was put to the subjects ear again,
and upon the suggestion of the hypnotist
his body became perfectly rigid. He was
placed on two chairs, his head on one
chair and his feet on the other One of
the assistants stood on top of the body,
proving that il was perfectly rigid. These
were al the tests made over the tele-
phone wire. but were sufficient 10 show
that it was not necessary for the nyp-
notist 10 be present in person, but that
the same results can be accomplished by
the sound of the voice conveyed TO thd
subjects ear by the,aid of electricity.
The experiment passed off smoothly, ex-
copt that AT times the subject could not
hear the hypnotsts voice plainly, owing
TO the defective condition of the phone
through which he was talking. II was.
M
has given Mr. Ebeling n greater reputation
as hypnotlst. Mr.. Ebeling does not prac-
tice hypnotism as a profession, as he is
employed ut his trade at the Warwood
tool works. on the South Side but has
proven that he can perform the same eX-
periments made by tie leading profess
SIGNALS in the business.
The young man who acted as Mr.. Ebe-
ling's subject in the telephone test of
course has been under his influence before.
although he has never been hypnotized
over a telephone before. The fact that he
has been undar his influence accounts for
the fact that he was susceptible to the
hypnotist's power Is soon as he heard his
voice through the receiver. The hypno-
list and the subject were separated about
the same effect would have baen produced
at distance of number of miles.
Prof Flint, who has been at the Grand
Opera House this week. stated last night
to a Register reporter that there was no
doubt about the feat Of hypnotizing a per-
son over the telephone being possible. but
that it would have to be some person whom
had been hypnotizad before in order for
the subject to recognize the hypnotist's
voice when he spoke to him. Prof. Flint
stated that he had hypnotized by means or
telephone when they were - miles dis
tant from each other In the instance re-
ferr5d TO he said Il was some time before
the subject regained consciousness and
that when he returned to the town he
found the subject still partially under the
influence. His relatives and friends stated
tina; after the experiment had been per-
formed he became very sleepy every time
he heard telephone bell ring. Prof.
Flint also told of having hypnotized a man
in France by photograph. He spoke into
monograph, and as the machine was
unwound the suggestions were repeated
into the ear of his subject. who immedl-
ately went into a trance the moment he
heard the familiar tones Of the hypnotisr.
Apropos to the subject of hypnotism is
telegram received last night from Sim
coe. Ontario. that is interesting. II is as
follows: The man hypnouzed and buried
in The ground for three days has been
disinterred Great crowds followed the
box containing the body to the Opera
House. As the man was being brought
back to q normal condition he was very
restless and finally smashed the box he
was in TO pieces. 1t required five men TO
control him in his struggles until he was
fully restored to consciousness.
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