The Red Cloud chief., 1897-08-27
WOULD NOT ALLOW IT.
CHICAGO POLICE STOP A
RANCE EXHIBIT.
BOY to sleep Seven Days Omcers Unable
to Move the subject TO the Slightest
Display Of Consciouspess Threats Cause
he Professor to Remove the Spell.

CHICAGO, Aug. 25.-Samuel Burg. a
young Danish barber, was put to sleeu
in a North side hall Sunday after.
noon with the regulation passes by a
professor Of h%ypnotism." and IL was
announced that he would sleep seven
days aud nights. Chief Ripley sent
two detectives to make a report on the
exhibition. They found young Burg
asleep In the presence of a crowd,
which included several physicians,
who explained TO the detectives that
they were studying the effect of the
prolonged hypnotic sleep.
The detectives were skep,ical. and
proceeded to apply such tests Us pinch
ing the cheeks, pulling the ears and
Juggling at the hair. But Burg did
not stir.
The detectives reported to Chief
Ripley, who decided to stop the exhi-
bition. and sent q detail Of officers for
that purpose. Lieutenant Sercy. who
had charge OF the expedition. gave
Burg a rap on the sole OF the foot with
his club, but this. the usual treatment
prescribed by pntrolmcn for sleepers,
had no effect. Then the lieutenant
stook Burg, pinched his ears and
slapped his cheeks. but to no avail.
Then he thrust his thumb up under
the arm pit and gave a series Of hearty
pinches. Blu the motionlcss form
gave no sign Of life. ,
Ali this time the professor" was
lowering excitedly about and protest.
ing that the great hypnotic test was
being held solely in the interests of
science, and that its results were being
anxionsly watched by physicians and
psychologists from California to Maine.
The lieutenant cut him short BY say.
ing: ''The chief says that this exhi.
billion has got to stop. 1 can't wake
the boy up and you've got to or Ill
ave to arrest the whole outfit"
Then with u few mysterious passes
and a snap of the fingers the mesmer
list released the subject and the two
proceeded TO Chief Kipley's office to
protest against the interruption of
their exhibition.
In speaking of the matter Chief Kin
ley said: After having investigated
the case | considered it my duty to
stop the exhibition for the sake of !
humanity. There is no telling but
that the test might have resulted in
the boys death. There Is no doubt
that the boy was in a genuine hyp.
motto sleep. II the boy had died as "a
result Of the test ] would have been
olamed for allowing the exhibition to
place. In the future no permits
Tor exhibitions Of the kind will be
granted"
THE LAW AND HYPNOTISM.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25-The state
court has affirmed the verdict
81 guilty OF murder In the first degree
against J. Eubanks, who killed
Mrs. Harriet Stiles and J. B. Borden
1t Oceanside, San Diego county, on
Q, 1885. The case was ap-
On the points that the evidence
circumstantial aud that the lower
court erred in refusing to allow a hyp-
'otist, b. A. Stephens, to testify that
ne hypnotized the defendant after the
murder and that the latter denied the
when under the hypnotic spell.
Commissioner Searles, whose opiu-
wa affirmed by the court, said
hat the law did not recognize hynot-
Sun. In passing on the case the SUI
,reme court agreed, but Justice Nc
Farland took occasion to say that he
lid not quite agree as to the attitude
It the law toward hypnotism. 1t
not be considered in this case,