The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-06
TO SEND
HIM HOME
HYPNOT|zED
Judge Campbsll's Advice
in the Kline
Case.
THE BOYS MOTHER BEGS
IN VAIN.
How He Was Saved From a
Dose of Carbollc
Acid.
THE DOCTOR" REC0NSIDERS
THE MATTER.
Does Not Think H Should influence
the Boy TO Go Home Against
His Will.
THE BOYS MOTHER BEGS
IN VAIN.
THE DOCTOR" REC0NSIDERS
THE MATTER.
Does Not Think H Should influence
the Boy TO GO Home Against
His Will.

Judge Campbell yesterday disposed
tenn porariIy of the peculiar case Of Eddie
| Kline, hypnotic subject" with one of
those Solomonesque flashes of judicial
wisdom that have given him more or less
| fame.
| Eddie Kline ran away from very good
| home some days ago, and his mother on
the day of his disappearance received
letter from him bidding her good-by, and
saying that he had shipped as cabin boy
on an ocean-going vessel, was to receive
$35 a month, which he would send to her,
and charging her not to worry about him.
| The letter was dated on board the vessel.
| This letter Mrs. Kline subsequently
found was misleading, and she traced her
boy to the Hypnotic Institute at "A Sixth
street, only stones throw from her home
at 511 Mlnna street. Mrs Kline, after she
! learned of the whereabouts of her boy,
was still unable to secure an interview
with him until an officer OF the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, II.
| McMarray was called in. To him the
! boy was delivered up. He refused to go
home, and was accordingly taken to the
| lookup on charge of vagrancy preferred
by the mother.
The hearing took place before Judge
Campbell Yesterday morning. The
mother, a little German woman. with
flushed face, laboring under excitement
and wearing the signs of distress, told her
story-that her boy, formerly very dutl-
full, was entirely changed, had deserted
his home, had tried TO conceal from her
| knowledge of his wherea bouts, and finally
refused TO come home; that his appear
ance was as changed as his conduct, and
that she hardly knew him when she first
saw him after his disappearance. She said
that she had visited the 1nstitute, and had
| been told by both Baker and Thornton
| that the BOY was not there, but that they
promised 10 send him home when he came
there They did not do so. She learned,
she said that he attem pied to commit sui
eide. She was convinced that he was I'M
der evil influences, and that great harm
was being done TO him.
Then DIR" ID. NJ. Thornton, business
manager and one of the operators OF the
institute, was called, and in the course OF
his testimony told some remarkable
things. He confessed that he assumed
the title of doctor" being a doctor of
science. Thornton, by the way, is the in
dividual who has figured in the news
papers recently through his wife's sensa-
tionaI attempt OF suicide on the day OF
her Wedding because of the report carried
| 10 her that the groom was already mar
RED and the father OF children; and his.
| Thornton's following the attempt of his
wife by being overtaken by fits, necessi-
tating the removal of both to the Receiv
ing Hospital.
IL LETT him in the Office that evening""
said Thornton, ''while l went to attend q
patient. l cure the liquor, cocaine and
morphine habits through hypnotic sug-
gestion and 1 work best in such cases
VIXEN the patient is asleep. A LADY want
49, Il
| word from her by telephone that he was
asleep.
~ went, and returned to the Office at
about m idnight. The boy was lying on a
lounge semi conscious. l saw something
was wrong. He told me he had taken a
dose of carbolic acid. examined his
mouth and found it burned. i'm medi-
ately placed him under hypnotic inf1u-
ence, and by suggestion counteracted the
effects of the poison. He was all right
next morning, although | was careful
about what he ate, as his stomach was
sore"
DO you mean to say that without ad-
ministerlng antidotes and by mere sug'
gestion you overcame the eHects OF car
bolic acid" said the court.
Eyes, sir, and could do the same with
any poison. l would not fear the result t
of giving dose of strYchnlne to sublec I
and telling him it was water, allowin g
him to drink it. On the other hand,
would not take the risk for thousands oil
dollars of giving a subject drink OF
water, suggesting it was strychnine."
Judge Campbell declared fatty, not
, withdrawing, that he believed the nerves
and the mind of the subject must neces-
ssrily be weakened until, if pursued, he
became driveling idiot.
During all the testimony the boy in
question, a good-looking, neatly dressed
| young man, stood by with downcast and
, sullen expression. Questioned, he said
his parents had treated him well enough
in way" but he did not wish to return
home. Judge Campbell advised him that
that was the best place for him and that
. his mother was his best adviser. Turning
to Thornton he said:
when you wish you have this boy
!; under complete control, can make him do
an tyy you wish2"
"Then cause him to go home to his
N other; cause HIM to want to remain"
The doctor" was taken by surprise and
did not reply.
Twill you do 1t ?" said the court.
"Yes / will"
Then do So and this case is continued
until Saturday to see if you keep your
word"
"Very well, we will see now what there
is TO hypnotism," said Thornton. turning
away. Shall l take the boy with me?'
Yes"
The scene in court quickly dissolved.
Seen at his office little later Baker and
Thornton had been discussing the situa-
ton. Asked if they were going to send
the boy home Thornton said: 81 will see
that he gets home by Saturday-the day
we are to report in court"
Baker, his partner, said: 1.-THE boy does
not want to go hons and we have no
right to influence him to do what he does
not want to do
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