The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-30


Hannah Butler, a girl II years Of age.
was taken to the county jail last night
in a state of mental excitement border
ing on insanity She was seen in the Nc
Cornick block for several hours yesterday
evening and would not leave. When asked
what she wanted, she replied that she
wanted TO see Hal Clawson. the hypnot-
ist whom she insisted was in one of the
rooms. She was told that he was not
there, but persisted that he was. Finally
she became so DOisterous that the police
We're called 10 remove her
BECAME HISTORICAL.
When the officers arrived she was
shouting and laughing in such loud tones
as 10 disturb everybody in the vicinity
The police tried TO persuade her 10 go
w.rh them, but she refused. and when
they tried TO lead her OFF she fought them
like a Iigress. Il was hard JOB to get
her out, but finally she was removed,
placed in the patron wagon and taken 10
the county jail
CIAAWSON ARRIVES.
In the meantime a young boy. who had
been one Of Ciawson's hypnotic subjects,
went in search OF MIN and brought him
TO che jail. 1t was believed by great
many that Clawson had the girl in a
hypnotic state. but he dtsproyed tnat py
trying 10 control her, and falling an the
atempk because of her naturally weak
mind 1t soon became apparent that he
had nothing to do with the matter, the
girl simply having a mania on nyQnoI-
During the Jubilee Hal Clawson gave.
series of exhibitions IN hypnOUSm m thS
Jubilee theatre. Among his subjects was
this girl Who constantly begged MIN 70
hypnOrIZe her. CldWSOn refused repeat
eddy, but she persisted in her requests,
ana he finally yielded, but only AMER
asking her father if she had ever had
anything the matter with her mind Up
on being answered in the negative, le
tried TO hypnotic her. but rallied. allsi
that was on Monday evening, July 49,
On Tuesday ne said ne put her In hsnL
state of lethargy. but failed another night
and only once more, during jubilee 1esk,
he succeeded IN EGpnotlzlnS Aer- since
then he said that he has not seen the
girl and thought no more about her.
INTERESTED IN HYPNOTISM.
Hannah Butler was employed as a do
mestic at the residence of ]. Wash Young
on Third street, and had seen Clawson
frequently when he called rhere TO see
his manager, Mr.. Young. She had talked
a great deal about hyPnotism and seemed
TO have taken very great interest IN
tiSed for subjects she applied, bUr was re-
fused. She persisted in her requests to
be subject until Ciawson acquiesced TO
the extent mentioned above
But even he could not quiet her last
night for she threw his hat and UNI
brella at him and said She was mad at
him"
A MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE.
It seems that the girl got up out of bed
about midnight Wednesday, She said
she was going out 10 keep an appoint
ment with C9aWSOn to be hypnotized, and
nothing could persuade her 10 put the
idea aside She returned TO the house
later. but had not seen ClawsOn, and last
night at the Jail she asked him why he
did not meet her ClawsOn denies all
knowledge of the appointment which
J.,r1f hi fra@ a1 in OF
dered mind.
COUNTY PHYSICIAN CALLED.
The girl was locked up in a cell in the
jail last night and became SC violent
that her hands were finally placed N =
muff.' but she soon got them Tree. Mrs.
stefan, was called, and after seeing the
girl said she could only administer some
drug to quiet her. which she did The po-
ton was given hyperdemlcaly. ard 1t
took three men to hold the girl while
the injection was made. DR.. Gemmell
said that in her opinion the state of the
nOtism but through nervous excitement
WEAK IN INTELLECT.
The girls father stated that about four
years ago she took a severe cold and a
followed which left her in a
kind of stuDor. She was in that state
for nearly a week, during which time she
would refuse to talk or seemed not to
what was said to her. Since
then she has been in good health until
the present time. Alma Butler, the girls
father, is proprietor OF the little knife
stand that stood for a while OF.
the corner of Richards and First South
streets. AT the time of Hannahs Illness
she was living in Hooper. but afterwards
came to Salt Lake, where she obtained a
position with Mr.. J. Wash Young.
Hal ClaWSOn greatly regrets the state
of affairs and says that he has never
spoken to the girl except at the eXhibi-
lions in Jubilee week He also says that
in no case has hypnotism ever produced
insanity or death, and ii would be eS-
pecially impossible in such a light state
of lethargy in which the girl was placed.
There was a boy with him who had been
hylnOtized, he said. about 800 times and
he showed no signs of weakness what
ever. Cl2wson stated that ii was very
hard to hypnotized a weak-minded person
and he could never succeed with person
stated in regard to the case that in her
opinion, If a person had a weak mind
that was liable to diSarrangement, hyp-
notism would not produce evel results
MRS. HAMILTON FRUSTRATED
AS a result of the excitement caused
by Hannah Buffers shouting, laughing
and noisy disturbance Mrs Lou Hamii-
ton is completely Frustrated. Mrs. Ham,
iltOn is being held in the county jail on
the charge of numbering her husband and
Is IN a very nervous condition, SO that the
shock OccasiOned by such an unusual dis
turbance Frustrated her. She was IN an
unconscious condition for several hours
and had not improved at the time this
goes to press.
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