The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-08
HYPNOTIC FAKES
INNER FACTS OF THE MYSTERY
TOLD BY AN ADEPT.
The Public Are Easily Mystifed-Re-
markable Feats of CharcOt and
Others ExpOsed-The "Prfnce of
Horses Tells of His Long Career
COnfederatcs.


Ocean. The young man, with two COM
panions, was sitting at a table in down
town resort and dallying with a glass at
intervals.
why, l didn't know you were in the
horse business?" queried one of his COM
panions
I'm known in the business as the Prince
OF Horses, was the reply of the first
speaker No, I'm not referring to the
quadruped," he explained. Hypnotic
horses, you know. I'm professional hyp
motto subject and I've been at it for four
teen years. l guess I'm the best in the
business"
He was quiet, gentlemanly looking young
man, neatly dressed, and he didn't look like
either a crank a professional humorist.
He had slender figure topped by some
what narrow head, with ears close pressed
to the skull, and blue eyes under eyelashes
that were almost alblnCsh in their white
ness. The brows were long and several
shades darker. His hair was light and he
wore small mustache, which was mostly
pointed ends and as light in color as his
hair.
I'm not strnging," he said quietly I've
worked with al of them from Charcot
down.. Then he began to tell some things
about hypnotic demonstrations and public
experiments that will interest more people
than belong to the psychological research
He hadn't any desire to make an expose
Of anybody anything, he said. He was
simply tired of the business and a little
disguised with many of the details neces-
sarily connected with it, and SO was willing
that the public should share some of his
inside knowledge of hypnotism and hypno
lists they exist today.
There's nothing in the horse business
any more he repeated. "All we get paid
Is $40 week. and some of these bum hyp-
notists are awful mean When you're doing
sleep they don't care whether you starve
or not, and if it wasn't that travel in
pairs and the sleeper's partner is always
looking after him, he'd have a hard time
II was pretty young when l went into
this business. | came from Connecticut
and my parents couldn't do much with me-
so they sent me over to Brussels Belgium
where my mother had relatives who ran a
school. | used to hang around the/Ameri-
can consulate good DEAL and that's how l
met Charcot. The American consul intro
duced me to him, and we got pretty well
acquainted. and l finally went with him. 1
was buried alive for five days at the Brus-
sells exposition with Charcot. That's what
we call doing a sleep. OF course l got
something 10 eat most every night and
bottle of water. After that 1 was with
CharcOt in Paris. I've never been with his
He isn't as clever as the old man.
Once there were a lot Of us horses, all
living in the same boarding house in Paris
Charcot used TO come in the house some
times with his pupils and beat a gong That
a suggestion that we horses were all
to go into the hypnotic sleep. Every one,
no matter whore he was or what he was
doing, was supposed to go to sleep at once
without changing the position he happened
to be in when the gong sounded. Well
we would ali do it, and Charcot and who
ever with him would go through the
house and look into all the rooms and see
us. He always rang the gong in different
way before any of his pupils had a chance
to look into room a second time. When
ever one CT the pupils would see us after
that we would be rubbing our eyes and look
ing very much mystifed.
when Charcot died l came back to this
country pretty soon and went with Carpen-
ter. You might say he's the leading hyp-
notist CT this country. He's got the most
money. He's got fine place up in Merden,
Conn. Since then l have worked with the
Sages. the Kennedy brothers, Flint, San
tanelli, Ferris, Keene, Fraley, Moore, Stan
ton, the Lees, the Franks, and most of the
others. I've got the record for doing a sleep
on the level. l went without food water
for four days and half, but it was pretty
tough. | was nearly wreck when l got
through.
1T was in New Haven, and the students
were watching. These students are the worst
to fool. There's no trouble about policemen
most any other kind Of men. Doctors are
easy enough. You see you can talk to
doctor by the hour about hypnotism, and
what a wonderful thing it is, and all the
experiences you've been through, and he's
terribly interested, and you have all his
ettention. Then one of your partners goes
to the sleeper and puts his hand on his face
and announces that he's getting awful cold
Then he gets quilt or blanket, and
throws it over him and covers up his face.
That locks all regular enough but when
you slip the quilt over him there's a bottle
n sandwich
tea in your hand under the quilt, and you
can bet the poor sleeper is quick enough
to grab it and get it out of sight.
"Santanelli was caught doing this same
thing up in Connecticut. My partner
Dutch was doing sleep in a cage, and
/ was watcher. They'd been laying for
Santanelli and they nailed him dead to
rights with beef tea and milk and a couple
of sandwiches. That drove him out of
town, and he amt been any good since.
''Santanelli struck New York with me
three years ago. think it was and he had
just 81 in his pocket. 1t was hot summer
afternoon, and walked down Broadway
near the Marlborough, and he said he'd go
over to the Dramatic News Office, across
the street, and give 'em a talk. Leander
Richardson was there, and Santaneli starts
IN and tells him what wonderful hypnotist
he is and what he can do with a proper
subject Richardson asks him to try him,
and Santanelli makes him sit down in an
easy char and lean his head back.
Then he stands over Richardson and be-
gins to tell hin, to bring his whole mind to
bear on sleep. He tells him to think of
nothing else, and he keeps on talking in
low voice and says Sleep, sleep, drowsy
Sleep drowsy,' and by and by Richardson's
eyes close and Santanell keeps on talking
until finally his voice drops to a whisper.
Well, it was warm day and Richardson
was stretched out in position where all
his muscles were relaxed and, Of course.
he got very drowsy when his eyes were
closed and he was thinking about sleep, and
pretty he dropped eff into doze. 1t
was the most natural thing in the world.
Any other man would have done the same
thing under the circumstances, wouldn't
lie?
"As soon as he's satisfied that Richardson
is sound asleep Santanelli pulls his necktie
out over his vest and unbuttons a couple
of button and buttons them again in the
wrong holes and unties one of his shoe
laces and lets it drag on the ground Then
he snaps his fingers sharp in Richardson's
ear and he wakes up and finds Sananelli
standing in front of him with his arm
stretched out in a STACEY way and his face
very grave When Richardson opens his
eyes wide Santaneli starts in to tell him
all the funny things he did. He tells Rich
ardson that he had him dancing around
the room and trying to jump off dock to
rescue girl that was drowning and lot of
stuff like that Richardson was convinced
that he had done all these things while he