The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-23
HER HYPNOTIC EYES
Are the Fortune of the Wicked
Mrs. Kingscote.
SHE HAS FORCED MILLIONS
Out of the Pockets Of Her
Helpless Victims.

New York, Aug. 22.-The Journal says:
One o fthemost astonishing cases in the
history of hipnotism has just stirred up
all England and the whole fashionable
world of Europe. 1t is the case Of Mrs.
Kingscoate, who has in her veins the
blood of England's famous premier, Sir
Robert walpole. She has resorted to the
devices of the Orient in order to compel
men to do her bidding.
1t is only means Of hypnotic powers
which she is known to possessl and which
were developed during her associations
in India with Blavatsky, that celebrated
high priestess of occult Theosophy, that
she has been able to extort from her vic
tins not only all the property that they
possessed, but likewise financial obliga-
tious in her behalf, which meant newt
able and certain ruin for them. The may
be said to have entangled themselves in
her nets with their eyes wide open. e
And hers were open. too-dark, wierd
wonderful hypnotic eyes.
she has involved in financial disaster are
persons Of mature age, Of knowIedged ex-
perience OF the world and hitherto reput-
ed as both shrewd ard wide-awake. Far
from wasting any Establishment upon
them, she has treated them with undis-
guised contemypt and with the strongest
kind Of abuse.
They, one and all, deny that there was
anything in the shape OF blackmaii in the
case. They have admitted in court that in
some mysterious wa ythey had found that
they had been compelled in some myster-
icus fashion, for which they could not ac-
count, to sign promissory notes in her
behalf. which they had no hopes of ever
being able to meet. 1t meant inevitable
bankruptcy for them, but they did it. They
confessed that they had given their sig
natures to these notes even though Mrs.
Kingscoate had openly informed them
that she was going to use the money for
he rown personal expenses, which are of
the most extravagant character, and that
she had no intention whatsoever of paying
them back ..r.
In one word, they had Endorsed these
promissory notes after they knew that she
was defrauding them and that ruin and
disgrace stared them in the face.
Mrs. Kingscoate's case presents q very
curious illustration OF avatism. Her pa
ternal grandfather was Hebrew by birth
and by faith. Possessed of an insatiate de-
sire for foreign travel and for geograph-
ical exploration. he found that the most
convenient and practical manner of ac-
compllshlng his aims was at the expense
and with the assistance of the Church of
England Missionary Society. Accordingly,
he first of ali. became a convert to Chris
tianity, and then appealed for employment
as missionary on the borders Of India
and in the interior of Asia. Owing to the
danger which attended In those days all
journeys to the north Of India and to the
east OF Russia's possessions in Asia, it was
exceedingly difficult to find volunteers for
missionary work I'm that portion Of the
globe and his offer was consequently ac-
cepted with enthusiasm.
Possessed OF a marvellous gift for ORR
entail languages. he made his way to Box
hara and to numerous other places I'M
trodden by the foot of any European
since the days OF Marco Polo. He spent
many long years in the interior of Asia,
enjoying AM intimacy and confidence on
the part of the heads of the various Ash
attic creeds and OF the schools of Oriental
science such as has never been conceded
to any white man since.
Certain It is that he acquired there that
mysterious eastern knowledge Of the art
Of forcing men and women to obey his will
an art Of which Europe and America poss-
ess mere elementary knowledge under
the name Of hypnotism, but which in the
northern mountain ranges OF India Is car
ried to an extent OF which people here
have little or no conception.
When he at length returned to London
the fame of his travels had preceded him.
He was man of over fifty, Of exceedingly
unattractive appearance. In fact, his as
pect was such as at first sight TO give rise
to feeling OF repulsion. Yet, presumably
by the exercise OF his vol power he COM
PEELED one of the most beautiful, gifted
and wealthiest OF the debutantes Of that
In London II lay both her hands and her
fortune at her feet.
acted at the time as IL she were in a soht
of dream. In fact no one, for one mo-
nent imagined that she was prompted
by feelings OF love to marry the bald-head-
ed. weather-beaten, half-crippled explorer.
Yet she married, him and that. too, in
such a manner that 1t was ne who figured
as the reluctant party to the union. as q
man. indeed who was marrying this lovely
and wealthy girh the daughter of the Earl
Of Oxford. merely 10 oblige her family.
and to save both her health and her mind
from being injuriously affected by her in
fatuation for him.
There was something distinctly uncanny
about this extraordinary union, which
caused no end OF talk at the time
Old Simon Wolfe and Lady Geo-giana.
his wife, had two sons. The elder of these
IS in this country. and earn his living as
porter and messenger OF a big dry goods
store at Tallahassee. The other son f.
Sir Henry Drummond Wolfe Grand
Cross of the order of Bath. Privy Coun-
c!llor OF the Queen the political mentor
OF the late Lord Randolph Churchill and
Of first Lord Of the Treasury Alfred Fall
four. In their younger days. Today he IS
a British ambassador az Madrid. and as
such had charge OF all the interests Of the
United States in Spain during the war,
and until the re-estabiishment Of diplomat
&c relations between the government OF
Don Alfonso and America last spring. lie
Is regarded as the cleverest diplomat in
the service Of Great Britain. is universally
respected alike by political friends and
foes an dthere are few who do not smy-
pathlze deeply with him in connection
with the troubles with which he has been
orerr-hAin1ed by his two .-hildren