The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-15
HYPN0TIzED
BY TELEPHONE.
Lang Puts Three "Subjscts"
Asleep by Talking Over Wire.
DOCTOR WITNESSED THE TEST.
No Deception Practicsd, II Is Claimed, and
The HypaolIzT Walks Three Miles 10
Order 10 Rouse The SIespsrs.
DOCTOR WITNESSED THE TEST,

Waterbury. Conn, Oct. 15.-Citlzens. OF
Waterbury, Conn, are all talking about
Joseph c. Lang, who hypnotized three
young men by telephone. The subjects
were three miles away. but he put them
to sleep with ease.
Lang works for the scovil Manufac-
turing company, and he mas studied
hypnotism for more than year. lie
was In Kiesels drug store. at North
Main and East Farm streets, where he
declared that he could put men in O.
hypnotic sleep by talking TO them through
the telephone.
Ills friends scoffed, then hurredly call
ed together three of Langs subiects-all
young men-at McCarthy's drug store IN
Main street near West Clay. neary
three miles from kiesels With the sub
jects were a dozen OF lang friends, the
scoffers; also leading physician of
Waterbury, whose dignity compels him
to withhold his name from publication.
Several OF these men spoke TO Lang
over the wire, and there were witnesses
In Kiesel's drug store TO certify that he
was actually there.
PUT TO SLEEP BY WIRE
Then Robert Danielson stepped up to
the phone in McCarthy's and said "This
is Danieson."
Sleep. slee-ee-eep!' said Lang into
the transmitter OF Kiesers phone. lie
was frowning. There was a look of
stern command I'm his eyes.
'Slee-ee-eepr' he cried. You're GO
Ia. Il -
Danieson held the telephone receiver
pressed close to his ear. He made no
reply. His eyes at first were open but
without speculation. resting on vacancy.
Gradually the eyelids began to flutter.
His head dropped forward. His eyes
closed and the telephone receiver fell
from his hand.
Danielson would have fallen, too. had
t4et- tive ef tift, watchers rauFt1t- MIN ar7Jt
supported him 10 a chair. There he sank
with his head dropping on his chest. ap-
parently as sound asleep as II he had
been drugged,
David Waugh took up the telephone
receiver and told his name. Lang spoke
TO him I'm the same way. He began in
less than n minute 10 droop and show
signs OF relaxation. The watchers quietly
pushed a chair close up behind him.
Lower and lower fell Waughs head
AS the telephone instrument was fall
ing from his left hand the watchers
caught it, Waugh sank into the chair,
his arms hanging loosely over the edges
His friends crossed his hands i'm his lap
and carried the chair back out of the
way. His slumber was profound
Ernest Smith I'm turn raised the re-
ceiyer, and soon he, too. fell asleep un-
der the domination OF the thin little voice
that sang imperativelX in his -ear.-
THREE sLEEPERs.
The three subjects sat sleeping and
waiting i'm a row. Lang walked all the
way from Kiesers, and his journey oc-
cupied three-quarters of an hour While
he was On the way Wilbur Colby drove
a needle half an inch into the first finger
OF Danielson's right hand
The pain ordinarily would have been
exquisite. for the needle was thrust un-
der the nngernail and far into the quick
The face OF Danielson showed not the
least sign of suffering. re slept as peace
fully as ever. The doctor asked Colby
TO drive the needle transversely into the
finger. He did so. Danielson never
quivered.
What do YOU think Of my subiects7'
asked Lang when he came in.
They are certainly not i'm cataleptic
state and they present every appearance
Of being sound asleep" replied the doc
tor. Perhaps hey could be awakened
with an electric battery"
Lang ordered his subjects 20 make poll
teal speeches, 10 dance and TO DO various
other feAIs-cnmmnn -hXpnnlic-expe peril
ments. They obeyed him.
When he woke them up. fully an hour
and half after he had hypnotized them
over the wire they declared that they
had felt nothing different from their ex-
periences when Lang mad hypnotized
them before.