Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-12
HYPNOTIZED.

Mary Broderick, daughter of q prominent Omaha family, has just been sent to a private Sanitarium for mental diseases at Council Bluffs, Ia, and James K. Newman, itinerant hypnotist and spiritualist, is charged with wrecking the mind of the girl.
 Miss Broderick is twenty years old and has since childhood been religious ly inclined. She has been leader in Sunday school work. She has won even more than local repute as q choir singer. She has been somewhat promi nent in society, but with her the gay | functions were always held subOrdi nate to church duties.
 About six months ago Newman, the hypnotiSt. came to Omaha and gave q series of hypnotic demonstrations. At one of his exhibitions in private as semblage. Miss Frederick was pre- vailed upon to become a subject. She was easily hypnotiZed. and as soon as she was under the influence, she at tackled Newman like q tigress and would have wrought bodily harm but for the intervention of friends Miss Broderick tried to dig the hypnotist's eyes out with her finger nails. New
 man brought the young woman out of the spell as quickly as possible, but her parents declared that since that time she has never been the same. she openly declared a passionate love for the hypnotic deInonstrator, and confided tol several of her friends that she was soon to become his wife.
 About two weeks ago it WAS an- nounced that Newman was to marry another woman-a dashing young widow of this city. When the Brod- erick girl heard this she became morose and gloomy. On Thanksgiving day she left her home. ostensibly to attend services at St Johns church. l She did not reach the church. Night came and sine was not nt honle. Her father nt once suspected. that New man had something to do with the mysterious disappearance. The police were notified. Newman was arrested. He was charged with exercising un- 1 due influence over the girl. Search was 1 continued day and night. and now the l missing young woman has just been 1 found. She was at the home Of friends in the country near Omaha. and as the | family under whose roof she sheltered had not read the newspaper accounts | of the disappearance, they were not aware of the anxiety suffered by the parents of their visitor. The father discovered her whereabouts by mere | accident, and he at once arranged to have his daughter cared for at the Council Bluffs sanitarium. Newman has been released from custody. The father of the girl. however, still in- sists that the hypnotist is responsible for his daughters sad plight, and he is casting about for legal method of averaging what he declares is serious wrong. In addition to being a hypnO- tist of more than ordinary power, Mr Newman is q spiritualistic medium and has performed some very mysterious tricks along that line. Chief of Police 1 Donahue. who has made q careful | study of Newman says he sees no par ticular harm in hiln--that is. no harm which could bring him within the | Jurisdiction of the law. He has never exerted his strange power, so far as known, over an unwilling subject. Newman denies that he is in any way responsible for Miss Broderick's con- dition. He says he hypnotized her the same as he has hundreds of others, and he does not admit he had any power over her other than the usual temporary hypnotic influence while the spell was on. He is particularly emphatic in declaring that at no time did he lead Miss Broderick to believe that he intended to marry her, and 1t is his opinion that she would have suffered mental collapse even had she never met him. Since her recent dis. appearance from home Miss Broderick is not communicative nmf maintains sullen attitude. The Frederick case has arouse4 much inferestll here, es 5 pecialiy among n large contingent o1 } women, who hnwe for several months been deyoting considerable attention to hypn9tisms The woman who ii tc become the wife of Newman in a shorl
 while. has declared loyalty. to him and hf&nds hta arrest m m outrnges Sj paul ptonNer Preas. z :. 4