The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-05-29
HYPnO4ISM At RICHMOND
4 Man Possessed of the Art SUD
denly Loses His Power.

NEhiN 1-O-RN has Il y "
! His Victim RaEcs and losses Per-
sens Abo=rt 4 store as Though They
Were Tenpins - Policemen and
Physicians Called Upon for Aid.
RICHMOND, Va, May 81 G. Dick
/ erson had an experience a few days ago
7 with HyPnotism that VIII in future deter
him from ever again placing himself in
the hands Ct anyone that is credited with
the possession of the dread power The
manipulation was R E AGREE jr- and the
experiment WAS made IN the grocery store
kept By Samuel Kaufeldt, at the corner
of Marshall and Thirty-frst Streets Dick
e-sOn quickly succumbed TO the influence.
and while Acree's attention was distracted
by another subject, Herman Cosby. he be
came unmanag eable threw men about as
if they were Tine-pins. and acted in such a
manner as to almost frishten out of their
wits, the haIf-dozen young men who were
spectators, as well as the proprietor Of the
store They were fearful that DIckerson
would lose his reason, and one Of them,
John Jones, rushed t. a telephone and
summoned Dr. W. " Parker Fully an
hour elapsed, however. before he arrived
and meanwhile AGREES hypnotic influence
regained the ascenGency and he succeeded
in restoring Dickersou to his normal con-
djton.
AGREE is young man, not more than
twenty-five or twenty-three years old, of
rather slender build, of earnest and pleas
ing address, and is what the women folk
would call decidedly good-Iooking The
most striking feature about him is his
wonderful, dark brown eyes. The general
expression IS soft and pleasing, but at
times, when discussing the subject of
hypnotism, they light up with an earn
estness that leaves little doubt of their
strange power. According to his own
story he has made no study of the sub
ject, beyond experimenting with his
friends and acquaintance and in talking
to a representative OF the Washington
Times today he said that the knowledge
Of his power was revealed to him only
about three months ago He had seen
some experiments made in an amateur
way and he became convinced that he
was possessed of the power, and induced
a young lady friend to subject herself 70
the experiment He had not the slightest
difficulty, he says. in placing her com
pIeteIy under the influence, ard since then
he has practiced on great many sub
jects, as yet meeting none who have been
able to resist it.
Among his friends and acquaintance
his strange power has become an inter
esting topic, but among them was one
who was EXTREMITY sl<epticai. This was
Samuel KaufeIdt, and having express
ed the opinion that the results obtained
by AGREE were due TO trickery, the
hypnotist determined TO convince him
Herman Cosby had frequently been
e47T,-ag+.5 70 Ia Fv,F
entity was none the worse for il. but when
they went to KaUfeIdt's store they found
that unless stranger was chosen as
subject, the grocer's skspticism could not
be removed. Young Dickerson, who lives
on Marshall Street, close by, was in the
store at the time, and he volunteered %
become the subject, at the same time de-
Clariug that he did not believe anyone
could obtain the mastery over his viii
power to the extent claimed by AGREE.
He proved an easy subject. \ few passes
with his hands. the concentration of his
glowing brown orbs on those of Dicker-
son. and the latter became as a child in
Acree's hands. doing just as he was told
and responding to the slightest sugges-
ton OF the hyDnotist- AGREE had been
manipulating with DickersOn only a short
time when a strange thing happened. Her
man Cosby had been standing among the
spectators apparently fascinated with the
movements Of AGREE. Suddenly he was
seen to close his eyes. draw long breath
and drop into chair as If in a deep SUM
Der. He. too. had sUCCumbed to the weird
influence and this is the more mysterious
in that AGREE devoting his entire time to
Dickerson had never. given the slightest
thought to his former subject Fearing
that some harm might befau Cosby If
left 70 himself AGREE turned his attention
TO rousing him, for the moment forgetting
Dickerson.
The result was surprising. Dfckerson
rose from the chair on which ne had been
seated aand with his eyes wide omen. he
staIked across the store as if he was
walking in his sic p- His eyes, while
open, had the sightIess appearance M
uceable ma somnambuIist He asked for
water and it was given him. but he sDat
II out after tasting and declaring, II vas
bitter became angry, and when one of t5s
ttt-,fsiS toCk mold Of bin 10 lead him hack
20 the cnalr ne flung him clear across the
,OoA with as little effort as he would
nave used II throwing a napsryyoFoT+
Meanwhile, the youthful hy-nno+fSt h.,
succeeded IN bringing Cosby aro-Ird -
ne again turned his attention to DfcI-ar
son = e was frightened to discover Tor--
=, NtI'. tL!at Ne mad lost control of him aTJ
Lilat DlCkerson would not respond tn bfs
suggestions. He was becoming urr,+I+-
JG7t at TINS time Policemen Hughes a-Sj
huhn- OF the First district station -
peHed along and they were ~, Id
q'"Iilt1o with the condition of affairs by