The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-10-02
Marie Babcock Former KenOsha
Girl is Located in Chicago
After a Long Search
SHE ELOPED WITH A HYPNOTIST
Woman Consents to Return to Her Home
and Claims that Man Cast Spell Over
Her-Girl Well known in Kenosha

| Pretty Marie Hampstead, a Kenosha
girl who recently was married to
James Babcock, of Racine, is just al
present the heroine of very interest
ing little incident which is attracting
attention in Chicago and other cities.
Mrs. Babcock left Kenosha quite few
mouths ago and went with her hus-
band to Racine to live. The wife was
beautiful and the husband seemed
deeply attached to her, but beautiful
yellow hair and dreamy eyes failed to
bring food and shelter aud the young
couple had no end of financial troubles
during their life in Racine.
But they managed to keep together
until few days ago when a hypnotist
who called himself Prof. Lord came to
Racine and stole the heart of Marie
and carried her away to Chicago as a
subject. For three days Babcock and
other friends of the young woman
have been searching for the Kenosha
girl and Tuesday night they found her
on Wabash avenue car in Chicago.
She was crying as if her heart would
break and between her sobs she man
aged to tell the officers and those who
assisted in the search that she had
been enticed away from her husband
while under spell produced by the
hypnotist.
Gwen the professors influence over
me is not strong enough to cause me
to leave Jim again." she said. The
woman told the detectives that Lord
had exerted peculiar influence over
her since she first met him. The de-
serted husband appeared overjoyed to
see his wife. He said that he was not
afraid to trust her in the future.
Babcock was with the detectives
when the woman was found. They
we're walking along Wabash avenue
when suddenly Babcock saw his wife
sitting on south bound Wabash ave-
nue. cable car. Detective Bailey ran
and boarded the car. Mrs. Babcock
Immediately consented to leave the car
and with her husband went to the Cen
trail police station. Mrs. Babcock was
not detained by the police and the two
left the station smiling. AS Babcock
did not appear to be particularly desir-
Gus of Furnishing Lord, the search for
the alleged hypnotist was abandoned.
The Racine end of the story is told
IN the following telegram sent out
from that city:
'John Hampstead, of Manitowoc,
came to Racine this morning in search
of his sister, Miss Marie, aged 10,
whom he supposed to be the wife of
James Babcock. Until about six
months ago the Hampstead family
lived in Kenosha. They moved to
Manitowoc. Two daughters were left
working in a factory at Kenosha.
Not long since the father received a
letter from Marie, the youngest girl,
in which she stated that she was mar
ried to James Babcock, telegraph oper-
ator, and worth $300,000, that their
home was in Racine.
"Some time later letter came to the
father of the girl from Mr.. Babcock.
He explained that he had just bought a
large tract of land in Racine, that he
was $50 short on the contract price,
and asked the father to send him the
$50 Mr.. Hampstead thought it very
queer that man worth 100000 should
want $50 and did not send the money.
Nothing was heard of Babcock
again until Sept. u, when he wired
Mr.. Hemstead that he and Marie had
arrived in Chicago for a visit; that
Marie was lost and could not be found
that he did not know what to do
about it.
sit was then that the parents of the
girl began to suspect something was
wrong. John, the son, was delegated
to come here and investigate. He was
not long in discovering that Babcock's
claims we're untrue, that he had no
property, that he had been arrested
and fined, had been working as host
Ter and bartender; was mixed up with
professor" Roy Lord, the hypnotist
and mind reader, who feeced Belle
City people out of $500, and that his
sister, Babcock and Lord had fed to
Chicago together.
"When shown the story of Lord hav-
ing hypnotized his sister and taken
her away from Chicago hotel in
hack, he was astorished, but said he
could do nothing and departed for
home this afternoon. He was not GER
tain that his sister and Babcock had
been married.
"Chief of Police Pfster searched
every hotel in Chicago with the hope
of finding Lord and his two compan-
ions, but without success. The wo-
MAJ wrote letter to the Asby house,
where she and Babcock boarded, re
questing that her trunks and effects be